You have vowed to strive with us in every extremity, and die with us if need be.

We are here to demand the redemption of your pledge, in the name of your enslaved country.

The hour has come when the truth of that country is to be tested; and first among her children the trust of her honour is committed to you." How much more might have been said, and how far short of the passionate appeal made by the most gifted of men the above language may fall, this is not the place to inquire.

The crowd answered with a loud shout.

With the leaders of that crowd other thoughts were busy.