The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-12-04

They are there fighting home battles; for
there is an unerring instinct-there is this feel
covering such continent, and 80 ludicrously
cheap how can we maintain our expensive and
complicated government in our sphere? Lest
they should not think of it, themselves, mil
lions of common people, who are being taxed
perpetually, suggest it to their attention. Do
you suppose they do not know it, Do you
not know that the effect of our revolution was
to send revolution all through Europe? The
causes of it were all prepared. 1t was the torch
of our revolutionary war that set fire to the
trains that burned all over Europe They don't
forget 1t. They dread the reactionary influence
OF American ideas. Such prosperity-such
power and at SO little expense-with so few
classes Therefore when they opposed US. it
is nothing more than another form of selflove,
for it IL self defending ITSELF If you had been
born with a coronet on your head you would
have done just so. Laughter) In farlla-
ment, if vote were taken to day according to
among members, I suppose they would vote
five to one against the North and in favor Of
the South. VS..
THE GREAT UNDERLYING INFLUENCE.
And if you ask me what is the great underly-
ing influence that has been at work upon the
upper class of England, answer thus:
/. Commercial interest and rivalry therein.
Zs OlocS POWCA dAlu euC ACoI VI COutdSlOu duu
American ideas.
8. know not how shall say it so that it
shall be the least offensive to our friends on the
other side, but they have not come, and You
have not come, to the bottom of the conduct of
Great Britain until you have touched that deli
cate and real foundation cause we are too
large and strong nation. Laughter.)
This is, in my Judgment. the right of the
whole matter. A distinguished clergyman of
London, personally kind and friendly to me,
said to me in these very words: Mr. Beecher
you may just as well have it said to you: you
have been growing so strong that we have felt
for good many years that we had got to take
you down, and we were very glad when the job
was taken from our hands by your own people"
Uaughter) When Mr.. Roebuck-whose
speech it was my great privilege to hear
Qaughter)- declared that same fact in Parlia~
ment, it was cheered immensely, but repro
bated in the Times and the other papers that
sympathized with the South, not because he
had not spoken the truth, but because it was
truth not best to be spoken. Uaughter.)
With this state of the facts you will ask,
How is it then, that the English people have
been restrained? That is the very question
that propose to answer, and in the statement
that the English heart is on our side Gap
plause.) The nobility is against us; the gov
eminent is divided, and part is against US.
think may say that while the brains that rep
resent progress in Great Britain are in our
favor; yet the conservative intelligence of Great
Britain is against us, and that all there is on
the surface OF society, representing its dignities
its power sand intelligence, is anti-American.
And the question / propose to you il, how
with the papers, magazines and universities
how with their titled estates opposed to us,
that they have been restrained from manifest
ing this in open hostility? 1t is because there
is great under-infuence that restrains them
1t is the influence of that under-life, and to
very great extent, of the non-voting English
who have produced this effect 1t is thing I
could net understand at first, and which is very
difficult for us to understand, for whenever in
our country there is majority Of the votes
there is sure to be direction of affairs. But
1t is not SO In England. l learned that the men
who could not vote, where they were united
and determined, had the power to control the
men who DO vote. This is not an anomaly
there. 1t would be in our institutions, but it is
not in English MISUNDERSTANDING other rea-
sons, because, in nation where one class has
pre-eminence and privilege, and the under
lying clsss have none, all the instinct of self.
preservation teaches the favored class never to
goad the great underlying class into madness.
There is always that dragon of revolution coiled
up that they are afraid to arouse.
Therefore it is that when the great under
class of England is determined in one direction,
they always carry their point; first or last the
upper classes have to give way. Men whose
fortunes are mada-men whose only thought
OF the future is to carry the rich freights of the
present along into their future-that class are
generally against US. Men who have no for
tunes-men having very little in the present to
care for, who are struggling for better fortunes
for themselves and children-that class are on
our side. They are in our favor, but they are
class who have not much voice-have very
little expression, and they are therefore little
heard. Their report is not waited across, bat
their influence is felt on the other side of the
sea. 1t seems to me that it is peculiarly fitting
that we who believe In the common people
should find ourselves opposed by the titled and
strong, but should find our allies and fast
friends in the emergency have been the COM
mon people of Great Britain. (Applause.)
The result has been that the government has
more and more modified its policy. until it has
come to that condition in which, I believe. we
may in the main feel satisfied. England has
determined that ships of war shall not be sent
out from her ports to harass our commerce and
drive it from the sea. The language OF Lord
John Russell. in his statement of the policy of
the British government in the future, has met
with some few dissentient voices, but it has
met with the appreciation of the great mass of
the British people, and the government will
unquestionably maintain for the future that
policy which they now stand upon. (Applause.)
OUR FRIENDS IN ENGLAND.
Under these circumstances think you will
5S.cc Will NE LuaG we may CONSIDER the great
middle laboring classes of England are on the
side of the North, and the upper class, as they
are called, are on the side Of the South. put
no immoderate estimate on my services. be-
lieve did some good wherever spoke Cap
plause.) But it should be remembered that a
single man, a stranger in the community, would
be eaten up by vanity if he had said he sup
posed that he had done all the good that has
been accomplished. There must have been
preparation. He merely came to touch the
train that had already been laid. When, in
October, you go to the tree and give it o jar
and the fruit come down all around you, it is
not you that ripens it! A whole summer has
been doing that. 1t was my happy fortune to
be there to jar the tree. The fruit that fell
was not of my ripeniDg. 1t was supposed by
many that formed an unwarrantable estimate
Of my service in the fruits of it, But my accus-
toned modesty will stand by me yet l.
saw in letter in the New York Times of yes
terday friendly hand from England write:
''The sympathy of England was never stronger
for the South, her hatred never so bitter for
the North. If Mr. Beecher thinks otherwise
he has been deceived by the crowd Of abolition
partizans gathered about him. And then he
makes some personal illusions which l won't
read. 81 cannot now remember" be says,
''lhe name of one distinguished and really in
fuential person who gave him cOuntenance and
support Fact ''He was surrounded by dis