They look to us as the great Republic of the earth--and they ask us, by our common faith, whether we can forget that they are struggling, as we once struggled, for what we now so happily enjoy?
I cannot say, sir, they will succeed; that rests with heaven.

But, for myself, sir, if I should to-morrow hear that they have failed--that their last phalanx had sunk beneath the Turkish cimetar, that the flames of their last city had sunk in its ashes, and that nought remained but the wide, melancholy waste where Greece once was--I should still reflect, with the most heartfelt satisfaction, that I have asked you, in the name of seven millions of freemen, that you would give them, at least, the cheering of one friendly voice." The committee having in charge the raising of a fund for the assistance of the Greeks, in New York, addressed a circular to the venerable ex-President John Adams, to which they received the following reply:-- "Quincy, Dec.

29, 1823.
"GENTLEMEN:--I have received your circular of the 12th inst., and I thank you for the honor you have done me in addressing it to me.

Be assured my heart beats in unison with yours, and with those of your constituents, and I presume with all the really civilized part of mankind, in sympathy with the Greeks, suffering, as they are, in the great cause of liberty and humanity.

The gentlemen of Boston have taken measures to procure a general subscription in their favor, through the State, and I shall contribute my mite with great pleasure.