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public and responsible organization; and nobly again Joe
Kossuth assailed this stronghold of the hierarchical spirit
What could be better than when he said, ¢ Diplomacy tell
us that the dinner is prepared and eaten, and we (the people)
have nothing to do but to digest the consequences’? Them
again, his attacks upon the loaning system are quite in our
spirit. In fact he comes here preaching the main princt
ples enunciated at our Peace Congress, but preaching the®
better even in a foreign tongue than I could do in my oW2
language ; and surely such a man ought not to be slighted;
although some of his admirers talk a little gunpowder.
“ But; the fact is that npon the whole the public addresse®
and speeches are singularly judicious, with the exception of
the London Working Men’s address, with which, of course
the working men had nothing to do. I join you heartily 12
wishing to guard us against being for a moment thought
to be the advocates of war or armed intervention, aud 8%
equally convinced with yourself that we have nothing 1°
hope from Palmerston and Co. One of my reasons for
hoping much from Kossuth’s agitation here and in Americ
is that it will tend to unveil Foreign Ministers snd pub
Foreign Offices in order.
“By the way, with reference to your difficulties about
speaking, I should expect that Kossuth will prefer that
uobody speaks but himself. After having such a rule
adopted by the London Working Men’s Committee, it would
be invidious to depart from it in Manchester, I know ib i
his wish that nobody speaks in his presence unless he is tho
guest of the chairman, as at Southampton. So if you like
to suggest to the Committee that Kossuth should receive
addresses and make = reply, and that nobody else should
speak, I know that would be most agreeable to him.”
“ Dunford, Nov. 18, ( ,, )—1I have only time for a few
words to save the post after reading your speech, to say how