Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-12-15

speech q Nj. oobdsnS the REitieh-
/ stateSman, co HIT Commitments on
American AiEairs-The whole Case
us ReIlI TsrsoIy and Truly sumo
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The following are the remarks Of Mr.
Golden On American affairs Of his mssting
with his constituents at ROehdale on the
Gath ult:
aWith regard TO American affairs, there
was a society in England that was anxious
10 stop the war; in fact We bad heard the
same proposals made in the House OF Com.
mons. and had read of its being made 10
other places. The proposal to stopatne
war meant that we should interfere with
American aifairs, aud that We should there
fore drop our Reconsideration policy
Now, when he was last there before them
he told misunderstanding what was
said TO the contrary both then and Of pres
ent-that he did not believe that the war
would issue In the achievement by the
South Of their so called Independence
Sill up 70 this moment, nineteeuftwentl.
eths Of society In London-that was 10
say, the upper ten thonsand-wefe OF q
contrary opinion.
How far their wish was father 10 the
Thought he could not tell, but II they real
liy simply thought as they spoke he could
only regret that their knowledge OF Amer
lea was SO limited. The newspapers mis-.
lrplayed q vast amount ofignorance on the
Question, looking at it even from geo.
graphical point Of view, judging by what
they said of the capabilities Of the Amsri.
can rivers and so forth. He had never bes
llieyep, nor did he nov, that there would
be two nations OF Americans in America.
He considered that such state Of things
was absolutely impossible, and II the intel
ligent people of this country had not been
uisled as to the cause aud origin OF the
war they would have thought with him too.
They had been told by one who WAS the
champion of emocracy in this country
that the secession took place because th 9
South wanted to establish free trade and
the North refused to let them,
Now, In 1859 he was through some OF
1.-THE States, and he was az Washington dur
ing the time that Congress was sitting, and
although iu;allisther countries wherever
he had been, ftheFe were any people Rnx'
ious to establish free trade principles they
always found him ont, aud rallied, as It
were, round his flag, yet 1t was not so Ia
any part OF the Southern States. Ia fact.
he mover heard a word about the desire "
establish free trade principles. AT that
timethe people seemed only ap1io rs, apoe'
the safety oftheir country from civil war
so much so that Oongress appoidted'a Sc
lect committee called the Council Of Ihir-
ty-three, consisting of one m .,ite from 1
each ofithe thirty three states tnen IN .n tI
Union, to. ascertain. u possible now the dit'
terenCeIcould be settlec, and what II really
was that the Southern States waptei,-
Well. he'resnlt Of that commtttee's deltb=
eratious was thatAa report-the copns
Gil sat from December IL 1880. toiJsnuary
IA, 1s6l-was issued, g copy OF "ntch, ana
s tsi in SGP Pspd ae had read eEery as
ofthat report of forty pages long. Accord
ing thereto, the slave States were invited
by the free States to say what It was they
wanted, and from the beginning TO the end
of those forty pages Of a report Of that
council not one syllable was said about
either the tariff or taxation. On the con-
tary, from the beginning TO the end there
was not grievance that was alleged by