The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-10-01

bht w .thTiU. hNu W commerce, OF tnlUire III
dominion, aud attribute this trouble TO The as
ricious design Of a parsimonious. unprucip
and wrspgliug North. Let us look a, tho iru
Of this; They say that the morrill, tariff is Il
c4use OF this revolution. Now, every ma
woman and child who knows IN thing about II
! slairs OF this country, knows that the Morr
tariff was passed after thia revolution beea
Is not that SO? That is, after JEFF Davis hs
raised his standard of rebellion. But snppoi
I | am mistaken IN this respect, which howeve
/ do not think am. does not every man of il
teliigence know that they had an absolute mi
jOrity in Congress. eufficient to prevent any a,
being passed without their assent? And ye
hypocritical Englnnd, in order TO Justify ht
course, says this IL not question about SLAYER,
but about tariff, Northern supremacy and con
merce. Others, again, tell us this course
England is accounted for by the distress whic
has been brought upon the people by the wal
OF coiton--that IL is a cotton question. Wh,
gentlemen, the most Intelligent men iu Englan
all admit that if there had been no America
war whatever there would have been, perha d.
greater distress among cotton manufacturers 40
cotton employees thau after this war bad bro
ken out. Whyg Because there has been
asupersbundauce of this production in all part
of the world, and in addition n snperabundanc
OF manufactures, and instead of simply the opc
ratives suffering, as they do now, il there har
been no war, with this great surplus of cottol
on hand, the most intelligent must admit tha
the manufacturers would have suffered as wei
as The operatives, and Enslsnd would thus hav,
been in a worse condition thsn with the war
Therefore they have no cause whatever for say
ing that because the supply of cotton is tempo
rariiy checked, they must extend their sympa
thes to the South in order to get cotton. In
tellrgent Euglishmen will tell you, when yot
get down to the secret impulses of their action
that they were tired of this monopoly, of thi.
supercious republic, as they sometimes call IT,
This want of sympathy is, however, TO be at
trlbuted to various causes, The rivalry between
the North and England on the SUBJECT of manu-
taclures is one but the principal cause is found
in the jealousy of that nation with regard to
our growing power. She does not wish to see n
government in successful operation founded on
The best interests of the whole people. Because
she seeks the destruction OF this nation, its
proves, its nationality, its progress, lis prop.
erty, love it all the more. and will stand by il.
Applause Well may England feel euyious
aud inimicai, when from the very intelligent la
Dor of our country, from the common schools OF
the manufacturing North, where every mans
intelligence is brought into play, ard whatever
OF genius and talent there il, is made available
for for public use, we have overtskon snd sur
passed the proud and boastful parent country.
Seeing the disposition of the English people to-
wards u.s. after eighteen months of experience.
what did do? ceased to implore her sympa-
thy and cooperation by reason of common ties
of blood religion, literature, science and srt.
and the relations of our common history, which
she had disregarded; but turned my eyes to
see il there were no other Power which we
could mske Il substitute, in this dav of trial, to
at nation which l saw was to
be eternaIy our in hcable enemy
There was rival yer the channel - France
She had none of this I, numerical or manufactur-
ing jealousy; her history, instead of being in
contrast with ours, had been unit
in sentiment and design with or own Between
England and her there existed natural jealousy.
which had been attempted in vain, from genera.
ton to generation, to be Obliterated, but which
found existing ss strongly rs At any previous
time. What was our duty as ministers and rep
of great republic? Why it was
o take France as we found her - our friend
Applause France has always been our ally
France, as all the world knows, has been al
ways operated npon and Influenced by a senti-
nent. Let us appeal TO her generosity in the
Of the two governments to stand by
AID not let The republic he destroyed by rival.
We did 80 at one time, and all know the happy
'esulty though 10 my rain and regret see our
papers every day quoting, rot from French pa
pers, Belgian papers, or Spanish papers, but from
British papers - from our AVON ed enemies, men
who denouncc us as degs nerate people, a COW
ards aud as sneaks, snd repudiate Gs -"Tha,
France is our enemy, France seeks to Interfere,
France seeks to destroy the republic In my
opinion it is all false. Applause l believe
that the French people and the French Emperor
Nd hav haa frn tb
As the Emperor of the French has again and
again avowed himself 10 be, firm and fixed
friend of the American republic. Let US not
take England, gentlemen, as a source of infor-
nation a. to the disposition and design of the
Emperor. We all know, when it WAS loudly
and universally proclaimed 10 France that the
French Emperor had declared his determination
TO Interfere; how the government, through its
authenticated journal, he Moniteur, treated the
matter The Emperor, 100, in his address to
the French Chambers, told them that so far
from proposing 10 iR.eiierc by his action with
the blockade which the American republic had
stabilized he never would interfere, unless
ns' cause of interference should occur. Loud
AID prolon ,ed applause, Now, gentlemen,
there is IN av"wAl. Those words are on record
lnd the world knows it. Neither you nor |,
the newspaper Cress nor any set of men, have
sDe TElb 10 1utStlon Tue integrity OIL tulS AVONAl
until some act shall occur which would give the
lie to it. [Cheers think. say it irom%he
best Information which | con get, followed up
by his letter written while the difficulty attend.
ing the arrest of Mason and Sdel was peud-
Cg, that the Fferch nation has heen and still is
Inc friend ot the American republic. Applause
Let US then, give him our faith and confidence
that he means what he says; that he will do and
act as means Loud applause Now, | took
IL for granted, and acted on the supposticn,
hat the French people were Indifferent to Eng
land's appeals, and that they would stand as an
eternal Offset TO the hostility OF that nation
and there they have stood. Go with me, then,
to the great empire of Russia. Loud applause
Some meu have thonght that did not preserve
proper dignity in speskirg to the head of that
great people, Why, gentleman, just look at il.
One OF the casest Kingdoms in Europe in its
With the world, the most shs0lute
government on earth in is anteceden,s and its
existing power, where all the epjoyments of this
outward being and surroundings could be grasped
by sinRle hand, RiXiy millions of people more
than double any one consolidated mass that ever
constituted an independent nation on earth,
where the Emperor might with impunity consult
his pleasure and caprice. acting upon the maxim,
=" drink aud be merry, for tomorrow We die"
say with more temptations than any monarch
that ever existed, what do we find him doing
While there was this internal intamy Of slayery,
though not so dark as ours, upon his own escut-
cheOn, twenty millions OF men held 70 be, TO a
certain extent, the property of the mobiles aud
of the monarch himself, what dees he do? He
looks to the great nation, over which he was
not only the Emperor, and in their own express.
sve language the "Czar," the father OF his
people - their aggrandizement, their elevation
and their progress - yet, neither looking TO the
right nor to the left, knowing that the whole
consolidated nobility of Russia would be arrayed
against him in enmity II not in arms, he deter
mined 20 fulfil, like the great, courageous man
that he is, the duty that was imposed upon him
He strikes of the bonds, and declares twenty
millions of men free. Loud and prolonged ap,
plause. think can say, without Implication
of profanity or want of difference, that since
the days OF Christ himself such a happy and
glorious privilege has not been reserved to any
other man to do that amount Of good aud no
man has ever more CALAMITY or nobly done it
than Alexander, the zar of Russia. lVOcifer-
Gus cheering Here, iellow-citizsns, was the
place 10 look Tor an ally. [Rruewed applause. |
Here, fellow citizens, you have found an ally.
Cheers. Trust him for yOur trust will not