Alexandria Gazette & Advertiser

[Communicated.]

THE GREEK QUESTION

Our readers will have seen that the debate on Mr. Webster's motion, for sending an agent to Greece, terminated, for the present, on Monday, the subject not having since been called up. Whether it will be again called up or not, we are not able to say. From present appearances, we should rather think not. If it shall, in the event, be the pleasure of the House to let the resolution rest where it is, this disposition, the reader will understand, is not inconsistent with a deep interest in the progress of the struggle in which the Greeks are engaged, nor with the sincerest prayers for their final and complete success. The sentiment of the President's Message is undoubtedly that of Congress, as it is of the nation; and the expression of it by the President is regarded by many as a sufficiently formal avowal of the National sentiment. There are many, and we are among the number, who doubt the expediency of our interfering actively, in any manner, in the contentions of Europe. Such a purpose, we sincerely think, was as far from Mr. Webster as could be wished; but his proposition being thought by some to be open to that objection, has been with them additional argument against the acting up on it. Whether the resolution be yet pressed to a decision or not, this good effect has resulted from it—that it has afforded an opportunity for exposing, in debate, the alarming doctrines of the Holy Alliance, and of entering against them an unanimous and decided protest; for not a single voice has been lifted up in their defence, or even in palliation of them.

Nat. Intelligencer, 28th inst.