New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-19
MR.. w. L. FORSTER, NJ p, on THE CIVIL
WAR In AMERICA.

ETgz Tie LoadsH Tan.
On Tuesday evening, Oct. /, Dir. Forster, NJ. p.
for Bradford, delivered lecture on "The Civil
War in America" before large audience arse nbled
in the theater oil the Bradford Mechanics Institute.
Mr. James Law, President Of the Institute, was in
The chair.
Mr. Forster in the course Of some introductory re-
marks, alluded TO the peculiar interest which at
t..ched 10 the civil war ia America. lie said thif
terrible war, 80 far as Il affected the feelings Of the
people Of this country, was like no war which had
happened for a long period. 1t was almost Ike
war in England ifsef il was q war not only be-
tween people Of the same blood and language As our
selycs, but there was hardly street in Bradford or
village in Yorkshire without Inhabitants who had re-
htions in America directly affected. lie referred TO
he injurious effect which the war bad upon the mer-
cantilo and manufacturing interest Of this country,
especially Lancashire, by being deprived Of lie sup
py Of cotton: and the wors;ed district Of Yorkshire
by being deprived Of a market for its manufactured
goods. But, if the CAGE were otheEwise It was
war Of intense interest because he conceived that
il was war to solye the problem whether race OF
civilized men In this age OF tie world could In peace
and safety keep millions Of their fGllow-beings IN
slavery. They often beard this war deferbed q,
NOT only terrible and calamious war, but ~ being
a causeless war. Now, n teuibe ana calamltous war
il undoubtedly was. Civil war was terrible undtr
any crcnms ances; but IL wassl more terrible wren
carried on among race of men OF such strong paS ions
as the Anglo-SaXon race. il WA grievous punish
ment 10 the people Of America for one-hal OF them
having tried not 10 diminish Slavery but 10 Increase
IT, and the other having conniyed AT thelr dong oi
aud IL was also punshmeu TO England Tor having
Left he legacy Of Slavery TO them. They ought not,
a. We "A az W ere
THE calamitouB But although calantous, II wac
not cause less war. He thOnld show that evening
hat il was the natural crisis Of that dtesse which
had been born with the American Commonwealth
and grown with il, and which Was now testing It's
very life il appeared almost peuIlle to state any
other cause except Slavery the caute OF thls war,
when all who had studied American Affairs had been
wondering year after year that this state oil thingr
could 20 on without a coDvulsion. Yet there were
able writers who took contrary view, on the ground
that The South could not have intended on account OF
slavery. 10 break up that Union which virtually
made the whole OF the States the prison oil the slave
and every Federal officer his Jaller, ana drew
line bounding their own territory over which he
might escape TO freedom. IL WAS argued, therefore,
by such writer's, that there must be something be-
hind Slavery and il was suggested That TINS some
thing was love of place or development OF demoora-
cy or especially desire for free trade. But let them
look at the facts and in doing 30 they must JndB.
men by their actions not by their motives. ENehts
depended upon what men dio, n9t wnss tlcy
intended 10 do Hear, hear. The Soutb ners
had seeded because the Republicans bad elected
President. How, then, did these Republicans come
TO exist Mr.. Forster described how me Two par
ties Of Whgs and Democrats which had GlVlded the
Union had been replaced by new scho3l Of Demo
crn,s' WHO advocated the right of the slave States
not merely 10 govern themselves as regarded tbeil
slaye 10 sttutions, but TO rule the whole Union fol
the support Of those Institutions, against whom hh,
arisen the Republican party, who sald, we VII
let Slavery alone where IL exist we WISH 10 pre-
serve the union Of the free with the slave SLAVES
but will not allow that union 70 DC plo-slASs1L,
commonwealth We will no longer be governed bJ
the slave power, suffer our Jndicatnre 10 DC cor
runted our foreign policy TO be controlled, our owl
freedom 10 be endangered, by the determination u
conduct our Government solely ior the support
Slavery" These Republicans nearly eiee'sd re
mont at the Presidential election before le ids. auu
poW thew had succeeded in eleciing Lincoln. Having
! elected their man they must have pohcy-"na
thew called a plato M" That platform was no
The abolition of Slavery, but its limitation. lnel
did not propose 10 interfere with the slave oOes II
their management If their slaves, but seeing no"
the slave system desolated the son, deua as,
the population, made labor Disgrace ana lule
ness an honor made the rich extrayagant an
! insolent, and the poor degraded aId disoI
/ d.rly wherever il existed, tney decla'ed thu
! thew woll1 not have II carried AS matte
| of right into the new Territories or coionie
Of the Union. Inc party 'heIelo,o, .'i,,,;oo /,
vention nj Chicago last year, passed resolution
Tho effect tar Congress had 10 power 70 esuaDlis
slavery in any Territory until its inha6tsnts, ms %
| formed themselves into a State, and declared 10
tSomselves whether ornot they would have Slavery
Now let Us turn from the North to the SOUTH anu IS
how II was that the slayeholiers considered tIi
resolution of the North an threatening 10 lnIir pe'u
liar nr,ituton. as ii IL had been not merely ior II
la,ilation. Dut for lie immediate abolition; Whlo
new party had been arising in the North there ma
been great change 10 the South. Tie OLD school