The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-02-12

VINO Is DTiISlHS dDONO OhS 49,
great transitions in history which men
often will not regard when it is pass
ing before them, but which they look
on with establishment and W years
after they have taken place (cheerS)
I will content myself with asking one
or two questions. Twill not discuss the
opast;on whether he is working Eere-
lIy for the Constitution or merely for
the abolition of slavery. Before you
come to a question Of sympathy with
the South or recognition of the South.
or mediation or Intervention, you
should consider what are aims of the
Southern States. Surely the United
States government is a government at
amity with this country. It's Minister
is in London-a man noble by family,
YOU know, in America, his father and
his grand father having held the office
of President of the Republic. You
have your Minister just returned to
Washington. Are you, because you
can cavil at certain things, which
the North has done, eagerly to throw
the influence Of your opinion into the
movement which is to dismember that
great Republic? (No, no.) Is there
a man here who doubts that the object
of the war on the part of the South is
to maintain the bondage of 10000 900
of human beings I? (cheers,) That is
only a small part of it, because their
further object is to perpetuate forever
that bondage over countless millions.
| could quote documents till twelve
o'clock in proof Of what / say, if l
found any men who denied it (%cries of
"There are plenty here'). The object
of this war is that white men on that
continent may lord it over counties
millions of blacks made blacks by the
very hand that made us white. Their
object S ,that they should have a pow-
er to breed negroes to work-negroes
to lash-negroes to ~sell-negroes to
DENY them the commonest ties OF fam
lilies, to break their hearts by separat-
ing them at their pleasure, and to close
tGeir mental eyes from a glimpse Of
that knowledge which separates us
from the brutes; for by their law 1t is
criminal and penal to teach negroes to
read, to seal from their hearts the Book
Of our religion, to make chattels and
Of men, women and children.
wish to ask whether this is to be the
of a new slave empire, and
whether it is intended on this auda>
eious and Internal basis England new
ally is t be built up? (hear, and no.
1t mas been said that Greece was re-
3ognized Greece was not recognized
ill after she had fought Turkey 70"
six years. The republics OF South
America were not recognized, some OF
hem, til they had Fought the mother
country, / think, for a score of years.
France did o recognize, the United
of America till five years after
the beginning of the War of Indepen-
dence, and it was received as a decla-
and why should we be so ca
ger to become the ally of this great
conspiracy against human nature? We
have urged that there are ministers
who are Ill favor of the North, that
there are members of the aristocl acy
who are terrified at the shadow of the
great republic, that there are rich men
On our great commercial exchanges de
it may be, of their riches, and
living within the atmosphere Of the
privileged classes. That there are the
conductors of the public press who
would barter the rights of millions of
heir fellow creatures that they might
bask in the smiles of the great, but we
know that there are ministers of state
who do o wish that this instruction
should break up the American Union
there are members of the arts
tocracy who are not afraid of the shad,
0w OF th9t republic-that there are
rich men not deprived Of their riches,
and that there are public writer's OF
eminence and honor who will not bar
ter human rights for the patronage Of
the great; but most of all, | believe
and / am sure it is so in Lancashire,
where the working men have seen
themselves going down from prosperi-
" to ruin, from independence to subs
sistence on charity believe, / say,
that the unenfranchised, but nothope-
less, millions Of this country will never
sympathize with a revolution which is
intended to destroy the liberty of a
continent, and to build on its ruins a
fabric Of human bondage.
,Cheers.)
But, gentlemen who differ from me-,
. hen speaking privately on this mat
-er, generally end by saying that the
is too great and too powerful.
But if we were at New York or Bos-
on, and were speaking of England in
,tead of America, and If any one were
o say that England had grown too big
not her 81, 900 at home, bat her
$4,000, 900 in Asia and nobody knows
low. many millions III nearly every 9th
II part of the globe-what would be
our feelings? l shall, perhaps, he told,
the North do % like us. Well,
it is not necessary that they should i
but if the North does not like US, does
any one believe tbe South does? When
The South was in power-and it has
been in power the last fifty years
hostility towards this country was
cherished was stimulated to the utmost
tegree by some ofthose very men who
lrenOw the leaders OF the instruction.
,Cheers.) People do not know in
America what we know ofpubliu opin-
on here. There are men in this coun-
~, and men in our cabinet, who are
rs great friends to freedom and as
much resolved against slavery as l am.
know for a certainty that there are
men in the highest ar~istocracy who
Ioli the same opinion that | do on the
INFECT, but they do not know III Amer
ca what is the opinion of the great
'ody Of the working classes of Eng
and. There has been every effort that
money and malice could make to slim
llate amongst the suffering people Of
lancashire an opinion in favor of the