Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-01-16

existing. Wen, then, what would Non 40
with all these States, and with what may be
called the loyal portion of these States p
Would you allow them to be dragooned into
this insurrectlon, and into the formation OF
new State, to which they themselves are hos
tile ? But what would YOU do with the city
of Washington? Washington is in = slave
State. Would anybody have advised Pr"Si-
dent Lincoln and his Cabinet aud the m, .a-
bers of the Seaate and House Of RepresenI
tives from the North, with their wives IN
children, and everybody who was not in Ia
yor OF the South--that they should set OIL on
their ne anchoy pilgrimage northward, leav-
ing a capital ballowed by such associations,
having its name from the Father OF their
country-wouli you say that they should
travel uorthward and leave Washington 20
the South, because Washington was situated
in slave STATE?
Again, what do you saw 10 the Mississippi
River Have yon seen it on tive MAJ, the
father Of watelS, rolling that g'gantir stream
to the ocean-dn YOU think the fifty millions
who will onr 'ay occupy the banks of that
river to the northward - 40 you rtr,k that
they would consent that that s,r'am ould
roll hrougn = foreign and i mi = h,. = hos
tile State (Hear, bear, and che"r) And
more, there are four millions of negroes
in subiection. For them the American Un-
ion is directly responsible. They are not
Secessiouists. They are now, as they Al
ways were, legally not subjects nor citizens
but under the care and power OF the Gov
ernment of the United States. Would YOU
consent that these should be given up TO the
tender mercies OF their taskmasters, the de.
tenders of slavery as an everlasting insttu-
ton Well if all had been surrendered
without a struggle, what then ? What would
the writers in this newspaper and other news
papers have said If a bare rock in your
empire that would not keep single goat
alive be touched by any Foreign power, why
the whole empire is aroused to resistance
And # there be, from accident or from pas
sion, the smallest Insult to your flag, what do
your newspaper writer> say on the subj ct,
and what is oai 10 all YOUR exchanges and
in all your towns? | will tell you what they
would have said it the government OF the
United States aud the North had taken their
::iS;ious ::::i;Ss;l.ous aud dishonest advice. They world
have said that the Great Rel ublic is failure,
that democracy has murdered patriotism,
that history affords no example vI such
meanness, no such cowardioe, and they would
have heape@. unmeasared obloquy and con-
tempt upon the people and the government
that had taken that course.
Abiding to the meanly selfish suggestion
of some British politicians who had SAID that
it would be better for the English empire to
have America cut up into small States, Mr.
B. said
Now, there cannot be meaner motive
than this motive that ! am now speaking q
in forming Judgment on this question-tha
it is better for us, for the people OF England
or the Government of England, that the
United States should be severed, and tha
that continent should be, like the continen
of Europe, in many States, subject to tht
contentious and disasters which have occupied
the history of the States OF Europe. | shoult
say that if a man had a great heart within
him, he would rather look forward to tht
day when, from that point OF land that i
habitabe nearest the pole TO the shores o
the Great Cult, the whole of the vast cont
uent might become one great confederation
of States-not mixing itself up with the en-
tanglement of European politics, wlthou
cIstom houses inside throughout the lengtl
and breadth of its territory, but with freedom
a everywhere, equality everywhere, law every
where, peace everywhere, it would afford a
last some hope that men were not torsakel
of heaven, and that the future of our rae
might be better than the past. cloud cheers.
Mr.. Bright closes as follows:
There may be those persons in Eng Ian
who are Jealous Of the States. There ma
be men who dislike democracy, and who hat
republic. There may be even those who's
sympathles warm towards the slave olgarch
of the South, But of this am certain, tina
only misrepresentation the most gross, or ca
umny the most wicked, can sever the ii
which unites the great mass of the people {
this country with their friends and brethre
beyond the Atlantic Applause. Whetf
er the Union will be restored or not, or tn
, South will achieve an unhonored indepenG
ence or not. predict not. But this | thin
know, that in a few years, very fe,
years, the twenty millions of free men in tn
North will be thirty millions, or fifty million
IA population equal to or exceeding that
' this kingdom. When that time comes
pray that it may not be said among them thu
In the darkest nOuT Ol tuelT country ) tTidl
England, the land of their fathers, looked o
with icy coldness and saw unmoved the pei
lis and calamities of her children. AS fc
! me, have but this to say | am one in th
: audience, and but one in the citizenship {
this country. But if all other tongues ar
5 silent, mine shall speak for that policy whic
gives hope tor the bondsmen of the Soutl
| and tends to generous thoughts, and generou
5 words, and generous deeds between the tw
, great nations who speak the English languag
and from their origin are alike entitled
$ the English name.
4 The speech from first to last was animated
and inspired by the warmest friendship fc
, our country, with sympathy for our unfortr
, nate struggle, and with strong faith in an
:, love for free institutions. John Bright is a
honest Englishman, and such manly utterar
4 ces as his will do much to make us forget th
poisonous venom that is incessantly poure
through all the columns of the Londo