the world. I love her rising spires, her
peaceful villages, and her multiplied means of moral,
literary, and religious improvement. I love her hardy sons,
the tenants of her vallies and her mountains green. I love
her native children of the forest, still roaming, untutored
and untamed, in the unsubdued wildernesses of the 'far west.'
I love your country, because it is the theatre of the
sublimest contest now waging with darkness and despotism, and
misery on the face of the globe; and because your country is
ordained to be the scene of a triumph, as holy in its
character and as glorious in its results, as any ever
achieved through the instrumentality of men.

But though my soul yearns over America, and I desire nothing
more eagerly than to see her stand forth among the nations of
the world, unsullied in reputation, and omnipotent in energy,
yet shall I, if spared, deem it my duty to publish aloud her
wide and fearful departures from rectitude and mercy. I shall
unceasingly proclaim the wrongs of her enslaved children;
and, while she continues to 'traffic in the souls of men,'
brand her as recreant to the great principles of her
revolutionary struggle, and hypocritical in all her
professions of attachment to the cause of human rights.

I thank God, I cherish no feelings of bitterness or revenge,
towards any individual in America, my most inveterate enemy
not excepted. Should the sea on which I am about to embark
receive me ere I gain my native shore--should this be the
last letter I ever address to the people of America, Heaven
bears me witness, I with truth and sincerity affirm that, as
I look to be freely forgiven, so freely do I forgive my
persecutors and slanderers and pray--'Lord lay not this sin
to their charge.'

In another part of the same letter he had thus expressed himself:--

Should a kind providence place me again upon the soil of my
birth, and when there, should any American (and I hope many
will) visit that soil to plead the cause of virtue and
philanthropy, and strive in love to provoke us to good works,
let him know that there will be one man who will uphold his
right to liberty of speech, one man who will publicly and
privately assert and maintain the divinity of his commission
to attack sin and alleviate suffering, in every form, in
every lat