Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-03-03


South might have sent cotton here if they
chose, dut they refused to do SO. They
burnt their cotton in order that they
might injure US, and they injured us
IN the hope that we should not oe able
to live without their cotton, and that there
/ lore We should break up the blockade,
make war upon the North, and help them
to obtain their independence. Mr. Mann
of Georgia, Mr. Senator, Wigfall, and Mr.
Stephes, the vice-presiden of the southern
confederacy, had said that if England were
without cotton for week anarchy would
result, and that the queen would not only
lose her crown but her head. Enjoys had
been sent over to this country-men who
were slaye-Owners and slave-deale rs-to
induce us to espouse the cause of the
South, and those very men we're received
under the galleryof the house of commons
by members who shook hands with them.
He regretted that England was the only
country in European which men were TO
be found who were willing to make their
government take part against the North,
and who supplied the South with muni-
tions of war; and the other day-not an
English statesman but the son of great
English statesman-the secretary of Ire
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vision of the great republic, and the indie
pendence of the South. Why, if that is
land, which he Mr.. Bright supposed IN
been committed to his (the secretary J
care, If that island were to attempt to Sc
cede-not to set up q slave kingdom-hiS
government would sack its cities, and
drench it's soil with blood before they
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England had not been wrong on Che ques-
ton. They were themselves too slowly
emerging from q condition of things ALLEN
to slavery, for the meetings held in the
Manchester Free Trade Hall and in Exeter
Hall, London, were evidences of the SYM
pathies and feelings Of the working men
of England. He DIR. Bright was now
told on every hand that public opinion on
the American question had recently under
gone considerable change,a and the rea-
son was that people knew very little about
America, and thar they were learning
moro every day. In point of fact, the
people were greatly misled by what were
called. the public instructors. jefferson,
1.-the American statesman, had said that
newspapers ought to be divided into four
compartments-0nefOr the truth, second
for the probable. athird for the possible,
and f0uth for the lies; and ifthat plan
were adopted in this country, so far as
/ what were called the leading columns
dealing with American questions, at least,
fought to be four times as large as the first.
| He admitted that we were not response
BILE for the war, nor for how it was car
ried on, NOR for its results; but there was
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| and that was our sympathies when we
was a man ought to be ashamed of ex-
was not ashamed to express the sympathy
he felt on the side Of the Free North.-
! He could not understand how any man
could employ himself with small casils
against the free people of the North, and
close his eyes to the slavery and bondage
of the South, which contemplated the ex-
helpless of mankind. (Hear, hear) II
| itical freedom bow could we withhold our
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amongst whom white men had ever been
free, and who noY offered freedom to the
blacks I (Hean hear He hoped that
even although they should entertain the
belief or fear that the American nation
would be destroyed, they would not by
any chance commit the crime of wishing
for such result He did not blame men
for differing from him; but he did blame
those who wished for such catastrophe
He had never despaired, and he, would
not despair as to the issue of the war
and it WINS his fervent hope that a pros.
porous day would again be seen for the
American Union, and that the prosperity
of that day would never more be mar.
red. 4.'a
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