I regret more than I have words to express this painful fact, that of all the countries in Europe this country is the only one which has men in it who are willing to take active steps in favour of this intended slave government. We supply the ships; we supply the arms, the munitions of war; we give aid and comfort to this foulest of all crimes. Englishmen only do it. I believe you have not seen a single statement in the newspapers that any French, or Belgian, or Dutch, or Russian ship has been engaged in, or seized whilst attempting to violate the blockade and to carry arms to the South. They are English Liberal newspapers only which support this stupendous iniquity. They are English statesmen only, who profess to be liberal, who have said a word to favour the authors of this now--enacting revolution in America. The other day, not a week since, a member of the present Government,--he is not a statesman--he is the son of a great statesman, and occupies the position of Secretary for Ireland,--he dared to say to an English audience that he wished the Republic to be divided, and that the South should become an independent State. If that island which--I suppose in punishment for some of its offences--has been committed to his care,--if that island were to attempt to secede, not to set up a slave kingdom, but a kingdom more free than it has ever yet been, the Government of which he is a member would sack its cities and drench its soil with blood before they would allow such a kingdom to be established. But the working men of England, and I will say it too for the great body of the middle classes of England, have not been wrong upon this great question. As for you,--men labouring from morn till night that you may honourably and honestly maintain your families, and the independence of your households,--you are too slowly emerging from a condition of things far from independent--far from free--for you to have sympathy with this fearful crime which I have been describing. You come, as it were, from bonds yourselves, and you can sympathize with them who are still in bondage.