e cannot help seeing. The fact must become as plain to him
as noonday, that there is no one thing in which the oppressed nations of
Europe have a deeper interest, than in the abolition of American
Slavery; because this is the one thing which prevents the full
expression of our sympathy in their behalf, and neutralizes that moral
aid, which, if we rendered it to the full extent of our power, would
make all material aid entirely superfluous. Some of his words the other
evening were very significant. Having said that he had done nothing, and
would do nothing to interfere with our domestic affairs, he added that
remarkable declaration:--'I more and more perceive, in the words of
Hamlet, that there are more things in heaven and earth, than _were_
dreamed of in _my_ philosophy.'

How could he have dreamed that a people who had made such a solemn
declaration of human rights before all the world, a people so lavish in
the praise of Liberty, were clinging with such desperation to
Oppression, as if it were the very life and soul of their Union and
their Power. No matter how much he may have been told, and he is in
nothing more remarkable than in the extent of his information, he has
not yet known--he cannot know--it could not have entered into his
generous heart to imagine, that this Domestic Institution of ours is the
one thing that exerts the most marked and predominating influence on our
domestic and our foreign policy. He does not see, but he must, that it
is the one thing that will make his appeal to our National Government
utterly in vain, and that his silence in regard to it will avail him
nothing. It must become plain to him that we are ready enough to
intervene when the Slave Power requires it for the increase and
extension of its own strength. For that we are ready to go to war with
our neighbors, and rob them of their territory. In that behalf our
statesmen have sought to enlist the interests and sympathies of foreign
nations. And that it is, whose interests will prevent us from a full and
generous expression of our interest in the downtrodden of other lands.
We are interfering with human rights at home, we are constitutionally
bound to interfere with them, and we hold it for our advantage to do so;
and we cannot intervene to prevent interference with them abroad. On
this account alone, could a man of such rare power, of such wonderful
eloquence, coming among us upon such a mission, fail. Yes, this favorite
domestic in