Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1861-08-23
AN ENGLISH VIEW.

We are glad that there is one public man
n England, who is able and willing to stand
lp and give the people of that country as
straight forward and sensible view of Amer
IAN affairs as the following In speech at
on tie lst inst, Mr. Bright spoke
as follows:
Now Is tins cotton question great ques
ton or not? | met spinner to-day-he
does not live in Rochdale, though met him
herc-and asked him what he thought about
it and he said - Well, think cotton will
come, somehow Laughter And find
that there is that kind of answer to be had
from three out of four Of all the cotton spin
ners you ask. They know that in past
times, when cotton has risen 90 or so per
cent, or some cxtravagant rise, something
has cOme-the rate of interest was raised, or
there had been commercial panic from some
cause or other, and down the price has gone,
and when everybody said " There would be
no cotton at Christmas, - there proved a very
considerable stock at Christmas. And 50
they say now don't in the least deny
that it will bo So all assert is, that this
had war in the United States between the
different sections of that country affecting
the production OF cotton before and it is not
fair or wise, but rather childish than other
wise, to argue from past events, which were
not bit like this, OF the event which Is now
passing before our eyes.
They say, 1T is quite true there is a civil
war in America, but it will blow over there
will be a compromise or the English Gov
eminent will break the blockade" Now,
recolloct what breaking the blockade means.
IL mans ,cGr joith tbs United States and
don think myself that it would be cheap to
break the blockade, as the cost OF war with
the United States would give, probably, halt
wages, i0T a very considerable time to those
persons in Lancashire who would be out OF
work if there was no cotton, to say nothing
OF all the manifest injustice and wrong
against all International law, that a lega
aud effective blockade should be interiereC
! with by another country. 1t is not exactly
the business of this meeting, but my opinion
/ is, that The safety of He products on 5ChCi
/ This country depends rests TAR more on TIT
! success Of The Washington Government thai
! upon its future, and believe nothing could
| lee more monstroue than for US, who are very
avcrse TO war ourselves, to set up for critic
-carPing, cayilng critics-ol what IN,
| Washington government l. doing.
! saw letter the other day from an Eng
! lishman, resident for twenty years in Phila
delphia,a merchant there and a very prosper
ous merchant. lie said: i prefer the instItU
tons Of this country (tAe |. s. very mucl
! to yours in England; but he s4ys also, III II
! be once admitted that here We have no country
aud no government, but that any portion O.
theseU nitedStates can break of from the cen
t-al government whenever it plcases, then 1t j
time for me to pack up what have, and to =
somewhere where there is a country and
government Wei, that is the pith Of thi
| question. Do you suppose that if Lanca
shire and Yorkshire thought that they wOul,
| break eff from the United Kingdom tina
those newspapers which are now preachin;
every kind OF moderation 10 the Government
| OF Washington would advise the Govern
ment in London to allow these two c0untie
to set up special government for them
selves? When the people Of Ireland aske
that they should secede, was it proposed il
London that they should be allowed to seced
peaceably? Nothing Of the kind.
am not going to defend what is takin,
place in a country that Is well able to defen
itself. But | advise you, and | advise tn
people Of England, to abstain from applying
to the United States doctrines and principle
which We never apply TO our own case. \
any rate, they have never fought for the bal
anco Of power in Europe. They have ncve
fought to keep up a decaying empire The
have never squandered the money Of thei
people in such phantom expeditions as W
have been engaged in. And now at thl
moment, when you are told that they ar
going to he ruined BY their vast expend
iture, why the sum that they ar
going to raise in the great emergency Of TIN
grievous war is no greater than that we rails
every year during time OF peace. (LOu
checrs.) They say they are not going t
libeIate slaves. No the object of tn
Washington Government Is to maintain thci
own Constitution, and to act legally, az it per
mit6 and requires. No man IS moro in fave
Of peace than | am no man has dcn0uucc
war more than have, probably, in Tai
country few men in their public life, hay
suffered more oblOquy-I had almost saI-
more lndIgnIty-ln consequence of it. Bu
| cannot, for the life OF me, see, upon any {
those principles upon which States al
governed now say nothing OF the htera
word Of the New testament cannot sc
how the state of affairs in America, wit
regard to the [. ). Government, could hay
been different from what 1t is at this moment
We had a hcptarchy in this country, and
was thought to be good to get rid Of 1t, an
to have a united nation. II the 33 or 8
States Of the American Union can break O
whenever they like, can see nothing bu
disaster md confusion throughout the whol
Of that continent. say that the war, be
successful OF not, be it Christian or not. be
wise or not, Is a war to sustain the Govern
mont, ana to sustain the authority Of grea
nation and that the people Of England,
they are true to their own sympathies, t
Their own great act Of 1884, to which refer
cnce has already been made, tciH hare %
sympathy ruth those ,rho lrlsd 10 J1aH up
qred, cnpre on the perpetual bondoge
millions Of their ffl'o'o MN. loud cheers