Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-14
BEEcHER,sF FAREWELL TO ENG
~ LAND.

LAND. tIi1. .ui
Breakfast Speech at Manchester
DlscussIOn OF the American Ques
tion.
On Saturday morning the Union ant
Emancipation Society entertained Rev. Il
Il W. Beeeher at breakfast atthe Albion Ho
. tel, Manchester. The company included /
large number of gentlemen of the neigh
, borhood aud IRON distance. The Mayor
of Rochdale took the chair, and there
were present among others, Professor F
w. Newman, Mr.. j. O. Dyer, Mr.. Horton
(Dublin), Rev. DIR. Massie, Mr.: F. Taylor
Rev. T. g. Lee, Mr.. Earnest Jones, Rev.
DIR. Parker, Sc. Letters Of apology foI
absence had been received from Mr.. Bright
N. p Mr.. w. E. Foster, M. p, Mr.! P. A.
4 Taylor, NJ. P, Mr.. I. T. Barnes, NJ. p,
Mr.. ooningham, NJ. p, Mr.: @. Robert
son, NiyerpooD, Mr.. Duncan McLaren,
Professor Newth and Professor H. d. Ro-
gers.
MIR. F. Taylor moved resolution ex-
pressive of thanks and good wishes to Mr..
Beecher, aud sympathy with the struggle
for the maintenance of constitutional
/ government in America.
Mr.. Paterson, of Liverpool, seconded
the resolution. He regretted that Lord
Brougham, the man who claimed to be the
very Prince eofabOlitionists, should recently
have stood to pronounce thelWords of
| UNPARALLELED baseness ON all this question.
Loud cheers II was time the anti,slRTe-
| ry party, should cease to be bullied even by
Lord BrOugham. [Cheers
sp The resolution was passed with aclama.
tion. a.. sas5 7s.
Mr.. Beecher arose to return thanks, and
was enthusiastically cheered. He said Mr..
Chairman and gentlemeH-I wish II could
say t'ladies aud genllemen.n [AnWoice-.
The letiiese repre- bJ ,tiIe ttiIe gsntie-l
men. No oimRn can ever rePEesentl aWo-s
man. lr[ Boisterons laugh bter and cheers E
1t gives me great pleasure this morntng to
,avoW- myself in some sense q convert, for
while l have seen in England, even more
perhaps than yon. will admit ipf ptejudice
and ndmisconceptibn. haye.beeh,nlR lRdeawarel
l,ofsome preiudices and much misobncep-
ton in myself. am gaining the victory
over my own past impressions, and am
prepared to admit something that have
constantly denied to EngIishmen Of my
own congregation in speaking of their ma.
tive land. [Cheers.l i have been called
TO speak on question which is simply the
total question of human society, for there
is nothing in political economy phil ilobophy,
] human right; or whateSericaG spring out
of this wonderful being, man, in society
L
in this great American struggle. So far,
then, from speaking exhaustiyely, the only
thing / have exhausted is smyselE Laugh
ter:1 Speaking as a stranger among you,
| l was not always exactly coguizaHt of the
| needs and acquisition of my audience, nor
| are the reports which have appeared of my
| speec ches authoritative until they shall have
passed under my revision. The inward
i key. note of my whole progress in England
has been the use of my information topro-
mote better understanding and lasting
.I.peace between these two nations. Cheers |
/ Even in cases where have brought up
matters in which your Judgment and mine
still differ, it was not SO much to go back
aud argue them upon the merits of the
i questions as it was to put you ia posses
sion Of the American stand point.
THB TRENT CASE. W
!. The London Daily Ne0s--a paper TO
which / should be glad to express the great
obligations oflAmerican CitiEens-[ [cheersl
ll-if / we're not afraid it might be employed
agatnst L 10 diminish its influence with
Britons-E"no, 4non1-that paper, in q
friendly spirit, criticised my utterances on
J the Trent affair. The writer's did not spec
Il ify what were my mistakes :; but want
: now to state how we Americans looked al
} that transaction--notfort the purpose ofput'
ting ourselves right and you wrong but q
q ask you to consider whether youJwoula not
u incur situation felt as we did. An Amer
IIican naval vessel, by accident, If there b
, lsuch things as accidents, yerhapled ~
1 English mail steamer, aud took trom 1t tWt
LINEN who represented themselves as ans
!, bassadors from the so called Comic deratl
: Government to7the Courts OF England ane
France! THE tidings spread across Amefi
"a Quick as lightning could dash, and fol
Z a days or two che universal feeling was
aHere,s q stupendous joke ~ Everybod!
i. Laughed. 1t struck the, national feeling o
. the comic that the embassies of these mer
n ST. James and the Tuilleries should haT
ended up in Fort Lafayette; laughter
!, and there was a feeling OF immense goo
e lil,,.tn,rSe and AyenQ jollits After two o
.Lthree days some lawyer men began &
d INQUIRE In the papers, what Is the lal
"A Ion this subject z" We began TO draI
l5doRn onr faces, and say, ''Surey euopg
1thefs is an England. and she wiz have
word to say. What, then, ia the law u
The result Wasi our papers began tozh
II 1alledl with English precedents, and ther
E Ey.-sSs a universal conviction that we ha
acted accordingly. II EOheers.1 That cor
IN yiction is yet unchanged, and never viii
sEanOed. bedaise it was the faetN Cheers
Bnt had the opportunity, of knowing, fro
INV positfon, both as q preacher, lecture
2;tand editor, that the feeling of the peop
~ ,,iYYe are going to do what Is rightnoI
Wbateyer Il is. If Wesare In the wrong, y
sbaif conceie this matter but if we are
heriEht, We will not budge an fnehsn al
the noulept the intprmation came 20 o'
shores of these facts, Mr. Seward addresses
confdential com nunIcatson 70 MI. AZ
ne ams, instrnetiug htpl to read the same
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