ould always
be able to use the military and civil power of one to accomplish
his designs against the liberty of the other. The opinion
of Kossuth on such a question is entitled to the greatest
deference. But I incline to the belief that, while undoubtedly
there may be great truth in the opinion, the spirit of liberty
will overcome that danger. Hungary and Hungary's chief city
seem rapidly to be asserting control in their own affairs
and an influence in the Austro-Hungary Empire which no monarch
will be able to withstand, and which it is quite likely the
royal family will not desire to withstand. In these days
monarchs are learning the love of liberty, and I believe
in most cases to-day the reigning sovereigns of Europe are
eager to promote constitutional government, and prefer the
title of Liberator to that of Despot.

I have heard Wendell Phillips speak a great many times. I
do not include him in this notice, because, if I did, I ought
to defend my estimate of him at considerable length, and to
justify it by ample quotation. I think him entitled to the
very highest rank as an orator. I do not estimate his moral
character highly. I think he exerted very little influence on
his generation, and that the influence he did exert was in the
main pernicious. I have had copied everything he said, from
the time he made his first speech, so far as it is found in
the newspapers, and have the volumes in which his speeches
are collected. I never had occasion to complain of him on
my own account. So far as I know and believe, he had the
kindliest feeling for me until his death, and esteemed my
public service much more highly than it deserved. But he
bitterly and unjustly attacked men whom I loved and honored
under circumstances which make it impossible for me to believe
that his conduct was consistent with common honesty. He seemed
never to care for the soundness of his opinion before he uttered
it, or for the truth of the fact before he said it, if only
he could produce a rhetorical effect. He seemed to like to
defame men whom the people loved and honored. Toward the
latter part of his life, he seemed to get desperate. If he
failed to make an impression by argument, he took to invective.
If vinegar would not answer he resorted to cayenne pepper.
If that failed, he tried to throw vitriol in the eyes of the
men whom he hated. His remedy for slavery was to destroy
the country, and to leave the slave to the uncheck