it.  In England, I four months ago, avowed that all the interior questions together cannot equal in importance the exterior; there is summed up the future of Britain:  and if the people of England do not cut short the secrecy of diplomacy—­if it do not in time take this all absorbing interest into its own hands, as it is wont to do with every small home interest, it will have to meet immense danger very soon, as this danger has already seriously accumulated by former neglect.  Here too, in the United States, there is no possible question equal in importance to foreign policy, and especially in regard to European matters.  And I say that, if the United States do not in due time adopt such a course, as will prevent the Czar of Russia, and his despotic satellites, from believing that the United States give them entirely free field to regulate the condition of Europe, which cannot fail to react morally and materially on your condition, then indeed embarrassments, sufferings, and danger will accumulate in a very short time over you.

Great Britain, it is clear as matters now stand, can avoid a war with the continental powers of Europe only by joining their alliance, or at least by giving them security, that England will not only not support the liberal movement on the Continent, but that it will submit to the policy of the absolutist powers.  It is not impossible that England will yield.  Do not forget, gentlemen, that an English ministry, be it Tory or Whig, is always more or less aristocratic, and it is in the nature of aristocracy that it may love its country well, but indeed aristocracy more.  There is therefore always some inclination to be on good terms with whoever is an enemy to what aristocracy considers its own enemy, that is, democracy.  This consideration, together with the above mentioned carelessness of the people about foreign policy, gives you the key to many events which else it would be impossible to understand.  People against another people should never feel hatred, but brotherly sympathy.  The memory of oppression suffered from governments should never be imparted to nations, and children should never be hated, despised, or punished, because their fathers have sinned.  We Hungarians wrestled for centuries with Turkey, and now we are friends, true friends, and natural allies against a common enemy.  Several of my own ancestors lost their lives in Turkish wars, or their property in ransom out of Turkish captivity; yet to me it is a Turkish Sultan who saved my life and gave bread to thousands of my countrymen, which no other power did on earth.  Such is the change of time.  It is Russia which crushed my bleeding fatherland, yet the inexorable hatred of my heart does not extend to the people of Russia.  I love that people—­I pity its poor, unfortunate instruments of despotism.  Wherever there is a people, there is my love.  Therefore, let the passionate excitement of past times subside before the prudent advice of present necessities.