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. Charles Sumner wrote from the Senate House at Washington, "It marks an epoch in a great cause. This speech alone, with the signal result, will make your life historic."

In the following September he visited nearly all the capitals and many of the chief cities of the continent. Everywhere he was received with open arms, and hailed as a sort of "saviour of society." More eloquent testimony to the unbearableness of the military yoke, beneath which the nations of the continent are groaning, could not have been. His progress was converted by the grateful multitudes into something like a triumph in honor of the herald of that better time which shall be—