In the meantime I wish you, and all other gentlemen engaged in the virtuous work, all the success you or they can wish; for I believe no effort in favor of virtue will be ultimately lost.
"I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, your very humble Servant, "JOHN ADAMS." The sympathies of John Quincy Adams were ardently enlisted in behalf of the Greek Revolution.

But with a prudence and wisdom which characterized all his acts, he threw his influence against any direct interference on the part of the Government of the United States.

It would have been a departure from that neutral policy, in regard to European conflicts, on which the country had acted from the commencement of our national existence, alike injurious and dangerous.

He knew if we once entered into these wars, on any pretext whatever, a door would be opened for foreign entanglements and endless conflicts, which would result in standing armies, immense national debts, and the long trail of evils of which they are the prolific source.
When an application was made to Mr.Adams, as Secretary of State, through Mr.Rush, our Minister at London, by an Agent of Greece, for aid from the United States, he was compelled, on principles above stated, to withhold the required assistance.

The correspondence which grew out of this application is sufficiently interesting to find a place in these pages:-- "Andreas Luriottis, Envoy of the Provisional Government of Greece, to the Hon.