Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-01-08

advocate for the prosecution said in so many
words, You praised England. and in doing so
you Inundated France (Choers.) An humble
individual like myself comes before his cons,itu.
ents, and he finds o nation Of twenty or thirty
millions, chiefly Of Englishmen. on the other side
of the Atlantic. lie finds there, with some small
exceptions in two or thu e of the Transatlantic
cities which are more German and Irish than
American, in oil the free states law and order
and security for property equal to that which
is found in any other country in the world
Cheers lie says that to his constituents; he Is
indicted for It; they do not infict upon him so
many pounds fine and SO many months imprison.
ment, but some scores of writer's for the press
men who, some OF them, pretended to be in favor
of liberty in England, but men who, if they were
dressed in the garb that NEST becomes them,
would he dressed in plush loud laughter and
choering)-these men assail me, and, probably, il
/ were in France and they were in France also,
would do their best to indct and prosecute me-
One word more upon this | have said over and over
again that perhaps | am the very last man in Eng.
land who would propose any institution here be.
cause | found it elsewhere. l am not insensible
to some things that appear to me to be errors in
principle-some that are errors in practice-in
the constitution and customs Of the United States,
but l protest against our being shut up to take no.
thing from America but cotton, and rice, and to,
bacco, daughter and cheers.) and, in fact we do
take q good many other things. l am told that
my friend Mr.. Platt, a member Of a very eminent
firm in this neigbborhood has = wonderful machine
from America with which to make bricks. We
know that the agriculture Of this country has been
greatly advantaged ny the importation of reaping
machines from America. We know that those
persons who are going about 20 apprehensive of
innovation have particular reason to be delighted
with America, because they have received from
that country the invention of the revolver. (Lauk h,
ter.)
At this moment, in the government small.arms
establishment at Enfield, they have patent ma.
chinery from America for making gun.stocks.
They can turn out n gun.stook, / am told, in twea'
ty two minutes fit for the barrel-what a dreadful
thing to think OIL [laughter]--and l am sure
that Mr.. Miles, if his protectiopists principles
have not long ago deserted him, will be Mortified
to hear that they have actually brought Americans
over to show the English bow to work them [con-
tinued laughter ;]but there is much more behind.
The Times. the Morning Star the Daily Telegraph,
and the leading newspaper in this district, the
Manchester Daily Examiner, with, l believe, two
or three Of the widely circulated London weekly
papers, are all printed on machines which were
either made in America, or be ing made in this
country. were made. upon the American patent,
Cheers Further than this, don't you remember
that tho gentry-the West Enders, including even
the ladies-have been subscribing ten guinea'
apiece to invite q clever farmer from Ohio to show
them how to tame q horse? Loud laughter and
cheers. Anything but politics. renewed laugh
ter;lyou may delight yourselves with their charm
ing poets, if you like-with Bryant, Whittier and
Longfellow you may interest and instruct your
self by their great historians, Bancroft, Prescott
and ~Molley-but if you ask how free popular in
situations are working among your own country
men on the American continent, you are denuunc'
ed as unpatriotic, and at any rate reasonable to
the House of Lords. Cheering and laughter.
But | am not without great examples in this coun'
try. l will read, if you will allow me, a passage
which was particularly CALLING to those gentlemen.
From a report of my speech in Birmingham, | said
generally, in all the sovereign and independent
states of America, there is a franchise as wide as
that which i have proposed to night. There is AN
t1aSeu II SIuu III " III W ~ wv
and there is throughout many of the states the
protection Of the ballot yet in America we find
law, order, and ~prOpriety secure, and a population
in the enjoyment of physical comforts and abund.
Iance such as are not known to the great body Of
the people of this country. and which have never
been known in any country in any age Of the
world before.
knU Lord Hahn Kngsel n abnrf titna NM rns
at Liverpool, at a meeting of the Social Science
Association. and he made a speech, many parts o.
which, | think, were most admirable and instruct
m i've. lie referred to America in two particulars
le and showed how, in the States of New York ant
t. Louisiana, the laws had been codifed and simpli
r. fed. lie said that with a few days study a mar
pe might make himself perfectly acquainted with TIT
n. laws with regard to land aud land property
n Lord John Russell, who was not afraid to look
abroad on a question of this kind. said he did no
see why an old country should be tormented with
a system which was unnecessary, and which it was
found SO advantageous to dispense with in a new
country. The noble lord said, ar is education
which enables the United States of America to tro
coed in their wonderful career, upheld by the mos
~ popular institutions, without serious disturbance Of
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another mol leman-a most estimablo man, too-s
m man who has in bis time done great justice to thu
people and institutions of the United States-tb,
Earl Of Carlisle. tCheers Eight years ago
81 when the state of America was fresh 10 his mind
he delivered q lecture from which | have taker
two extracts. Speaking of the elections of tia
Ia country he Gays; Elections may seem the univer
in sal business, the topic and passion of life, but the,
!, are, at least with but few exceptions, carried OIL
without any approach to ,umult, rudeness or disor
der those which / happened to see were the mos
!, sedate, unimpassioned process | can imagine. |,
the free States. at least, the people at large bea
IN active and, | believe, on the whole, a useful par
in all the concerns Of Internal government an,
q, practical daily life" And then, speaking of IA
n. 'ondition Of the people. he said-and yo
-, sil notehow far it corrobor ates, how ia