Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-01-15


is shoun in this country on foreign cues.
t5ons to look upon that as a matter soith
aohich zoe hare no concern.
LAcANsHIRE NOT FOR sLAvEHoLDING CON.
sPIRACY.
But there are Ministers in our Cabinet
as resolved against any treason to freedom
on this question as l am, and there are
numbers of the English aristocracy of the
very highest rank who hold the same
opinion as I do; but we have had every
effort made that money and malice could
devise, to stimulate in Lancashire, among
the suffering population, an opinion in IA
vor of the slave States. They haze not
been able to get 1T, and honor that popu-
lation for their fidelity to their principles
and to freedom, and | say the conduct
they have pursued ought to atone in the
minds of the people of the United States
for miles of leading articles written by the
London Press-by men who would barter
every human right to serve the party with
which they are associated.
IT Is THE ARIsTooRACY THAT FAVOR THE
SOUTH.
How, ask, comes it, that on the con.
tinent of Europe, there is not liberal
newspaper nor liberal politician, that
burst say, or ever thought of saying, one
word in favor of that portentous and mo-
mentous shape which now asks to be re-
ceived into the family Of nations? The
late Count Cavour had no difficulty in de-
Gliding on this point. Ask Garibaldi
(cheers)-ask Kossuth, whether slavery
has nothing to do with this strife. Ask
Victor Hugo, the poet of freedom and ex
ponent of the yearnings OF all mankind for
the better time-ask any man in Europe
who opens his lips or incites sentence
for freedom, on which side your sympa-
thies should be. (Hear.) Why, in all
parts of the world except this island,
famed for its freedom, you do not .5Sad one
man speaking in taoor Of the South; and
why is not that done here? I'll tell you
the reason. Our London Press is mainly
in the hands of certain Wess.end classes.
1t acts in favor of those classes.
CONCLUSION. .
One of the most eminent statesmen in
this country, although not an official
statesman, said to me 81 had not an idea
how much influence the example of the
Republic was having upon opinion here
until l discovered the universal congratu-
lations Oh the prospect of that Republic
breaking up" but l maintain, after all,
that the people do not err. Free States
are the home of the workingman. In fif-
teen years 100000 of our countrymen
and countrywomen have left US for the
United States, every one of whom speak
ing generally, is in much better position
in point of comfort than if they had re-
NAMED here, as if, as one of Americas
own poets has said:
"For her free latchstring never was drawn in
Against the poorest child of Adams KIM
In America there are no six millions of
grown men excluded by the Constitution
from political rights; there is a free
church, a free school, free hand, free
humblest. No! countrymen who work
for your living, remember that there wiW
be one aoild shrdek Of freedom to starte all
mankind If that republic is o0erthroaOn.-
Slavery has been the huge foul blot upon
it's fame; it is hideous outrage against
human rights and divine law; the pride
and passion of man will not Permit its
peaceable extinction; the shareholders of
our colonies, if they had been strong
enough, would have revolted too, believe
there was no mode short of miracle more
stupendous than any recorded in Holy
writ which would in our time, or in a CEN
tury, have brought the abolition OF Slave
ry in America but the suicide aohicA has
committed and the aoar they are aaoao aoag-
Eng. | said the Russian war was a meas
ureless calamity. Did not many of your
leaders tell you that that VS. just war
to maintain the integrity of Ilrkey, some
thousands of miles away? Why surely,
the integrity of your own country, at your
own doors, must be worth as much as the
integrity of Turkey. Is not this war the
penalty which an memorable Justice ex-
acts from America, North and South, for
thu enormous guilt of cherishing this
trlghtful iniquity fer the last 80 years ? I
do not blame any man who takes the res.
toration of the Union to be hopeless; you
have the authority of the Chancellor of
the Excheqner on that point; be is as
speaker unsurpassed by any man in
England; but unfortunately he made
use OF expressions in the North Of
England nearly three months ago, and
seems ever since then to have been engage
ed in trying to make people understand
what he meant. A laugh He is. how
ever, quite welcome to think the struggle
hopeless for the North. don't hold that
opinion. The leaders OF this revolt pro
pose by their Constitution this simple
thing-that over a territory some forty
times as large as England the blight and
bondage of Slavery shall be forever perpet-
uated. | cannot myself believe in such a
fare Detailing that fair land, stricken
though it now be by the ravages of war
csnuot believe that civilization in its
Journey with the sun will sink into endless
night to crafty the ambition of the leaders
OF this revolt, who seek to wade through
slaughter to throne, and shut the gates
of mercy on mankind" [OLeers.] l have
another aud far brighter vision before my
gaze. 1t may be but vision, but will
still cherish it. 1 see one cast cos2federa.
ton stretching from the frozen North in
one alabrOken line to the gloaoing South,
and from the a0ild bilious Of the Atlantat
to the catmer aoaters Of the Pacific MAN,
and see one people and one lao and ont
language and one faith, and o0er all thai
soide continent the home Of freedom and q
refuge for the oppressed Of every race
Loud cheers.
FORREST VS.. FoRREsT.-The history OF
a long, exciting and embittered domestic
embroglio, is condensed into two lines
from report of causes just decided by
the Court of Appeals.
Some twenty years ago, Mr.. Forrest, the
actor, married Miss Sinclair, of London, q
daughter Of vocalist. Twelve or more
years ago, Mr.. F. "put away" his wife
In the protracted suit for divorce, or in q
subsequent one, Mrs. Forrest obtained 6
decision giving her $4,000 year alimony