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 EPILOGUE. 287 influence public opinion against the Greeks. It is painful to say there was nothing too base, nothing too absurd in calumniation, but the pub- lic accepted it. The journals refused everything that was offered to correct misrepresentations. Most remarkable was the conduct of the German press of New York ; here the German Wahrheits- liebe was suspended, and Freiheitsliebe was not accorded to the poor Cretans suffering under cruel Turkish yoke. The pleasure at the de- feat of the Greek army was great; no Ger- man seemed to remember anything about the history of the battles of Jena and Auerstaedt, and all that preceded and all that followed. Let us hope that the Greeks may learn from history how the soldiers of 1806 — that is, the soldiers from Jena and Auerstaedt — became the soldiers of 18 1 3, the soldiers of Leipsic. In the Historical and Ethnological Museum of Athens there is a glass case, surrounded by Turkish flags. In this case there are, as the following inscription tells : 66ibtv ix rou xoXnoo rwv Xavicav izapa too r/va/xivou arokoo twv i$ MeydXwv Auvdfiswv xard t(ou iv IJpo^TJTrj ^HXia tod' Axpiovqpioo iffrparoTzedeufiivcov 700 XpiffTiavibv Kprfzwv rijv g-qv 0e(fpoua' ptou, 1897, 8)pa 4^ p.fi.