Year: 1862

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| ly and mental pain that man can most
truly and most acutely appreciate good
and evil, and leaving the authors Of his
misery to eternal shame, devote un-
limited affection and gratitude to his
benefactors. And that to you, 0 peo-
pie Of England, owe heavy debt of
benefits bestowed, [ feel in the inmost
recesses of my soul You were my
friends in prosperity, and now you
osatinue the precious boon in the days
Of my adversely May God reward
you And my gratitude is the more
intense, Q worthy people, inasmuch as,
rising as it must do beyond the mere


evel Of individual feeling, it becomes
sublime in the general sentiment to-
ward those nations whose progress you
represent. Yes you are deserving Of
the gratitude Of the world, because you
offer an asylum for misfortune, from
whatever part it may come; and you
identify yourselves with misery, pity it,
relieve it. The French and Neapolitan
exile finds in your bosom shelter from
his tyrant; he finds sympathy he is
helped, because an exile, because un-
happy The Haynans-the hardened
instruments of autocrats-fnd no rest
in your liberal land, and fly terrified
before the bitter scorn Of your generous
sons, And, in truth, without your no
bic bearing, what would Europe be :?
Tyranny seizes its cxiles in those other
lands where virtue is unnatural, where
liberty is lie but they are still safe on


the sacred soil Of Albion. I, like so


many others, seeing the cause of justice
trampled under foot in SO many parts
Of the world, despaired Of human prog


ress. But, turning to you, my mind is
calmed-calmed by the contemplation


of your fearless progress toward that
end to which the human race seems
called by Providence. Proceed on your
way, 0 calm, unconquered nation and


be less tardy in calling your sister people


into the same path CT human progress.
Call the French nation to cooperate


with you. You two are worthy to march
hand in-hand in the vanguard of social
progress. Yes, call her In all your


meetings let concord between the two
great sisters be your cry. Yes,call her !!


Call to her always, and in every manner
with your voice, and with the voice


of her great exiles-of Victor Hugo,
the high-priest Of human brotherhood.
Tell her that conquest is, in this age,
an anomanly-the emanation Of an I'M
sound mind Why should we covet
the land Of others, when all men should


be as brethren? Yes, call her And
she, forgetting that she is temporarily
under the dominion Of the Genius of
Evil-if not to-day, tomorrow; if not


tomorrow, later-will reply as she
ought to your generous and regenerat-
ing appeal. Call, and at once the bold
sons Of Helyetia, and clasp them firmly


to your breast The warlike children
Of the Alps-the 1asals Of the sacred
fire ofliberty on the continent Of Europe
they will be with you. What a host
Call the great American Republic, for
she is in truth your daughter and is
struggling now for the abolition Of that
Slavery which you have already 50 nobly
proclaimed Help her to escape from
the terrible strife waged against her by
the traders in human flesh. Help her,
and then place her by your side at the
great assembly Of nations-that final
work of human intellect. Call to your
side all those peoples who would be free,
and lose not an hour. The initiative
which belongs to you to-day, may to-
morrow concern another May God for
bid such calamity Who ever more
gallantly than France in SO assumed the
responsibility At thatsolemn moment
she held up "Reason' to the world,
crushed tyranny, and consecrated free
brotherhood. Now, after nearly cen
tury she is reduced to combat the liber-
tyy o. nations, to protect tyranny, and
/ over the altar of reason to erect the
symbol of that wicked and immoral
monstrosity, which is called the Papaey.
Arise. then, Britannia, and at once
Arise with your undaunted brow, and
point out to the people the path they
must tread! With Congress Of the
world to decide between nations, war
would be an impossibility. No longer
would there exist those standing armies
which make liberty impossible. What
weaponsl What defenses What en-
gines of attack and defensel And then
the millions squandered in implements
of destruction would be employed in
fostering the industry and diminishing
the misery Of the human race. Begin,
then, o people Of England and, for the
/ love of God, initiate the vast human
compact, and bestow this great gift on
the present generation Beside Switz-
erland and Belgium, you would see 9th
er nations, urged on BY the good sense
of the people, accept your invitation,
and hasten to enroll themselves under
your banner. Let London now be the
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