The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-11-28

scented the South because he had not
spoken the truth, but because it wAs :
truth that Is wss not best to speak. Nay,
I have it, and meant TO have brought JIG To-
read tonight; it was stated in one Of the
more recent papers, in commenting apon
my speeches there, they very frankly said
that this bad been the growing impression
that We were rancorans, bellicose, 4rro-
giant set of men; that We we're prosd Of
our sudden growth and it was said that
even Mr.. Beecher was regarded Is spec
linen Of what We should have to deal with
in the nation. I YES supposed to be .
man breathing out slaughter and threats.
Now. when they made such manifest
mistake as to suppose that such peace
| full man as am was dangerous, you can
not wonder about the mistake they made
in regard to the nation.
1t is the sun that makes seeds grow !;
it is the light and the stimulating infu-
ence that makes seeds grow; but after
all, it is the duughiii that makes the hot
bed under them that starts them to grow;
and it is just exactly that hotbed that
works upon it and predsposes causes that
otherwise would have turned the sympa-
thies of Great Britain it is just that un-
DERIVING influence that has prepared them
for this. that. and the other. prejudice or
misinformation. With this state of facts,
you will ask. How is it, then, that this
English people who have been restrained?
How is it that they have not gone into
overt belligerency The nobility, as a
class, are agains, us-as least, the Gov
eminent is divided, one part being against
US; the Plutocracy is against US; aud l
think l may say that while the brains
that represent progress in Great Britain
are in our favor, yet the conservative in
telIigence in Great Britain is against US.
All that there is upon the surface Of soci-
ETY., representing its dignities and its pow
er and its intelligence is anti American ;
and The question that | propose to you is:
How, with the papers, and the magazines,
aud the universities, how with their titled
estates aud their Government and ali
their powers against US. how is it that
they have been restrained as they have
/ been 1t is the influence of the un-
wealthy, and, to very great extent, the
. unvoting Englishman that resfrains them
and that was wha. could not understand.
learned IN Eng and wha, surprised me
chat the men that couldn't vote when
everywhere united aud determined had
the power of controlling the men that did
vote. That is not an anomaly. 1t would
be In our institutions, but il is not in their
English institutions, aud among other
class has permanent privilege, and the
underlying class none at all, the instinct
of self-preservation teaches The upper class
TO goad this underlying class to madness.
They stand on their patience, and there
is always that dragon Of revolution called
up that they dare not rouse and ther,-
.ore it is when the underlying class is de-
termined upon auy point they carry their
point. Men whose fortunes are made
that class of men as general thing are
against US; nen tia. have very little 10
the present that they care for, that are
struggling for better future for them
selves and for their children, that class
is on our side. But they are class that
have not much voice and very little ex-
preston, and therefore they are but little
heard from. Their report is not waited
across the sea, but their influence is felt
on the other side of the sea And it
seems to me peculiarly beautiful and fit
Ting that We, who are the representatives
of the common people. should find our
allies have been the common people of
Great Britain lChcers. The result has
been that the Government has more and
more modified its policy, until now it has
come to that condition in which | believe
We all feel satisfied in the main. Eng.
land has determined that ships OF war
shall not be built IN her yards, nor sent
outfrom,her p lrts TO harrass our commerce
on the seas. The action of Lord John
Russell in this has met with some few dis.
sentlent voices, yet it has met with the
assent of the great mass of the British
public, and the Government, was re.en.
forced, and will undoubtedly stand upon
that pillar. There is growing and en-
iighteped sympathy throughout The REALM !:
there is more publishing, there are more
men leeturlng, more meetings being held,
DOW than ever before. When men saw
that they doubt the English feeling.
refer to this fact, that the English Par
lament, which is known t. be adverse to
the North, dare not vote agsins' it, ad
vert to this fact that not more than twelve
or fifteen meetings out of four or FIVE
hundred have been carried against the
North. [Cheers.]
1t is challenge which stands open
and recorded, of some eight or ten public
meetings that have been held in Liver.
pool, there has never been one that has
oeen carried against the North In that
great meeting which it was my privilege
to attend there (cheers, the vote was S
to at least in favor OF the North. The
muse and the tumuit with which the meet
lug was conducted had given expecta-
tons of something very different, hut
4 when 1t came 10 the vote the noisy ones
were about in s. aud the men Of peace
aud qnlet were 4 out of g. | bold in nv
hand letter from Richard Cobdep.-
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