Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 67, No. 415, May, 1850 — John Shaqi
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 67, No. 415, May, 1850Various
History
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 67, No. 415, May, 1850
Various
England -- Periodicals; Scotland -- Periodicals
We have no time to point out the connexion of the events we have noticed
with the general movement of European diplomacy since 1833. Our space
compels us to confine our observations to Greece; and we must now
hastily examine the state of society in the country, in order to enable
our readers to judge of the manner in which the civilisation of the
people affects the administration of public affairs. The Greeks
themselves think that their great political want is a good systematic
central administration. We believe, on the contrary, that their great
political deficiency is the want of municipal institutions, that would
admit of their making some exertions to improve their own condition.
Every one who has travelled much in Greece must have seen, that every
little town and island contains two or three individuals capable of
fulfilling the duties of a local magistracy with honour to their
country; while everybody who has had anything to do with the ministers
of King Otho, or with the members of his council of state, knows that
there is not a statesman in Greece capable of filling a ministerial
post, in a period of political difficulty, without disgracing his
country. It would be invidious to name respectable men as instances of
incapacity; but every one, who has followed the political history of
Greece, is aware that every Greek statesman has had opportunities of
disgracing it, and repeating the same blunders several times. The
despotic government of King Otho failed from the utter incapacity of his
ministers; the constitutional monarchy is hastening to ruin from the
same cause. In the present state of Greece, it is not possible to find
men capable of conducting the King’s Government with the necessary
ability. The people are greatly in advance of their rulers.
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