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tures delivered here, a slight record, made not by 

 me, but by the stenographer, of what this audience 

 has said. Thomas Carlyle made a speech at Edin- 

 burgh, a Lord Rector's inaugural address, before 

 scholars and the people at large. He sits down to 

 edit his works in a costly final edition for posthu- 

 mous circulation. He left in all the audience said. 

 (See Cap.lyle's collected works, vol. xi. pp. 295- 

 334.) It would have been my preference, as a mat- 

 ter of taste, to have left out what this audience said ; 

 but it is so peculiar an audience that it was thought 

 the examples of Carlyle and Phillips — for Phillips's 

 speeches are edited in the same way, hisses and all 

 recorded, as they have been here — were worth fol- 

 lowing. Had I been hissed here as often as Phillips 

 was in the days of the anti-slavery contest x I should 

 have thought those remarks of the audience quite as 

 worthy of preservation as the others ; and, if any 

 have thought that the audience has expressed it- 

 self partially, please let the other side be heard here, 

 and it shall be recorded. [Applause.] I have not 

 the honor of a personal acquaintance with fifty per- 

 sons in this audience. It appears to be thought 

 that I have paid people for coming here, and ap- 

 proving what may happen to be said on this plat- 

 form. There are no officers in this church, and no 

 creed either, except clearness. I am entirely free, I 

 suppose, from bondage here, except to the law of the 

 survival of the fittest. [Applause.] You come 

 here for reasons best known to yourselves, and as- 

 suredly you are perfectly independent of this plat- 



