The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-11-23


ourselves opposed by the titled and strong, but
should find our allies and fast friends, IN the
emergency, have been the common people of
Great Britain. (Applause.) The result has
been that the government has more and more
modified its policy, until it has now come to
that condition in which believe we may in the
main feel satisfied. England has determined that
ships of war shall rot be sent out of 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 Govern
ment In the future has met with some few dis
sentent Voices, but it has met with the appIo-
baton of the great mass of the British people,
and the government will unquestionably main
taia for the future that policy which they now
stand upon. (Applause.) There is growing
enlightened sympathy in our favor, also through
out the realm. There are more public men, more
public lecturers, and more public writings, in
tluenclng opinion in our favor, than ever before.
Aud when men say to you that they doubt this
English feeling, | always bring this fact to
them, that the English Parliament, as it is now
known to be adverse to the North dare not vote
against the North Tor fear of their own people.
allege this additional fact, that out of four
or i've hundred public meetings that have been
held IN Great Britain, not more than twelve or
fifteen OF them carried resolutions against the
North-that out OF eight or ten public meet
lags held in Liverpool, thete has not been one
that has been carried against the North. And
that at the great meeting which it was my priv
llege to attend there, (laughter) the vote was
five 10 one in favor of the North. The noise
and tux ult with which it was conducted would
have given one an expectation of a very differ
ent result, but when it came to vote there was
htto ts,G .ya, Il
were there for peace and quietness were four
out OF lVe oil US. hold 10 my hand letter
from Richard Coblon. Tremendous applause
lie says:
You will carry back an intimate acquaintance
with state OF feeling in this country among
what, tor better name, | call the ruling class
Their sympathy is undoubtedly strongly for the
South, with the Instructive satisfaction at the
prospect Of the disruption of the great republic
1t is natural enough. But do not forget that
we have IN this case for the first time in or his
tory, seen the masses OF the British people taking
sides Tor foreign government against its rebel
ous citizens. tremendous applause) In ev-
cry other instance-whet or in the case of the
Poles, Italians, Hungarians and CoEsloans,
Greeks or South Americans-the popular SYM
pathy OF the country has always dlred to the
side OF the insurgents the momeu the rebellion
has broken OuC. 10 the present case our masses
have an instructive feeling that their cause is
bound up IN the prosperity of the States-the
United States. 1t ls true that they have not
particle OF power in the direct form OF vote,
but when millions IN this country are led by
the religious middle class they can 20 and pre-
vent the governing class from pursuing policy
hostlle to their sympathies Tremendous ap.
pIause.)
Under these circumstances, think you will
agree with Inc that we may consider the great
middle laborlng class of England are on the
eide of the North, and the upper class, as they
are called, are on the side of the South.
The reasons for this antpathy on the part of
the upper classes MIR. Beecher thus summed up
" And if you ask me what is the great under
lylng influence that has been at work upon the
class OF England, | answer thus
l. Commercial interest and rivalry therein.
2. Glass power, and the fear of contagion of
American ideas.
3. Il know not how shall say it so that it
shall be the least offensive to our friends on the
other side, but they have net come and YOU
have not come to the bottom OF the conduct of
Great Britain until you have touched Tint deli
cate and real foundation cause), we are to large
and strong nation. (Laughter.)
That is, inmy judgement, the right of the
whole matter. distinguished clergyman of
London, personally kind and friendly to me.
said to me in these very woros " Mr.. Beech.
er, you may just as well have it said to you
You have been growing 80 strong that we have
felt for good many years that we had to
take you down, and we were very glad when
the job was taken from our hands by your own
people" (Laughter) When Mr.. Roebuck-
whose speech it was my great privilege to hear
-(laughter) that Same fact in Par
lament, it was cheered immense y, but reprobat-
ed in the Times and in the other papers that
sympathised with the South, not because be
had not spoken the truth, but because it was
a truth not to be spoken. Uaughter.) .
Mr.. Beecher concluded that, by the facts
he described, he YVES justified in saying there
was great undertone of irendlinoss and fdeIi-
ty to Us add our cause in England, and In re,
commencing that, for the sake of that struggling
class that was laboring for intelligence and DO.
liiical rights, we should lie at peace with that
country. There was G similarity in the moral
circumstances Of the great struggle in both ma.
tions which required this of us. The common
cause OF civilization over the whole earth should
also be considered as a cause of continued rcace.
b" While, he concluded " other nations arc BE-
ginning, though with slow steI9, to look to the
rising sun, while even in Russia her irosts begin
t. glitter in that light THAT ere lorg shall melt
them, let not these remost of matte rs that have
stood IN witness Tor hbcrty, and all other bes.