The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-12-07
A Yankee Stump Speech in Lon
don.

~ TIC uatt lily, but we Hdu not fpdcc ~
the time, and must now content ourself
with few readable extracts. II will be
seen. that he makes no attempt to mince
matters before London audience, but
speaks the truth right ont. He said:
"Will you let me speak my mind ? (Yes.)
Now beg OF you. gentlemen, not to get ex-
cited when tell you few startling facts to
prove how unwise--how ungenerous-how
dangerous hiss been England'sso called neu
trality on the American question. Eng
lands sympatnies are with, and have been
with the South--not out Of hate TO the North,
but because she wished to see US break il
two. ("No.") When man Ia very jill, it
is, to say the least Of it, bad taste to go and
order your mourning, for, perhaps, be may
get we'll again, and how surprised be would
be to see the notices Of his death, which
were prepared. highlands neutrality con-
sisss in standing on the platform and cheer
ing the rebels on. Read the secession orgt ms
Of the country. Secession organs did | say
There are no others save the Daily News,
the Star, the Liverpool Pest, and two or
three more journalistic ret oil have flags
flying and cannons booming to stimulate
treason on to murder! The press leads the
way. The Cabinet would declare war at once
ii it dared; and am not sure but what the
Mexican Intervention 10 war in Disguise
Read the speeches of members OF Parlin-
ment to their constituents. You find them
secession to tie backbone. Is there any
question about Lindsay's language, or Cap
tain jarvis, or Bulwer Lytton? ! like Bull
wer for his frankness and honesty. He 10 no
hypocrite. He talks ne he thinks, ard says
that he hopes the country will not only break
up in two, but in four pieces. 1t is already
too powerful and it's growth should be check
ed. Eng lands neutrality consists in giving
oil her sympathy to the rebels. Suppose ytu
and l, MIR. Chairman, were friends Of forty
years. acquaintance, and some night in the
highway burglar tries to assassinate you
after having stolen your money, would YOU
not think il almost out Of the pale Of hu
mainly in this civilized age to have me re-
main neutral or, what 10 worse, to hear me
cheer the thief on in his bloody work.
(Chnrman-lt is not fair analogy.) Ana
logy or not, that is highlands position to-
day toward America mo, No. Ere many
months you may have revolution in this gar.
den island--the revolution that arises from
a starving population-for is there not nn-
mistakabie sgos OF a corn famine in Ire
land, and cotton famine in England p
Suppose such to happen, and class should
be arrayed against class, would you not
think it dsmnAble for America to join the
rebels, and cry Justify for the destruction of
this proud nation, as England is continuing
to cry for Americas ruin
Was il the North or South Who sent the
| contributions to Ireland in their distress p
4 Al
who put the flags at half-mast on the death
of Havelock (cbeers, and tell me, gentle
men, who received the son of your Queen
with open arms, but the proud children Of
our northern country? Boiling over with
20 dwill to England, we took the Prince md
embraced him, because we loved this old
land and it's mighty associations. Cheers.
We loved 10 mix our history and lose it even
in yours. (Cheers.) We loved your Chris
tinn Queen, and showed all these things in
the warm al honest reception we gave her
son. Loud cheers.) All this was in the
No tn, hut when he crossed the border into
the slave country, he FASTENED away quickly
/ for fear OF repeated insult !? Yes, gentle.
mon, it was in the capital of the so callei
Confederate States, Richmond, that the
Prince of Wales feared the action of the
/
not We come in the land where once his an
cestors ruled. Hear, and True.) Know
ing, then, that ali these acts of violence and
hostility against England came from tho
South, you can imagine the DISCUS Of the
North mt rel ding tho Times day after day
and the Telegraph, the Herald, the Chron.
icie, and nearly all the entire British press,
encouraging the rebels on in their unchris-
tu.v hu A suta
n fatal mistake. To make sure that am not
], In the wrong, am preparing book of opin-
ions oil the press extracts from speeches OF
members Of Parliament and the Ministry
which will prove the hostility Of England
against the Federal power. MIR. Bell asks
how could we have done otherwise than re.
muin neutral. But maintain that you ar.
not neutral. When YOU find two boys Al
blows you must not forget that while you dc
not enter the ring, the more you hurrah fol
Bill the stronger II makes him, and the NOR,
G Ii discourases Joe. You cheer one iee con
, tiDually aid hiss the other, and call it nen
trallty. (Hear, hear, and applnu.e.) How
, ever, 1t has taught America one lessou--tha
, IL, not to put her trust in princes daughter
but to rely on her own strong arm. 1t ha
opened her eyes TO many thiDgs, but non
more important than this namely, tha
England may war with Russia, France an,
!, Austria, ann all Europe may be blazinJ
away with the fash Of musketrv, the clam
OF armnr. and the sound Of cannon withou
/ Am erica being affected. But when America
desirous OF showing of her military nature
:, gets up little national sham fight within
/ her own borders, In three months time wit
million Of soldiers, fires OF q million o
rifles, discharges million Of revolvers, an
has her artillery booming on every hill
) say, when the American people, In the ab
, sence Of foreign war, get up grand revie,
and kill ten thousand ira tors on the champ
/ de Mars of the Potomac, sll the world trcm
: bhngly stops to gaze, and all. the world
commerce becomes deranged. (Aear, hear
hear.
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