hey, who see what a monstrous Wrong our
'domestic concern' is, what a world of evil it has done and is doing,
have watched our illustrious guest with trembling solicitude. For his
own sake they are appalled lest he should waver from a faithful
application of his own cherished faith; not that they desire him to
join them, but they justly expect from him as a true man, that he should
allow no shadow of doubt to rest upon his principles and his position.

For myself, I cannot help thinking, that he looks upon American Slavery
as a thing, which we, ourselves, are at this moment busily engaged in
abolishing. He finds men, eminent in office and in ability, ranked on
the Anti-Slavery side. He knows that they are backed by the great
authority of our Declaration of Independence, and assisted by the
powerful influence of the freest institutions on the face of the earth;
and he naturally regards it as needless and arrogant to interfere in the
affairs of so mighty a nation--a nation so vigorous as to be able, one
would think, to settle any difficulties that may lie in its way, without
assistance from abroad.

But, although he has expressed his determination not to meddle with our
domestic institutions, our domestic institutions threaten to meddle with
him. Scarcely had he landed on our shores, when a voice was heard in our
National Councils, proposing his arrest for incendiary speech; a
proposal, the gross insult of which, not only to him, but to us all, was
only relieved by its unutterable folly. This is not the only hint of the
insolent interference in his concerns, with which the upholders of
Oppression on this side of the world have menaced him. He looks, I
believe, upon American Slavery as an affair which he, he especially who
helped to elevate the peasantry of his own country, knows that we have
the power to settle. But, however much he may have heard about it, he
does not yet know that we have not the will to settle it. He does not
yet know how deep-seated it is, and how mighty and extensive its
influence is in deadening our hearts, and controlling our national
action. Although he is a man of profound sagacity, yet, with all the
information that may have been furnished him, it can only be by degrees,
and by actual observation, that his mind will win its way to a true and
terrible conviction of the actual state of the case. But he will--he
must see how the matter stands; and he will declare, most fervently do I
trust, what h