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XVIII.--ASPECTS OF AMERICA TOWARD ENGLAND.

[_Speech at the Anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans, Jan. 8_.]

F.P. Blair, Esq., in the name of the Democratic Association, pronounced
an elaborate address, vindicating the interposition of the King of
France to aid the American Colonies when they revolted from England, and
pointing out that America, in defence of her institutions, may be called
on to support the masses of the European nations as a breakwater between
herself and Despotism. He showed the certain danger to which English
freedom would be exposed from the triumph of despotism, and asked:--

What have we to expect from neutrality? We may anticipate
the treatment which we received from both belligerents
when Napoleon pressed on to empire over all the nation
as Russia does now.... Can we hope, that when the war
is intended to exterminate the principle of which our government
is the great exemplar, our people will be allowed the immunity
of free trade with the belligerents to grow rich and
strong by their calamities?... The impending danger
can only be averted from us by the ability of the people of
Europe, now kept down by military mercenaries, to rise and
assert their own rights. To encourage such efforts is the duty
of every free people, and of all that would be free....
Shall our government hesitate to denounce, as a violation of
the law of nations, the intervention of the Czar? Shall it
hesitate to declare it a justification of a counter-intervention?...
Our countrymen will not assent to the one-sided
doctrine. They will intervene to lift up those stricken down
by intervention,--

The exiles from Europe--_Liberty_ and _Louis Kossuth_.

The band struck up the well-known Marseilles Hymn, and Kossuth, rising
to respond, was received with prolonged cheers. The music having ceased,
three hearty cheers were given, and Louis Kossuth responded to the toast
and the address in the following remarks, which were received with warm
enthusiasm:--

Gentlemen: I feel sincerely gratified with the honour of being invited
to be present on this solemn occasion, dedicated to the memory of a
glorious as well as highly responsible fact in your history.

There is high political wisdom in the custom yearly to revive the memory
of civil virtue and national glory in the mind of the living generation,
because nothing else is so efficient to kee