A spirit of sympathy ran like electricity throughout the land.

Public meetings were held in nearly every populous town in the Union, in which resolutions, encouraging the Greeks in their struggle, were passed, and contributions taken up to aid them.

Money, clothing, provisions, arms, were collected in immense quantities and shipped to Greece.

In churches, colleges, academies and schools--at the theatres, museums, and other places of amusement and public resort--aid was freely and generously given in behalf of the struggling patriots.

Many citizens of the United States, when the first blast of the trumpet of liberty rang along the Ionian seas, and through the Peloponnesus, sped across the ocean, and, throwing themselves into the midst of the Grecian hosts, contended heroically for their emancipation.