It is a gospel maxim "_Be not partaker of other men's sins._" It is alike applicable to individuals and nations. If you of the United States see the great law of humanity outraged by another nation, and see it _silently_, raising no warning voice against it, you virtually become a party to the offence; as you do not reprove it, you embolden the offender to add iniquity unto iniquity. Let not one nation be partaker of another nation's sins. When you see the great law of humanity, the law upon which your national existence rests, the law enacted in the Declaration of your Independence, outraged and profaned, will you sit quietly by? If so (excuse me for saying) part of the guilt is upon you, and while individuals receive their reward in the eternal world, nations are sure to receive it here. There is connection of cause and effect in a nation's destiny. A nation should not be a mere _lake_, a glassy expanse, only reflecting foreign, light around--but a _river_, carrying its rich treasures from the fountain to distant regions of the earth. A nation should not be a mere _light-house_, a stationary beacon, erected upon the coast to warn voyagers of their danger--but a moving _life-boat_, carrying treasures of freedom to the doors of thousands and millions in their lands. I confess, gentlemen, that I shared those expectations, which the nations of Europe have conceived from America. Was I too sanguine in my wishes to hope, that in these expectations I shall not fail? So much I dare say, that I conceived these expectations not without encouragement on your own part.