George Thompson, too, was there; and America will yet own that he did a true man's work in relighting the rapidly dying-out fire of true republicanism in the American heart, and be ashamed of the treatment he met at her hands.

Coming generations in this country will applaud the spirit of this much abused republican friend of freedom.

There were others of note seated on the platform, who would gladly ingraft upon English institutions all that is purely republican in the institutions of America.

Nothing, therefore, must be set down against this speech on the score that it was delivered in the presence of those who cannot appreciate the many excellent things belonging to our system of government, and with a view to stir up prejudice against republican institutions.
Again, let it also be remembered--for it is the simple truth--that neither in this speech, nor in any other which I delivered in England, did I ever allow myself to address Englishmen as against Americans.
I took my stand on the high ground of human brotherhood, and spoke to Englishmen as men, in behalf of men.

Slavery is a crime, not against Englishmen, but against God, and all the members of the human family; and it belongs to the whole human family to seek its suppression.