430 THE PRESS. 



general press in the United States, the established voice 

 of the land, which ought to lead to truth and virtue, to 

 set an example of right, and to hold up all wrongs to 

 condemnation ; to forbear from unfairly attacking a 

 stranger, and never to be induced to the use of language 

 which would scarcely be uttered face to face. The pen 

 is in my hand now, but evil example shall never induce me 

 to forget the gentlemanly and courteous usages of English 

 society, and thanking that portion of the American press 

 that has done me justice and given me fair play, I for 

 give some trifling nationalities among a few of my trans 

 atlantic brethren, which did their country no good, did 

 me no harm, and served only to support the views of 

 "Boz." 



In thus arriving at the end of my narrative, it is cu 

 rious and yet painful to me to see that, if " not in my own 

 country," still in America, while I was there I was " a 

 true prophet," for in my lectures given at St Joseph 

 and St Louis, and since in my writings published in the 

 English press,! warned the inhabitants of the United States 

 that the Union was in danger. Gallant and sincere friends 

 of mine, among them Col. Sumner, high in the standing 

 army, combatted my impressions in this matter, but 

 what have become of their arguments now ? The storm, 

 that must ever gather on a political horizon swayed by 

 universal suffrage and darkened by selfish demagogues, 

 who guide the masses to no common, no other interest 

 than that of the ephemerally raised leader, is now on 

 the eve of bursting, and, as far as man can see, the slave 

 question is shaking America to her very centre, and the 

 " strength of Union" about to be lost. A lesson, a ter 

 rible lesson, I fear, to America, and a useful one to Eng 

 land, is about to be read. Heaven grant that it may be 



