Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-12-15
So The GEM of the Diplomatic Cores.
pnndence.
The following comments upon the late
speech Of Mr.. Glaistone, Of England, is

+. speech Of Mr.. Gladstone, of England, is
from the letter Of J. LathrOp Motley, now
our Minister. to Austria, This letter Mr..
Seward characteriled as "the gem" of
his diplomatic correspondence:
"The manifesto of the English Chaneel-
lot Of the Exchequer at Newcastle has,
doubtless, engaged yonr attention, and
you are better able to decide than I am how
much weight is'to be attached to those re-
markable instances of sympathy with the
slaveholders and their cause.
az only allude to it in passing as form
ing q portion of the historical record of
/ these times. 1t is the first public, although
\ unofficial, response of an English Minister
to the emancipation proclamation of the
President. | do not believei it to represent
the policy either Of the Government or the
nation.
l"The speech, so far as it related to the
United States, was q eonsummate work Of
art, and suggests the grafton which the
! great dramatist has imagined for Mark
Anthony, arousing the citizens of Rome to
fury oFer the dead body Of CRser. There
is the same elaborate depreciation Of hos
tile feeling, the same subtle and successful
flaming Of flames Of hatred in his hearers,
under pretense Of cooling q popular
frenzy:
Good friends, sweet friends, let me not STIR you
To such sudden food of mutiny
| These that have done this deedIare honorable
says the Roman. - L LE ~ 3
i !" why, gentlemen, they are our kin;
they were, at any rate, if they are not
now, our customers; and NE hope that they
| uiH be our customers again says the
i Chancellor of the Exehequer.
/" A people struggling for its life against
the most tremendous oligsrchy that the
world has ever SEEN -awakens not his res
I pect, but his pity He is anxious, there
fore, that a people so humiliated should be
u treated with due compassion. "Let us
bear with them all we can" To assure a
people thus battling for freedom against
/ slavery-for law, order, and social pro-
gress against a despotism, avOwedly
founded on slavery as itslcorner stone
! that it is sure to be defeated, and that the
lsympathies of the world are with its an
tagonist is, it seems, the true way Of
"manifesting kindly temper To do this
is to observe "great caution about adverse
criticism"
" The cup of humiliation and shame, is
ready for them, it appears. 'They are
still endeavoring to hold it far from their
/ hips they have not yet drunk of the cup
I which, Notwithstanding all the world sees,
l1they must drink Of Enjoying thus the
advantage of reading the future with per-
feet accuracy, the orator instructs his
hearers to initiate his Christian forbear-.
I ance, and not to trample on the down fall
en-. He earnestly hopes that England
will do nothing to inhict additional shame
sorrow or pain on those who have already
suffered much, and who Will probably have
to suffer much more
"Those who know-as what American
does not-the deeds of daring by men, of
self-devotion by women, the almost fabu-
I4ous generosity of all, the countless traits
of individual heroism and chivalry with
which the simple annals of so many fami-
lies, rich and poor, throughout our land
have been filled, during this dark, but hon
orable epoch of our history; those who
know what great people is now doing and
i.suffering in defense of the free institutions
libequeathed to them by their fathers, will
know how TO appreciate the epithet Of
IL shame" which an English minister SO
genially bestows upon our name.
Blistered be the tongue that speaks Of shame, -
is tho.only ft response p such rhetoric and
such prophecy.
"But there were words in the grafton
to which it is to be hoped America will
never refuse its assent. The Americans,
st is admitted, have warm affections to-
ward England England is the country,
! WHICH, however they may find fault with
us, from time to time, has the highest
place in their admiration and respect
This is perfectly true, and will, I trust,
long remain so. But the England thus
venerated and beloved Of America is not
the England which speaks through the lips
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
which cheers his prophecies. of our humili-
alton and shame"
ait cannot be denied that the tendency
of European public opinion, as delivered
from high places, is more and more un-
friendly TO our cause This is to be as
cribed, of course to the interruptions
which the continuance Of the warcauses to
material interests, and to the increasing
dislike in Europe to liberal institutions.
It would be weakness in US to expect sym
pathy from the privileged classes; but the
people every synpathize with US, for
they know that our cause is that of the
people against an oligsrchy.
"They are not deceived by the reitera-
ton Of the stale common-plaees about the
wicked var, The Emiserable war, the
causeless war Not one of the critics
and prophets with which the world
swarms, and who are so anxious to take
the mote from their neighbor's eye, has
ever suggested any possible project for
the restoration Of peace They content
hthemselves with denouncing the war. It
would be well for these philosophers to
ponder the motto which the State of Mas
sachusetts bnrrorV cd from A1sardeH G "a
ney, and has borne for nearly a century
on her seal:
g Ense petit pIacidam sub libertate quietem' -
The time comes to all nations when they
can .aehieTe peace and liberty by the
sword alone. And when those blessings
have beeen sec1red-as they can only be
on our continent-whieh the hand Of God
has indicated as the residence Of one peo-
ple-by the re-establishmeDt of our Fed
eral Union and popular, institutions, now
threatened by the ,slayeholders' insurrec-
tion, it may be hoped that the American
sword may be sheathed for centuries.
"Ner do I think that optimism puerile
or unphilOsOphical which looks forward,
through the war clouds that now envelop
our land, to day when the passions,
slaked in blood, shall at last permit rea-
SON to resume her sway; and when the
/ South as well as the North shall be both
proud and happy that an oppressed race
has been converted from chattles into free
labOrers, and the only obstacle removed
which has ever lain in the path of our
. united nation, to prosperity and true glory.
"Even if these Be Dreams for one
would not exchange my faith for that
short-sighted materialism which, in either
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