emergency of domestic insurrection or of foreign aggression, to sustain the laws and support the institutions of our country.  They uniform and equip themselves at their own expense, and they serve without pay, satisfied with the consciousness that they are discharging a duty to their country, and qualifying themselves to sustain the honour of our flag and the freedom won by our fathers.  They represent fairly all classes of our citizens.  Our hard-working and ingenious mechanic—­our enterprising and energetic merchant—­our intelligent professional men—­our grocers, butchers, bakers, and cartmen, are all to be found in our ranks, exhibiting in public spirit, energy, and intelligence, a body of men not to be surpassed, even in this country of active enterprise and widely diffused intelligence.  It is amongst such men, devoted to such a service, that, you may feel well assured, the intelligence of the noble struggle of the Hungarian people for their rights and liberties was received with the deepest feeling, and the progress of your contest watched with the most earnest solicitude.  They exulted in your victories as the triumph of freedom over oppression and despotism—­they saw in your almost superhuman energies and dauntless courage the hearts of a people determined to be free.  They rejoiced that a great nation, with kindred principles and institutions, was established as an independent republic amidst the despotisms of Europe.  But, alas! all their hopes and anticipations were blasted.  Such an example amidst the down-trodden subjects of the arbitrary governments of Europe, was viewed with alarm by their despotic rulers, and the enslaved hordes of the imperial Russian were hurled upon the free sons of Hungary.  Even with such mighty odds, we should not have despaired for Hungary, had she been afforded but one year of peaceful preparation to complete her organization and develop her resources.  Her gallant sons upon her own soil, and battling for their homes, their altars, and their independence, would have been unconquerable.  But treason and despotism combined, triumphed over freedom.  Then commenced a scene of horrors and cruelty, such as despots only and the minions of despots can perpetrate.

Hungarian liberty may be cast down, but cannot be destroyed.  The sacred flame burns unquenched in the hearts of the people, and will again burst forth, a glorious light to enlighten the nation—­but a consuming fire to their oppressors.  But when? and how shall this be accomplished?  Sir, we believe and feel with you that this will be accomplished whenever the free people of America, uniting with those kindred nations of Europe which sustain and shall secure free institutions, will support and insist upon that great moral principle of international law which you have recently so eloquently and ably expounded—­that one nation should not interfere with the domestic concerns of another.  Establish this great and just principle, and Hungary would again assume her