The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-15 00:00:00

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN ARISTO-
CRACY.

(From the New York Times.)
Two events have occurred recently in England
which are significant of the state of public feeling
toward America, On the annual commemoration
day of the founders of Oxford, the students are in
the habit, before the usual address is delivered, of
cheering and hissing the different names of popular
or odious public men as they are proposed. The
name of Garibaldi had been cheered, and that of
Napoleon both cheered and hissed, when some one
shouted out the name of " Jefferson Davis ;'' it was
received with tumultuous and unanimous applause.
" President Lincoln" was proposed, and it was
greeted with hisses and groans.
The other incident to which we alluded was the
public meeting, already described in our columns,
of the operatives in Manchester—the hard-working,
pinched, hungry masses of men in the cotton and
other manufactures of that city. They were called
together to hear a proposal from a member of Par-
liament, that the English Government should inter-
vene in the American civil war—nominally for the
sake of peace, but really to establish the Southern
Confederacy. These men had been the great
sufferers from our war; their wives and children
were crying vainly at home for bread to feed them,
while all their aristocratic teachers assured them
they had but to acknowledge the South, and cotton
would pour in its stream of labour and wealth to
them. They had heard continually from the higher
classes that the only objects of the North were
1 power and territory, and that the South were but
asserting the rights of the declaration of indepen-
dence, and struggling for liberty, With these fal-
lacies before them, with hunger and want behind
them, the operatives of Manchester reversed the
whole object of the meeting, rejected the proposition
of Mr. Hopwood, passed a motion, with immense
applause, in favour of preserving the American.
Union, and supporting the policy of President
Lincoln.

We would not exaggerate the importance of
either of these events—certainly not of the first.
Still they may be considered as straws on the sur-
face of English opinion. The instinct of portions
of the people has struck through to the essential
character of our civil war. The sons of the aristo-
cracy—those whose fathers and ancestors have be-
come rich and powerful, either by burdens laid on
the people, or by wealth taken from them ; who
dread, beyond all things, the equal elevation of the
masses with themselves, who have the very name
of democracy—these naturally feel for the so-called
aristocrats of America—the nobility of the slave-
pen and the plantation. They feel unconsciously,
or they have heard it at home, that the same
struggle is raging on American soil which has con-
vulsed Europe, and will convulse it again—the
struggle between those who would raise up the
lowest classes to the rights and privileges of
humanity, and those who would depress them for
their own base purposes.
They see well that the stupendous conflict which
is desolating a continent is no causeless and un-
meaning struggle, but is indeed the clashing of
principles; that this, even as the first French revo-
lution, is essentially a war of democracy against
privilege; for the rights of man against the immu-
nities of a class. The triumph of the North would
be the triumph of democracy, and they dread it--
very reasonably—almost as they would a revolution
of the British masses themselves. The success of
the South would be the ruin of the American re-
publican experiment, and would throw back the
popular party in Europe for a century, therefore
they pray for it, and cheer its rebellions leader.
The victory of the North would give a shock to
aristocratic privileges in England, from which they
would never recover. Reform, popular suffrage, the
abolition of a state church, the elevation of the
working
classes, would be, in future, the possible
English results of our success. No wonder that the
boys of the universities shout fora slaveholding
confederacy and the great repudiator.

—On the other hand, a portion of the working
classes—those who think for themselves—feel at
once that the national cause in America and the po-
pular cause in England are one. Though tempo-
rarily we deprive them of bread, with a noble in-
stinct they feel that we are really striking for them
and the rights of
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As Mr. Lincoln said in is
that the destruction of the American republic,
whatever else it may mean—means no good to the
common people." While an army of the middle
cbllainssdeesdarbe hoodwinked by
y the aristocracy, or are
national jealousy and selfishness, not
looking under the surface of events here, and seeing
the real struggle of great ideas beneath party cries
and official proclamations, the heart of the English
masses discern the truth as by instinct. They see in
the Southern leaders not merely oppressors of the
negro, but oppressors of mankind. The victory of
our Government is to them the victory of universal
suffrage, of republicanism, liberty and justice to the
poor—all for which the
people have struggled so
long in Europe. The triumph of the South is, to
their clear vision, the triumph of a privileged few
1 —the basest aristocracy every formed,
for ferocity, cruelty, and meanness grown rich on
the sale of human bodies, and fattened
of the poor. conspicuous
--
by the blood
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TUE ALLEGED OUTRAGE 13-
; FEDERAL SOLDIERS
IN MISSOr Rl,—The Hannibal (
by Federal soldiers of
Herald gives the
following version of the shootingstate. It will be observed
three unarmed citizens of
that
a different complexion on
that the Herald puts altogether
report, Previously published. The troops
11Iissouri)
the affair from the
loceasion were, it will be seen, a
who were employed
rt Sunday afternoon last three rebels
notont a portion of the regular army :
body of State militia,
c, Three rebels shot.
n—newell, by a portion of Capt. Barnes'
were shot, near
~ g fuplissouri State Militia). The particu-
lars M.S.M.
could learn, are as follows :—A portion
lars as near -- we,
started from Salt River Bridge for
~ se of arresting three men. Arriving at the house
appearance in company with
of them resided, they were not found at home,
cf Captain
the
inn..
00 Barnes men
two
ladies, and the two men were arrested. Taking with them
two individuals, the soldiers proceeded to the house
but shortly made their
these
of the third man, whom they found at home. With the
three prisoners • they then started on their return,
, and on
g foe. As
the way were fired on from the brush by a secret
soon as the shots were heard the prisonersh
roke for the
bush. They were immediately ordered to `halt,' and, not
shot, One was
obeying the order, they were immediately
instantly killed, the other lived
buta
few minutes, and the
been mortally wounded.
third one was left supposed to have
yesterday.
The
The funeral of two of them took place
names of the rebels killed were James Lasley, Joel Ridg-
I way, and James Frio."

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