I cannot exhaust this vast topic in one speech.  We want Republican institutions, so founded on self-government everywhere, that the people themselves may be sovereign everywhere.  This is the cause, for which I humbly request your protecting aid.  It is the cause of oppressed Europe.  It is the cause of Germany, bleeding under some thirty petty tyrants who lean on that league of despots, the basis of which is Petersburg.  It is the cause of fair, but unfortunate Italy, which in so many respects is now dear to our heart.  We have a common enemy; so we are brothers in arms for freedom and independence.  I know how Italy is situated; and I dare confidently to declare, there is no hope for Italy, but in that great republican party, at the head of which Mazzini stands.  It has nothing to do with communistical schemes, or the French doctrines of Socialism:  but it wills, that Italy be free and republican.  Whither else could Italy look for freedom and independence, if not to that party which Mazzini leads?  To the King of Naples perhaps?  Let me be silent about that execrated man.  Or to the dynasty of Sardinia and Piedmont?  This professes to be constitutional; yet it captures those poor Hungarian soldiers who seek an asylum in Piedmont,—­captures, and delivers them to Austria to be shot:  and they are shot, increasing the number of those 3742 martyrs whom Radetzky murdered on the scaffold during three short years.  The House of Savoy is become the blood-hound of Austria against fugitive Hungarians.

Gentlemen, the generous sympathy of public opinion here (God be blessed!) is strongly aroused to the wrongs and sufferings of Hungary.  I look to your aid to keep that sympathy alive,—­to urge the formation of societies to collect funds and support a loan,—­to move in favour of the propositions which I had the honour to express at the Corporation Banquet.  Consider not the weakness of my address, but only the strength of my cause; and following the generous impulse of your republican hearts, accord to it the protective aid of the free independent Press.  Then I may yet see fulfilled the noble words of your Chairman’s poetry:—­

  Truth crush’d to earth shall rise again;
    The eternal years of God are hers;
  But error, wounded, writhes in pain,
    And dies among....
  (let me add, Sir,).. with all her worshippers.

In the course of the same evening, one of the toasts drunk was, “To the Political Exiles of Europe,” to which Michael Doheny, Esq., an Irish exile, first responded, in a speech full of animosity against England.  After him Mr. DANA made the following speech, which may be a useful comment on that of Kossuth.