Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-02-04

which made speaking against the gOyernmen
and against the crown, which up 70 that tim
had been aedition felony. and il was only by th
greateat exeriOu Of few members that tha
act, with that particular, was limited to peria,
OF two years. In the same session, u bill wa
brought in, called M Alien Act, which empow
cred the Home Secretary TO take any foreigner
whatsoever, not naurali2ad Engishman, aul
in tweny.iour hours to send him ont Of til,
country; and although man might have con-
mitted no crime, this might be done to him ap-
parently on suspicion, But suppose that an in,
suigent army had been su near London that you
could see It's 0ntposts from every suburb Of Ion
don, what then do you thiul; would have been
the regard Of the Government Of Great Britain
for personal liberty if it iuierferred with the ne
eesHity, anil as they might think, the salvation
Of the State Hear.
recolleet, in 1913, when the Ilabcas Corpus
Act was suspended, that number Of persons in
Liverpool, men there Of position aud wealth,
presented petition to the House Of Commons
praying--whal That the llabeas Corpus Act
SHOULD not be suspended. No they were not
content with having it suspended in Ireland,
they prayed the House Of Commons to extend
tho Suspension to Liverpool (Laughler.) |
tecollect at that imel am sure my friend Mr..
Wilson will bear me out in what say that the
Mayor of Liverpool elegraphed to the Mayor of
I NhHututhAtIi hLl HltaFHHta hNEt HtHl tu llUuuOu
nearly every hour. The Mayor Of Manchester
heard from the Mayor of Liverpool that certain
| lrishmen in Liverpool, cOusprators and fellow
conspratorH with those in Ireland were going
to burn tho cotton warehouses Of Liverpool and
the cotton mills Of Lancashire. Laughter |
took that petition from the table of the House
Of Commons and read it, and handed it over to a
statesman rf @rnni or -re', who p llt. jne'
buoh removed from among ns--n man not second
10. 10 lf4n ..p
edge of affairs and great cap1city-I refer to the
late Sir James Graham ! handed TO him this
petition he read it, and after he read il lie
rose from his seat ilnl hid it ON tho table with n
gesture of ahhowcuce and lisguqt. (IIear,
hear) Now, that was u petition from the town
Of Liverpool, in which some persons had heon
making Themselves ridiculous by their conduct
in thla mntter, Cheers There is one more
point / will allule To-, IL las been snid how
much better it woull be- not for the United
States, hat for us, if these states shonld hc
divided. [ lceollcot meeting n gentleman in
Bond street before the session wn7 oyer one day
rich man, Whose voice 10 very much heard
on the opposite side to that on which sit in
the House Of Commons hut whose voice ia not
heard when on his legs bat when be Is cheering
other speakers. tIanghier) He said to me,
"rhia ic, after nll, sad business about the
United Stnicsi hut still think il is much het.
years Cor fifty, ! forget which it was lie snihl
they will he so powerful that they will bully all
Europe Anl distinguished member of the
House If Commons, distinguished there for his
eoquencp, distinguished more by his many
wriungs-l mean Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton-
he did not exactly express the hope but he ven
turei on something like prediction that the
time would come when there would be as many
republics nnl states in America us you can
q A. 4
n meaner motive than this motive that am now
speaking of in forming Judgment on This ques-
tion--that il is better for ne for the people Of
England, or the Government Of England, that
the United States should lie peyerel. and TINT
that continent shoull be- like the continent Of
Europe, in many States, subject to the conten-
tious and disasters which have accompanied the
history Of the Stntes OF Europe. | should say
that if n man had great heart within him he
would rather look forward to the day when, from
that point of land tlAi is habltnble nearest the
pole to the shores OF the great gulf, the whole
Of the vast continent might become one great
federation of Staice, that, without n great army,
without great navy, not miSing itself up with
the cntanglements Of European politics, without
custom-houses iusile throughout the length and
breadth of its territory, but with freedom every
where, equality everywhere, law everywhere,
peace everywhere, il would Afford at last some
and TINT the future OF our race might be
better dian the past cloud chcers.) 1t is a
common observation that our friends in America
are very rrimbie. | th0k that is very likely,
as to u considerable number Of them, to be quite
true, Our friends in Amelea urG in II great
struggle. There is nothing like ii before in their
histoty. No country in the world Was ever more
entitled, in my opinion, to the sympathy and for
bearance OF all friendly countries than are the
United States ut this moment (llenr.) They
have their newspapers that are no wiser than
ours. (Laughter) They have there some
newspapers, Oh at least, which up to theeleoton
of Mr. Lincoln, were his bitterrst and unreleDt-
ing foes When the war broke out it was not
safe to take the line of Southern support, and
they we're obliged to turn round in support OF
the prevalent opinion of the country. But they
undertook TO serve the South in another way,
and thnt was by exaggerltiug every difficulty
and missiating every fact, il that oould scrve
their object of creating disttust between the peo-
pie of the Northern States and the people of this
United Kingdom, IL tho Times in this countiy
hns done all that it could to poison the minds of
the people Of E1gaud and to iiritnte the minds
of tile people of AAericn the Nep loM Herd}d,
| am sorry to say las l0uc, | think, all TINT il
could, or all TINT il dared, to provoke mischief
between the Government of Washington and the
Government in london (Checls) There is
!
have solid reason II complain. ] am very
sorry to have to mention il, because it bames
onr present foreign minister against whom ]
mn not nuXiums to sny n word, mud Teeollecting
his speech in the House o Commons, | should
be slow to conclude that hr hadeny feelings hos.
tile to the United States Government. (Hear,
hear.l Nou rceoeet thar, during the session,
on tho llih Nlay, proclamation came out which
Acknowledged the South as n hellEerent power,
little time before that | forget how mnny days
MIR. nallns, the last minister l.rom the United
Siatca. had lett london for Liverpool aud Amcri-
rn lie dill moi wish 10 uhdet lake any affairs
connected with the government by which lie had
not been appointed tile EuvcFnm MT lf Mr. Lin
coin, lat to lenye wlNl ind 10 he done to mis-
successor, WIN was uu his way, aud whose arrival
was daily expected. Mr.. Adams, the present
minister from thu United States is q man, ii be
lived in England, you would say was one the
uoblpst families of the country think that his
father and his grandfather were Presidents of
the United States. His gr ndlather wns one Of
the great men who achieved the independence Of
the United States. There is no iamily in that
country having more clhims upon what should
call the vcueration and affection OF the people
than the family Of Mr. Adams. Mr.. Adams ar
rived in London ON the night Of the 18th of Mny
On the 18th that procMmati0n " which / have
alluded was issued, II waa known he VAS COM
ing; he was not consulted il was not delayed
for day, though nothing pressed, that he might
be notified about it, II communications Of
friendly nature bad taken place with him, and
with the American Goyerunent, they could have
found no fault with this, b1cpuse it was almost
inevitable before the struagle had proceeded
far that this proclamation would be issued.
have the very best reasons for knowing that there
is no single thing that haa happened during the
course of these events that has created more