The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1863-11-10
Henry Ward Beecher at Manchester
England.

As' We give The concluding portion
OF Henry Ward Eeecher's great speech
at Manchester, England, and wish, in
our heart, tha. we had space TO give the
whole Of it. Ii was brave, manly, elo.
quect and powerful. 1t was timely, too,
and must prove potent for the good of
the nations cause
Now, call YOU to witness that, in a
period of twenty five or thirty years of
constant conflicts with the South, at eve
ry single step they gained the advantage,
with the single exception of Kansas.
What was the conduct of the North !?
Did they threaten secession? !? (No J
Did they threaten violence mo J s.
su e we're they of the ultimate triumph of
that which was right, provided free
speech was left To combat error AMI
wrong, that they patiently bided their
time. By this time the North was cur
ed oi lis love Of OF Indifference 10 slave
ry, BY this time new conscience had
been formed in the North, and vast
majority OF all the Northern men nj this
time stood fair and square on the doc.
lrine of anti slavery. Cheers Ii went
through all the quicksands of that fa.
nous demonstration Of four years, in
which senators, sworn by the Consti:u
tipn, were plotting Vaccinations to des
troy the Government, in which the mem
bers of the Cabinet, who drew their pay
month by month. used their time and
their official position to steal arms. TO PIE.
pare toriitications, To make ready. and in
which the most astounding spectacle that
the world ever saw WAS witnessed our
great people paying men TO sit in the pla
ces Of power and office TO betray them.
Hear hAar) During all those four
years what did we We protested and
waited, and sand. God shall give us the
victory. for ii is Gods truth that we
WELD and Gods truth We promote, and
with God, in his own good time, shall be
the giving of the victory" (Great cheer.
ing In all this time we never made an
inroad on the rights of the South.
(Cheers.) We never asked for relalia
tory law. We never taxed their com
merce, or touched it with our little fin
ger We envied them none Of their man
ufaclures but sought 10 promote them.
We did not attempt 10 abate. by one
ounce, their material prosperity we
longed Tor their prosperity. (Cheers. J
Slavery we always hated the Southern
man never. (Cheers, They were wrong.
And in our conflicts with them, we have
j felt as all men in conflict feel. We were
jealous, and SO were they We were in
/ the right cause they in the wrong.
| (Cheers.) We never envied them their
territory and it was in the heart, and il
was the faith of the whole North, that,
in seeking for the abatement OF slavery,
and its final abolition, we were confer
ring npoa lbe South the greatest boon
which one nat'on---or part Of a nation
could confer upon another. That she
was to come down. and pass through the
valley OF humiliation during the prog
ress OF her institutions, till she passed
from forced labor to free labor. | have
no doubt but it was not in our heart ,c
humble her. but rather to help and sym
pathize with her. | defy time and his
tory TO point 10 more honorable con
duet than that Of The free North towart
the South during all these days. Il
1860. Mr.. Lincoln was elected (Cheers,
| ask you 10 take notice of the conduc
Of the two sides at this point For thir
~ years we had been experiencing sec
tional defeats at the hands Of the South
erners. For thirty years and more WI
had seen our sons prescribed. becaus,
loyal To liberty, or worse than proscrib
eds subnrned and made subseryient I,
slavery. CHEERS We had seen on
Judges corrupt, our ministers apostate
! our merchants running headlong ate