The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-16
An English View.
,ouN BRIGHT ON AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

Ia speech at Rochdale, on the Is, inst. Mr.,
Right spoke as follows
Nav, is this cotton question great question.
not? met spinner to day-he does not
" wa in Rochdae, though met him here-and
asked hin, what he thought about it !: and no
ii Well think cotton will come somehow
Ionchtcr. } And find that there is that kind
= ooswer to be had from three out of four of
n the spinncrs you ask. They know that in
"st times when cotton has risen fifty or eighty
,r cent =, or some extravaganza rise, something
,,s comc-thc rate of interest was raised. or
.'ara had been Il commercial panic from some
~use or other, and down the price has gone,
md when everybody said " there would be no
,nttsn at Christmas, there proved very consid-
0shIe stock at Christmas. And so they saw
n,w. don t in the least deny that 1T will be
y, all assert is shat this particular case is
nav. that we have never had war in the Uni
cd States between different sections of that
nuntry, affecting the production of cotton be.
Are; and it is not fair, nor wise, but rather
hidish than otherwise, to argue from past
,y4nts, which were not IL bit like this, of the
r,nt which is now passing before our eyes.
They say, 90 1t is quite true there is civil
sor in America, but it will blow over there
will b, q compromise or the English Govern
.ont will break the blockade Now, recolect
what breaking the blockade means. IL means
,ror Nth The United States and don't think
,ysplt that it would be cheap to break the
,lnckale at the cost of a war with the United
states, | think that the cost of a war with the
mnited States would give, probably, half wages,
t,g very considerable time to those persons in
lancashire who would be out of work if there
vas no cotton, to say nothing of all the mani
est injustice and wrong against all internation-
e, law, that IL legal and effective blockade
should be nterered with by another country.
II il pot exactly the business of this meeting,
hut INV opionion is. that The SAFETY Of The prod
,,ts on ,chich This country depends rests jar more
oaths success Of the Washington government than
,noa ITS future and believe nothing could
la more mcnsirous than Tor us, who are very
aycrse to war ourselves, to set up for critics
aiming, c,yiling cyitics-of what the Wash
ngton government is doing.
saw letter the other day from an English
man, resident for twenty five years in Phiadel
nhia, 4 merchant there, and II very prosperous
merchant. lie said prefer he institutions
# this country ,,hc United States) very much
"a vnrs in England but he says also. IF it
n2lilLltu tilit tttttb VIC EiNN IN Cotiti
and ny government, but that any portion of
these United States can break Oft from the CEN
tml government whenever it pleases, then It is
time tor me to pack up what haYe, and to 60
smewherc whrre there is country and gov
eramentt Well, that is the pith OF thisques-
ton. DO you suppose that if Lancashire and
Yorkshire thought that they would break Oft from
the United Kingdom that those newspapers
which are now Preaching every kind OF moder-
alton to the Government of Washington would
advise the Government in London to allow these
two counties to sci up special government Tor
themselves " hen the people of Ireland asked
that they should secede, was it proposed in Lon
don that they should be allowed to secede peace
ably Nothing of the kind.
am not going to defend what is taking place
ia coul.try that is we'll able to defend Itself
But advise you, and advise the people OF
England, to abstain from applying to the United
STATS doctrines and principles which we never
a1pIy to eur own case At any rate, they have
uryer fought Tor the balance Of power in Europe
They have never fought to keep up Il decayng
empire. They have never squandered the money
Of their people in such phantom expeditions as
W. have been engaged in. Ard now at this mo-
Aent, when Yea are tod that they are going to
he ruined By their vast expenditure, why the
-om that tney are going 10 raise IN the great
emergency OF this grlcyous war is no greater
ttan tn It We raise every year during IA time OF
Ieact. (I.oud ciieers.) They say that they are
MT going to iberatc slaves, No; tie o'Ject OF
the Washington Gvvernnlontis to maintain their
Own Constitution. nd to acl legally. as 1t per
mits and r,o,ircs No man is more in favor OF
leace than | am, 10 man has denounced war
more than have, probably, in this country ;:ew
men, ia their public lite, lave suffered more OBJ
hquy-l had almost said, more indignlty--'n
Of it, But cannot for the llle OF
ne see upon any Of those principles upon when
States are governed now say nothing OF the
the literal word of the New Testan.ent-l cannot
zee how the state OF fairs in America, with re-
gard to the t. ) Government, could have oeen
different from what it is at this moment we
had heptarciy in this country, and II was
thought to be good to get rid OF 1t, ana TO nave
united nation If the 33 or 81 States OF the
American Union can break ei whenever they
like, can see nothing but disaster and con1u-
'on throughout the whoe of that continent
My that the war, be it successful or not, ne IL
yhrstian or not, be it wise or not, IL war 20
@Sta.n the government and to sustain the aa
hority of great nation and that the people q
tagIdad, if they are true to their own sylnPa-
HES, to their own great act OF 1884, TO winch
eicrence has already been made, u,H ha'e no
ympathg for those mho ,oish 10 bu'td up yft"i
mpre on The perpetual bondage Of millions q
tPr teliop men loud cheers