Let future generations, as long as bronze shall endure, look upon him there riding always, and be taught by his example to succor the oppressed and to surrender life for duty.

Especially let legislators of Massachusetts, by daily sight of the symbolic statue, be gratefully led to constant support of the cause for which he died.

As an American citizen he belonged to our sovereignty, and we fitly celebrate him with the highest honors.

It was a victory of ideas, and belongs to the sacred history of Humanity.

The present charity is so peculiar, that it appeals equally to all who are moved by patriotism, by gratitude, by sympathy, or by Art.

An Englishman by birth, his heart and all his faculties were given to mankind, knowing well that the welfare and true glory of his own great country were best assured by such a dedication.

From America they are especially grateful; for his sympathy with the cause of liberty to the slave was undoubted and intense.

EDITOR,--I rejoice that “The Independent” has planted itself firmly on the sure ground of Equal Rights.

It is natural that a journal which has from the beginning so bravely and constantly opposed Slavery in all its pretensions should now insist that these pretensions shall be trampled out, so that nothing shall be left to breed future…

This can be done only through the establishment of Equal Rights.

To my mind, there never was a duty plainer or more instinctive.

It is plain as the Moral Law, and it is instinctive as self-defence.

If the country fails to do this justice now, it will commit a crime where guilt and meanness strive for mastery.

So long as this question remains unsettled, there can be no true peace.

Therefore I would say to the merchant, who wishes to open trade with this region,--to the capitalist, who would send his money there,--to the emigrant, who seeks to find a home there,--begin by assuring justice to all men.

This is the one essential condition of prosperity, of credit, and of tranquillity.

Without this, mercantile houses, banks, and emigration societies, having anything to do with this region, must all fail, or at least suffer in business and resources.

I do not doubt its full power over the whole subject; nor do I doubt its duty to see that every pretended government organized by recent Rebels is treated as a present nullity.

It is difficult to measure the mischief already accumulating from the policy that has been pursued.

Looking at the distress it has caused among loyal people by the revival of the Rebel spirit, it is heart-rending.

Looking at it in any way, it is a terrible failure.

The truth must be expressed in such form as to satisfy the requirements of Art.

Their song is death, and makes destruction please.

Its author took rank, not only at the head of his contemporaries, but even among classics of antiquity.

Helmets rival the stars; the firmament is surprised to see fires like its own reflected from bucklers, and fears lest the earth be changed into sky and the night become day.