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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 CAKLYLE'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, 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- 



