PREFACE.



pathy to SPArISH AMERICA, in her resistance to a hateful
despotism ; and the stirring sound of his voice is heard
animating awakened GREECE in her glorious efforts to
burst her chains, and wafting to her shores what shall
be to her, like an echo from Marathon or Thermopyle-
a message of hope and a prophetic assurance of delive
rance !
  His most ardent prayers at the shrine of his tutelary
goddess, LIBERTY, are for his own country, his own
altars, his own home! But after that, he pours forth an
ardent aspiration for UNIVERSAL FREEDOM; and the strain
of his fervent and impassioned eloquence comprehends, in
the circle of an enlarged benevolence, the inhabitants
of every, the nearest and most distant lands; or (as he
himself expresses it) " The liberty and happiness of the
whole human family."
  On these occasions his eloquence is sublime. Frequent
extracts in the following pages will illustrate these cha.
racteristics:-his NATIONALITY, and his sympathy with
popular rights, and hatred of oppression.
  The publicly expressed maxims and opinions of a dis.
tinguished Orator and Statesman are great lessons to a
people. The higher the intellect, the more exalted the
character, the more widely spread the fame of the man-
the greater the authority of the maxims he promulgates,
and tho opinions he maintains. They are public property;
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