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SPEECH OF III. w. BEECHER.
AT MANCHESTER, ENGLAND.
Mr.. Beecher then said: Mr. CHAIRMAN,
ladies' and gentlemen. the address which
yoA have kindly presented 10 ile coh';1,lis
matters both personal and national. In
tsrruntion.l Nv friends, we Will have an
all night session but we VIII be heard
loud cheers.l / have not como to Eng
land to be surprised that those men whose
cause cannot bear the light are afraid of
free speech. [Cheers.l have had prac-
tice Of more than twenty-five years in the
presence of mobs and riots, opposing those
very men whose representatives now at
tempt 10 forestall free speech. dear.l-)
Little by little, doubt not | shall be per-
mitted to speak tonight. Hear.l Little
by little have been permitted in my own
country TO speak. until at last the day has
come there when nothing but the utterance
of speech for Freedom is popular. lCheers.
You have been pleased to speak OF me as
one coAnected with the great cause OF pro-
gress in civil and religious Eberty. COW
ct no Higher honor than to have my name
ioined as one among the list OF that great
company ofnoble Englishmen from whom
we derived our doctrines of liberty
ICheersl For although understand there
is some opposition TO what are called
American ideas, what are American ideas
The seed-corn we got in England hear i
and if, on a larger sphere, and under cir
cumstances of unobstruction, we have
reared mightier SheaveS, every Sheaf con-
tains the grain that has made old England
rich for a hundred years. [Great cheering.
l am also not a little gratitied that my first
appearance to speak on secular topics in
i, in this rrOnHlxr Of
chester, for had rather have praise from
men who understand the quality praised,
than from those who speak at hazard and
with little acquaintance with the subject
IHear.l And where else, more than in
these great central portions of England,
have the doctrines of human rights been
battled for, and where else, have there
been gained for them nobler victories than
here? [Cheers.l 1t is not indiscriminate
praise therefore; you know what you talk
about. You have had practice in these
doctrines yourselves, and to be praised by
those who are illustrious is praise indeed.
[Cheers.
Alluson has been made by one of the
gentlemen-a cautionary allusion, kind
of Difference evidently paid to some sup
posed feeling-an allusion has been made
to words or deeds of mine that might be
supposed to be offensive to Englishmen.-
Hear. / cannot say how that may he. l
ann sure that have never thought, in the
midst of this mighty struggle, which has
taxed every power and energy in our land
-"Oh," and cheersl- have never stopped
to measure and to think whether my words
spoken for truth and fidelity to duty would
be liked in this shape or that shape, by one
or another person. [Cheers.l 1 have had
one simple, honest purpose, which have
pursued ever since have been in public
life, and that was with all the strength that
God has given me to maintain the cause of
the poor and the weak in my own country.
TCheers.1 And if in the hight and bent of
coutiict some words have been over sharp,
and some positions have been taken heed
lessly, are you the men to call one to ac-
count? [Hear.] What if some exquisite
French dancing master, standing on the
edge of a battle, where some Richard Cpur
de Leon swung has AK, and criticised him,
by saying that it violated the propriety OF
the dancing room in the midst OF battle.'
ILaughter.l When dandies fight they
think how they look, but when men fight
they think what they are doing. [Cheers. ]
But am not here on trial or on defense. :
Hear, hear.l am very willing to tell you
what think about England, or anybody;
but am not willing to tell you what l
think about myself. lCheers.l Let me
say one word, however, in the beginning,
in regard to this meeting, and the peculiar
qualification / feel in it. ! have ground
and God is my judge, and bears witness to
the tfutn MI Wildt SsiS-l GILL IcluTU 10 IDy
countrymen, and bear witness to the cor
dial kindness of Englishmen toward Amer
ica, LCheers. There has been serious
doubt The same agencies which have
been at work to misrepresent good men in
our country TO you, have been at work to
misrepresent us to good men here; and
when l say to my friends in America that
have attended such meeting as this,
received such an address, and beheld such
enthusiasm, it will be a renewed pledge OF
amity. ICheers.l l have never ceased tC
feel that war between two such great ma.
tionalities as these would be one of the
most objectionable and atroclous offenses
that the world ever beheld lcheersfl and
have regarded everything, therefore, which
needlessly led to this feeling, out of which
war comes, as being in itself wicked
ICheers.l The same blood is in us
Cheers.] We are your children, or the
children of your fathers and ancestors
You and we hold the same substantial
doctrines. GCheers, and cries of "TurT
him out'l We have the same mission
among the nations of the earth. Never
were mother and daughter set forth to dc
SO auecnly thing in the kingdom of Gods
glory as England and America. [Cheers..
And if you ask why they are so sensitive
and why have we hewn England with oul
tongue as we have, will tell you why
There is no man who can offend you sc
deeply as the one you love most. [LouC
cheers.] Men point to France and Napo
leon, and say he has been joint step by
step in all England has done, and why are
the press of America silent against France
andIShy do they speak as they do agains
ErrElaud? 1t is because we love England
TCheers. I have lived through Who'll,
neriod and revolution of feeling. re
member very well in my boyhood the thel
recent war OF 1872, before the embers kin
died in the Revolutionary War of Inde
nendence. an almost universal feeling
against the Britishers, as they were called
aud / have seen that feeling little oy httl'
6vinp ont: and. what with common com
mercial interests, with reciprocal blessing
in civiIity and in religion, with multipliet
interchaiiges of friendly visits, there ha
come to be a feeling in America most cor
dial and admiring of England. For Whei
we searched our principles, they all ran
back TO rights in English history; Whei
l., ~ fl,D,o institutions .QI ~ llCl