Litchfield enquirer., 1859-01-13
MIR. BRIGHT ON REFORM.

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 MIR. BRIGHT ON REFORM.
 The great cry against the Parliamentary Reform proposed by Mir. Bright, in England, is, that he wishes to Americanize England. At numerous meeting lately held in Man. chester Mir. Bright replied to this charge, in the following extract: N
 "An humble individual, like myself, comes before his constituents, and he finds nation of twenty or thirty millions, chiefly English men, on the other side of the Atlantic. He finds there, (with some small exceptions, in two or three of the transatlantic cities, whicl, are more foreign than Amercan,) i'll all the free States law and order, and security for pre- perty equal>t that which is found in any other country iD this world. [Cheers He says that to his constituents he is indicted for it they do not .infict upon him so many pounds fine and so many months imprisonment, but some scores of writers for the press-men ! who, some of them, pretend to be ill favor of liberty in England, but men who, if the were dressed in the garb that most becomes them, would be dressed in plush loud laughter and cheering -these men assal me, and probably l II l WClC III ituuCC, duu tuCy WClO HI tdhCSy also, would do their best to indict and prose- cute me. One word more upon this-I have said over aud over again, that perhaps l am the verly last man in England who would pro- pose any institution here because I found it elsewhere. am rot nsensible to some things that appear to me to be errors ir practices-in the constitution and customs of the United States, but protest against our being shut l,,,k and rice, and tobacco, Laughter and cheers, and, in fact, we do take good many other things.
 1 am told that my friend MT. Platt, mem- ber of very eminent firm in this neighbor- hood, has wonderful machine from America with which to make bricks We know that the agriculture of this country has been great
 y advantaged by the importation of reaping machines from America. We know that those persons who are going about so appre- hensive of innovation have particular reason to be delighted with America, because they have received from that country the invention of the revolver. Laughter. At this mo- ment, in the government emal arms establish ment at Enfield, they have patent machinery from America for making gun stocks. They can turn out gun stock, 1 am told, in tweD- ty-two minutes fit for the barrel-what a dreadful thing to think of L. laughter and am sure that Mir. Miles, if his Protectionst principles have not long ago deserted him, will be mortified to hear that they have actually brought Americans over to show the English how to work them [continued laughter but there is much more behind. The Times, the Morning Star, the Daily Telegraph, and the
 leading newspapers in this district, the Man. chester Daily Examiner, with, believe, two or three of the widely circulated London weekly papers, are all printed on machines which were either made in America, or being made in this country, were made upon the American patent. cheers. Further than this don't you remember that the gentry-the West Finders, including even the ladies, have been subscribing ten guineas apiece to invite a clever farmer from Ohio to show them how to tame horse ? Loud laughter and cheers. Any thing but politics renewed laughter j; you may delight yourselves with their charm ing poets, of you like-with Bryant, Whitti- CT, and Longfeow you may interest and in struct yourself by the;r great historians, Ban croft, Prescott and Motey-but if you ask how free popular institutions are working among your own coantrymen on the American continent, you are denounced as unpatriotic, or at any rate reasonable to the House of Lords"