“Gentlemen, I trust that our abhorrence of Slavery is not in the least abated or diminished. [_Loud and prolonged cheers._] For my own part, I consider it one of the most horrible crimes that yet disgrace humanity. [_Cheers._] But then, when we are treating of the relations which we bear to a community of men, I doubt whether it would be expedient or useful for humanity that we should introduce that new element of declaring that _we will have no relations with a people who permit Slavery to exist among them. We have never adopted it yet, we have not adopted it in the case of Spain or Brazil, and I do not believe that the cause of humanity would be served by our adoption of it._ [‘_Hear! hear!_’] “Well, then it was said that these Confederate States were Rebels,--Rebels against the Union. Perhaps, Gentlemen, I am not so nice as I ought to be on the subject. But I recollect that we rebelled against Charles the First [_a laugh_], we rebelled against James the Second, and the people of New England, not content with these two rebellions, rebelled against George the Third. [_‘Hear!’ and laughter._] … But, certainly, if I look to the declarations of those New England orators,--and I have been reading lately, if not the whole, yet a very great part, of the very long speech by Mr. Sumner on the subject, delivered at New York,--I own, I cannot but wonder to see these men, the offspring, as it were, of three rebellions, as we are the offspring of two rebellions, really speaking, like the Czar of Russia, the Sultan of Turkey, or Louis the Fourteenth himself, of the dreadful crime and guilt of rebellion. [_Loud laughter and cheers._] … “I said, that in America, although there were some of the local courts which had not the authority of such men as Lord Stowell and Sir William Grant, yet there was a Court of Appeal, there was a Supreme Court, in the United States, which contained, and had for many years contained, men as learned and of as high reputation in the law and of as unsullied reputation for integrity as any that have sat in our English courts of justice, and that we ought to wait patiently for the decision of those tribunals. Now what is my surprise to find, and what would be your surprise to find, that Mr. Sumner is so prejudiced that he brings these declarations of mine against me, saying _that I have diminished the reputation of the American Courts_, and that I showed myself biased against the Federal States, by the declaration I then made in Parliament! [_A gentleman from the Southern States among the company here ejaculated, ‘He is not to be believed.’_]