The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1861-12-05

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gentlemen, is what England has recon-
mended. .(NO)
England'S neutrality has already cost
five thousand lives. She has made great
mistake, and three months hence she viii !
acknowledge it. Will you let me speak
my mind? (Yes. Now, 1 beg of you,
gentlemen, not to get excited when tell
you few startling facts to prove how un-
wise, how ungenerous, how dangerous has
been England's so.called neutrality on
the American question.
England's sympathies are with, and
have boen with the South. not because of
hate 10 the North, but because she wlShed
TO see us break in two. (No.) When a
man is very illitis, to say the least Of i,
bad taste TO go and order all your mourn
ling, for perhaps he may get well again;
and low surprised he would be to see the
notices of his death which we're prepared.
Ehgland's neutrality consists in standing
on The platform ana cheering the rebels
on. Read the Secession organs of the
country. Secession organs, did | say?
There are no others save the Daily News,
the Star, the Liverpool Post, and two or
three more journals-tho rest all have
flags flying and canons booming to slim.
ulate tresson on to murder. The press
leads the way. The Cabinet would de
clare war at once if it dared; and l am
not sure but what the Mexican interven-
ton is war in disguise. Read the speech
es Of members of Parliament to their con-
stituents. You find them Secession to
the backbone. Is there any question a
bout Lindsay's language. or Captain Jar
Wis or Bulwer Lytton? like Bulwer for
bis frankness and his honesty. He is no
hypocrite. He talks US he thinks, and
says, he hopes the country will no! ONLY
break up in two. bat in four piecesl Itir
already too powerful, and Its growth sho'd
be checked England's neutrality con.
sists iu giving all her sympathy to the
rebels. Suppose you and T. Mr.. Chair
man, were friends of forty years aCquain
tance, and some night on the highway
highwaymen tries 10 sssassinats you attel
having stolen your money, would yor
not think it almost out the pale Of human
ity in this civilizsd age to have me remain
neutral7 or, what is still worse, 10 heal
me cheer the thief on in his bloody work!
(Chairmsn--It is not a fair analogy.
Analogy or not, that is Englsnd's poeit
ion toward America. (No, no.. Err
many months YOU may have revolution il
thio garden island--the reSolution tina
arises from a starving population 40
is there not unmistakabls sigma of
corn famine in Ireland and cotton fam
inc in England? Suppose such to hap
pen, and class should be arrsyed agains
class, would you not think it dAmnabl
for America 10 join the rebels and or
Justify for tho destruction Of this prou,
}! nation, as England is continuing 10 or
for Americas ruin. CLEAR, hear an
no ,. ,.ea,
Here are the facts / wish 10 max
known. The South has always been th
enemy of England, as the North ha
been her friend (Hear, and true. Ev
cry act OF hostility has emanated fror
that quarter. Look along our history
page. What was the non intercours
act previous to the last war bnt South
ern institution Was not the embarg
act and the War Of 1879 itselfa Souther
institution The whole north was again'
n it, aud the Hartford convenlionites,
" this day, are subjects of deriSiou by ii
Southorners for,the sympathy New Eue
land showed for OLD England. (Het
l. and cheers.) What was the high tari
i act, the twenty-five cents yard duty O
il cotton, of 1916, but Southern instit,
f tion?, All New England voted again
s. Mr.. Oalhoun's American system 1t WI
Of the same in 1890 and 1924; but Il
10 South having passed their high tariff, tt
a North showed its enterprise by putin
lie up cotton mills, and it was not for son
Of years after, (l828) that the North vote
&c for prote action. Then Mr.. Calhoun.
\. 1889, wanted to kill the bautlipg he HI
10 created in 1916, and because lie cou
9. not succeed started his hellborn nulh
III cation cry. which was so summarily slo
d. ped by General jackson. What was t
,n Mexican war but Southern institute,
te to get new slave lands? What were 4
al flibustering expeditions against Cuba b
ed Southern institutions? Where did Lop
h, hail irom2 Where did Lynch law, t
,is Bowie knife, and the duelst origina
Its but in the Sonth2 Is not Reputation
d. purely Southern institution? Who W
IT. i, that showed their sympathies agair
lis England in the Russian war but the c
1t. tire Democratic party, which for foT
Of years has been a southern institutio
IS. The Wings were with England, but
ew Democrats cleered the Russian arm
in These are all Southern institutions, a
certainly negro slavery is not an insti
ch ton Of the North. Where. then, dt
England find food for sympathy with
nd dam ned traitors in this hell born consp
am acy? Was it the North or the South W
eet sent the contributions to ireland in tn
is distress? (Hear, hear.) Was II
am North or the South who put the fags
her half. on the death Of Havelock9 a
the tell me, gentlemen, who received the &
uf Of your Queen with open arms, but
ete proud children of our northern COUNT
uu. Boiling over with good will to Enghl
at we took the Prince and embraced HI
D of because we loved this old land and
d mighty associations. (Cheers.)
'ith loved 10 mix our history and lose il e'
| in in yours, (Cheers.) We loved y
But christian Queen, and showed all th
ica. things in the warm and honest receipt