I close, then, Sir, with repeating, that the object of this resolution is to avail ourselves of the interesting occasion of the Greek revolution to make our protest against the doctrines of the Allied Powers, both as they are laid down in principle and as they are applied in practice.  I think it right, too, Sir, not to be unseasonable in the expression of our regard, and, as far as that goes, in a manifestation of our sympathy with a long oppressed and now struggling people.  I am not of those who would, in the hour of utmost peril, withhold such encouragement as might be properly and lawfully given, and, when the crisis should be past, overwhelm the rescued sufferer with kindness and caresses.  The Greeks address the civilized world with a pathos not easy to be resisted.  They invoke our favor by more moving considerations than can well belong to the condition of any other people.  They stretch out their arms to the Christian communities of the earth, beseeching them, by a generous recollection of their ancestors, by the consideration of their desolated and ruined cities and villages, by their wives and children sold into an accursed slavery, by their blood, which they seem willing to pour out like water, by the common faith, and in the name, which unites all Christians, that they would extend to them at least some token of compassionate regard.

[Footnote 1:  The interior of the hall of the House of Representatives is surrounded by a magnificent colonnade of the composite order. [1824.]]

[Footnote 2:  See Lord Castlereagh’s speech in the House of Commons, February 3, 1816.  Debates in Parliament, Vol.  XXXVI. p. 355; where also the treaty may be found at length.]

[Footnote 3:  Law of Nature and Nations, Book II. cap. 2, sec. 11.]

[Footnote 4:  Martens, Recueil des Traites, Tome XIII. p. 656.]

[Footnote 5:  Annual Register for 1821, p. 601.]

[Footnote 6:  Annual Register for 1821, p. 251.]

THE TARIFF.

A SPEECH DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES, ON THE 1ST AND 2D OF APRIL, 1824.

[At an early period of the session of Congress of 1823-24 a bill was introduced into the House of Representatives to amend the several acts laying duties on imports.  The object of the bill was a comprehensive revision of the existing laws, with a view to the extension of the protective system.  The bill became the subject of a protracted debate, in which much of the talent of the House on both sides was engaged.  Mr. Webster took an active part in the discussion, and spoke upon many of the details of the bill, while it remained in the committee of the whole House on the state of the Union.  Several objectionable provisions were removed, and various amendments were introduced upon his motion; and it was a matter of regret to him, as seen in the following speech, that the friends of the bill were not able or willing to bring it into a form in which, as a whole, he could give it his support.  On the 30th and 31st of March, Mr. Clay, Speaker of the House, addressed the committee of the whole, at length and with great ability, on the general principles of the bill; and he was succeeded by Mr. Webster, on the 1st and 2d of April, in the following speech.]