The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-28 00:00:00

A VISIT TO AMERICA.

The Rev. Dr. A. Raleigh, who lately went to
United States with the Rev. Dr. Ro
bert
uVaughan
•arpetation from the Congregational Untie of Ragland
NM Wale, ;Am a short account of his visit at tom)recant
manes el ibat body, Dr. 7aut,han having previo dm*
se et greater length in the BritisA Quarterly Review. Dr.
"sleigh, after expressing the honour which he felt at
bug appointed • delegate to America in sonjenctios
with Dr.ap Vaughan, sod which he attributed to his South,
sympathy with the North in its struggle with the South,
Mid he would endeavour to give some a the of his
stewardship. Dr. Vaughan had already given his views to
the work; sad he (Dr. Raleigh) knew that he would meet
with a patient hearing, even if he did not in all things agree
with Dr. Vole's° or with the meshes. In the beginning
of the erseeteentli century, and especially in e history
m the Emitses, there might be found in this country the
men and b.ginnings of all that was best and strongest
le the F'e and society of America at this day. The
Meows. made New England, sad New England
wads the United States. The struggle which bed
Meetly taken place was to preserve the foundation
vhich thole forefathers had laid, of religious and civil
Minty, sad to prevent the establishment of a system of the
What and most abominable tyranny and wickedoesa.
(goer,) JIM reference to the deleritte, they were treated
y sad kindly. h
opeT council at Boston reerived
glees with affecticia and * even cordiality though
Mere was a certain 'BMWS) of reserve, which hew d
les while Dr. Vaughan was smoking, and cold feel
Ass he spoke himself. (Laughter.) The reason was
Yet there lay on the table of the Council
the Bri-
a news
paper, containing cortala extracts from
int 01.27'ir.tii. which the
with all the bard thing!
atm Jai said about the American war during the past
ber years. There was alto the alleged fact during
tied period England had not had compassion on the sons of
be womb. That was oo doubt to • greaterent a mistake,
for he believed that there was in England a widespread
sympathy with the North—(hear hear)—but he could not
mlisfactily answer the question ofteo put to him—Why
bed England ceased to communicate with them se
before on the subject of slavery dories the war! and
he was unable to slower it now. He believed that
the delegates had laid the foundation for cordia
had
l and
faternal intercommuoicatious in haute years. They
waived great kiodoem from many of the principal minis-
ten, especially from Homy Ward Beesher. who did • great
dal by his el in urgiog the council to a mutual
effiivion of the pant. The day at Plymouth, the seem of
the arrival of the Mayflower wee a day never to be
forgotten, bet could not he described. The delegates
were 'aka to speak on the occasion, which they did.
They afterwards went to New York and Washington.
They had letters of introduction to the President, but
were were usable to me him owing to his illness.
the
He
(Mr. Raleigh) wrote him a letter explaining
winos of the delegates, to which he received an mower
expreseing the deep regret of the President at not being
&Mato see the deputation. They had interviews with Gene-
ral Grant and other men of disfinction. They went to
Virgisis red visited the schools, but they failed to dhaoover
the intellectual differences said to exist between the black
end the white children. Then went West, and then to
the North, sod to Canada, where Dr. Vaughan and him-
self parki for • while. From what he had seen in
his travels, he was more than ever sure that slavery
was the real cause of the war, that in its defence the
South drew the sword; and if it was not expressly to uproot
Amery that the North so vigoronely resisted, they felt
literary beneath the whole conflict, end they struck st the
vile system se soon as public law and constitutional honour
and !airman would allow them • and when the end c
one
there was • general sigh of relief, and an ezehmation s
rats felt by all, "Thank God it is now gone !* (Applause)
How was it that there was no enthusiastic response in
England! He believed that the North could not
Enke pa ..7e with the South until it bad conquered it
by the as. o..l—it was a simple impossibility. Slavery
ave
must have dictated the terms, and they would h
bees terms that could never have been accepted. The
North was fighting for ell that it had achieved for two and
shelf rotaries ; and Dr.Vanghan bad admitted that they
were bound to proceed with the war. Re did not say that
all the slaves were cruelly treated, but the utter violation
of all domestic ties, the corruption of morals among the
whites as well as the blocks, the moral degradation of the
masters an 3 their sons, as well as slaves, beggared descrip-
tion. Even General Lee, a most noble and chivalrous
man, bad stripped a girl to the waist aad ha her
flogged for attempting to run awry. (Hisses.) Hs
ma thoroughly persuaded that the Americans on the
whole were a peaceful people. Though, perhaps, some-
what audacious, they were most messible to kiodams and
sympathy. The world had little to fear from the growth
of their power, which was not essentiallythe power of the
sword. They were as fearless as ourselyee, and, he be-
lieved, as jest; and he could not believe that there would
be war between Alllerieliaod England. The two peoples, he
believed, would always imprimis upon their rulers the neces-
sity of finding a peaceful solution of difficulties. He had ,
never seen in any pert of the world • state of society on
the whole so good as that which he saw in New Fogland.
Their beet was perhaps not equal to our best, but Flo
elm
was better than ours, end their wont was not leo bad
as ours. He had seen in America • beautiful illustration of
what independent principles could do with a clear stags and
no favour. He looked forward to the future of America
with great hopefulness. They had pined through meat
tribulation, and had come out of itsocia puriandfied.
They
had some difficult problems to solve, l
and he could not imagine how they would solve them; but
they were doing their best, and he believed that God, who
had watched over them thum far, would roped with them
is their counsels and their labours. Be they would
have a brotherly sympathy from England, and that a grow-
ing cordiality would spring up between the two peoples.
(oud applause.)
The Rev. Dr. Yawns, expressed his 000viction that
the visit of the delegates to America would be
attended with the most beneficial moults in °meet-
tint the people of the two countries. It was well
that a man like himself had been sent, who had been in
nem mopeds • little heretieri, fee it thoroughly tested
American friendship. That friendship had borne the test,
sad it was all the more valuable because it had cost some-
this'. Dr. Vaughan then gave an interesting deecriptioe
of the condition of the Coogregational churches of
America ; and concluded by expressing his earnest desire
for the union of the two countries in all works of charity
aad
On the motion of Mr. Aare= Roo®,seconded by the
Rev, J. C. GALLAWAT, a vote of thanks was passed to the