He would urge them to go on and support that cause which they believed to be sanctified by truth.  It has been said that true religion can never cease to be republican.  If this be true, he would ask what could more promote the glorious cause, than the influence of the United States exerted among the nations of the world, toward the general acknowledgment of that doctrine among nations which is laid down for the government of men,—­“What ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to them.”  This fundamental truth should be declared a part of the international law of the world; and the Gospel would then become the bulwark of liberty to all mankind.  Thus we may see that the triumph of genuine liberty can best be secured by recognizing religion as the true basis of the law of nations.  He who shall be instrumental in incorporating this grand doctrine among those laws, will be equal, or perhaps superior to, a Luther, or a Melancthon, a Calvin, or a Huss, a Cranmer, or any other of the world’s greatest reformers.  The people of this republic have all this within their grasp; and he hoped the Almighty would hasten the day when it shall be done.  He had often heard that the people of this country loved to be called a great people, and he had many times heard them called a great people.  To be a great people, however, the people of this country must really act as a great people.  He urged upon the ministers of the Gospel that they should warn their flocks against the horrid doctrines of Materialism.  Nothing is more hostile to national greatness than when the poor see the rich governed only by pecuniary considerations—­leaving nothing for the mind and the soul, or undervaluing virtue and talents.  He thankfully acknowledged the deep solemnity of his feelings, when for his humble self, such solemn manifestations were observed; and while commending his bleeding country to their love, he could only refer them to the Saviour’s words as the guide for their prayers and their watchfulness.

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XXV.—­HUNGARIAN LOAN.

[Melodeum, Cleveland.]

Kossuth having been presented at the Melodeum to the Mayor, was publicly addressed by Mr. Starkweather in a highly energetic speech, which ended by saluting him as “rightful Governor of Hungary.”

Kossuth replied:—­

Sir, if I am not mistaken it is now the 156th time [since I entered America], I am sure that it is the 34th time since I left Washington on the 12th of January,—­that I have had the honour to address an American audience in that tongue which I learned from Shakespeare, while confined in an Austrian prison for having dared to claim the right of a free press, which now, like the hundred-handed Briareus of old, pours my words by thousands of channels into the hearts of millions of freemen, who comprize in their national capacity a mighty Republic, destined to enforce the Law of Nations, upon which rests the deliverance of the world from an overwhelming despotism.