westward in the track of the Puritan
emigrants, had passed from his hemisphere only to shine again in this
with no fitful ray, but with a steady brightness which will one day
reillumine the feudal darkness of the Old World.

The Revolution failed in England. Yet in England the party of Cromwell
and Milton still lives. It still lives; and in this great crisis of your
fortunes, its heart turns to you. On your success ours depends. Now, as
in the seventeenth century, the thread of our fate is twined with the
thread of yours. An English Liberal comes here, not only to watch the
unfolding of your destiny, but to read his own.

Even in the Revolution of 1776 Liberal England was on your side. Chatham
was your spokesman, as well as Patrick Henry. We, too, reckon Washington
among our heroes. Perhaps there may have been an excuse even for the
King. The relation of dependence which you as well as he professed to
hold sacred, and which he was bound to maintain, had long become
obsolete. It was time to break the cord which held the child to its
mother; and probably there were some on your side, from the first, or
nearly from the first, resolved to break it,--men instinct with the
revolutionary spirit, and bent on a Republic. All parties were in a
false position; and they could find no way out of it better than civil
war. Good-will, not hatred, is the law of the world; and seldom can
history--even the history of the conqueror--look back on the results of
war without regret. England, scarcely guilty of the offence of her
monarch, drank the cup of shame and disaster to the dregs. That war
ruined the French finances, which till then might have been retrieved,
past the hope of redemption, and precipitated the Revolution which
hurled France through anarchy into despotism, and sent Lafayette to a
foreign dungeon, and his master to the block. You came out victorious;
but, from the violence of the rupture, you took a political bias not
perhaps entirely for good; and the necessity of the war blended you,
under equivocal conditions, with other colonies of a wholly different
origin and character, which then "held persons to service," and are now
your half-dethroned tyrant, the Slave Power. This Revolution will lead
to a revision of many things,--perhaps to a partial revision of your
history. Meantime, let me repeat, England counts Washington among her
heroes.

And now as to the conduct of England towards you in this civil war. It
is of want