The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-10 00:00:00

PROFESSOR GOLDWIN 8117711 ON AMiRICA.

On Saturday evening Professor Goldwin Smith
delivered an address at Oxford an his meat American
tour, in the IMMO el which have some interestiag is-
fotmatiou es to Odors" Greats army, the Presidential
election, and the condition aid temper of the Northern
people. He remarked that except when eee same apes a
camp, or a seemed an its marsh, there was literally no ap-
parade of civil war or of diminished prosperity ;
and though he doubted not that financial cul-
ties would arise, the resources and industry Cl the
people were so eatraerthaery that he believed they
would pt through those difficulties more easily than any
ether nation could do. The munificent support which the
Americans reedited to philanthropic sad benevoient in-
stitutieas had not been in the slightest degree affected.
As to the Degrees, he recited a number of Lots showing
the decline of the antipathy whkit formerly peevitiled, sad
usestided being in Baltimore en the day whet the mid-
night bell ansouseed the abolition of slivery in Maryland,
and the inauguration of the new coustitation. He
*nerved Depose mixing freely with whites is churches
sad railway ease ; and is Illinois the law prehibitiag their
settlement in that state had become a dead letter. Nor
need there be any apprehension as to the position of tree
duces in the labour market, for there was pleaty of scope
for them as waiters In hotels, domestic servants, and day
labourers, for in the heat of summer they meld work
much better than whites. After describing the rapid pro- ,
gum of the Western States, the lecturer observed that at
Cairo he first came is sconce with the Souther' elemeat.
The present war was virtually a straggle Wilma the two
elsomats—the North being ter free uistitatioas, local self.
goveramesA education, and free labour ; while the South
cherished slavery, was opposed to self-governinest, wee
strongly oligarchical in its teadesey, and was averse to
eel the mass of the mean whites being se nada-
cited es slaves. The State of Illinois has peat 170,000
men to the war, being • fourth or fifth of its kbounag
population ; yet the last harvest bad base greater them
ever, owing to the exceeding fertility of the soil, and to
the invention of machines for suppiyier the place of
manual labour. While at Chicago, he vent to see a amp
for Confederate prisoners; and notwithstanding the mot-
time of Lord Wharneliffs, he sew no apple:arm el sierva.
Bee, and did not believe any cruelly had hien eureka&
Neither didhe beer any expremioas d truonleass or hared
towards 'billionth. Though determined to pat down the
rebellion and to abolish Ussery, they seemed to look
forward to the return Cl peace sad amity with the
South. He was gra* too, when dikes the Army
in Virginia with the aneseities which were observed,
the line of pioketa as both sides hoisting it a poiat of
booed sot to faze, which seemed to show that whoa the
leaden et the rebellion were removed there was editing to
=t a cordial feeling between the two motioes. At
he sew the Prudential eleatios, peobably cos cd
the pietist political events in the history of the world,
the issue being unmistakeably between who
was willing to compromise ea the subject of Manny ; ad
Lincoln, who was determined as its extinction. He es-
premed bin high gistilleatios at the perfect tranquillity sad
the total absence of mereica which characterised the deo-
Sow A disturbance bed been apprehended among the
Irish immigrants in New York, and General Butler came
to the harbour with a few troops, but he believed they
were serer Ladd ; and as to the de Wiped*
with the ballot-box, it is a significant fed that in New
York, the only pled whore a military terse was pieseet,
there was a majority of 30,000 spinet President
After nimbi' to his interview with toe Presided, whose
character was vindicated from the depreciatory cernamate
of a portion of the Haiti& press, Mr. Smith daseibed his
visit to the army. He exposed the per exaggerations
Fended as to the prepooderance of foreigners is the ,
ranks, the great majority being dikes, while many of the
Germans sad Irish were peressaant settles' in the musky,
and were, therefore, virtually Americiva lie sided that
rand the stories of entraps ekarad ea the Federal
were without fdadanon; sad that, as • whole,
their moral character would bear kir etespriens with any
dim army, even the British. la esseinsion, be 'eke la
high terms Cl the simplicity and modesty GI Ovoid Gnat,
whose nispaaimity toter& his subordinates was as re-
markable as his unflinching dew and determination. Mr.
Smith's address was warmly appleadat