The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-01-13
John Bright on American Affairs.

JOIN BRIGHT, one of the liberal members of
sae House of Commons in England, made a
speech 10 his constituents at Rochdale, December
i, to which allusion has heretofore been made
&;n our foreign news We now have the speech
"a full, Blu. it's great length prevents us from
4,issng it to cur readers, and we must content
ourselves with few extracts.
Speaking Of the cause Of the war in this coun
ggy, Mr.. Bright said:
at "a the question Of Slavery. Hear, hear |
Ear thirty years it has been constantly coming
81 toe surface, disturbing social life, and over
chewing almost all political harmony in the
eSarking of the United States In the North
shere is no secession. there is no collision; but
chia disturbance and this instruction was found
sshcily in the South and in the Slave States :;
etsf3eiore. think the man who says otherwise
ana who contends that it is the tariff, or any.
ahing whatsoever other than Slavery, is either
ssInseiT deceived, OR he endoavors to deceive 9th
asrf. The object Of the South is this: 10 escape
sfu9. the majority which wishes to limit the a, ca
ri Slavery, Hear, hear.] They wish to found
4. islave State, free from the influences and the
opinions Of freedom. The Free States in the
Forth, therefore, now stand before the world.
&sae advocates and defenders of freedom and civ.
duration. The Slave States Of the South offer
themselves dor the recognition Of Christian ma
tions, Vased upon the foundation, the unchange-
able foundation in their eyes, of Slavery and
e,zzb 1ism. [tear, hear.l will not discuss
ehe gns.t OF the men who ministers of a great
aatson, only last year conspired to overthrow it,
u will not point out or recapitulate the state
gaaats OF the fraudulent manner in which they
disposed of the funds in the national excheouer.
wall not point out by name any of the men in
this conspiracy, whom history will designate by
azslss that they won't like to hear; but saw
shat Slavery has sought to break up the most
free Government in the world, and to found "a
naw State in this 10Th century, whose corner
seane Is the perpetual bondage of millions of
a"an. Hear, hear.]
lie gives character to the London Times
nc tie following sentence:
1--WE And that a journal which is reunited
abroad, and has hitherto been reputed at home.
@ts ahe most powerful representative of English
OPINION, at feaet Of the richer classes--we find
that in that very newspaper there has not been,
fancc Mr. Lincoln took Office in March last as
presdcnt of the United States ore fair, and
hosisrable, and friendly article on American at.
sa'rs IN ats columns. Hear, hear Some of
you, l.ccrc say, read it laughter but, for
&anatoly, now every district is 80 admirably
supplied with loca! newspapers, that trus. IN
al tune to come the people of England will
dFaat Dt puYeT streams nearer home--[cheers
aud iaughterl land not of streams which are
snudded ly party feeling, prlitica! intrigue, and
s,y Saany motives that tend to ANYTHING rather
shan the enlightenment and advantage of the
pcoa!e'' ~
Inc following argument against peaceabIe
sececsion IN uplinst an acquicscence on the part
~ fbe North in & forcible separation is worry
strougly put
asay that looking at the principles svowcd
xn England, and at all its policy, there is no
max, that is not absolutely nonresident in
every sense, who can fairly challenge the con-
duct of the American Government in this war
1t Is curious thing to find that the party in
this country which on every public question is
sE tzvor OF war at any cost, when it comes to
Aseak Of tho duty of the Government of the Uni
ted States was in favor Of peace at any price.
Hear, hear. want to know whether il has
eesr been admitted by politicians and statesmen
etat great nations can be broken up at any time
1y the will Of any particular section Of those
uatsens' 1t has been tried occasionally in Ire.
fand-(aughtcr and if it had succeeded his
eexy would have said with very good cause. -
Htiesr. hear.l But if any body tries now to
get up a secession or instruction in Ireland, it
~snid he less disturbing in everything than the
secession in tho United States, because there is
ssouadary which nobody can dispute am
quite sure The Times newspaper would have
sent special correspondent who would havo de-