, 1862-03-31
The English Government, Press aud People in
relation to The american Contest,

leaders or people, so to have met the traitors.
The South had morally subjugated the North
before attempting the destruction of the Union.
All the while, I have not reproached or hardly
Judged the Government, contrary to tue gen
eral opinion both here and to some extent
with you I have affirmed that, apart from
emancipation, this cause is great one-great
beyond estimate. If it sayed The territories, and
30 limited the area Of slavery, thai, have said,
was the gird1ing Of the tree. I saw, or thought
saw, that if the President had proclaimed the
policy Of emancipation, it would have thrown
the border Sttes with the South, and so have
secured Southern independence; while tie
North would not even have been in case to
enforce honorable conditions. I have, there
fore, been tolerant of the apparently feeble
policy, which now fear has been dictated
slavery, and which will prevent either moral
or political triumph for the North and for
f.cedom- II the President, his advisers and
supporters, and his gene1a1s, all fear striking
slavery too hard, why then, a*suredly, slavery
Tlll the less fear to:strike them.
Then may say to you, without danger Of be-
irg misunderstood, that, ,ucxt to those enormous
evils, if eyen next, is the slams and ztnipcrsal
de}ttsion III The United States regarding "the
coarse Of the British Goue7anaent." Tam close
observer and 4 sharp critic Of our Government.
see, as much as any Euglishmau can see,
things from the American stand point /
know something Of our public men, and Of
their principles OF action with one of the
Ministers have had free and frank personal
communication, and spoke as the most anx-
ious American would have had me speak.
!. Now I declare to you. and you will
Of ibis Government: from the fist % has
te@n irreproachable. In this Government
there was no safe or honorable ground but
that Of neutrality. That ground has been ia
kcn and Kept, rs to the recognition Of state
Of ,War-not to have recognized this would
have been dangerous and Chaotic; otherwise
the contest would have been, in manner, out
side of Ian, and civilization. Not to do SO,
implies that tonTGoEcrnment, should have done
what the Washington Government itself has
shrunk from doing: viz: Treat the South as
I'll The Southern Commissioners utterly
failed here from the first. This is deInopstrat-
ed. tirst-by their own memorial to Earl Rus
sth1n Angnst last !; and .secondly-iu labor
ed apology for, and confession OF, failure pub
lished at Richmond.
z Ill This Government has held back that Of
FRANCE from movements in favor Of the South.
This, now, is beyond dispute
". Our manufacturers, merchants, cham
Pie OF Lancashire and Yorkshire, have been
forbcaring, patient, self denying. Not word,
much less c1amor and tsinsarrecion." :" for col,
tom broken blockade. r.'' : ::
=. In the Trent attatr, our Government, ,especi-
ally Russella and LordL L3ons, ,forbore threat
.eniDg; France and all Europe, land Mess1s,.
Lincoln, Seward and Snmner,} were only one.
IN the British view. How we feared that the
South would triumph in this case; and through
it! How earnestly hosts Of us hoped, and
prayed, and pleaded that your. GoTernment
would surrender those ~Tetches.. Not that
Ee cared for tAesa. It vas 3 shocking and
dangerous blunder of Wilkes and the exul-
tation Of your people upon i, though natural
!. Al the. while, the conduct Of the London
x1nsa has been Infamous. That paper has
a1:eas9 been West Indian and pro-slaTery. It
Is EonoW. It has not had an honest or fa5r
article on America- since the conflict COM
menced. It has, especially for four years
past, sought to make ug-bear:of Democrat
ic America, Of " Democratic u France, and Of
our Democratic: Australian colonies. -:
l. 1hss is he ,scay IN ,to]tics our South fights
against ", and Tie ez*ension qfour Liberties, and
1he cause Of good government Aers. So Of two
Or three other papers of less importance.
I. .NoE see the terrible American fallacy and de-
1uston: The 19sass Is accounted e the British
III nation. Hence the British; GoVernment
has~ been accounted as going to destroy
American commences; to break the: ;blocE-
:ade, etn,mediateIv," for: months past! to.
recognize the South! =: And England ID
| accuEed Of having :" first caused the disunion
and thea done esshat would make the disunion
permanent" |! And hence the violence and
reproaches. and fe7ce--anti English spirit.
|: which. IS have said, is full Of present, and
big with future evils Of awful magnitude, aud
there would seem; to be no help for it. Tie
American p1ess insists that we, the English
nation, parts and whole. are full of. uneIam-
pied malice" againBt the United States I
despair Of correcting this state of feeling, and
sometimes almost think. that judicial sen-
tence has been pronounced stg,ainss the Great