of the facts. I read once, that
Jacobi declared that he had some thoughts which--if he should
entertain them--would put him to death: and perhaps we have
weapons in our intellectual armory that are to save us from
disgrace and impertinent relation to the world we live in. But
this book will excuse you from any unseemly haste to make up your
accounts, nay, holds you to fulfil your career with all amplitude
and calmness. I found joy and pride in it, and discerned a
golden chain of continuity not often seen in the works of men,
apprising me that one good head and great heart remained in
England,--immovable, superior to his own eccentricities and
perversities, nay, wearing these, I can well believe, as a jaunty
coat or red cockade to defy or mislead idlers, for the better
securing his own peace, and the very ends which the idlers fancy
he resists. England's lease of power is good during his days.

I have in these last years lamented that you had not made the
visit to America, which in earlier years you projected or
favored. It would have made it impossible that your name should
be cited for one moment on the side of the enemies of mankind.
Ten days' residence in this country would have made you the organ
of the sanity of England and of Europe to us and to them, and
have shown you the necessities and aspirations which struggle up
in our Free States, which, as yet, have no organ to others, and
are ill and unsteadily articulated here. In our today's division
of Republican and Democrat, it is certain that the American
nationality lies in the Republican party (mixed and multiform
though that party be); and I hold it not less certain, that,
viewing all the nationalities of the world, the battle for
Humanity is, at this hour, in America. A few days here would
show you the disgusting composition of the Party which within the
Union resists the national action. Take from it the wild Irish
element, imported in the last twenty-five year's into this
country, and led by Romish Priests, who sympathize, of course,
with despotism, and you would bereave it of all its numerical
strength. A man intelligent and virtuous is not to be found on
that side. Ah! how gladly I would enlist you, with your
thunderbolt, on our part! How gladly enlist the wise,
thoughtful, efficient pens and voices of England! We want
England and Europe to hold our people stanch to their best
tendency. Are English of this day incapable of a great
sentime