CHAPTER V. lxxii

Election to Congress from Boston.--State of Parties.--Meeting of the Eighteenth Congress.--Mr. Webster's Resolution and Speech in favor of the Greeks.--Argument in the Supreme Court in the Case of Gibbons and Ogden.--Circumstances under which it was made.--Speech on the Tariff Law of 1824.--A complete Revision of the Law for the Punishment of Crimes against the United States reported by Mr. Webster, and enacted.--The Election of Mr. Adams as President of the United States.--Meeting of the Nineteenth Congress, and State of Parties.--Congress of Panama, and Mr. Webster's Speech on that Subject.--Election as a Senator of the United States.--Revision of the Tariff Law by the Twentieth Congress.--Embarrassments of the Question.--Mr. Webster's Course and Speech on this Subject.