Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1862-12-16

tina. the noise OF cannon, the clash Of arms, and
ven the sad details Of the losses on each stricken
field, should shock bis delicate nerves and put him
into spasmodc state Of philanthropic activity ?
Has Hotspur changed suddenly into the popin-
jay described by Shakspeare2--
"A certain lord. neat trinity dressed
Fresh 40 bridegroom; and bis chin new reap'd
Showed Ike stubble field at harvest home
n was perumed like miner:
And 'twxt his finger and his thumb he held
A pOuncet-b0x which ever and anon
He gave his rose, and took 7 away again -
Who herewith angry, when It next came there
Took IL IN Gns6 :-and sill he smiled and talked,
And, az the soldiers bore dead bodies by,
lie called them-untaugh knayes, unmannerly,
10 hnng sloyeny unhands0me cOrse
EetwiAt the wind and his nobility
Nobody believes tina! the English character has
SO suddenly changed. Nor can we forget how
these same gentlemen, whose souls now seem to
sicken at the bare thought Of blood, one year ago
almost bulliod their government into war with
the United States because one Of our naval cap.
tans had arrested, upon the high seas, two mis-
cradle traitor ENJOYS to foreign powers, who had
committed the highest crime known to the laws
Of any csuntry and were then at work to consum-
shedding Ct blood that these gentlemen Of the
mother country depore, for if they were sure that
by such means the American Republic would be
blotted out Of existence they would at once cry
havoc and let slip tho dogs Of war. Nor is it the
cry Of starving Lancashire operatives that so
moves their bowels Of compassion. England is
abusdantly able, if she has the disposition, to feed
her hungry poor,-and II she will not do it, the
charities of tho people on this side tho Atlantic
can and will make up the deficiency.
No. none of these are the true reasons which
animate such writers as the one from which we
have quoted. They are moved by lower and
more mercenary considerations. 1t is not the
starving operatives OF Lancashire, whose cries
move English ari,toeracy,-it is the lordly man
ufacturen who fail to reap their accustomed
golden harvest. And it is not the crmson battle
fields enithis side of the Atlantic, that d,turb the
reposo Of the British arstocracy, for they know
az well as we, that the contes! would have been
ended long ago, and with infinitely less blood'hsd,
lad not English ships, English money and
English sympathy, aided and strengthened the
rebellion, beyond measure. 1t is English money
and English machinery thathav fitted out the pi-
rate Alabama, now plunderns peaceful Ameri-
can commerce, and wasting and burning millions
of dollars worth Of property, while English ports
are being used to fit out pirates like the Alabama
and thus the bitterness of the strife between the
two sections is made more intense by the work Of
Just such mer and doctrines as end ;lace 10 the
London Quarterly. And all this IS done, not in
the in.eresto humanity, but to aid in permanent
disruption and destruction Of Americaa Demea-
racy, and in building up en- its ruins narrowing
heartleu aristocracy that shall not continually put
TO shame tho boosted liberties Of tho English na.
ton.