not the principle of your Washington.  When he speaks of harmony, of friendly intercourse, and of peace, he always takes care to apply his ideas to nations, and not to governments—­still less to tyrants who subdue nations by foreign arms.  The sacred word Nation, with all its natural rights, should not be blotted out, at least from your political dictionary:  and yet I am sorry to see that the word nation is often replaced by the word Government.  Gentlemen, I humbly wish that the public opinion of the people of the United States, conscious of its own rights, should loudly and resolutely declare that the people of the United States will continue its commercial intercourse with any or every nation, be it in revolution against its oppressors or be it not; and that the people of the United States expect confidently, that its government will provide for the protection of your trade.  I feel assured, that your national government, seeing public opinion so pronounced, will judge it convenient to augment your naval forces in the Mediterranean:  and to look for some such station for it as would not force the navy of republican America to make disavowals inconsistent with republican principles or republican dignity, only because King So-and-So, be he even the cursed King of Naples, grants the favour of an anchoring place for the naval forces of your republic.  I believe your illustrious country should everywhere freely unfurl the star-spangled banner of liberty, with all its congenial principles, and not make itself in any respect dependent on the glorious smiles of the Kings Bomba et Compagne.

The THIRD object of my wishes, gentlemen, is the recognition of the independence of Hungary when the critical moment arrives.  Your own declaration of independence proclaims the right of every nation to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which “the laws of nature and nature’s God” entitle them.  The political existence of your glorious republic is founded upon this principle, upon this right.  Our nation stands upon the same ground:  there is a striking resemblance between your cause and that of my country.  On the 4th July, 1776, John Adams spoke thus in your Congress, “Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I am for this declaration.  In the beginning we did not go so far as separation from the Crown, but ’there is a divinity which shapes our ends.’” These noble words were present to my mind on the 14th April, 1849, when I moved the forfeiture of the Crown by the Hapsburgs in the National Assembly of Hungary.  Our condition was the same; and if there be any difference, I venture to say it is in favour of us.  Your country, before this declaration, was not a self-consisting independent State.  Hungary was.  Through the lapse of a thousand years, through every vicissitude of this long period, while nations vanished and empires fell, the self-consisting independence of Hungary was never disputed, but was recognized by all