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ingratitude of some of
the Europeans. No, the fellow-citizens of Pean, of Washington,
and of Franklin, will not refuse their aid to the descendants
of Phoocion and Thrasybulus, of Aratus, and of Philopoemon.
You have already shown theme esteem and confidence in sending
your children to their schools. You know with what pleasure
they were welcomed, and the steady kindness and attentions which
they received. If such has been their conduct when enslaved,
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what friendship and zeal will they not
manifest to you, when through your aid they shall have broken
their chains. Greece will then furnish your advantages, which
you can in vain seek from her ignorance and cruel tyrants;
and the bands of gratitude and fraternity will forever untie
the Greeks and the Americans. Our interests are of a nature
more and more to cement an alliance founded on freedom and
virtue.
At Calamata, May 25 1821.
Signed, the Messenian Senate at Calamate
Peter Mavromichalis, Commander in Chief
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