itude, and under whatever sanction and authorities
it may be cloaked and guarded. And coming on such an errand,
I think I may pledge myself in behalf of my country, that he
shall not be driven with a wife and little ones, from the
door of a hotel in less than 36 hours after he first breathes
our air--that he shall not be denounced as an incendiary, a
fanatic, an emissary, an enemy, and a traitor--that he shall
not be assailed with oaths and missiles, while proclaiming
from the pulpit in the house of God, on the evening of a
Christian Sabbath, the doctrines of 'judgment, justice, and
mercy,'--that he shall not be threatened, wherever he goes,
with 'tar and feathers'--that he shall not be repudiated and
abused in newspapers denominated religious, and by men
calling themselves Christian Ministers--that he shall not
have a price set upon his head, and his house surrounded with
ruffians, hired to effect his abduction--that his wife and
children shall not be forced to flee from the hearth of a
friend, lest they should be 'smoked out' by men in civic
authority, and their paid myrmidons--that the mother and her
little ones shall not find at midnight, the house surrounded
by an infuriated multitude, calling with horrible execrations
for the husband and the father--that his lady shall not be
doomed, while in a strange land, to see her babes clinging to
her with affright, exclaiming, 'the mob shan't get papa,'
'papa is good is he not? the naughty mob shan't get him,
shall they?'--that he shall not, finally, be forced to quit
the most enlightened and christian city of our nation, to
escape the assassin's knife, and return to tell his country,
that in Britain the friend of virtue, humanity, and freedom,
was put beyond the protection of the laws, and the pale of
civilized sympathy, and given over by professor and profane,
to the tender mercies of a blood-thirsty rabble.

These extracts were from the last letter that he had written to the
people of America, and which had been widely published there; and
he was glad of an opportunity of now laying them before a Glasgow
audience, and of having them incorporated in the proceedings of the
evening, in order to show that he then forgave America, that he now
forgave America. He would stand there to defend the right of Mr.
Breckinridge to a fair hearing from his (Mr. T