ing ear of humanity. Then the chains
would soon fall everywhere from the limbs of the slave. Then the
reactionary and feudal party of Europe, now so loudly proclaiming
republics a failure, while exulting over the anticipated fall of the
American Union, would retire discomfited from the contest, while the
rights of man would be immensely promoted, and civilization advance, at
a single bound, more than in the lapse of many centuries. The great
liberal party of England, headed by those immortal champions Bright and
Cobden, would rouse like giants refreshed from their slumber, and carry
the flag of the vote by ballot and extended suffrage triumphantly
throughout the British realm, while Ireland, oppressed Ireland, would
then receive the fullest justice. Then, indeed, all past differences
between England and America would be sunk forever in fraternal concord,
and the peace of the world be maintained. Then Napoleon the Third, who
keeps an army of 600,000 men as a standing menace to Europe and the
world, and who has just, for the present, and for the present only,
extinguished in blood the freedom of Mexico, must abandon his ambitious
projects, or shiver his diadem upon the adamantine rock of popular
freedom.

But there are complaints from the so-called Democratic party that the
President, and especially the Secretary of State, have surrendered the
Monroe doctrine, and abandoned Mexico to her fate. There is no truth in
this accusation. The President and the Secretary of State, _as regards
the future_, are wholly uncommitted on this question, unless, indeed, it
be for Mexico, by announcing that the people of the loyal States are
unanimously in her favor. I say they are uncommitted for the future, and
the real objection to their course is this: that they have not gratified
the South and its Northern allies, by engaging, ere this, in a war with
France, so as to bring her vast forces in aid of the Confederate
government. Indeed, Mr. Seward is cursed everywhere by the Confederates
and their allies throughout Europe for preventing a war, _at this time_,
on the Mexican question, between France and the United States, 'There is
a time for all things,' and, as I have said before, our only question
_now_, is the salvation of the Union; and when that is secured, will be
the proper period to consider other subordinate questions, foreign or
domestic. No man can speak with more feeling on this question than
myself, for it is a well-known fac