Mr. Tuckerman to Mr. Delyanni.
Mr. Minister: I have the honor to acknowledge the reception of your communication of the 9th (21st) instant, in which you inform me that the Chamber of Deputies, on the last day of its regular session, passed unanimously, and with enthusiastic applause, a decree of thanks to the Senate, House of Representatives, and people of the United States, for “their generous solicitude for the Hellenic nation.” You also hand me, in original, a copy of this decree, accompanied by a copy of the letter in which the president of the Chamber transmits it to you, and you assure me that the government of his Majesty the King is animated by the same sentiments which are expressed by the national representatives.
I thank you, Mr. Minister, and through you the honorable gentlemen of the Chamber of Deputies, for this renewed assurance of international sympathy, as well as for the complimentary manner in which it is communicated through me to my countrymen.
The expressions of interest on the part of the people of the United States for the struggling Christians of Crete are but the utterances of those who would be faithless to the principles which made and preserve them a nation, did they refuse to extend the right hand of fellowship to others, wherever gathered on the earth’s surface, who contend for the inestimable right to choose their own rulers.
The people of the United States will consider it a happy circumstance for all the people of eastern Europe, when the policy adopted towards them shall be in conformity with the sentiments which English statesmen have themselves admitted to be a political axiom, namely: Treaties can never unite populations which are dissevered by sympathies. Until this principle is recognized, peace may be maintained by expedients, but can never be secured.
Accept, Mr. Minister, &c., &c.,
Mr. P. Delyanni, Minister of Foreign Affairs.