The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-08-23
near pft: BrIght, of EngIasslI.

At late meeting in England, Mr. Bright
said 4 I'll Q 4 81 y I
5 TNow,reeoltect what breaking the block
ade means. 1t means a war with the Uni
ted States and don't think myself that it
would be cheap to break the blockade, at
the cost of war with the United States.--
I think that the cost of war with the Uni
ted States would give, probably, half wages,
for very considerable time, to those per-
SONS in Lancashire who would be out of
work if there was no cotton, to say nothing
at all of the manifest injustice and wrong
against all international law that legal and
effective blockade should be interfered with
by another country. 1t is not exactly the
business of this meeting, but my opinion IS,
that the safety of the products on which
this country depends rests far more on the
success of the Washington Government
than mon its failure and believe nothing
could be more nonstrous than for as, who
are not very averse to war ourselves, to set
up for critics-earPing, caviling crities-ot
what the Washington Government is DOING
saw a letter the other day from an Eng
lishman, resident for twenty-five years in
Philadelphia, merchant there, and very
prosperous merchant. He said, prefer
the institutions Of this country (the United
States0 very much to yours ia England
but he saws also. Gift be once admitted
that here we have no country and 40 Gov
eminent, but that any portion OF these Uni
ted States can break off from the central
Government whenever it pIeases, then 1t IS
time for me to pack up what have, and go
somewhere where there is country and
government !" Do you suppose that if Ian
cashire and Yorkshire thought that they
would break off from the United Kingdom
that those newspapers who are now preach
ing every kind of moderation to the Gov
eminent at Washington would advise the
Government in London to allow these two
counties to set up special government for !
themselves When the people of Ireland |
asked that they should secede, was it pro- |
posed in London that they should be allowed I
to secede peaceably Nothing of the kind. |
am not going to defend what is taking |
place in a country that is well able to de-
fend itself. But advise you, and | advise |
the people of England, to abstain from APP
plying to the United States doctrines and
principles which we never apply to our own
case. At any rate, they have never fought
for the balance Of power " in Europe
They have never fought to keep up de-
cayng empire. They have never squan-
dered the money of their people in such
phantom expeditions as we have been en-
gagged in. And now, at this moment, when
you are told that they are. going to be ruin
ed by their vast expenditure, why the sum
that they are going to raise in the great
of this grievous war is no great
er than what we raise every year during
time of peace. Loud cheers. They say
that they are not going TO liberate slaves.
No; the object of the Washington Govern
ment is to maintain their own Constitution,
and to act legally, as it permits and re-
quires. No man is more in favor of peace
than / am; no man has denounced war
more than 1 have, probably, in this coun-
try; few men in their public life, have suf-
fered more obloquy-I had almost said,
more inGignity-in consequence of it. But
cannot for the life of me see, upon any of
those principles upon which States are gov
erned now-I say nothing of the literal
word of the New Testament cannot see
how the state of affairs il America, with
regard to the United States Government
could have beer. different from what it is at
this moment. We had heptarchy in this
and it was thought to be a good
thing to get rid of it, and to have a united
nation. If the thirty-three or thirty-four
States of the American Union can break off
whenever they like, | can see nothing but
disaster and confusion throughout the whole !
Of that continent. | say that the war, be
It successful or not, be it Christian or not, 9
be it wise or not, is war to maintain the
Government, and to sustain the authority !
IF great nation and that the people of {
England, if they are true to their own SYM
Dathies, to their own history, and to their
,wn great act of 1884, to which reference
las already been made will have no SYM
oathy for those who wish to build up
great empire on the perpetual bondage
If millions of their fellow-men. Loud
cheers.