love and affection in a tongue that recalls the fact of blood being thicker than water. This year the Oration, though delivered in England, shall be printed and published in America first. The offering is a poor one-then let it be repaid by a richer. No one can be more sensible than I am of the superficial manner in which several important questions are handled; but that very fact may lead others to more profound reflections. A judicious critic remarks that, in the Sequels especially, the coloring is very local. True-otherwise it would be unnatural. And Americans have not the same troubles as we have. But they may have them soon. Let them listen kindly to the outpouring of our griefs, and we will promise to sympathize with theirs when they tell them.
- LONDON, June, 1871.
