American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-09-01

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sympathize with her, and tna' ,h ~ rssolution,
~ -. e Il saw to the President ,iou
a an1 ~ grateful intelligence; We Ioel ior
Ga.s" and we grant you money, that, wnon
49, Il proper, when the interests OF TINS
y oa rs shall mot be jsopardized, you may de-
me a commissioner, public funcuonAry, ~
fEraece.' This is all 1t says; and tho Wholo
,.asnonsibiIity is left with the Executive, where
az Constitution puts it. But, sir, 1t is not
frat and chiefly for Greece, that | wish 10 see
This measure adopted 1t will give them but
little aid, that aid purely of moral KIND. !.
at is. indeed, soothing and solacing In DIS
,ress. TO hear the accents of friendly voice,
1--WE know this as a people.) But, sir, It is
principally and mainly for America herself, TOT
the credit and character of our common coun-
try, that hope to see this resolution pass u
is for our own unsullied name that feel. what
appearance on the page of history would TO-
cord like this make, Mr. Chairman In the
month of January in the year Of our Lord and
Saviour, 1924, while all European Christendom
beheld, with cold and unfeeling apathy, the
unexampled wrongs and ine1pressible misery OF
the Christians in Greece, q proposition was
made in the Congress Of the United States, al
most the sole, the last, the great repository Of
human hope and Of human freedom, the repre-
sentatives Of a nation capable Of bringing into
the field a million Of bayonets, while the free
men Of that nation were spontaneously express
ing its deeptoned feeling, its fervent prayer for
Grecian success, while the whole continent was
raising, by one simultaneous emotion, solemnly
and anxiously supplicating and invoking the aid
OF Heaven to spare Greece and to invigorate her
arms, while temples and senate houses werc all
resounding with one burst Of generous feeling
(gentleInen may call it enthusiastic defamation
If they please; would to God we could hear
such defamation and the utterancs OF such
feeling from them! lin the year of our Lord and
Saviour, that Saviour alike of Christian Greece
and of us-a proposition was offered In the
American Congress, to send messenger to
Greece, to inquire into her state and condition,
ia. !" expression Of our good wishes and our
w. W.. md it was rejected Go home,
y Won dare: 90 hon..a. il you can, to your con-
.t;tusn and tsll them tns.t you voted it down
meet, If You dare, the appalling countenances
Of those who sent you here, q mean no deh
ance,) and tell them that you shrank from 'n0
declaration Of your own sentiment-that you
cannot tell how, but that some unknown dread,
some indescribable apprehension, some indehna-
BILE danger, affrighted you-that the spectres
Of cimetars, and crowns, and crescents, cleaned
before you, and alarmed you; and that you
suppressed all the noble feelings prompted by
religion, by liberty, by national independence,
and by humanity. I cannot bring myself to
believe that such will be the feeling Of ma
jority Of this House. But, for myself, though
every friend Of the measure should desert it,
and I left to stand alone, with the gentleman
from Massachusetts,, viii give to the resolu-
ton the poor sanction Of my unqualified appro,
baton"