The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-11-26
Lord Brougham's Opinion of America.

Lord Brougham's Opinion of America.
The following is report of Lord Brough-
ANS address before the Social Science Con-
gress at Edinburgh, on the 7th inst so far
as relates to the civil war in America:
s'Magnifying itself beyond all measure,
and despisiDg the rest of mankind blinded
and intoxicated with satisfaction, per-
suaded that their very crimes are proofs of
greatness and believing that they are both
admired and envied, the Americans have
not only been content with the destruction
of half a million, but vain of the slaughter.
Their object being to retain great name
among nations for their extent of territory,
they exulted in the wholesale bloodshed by
which it must be accomplished. because
others are unable to make such a sacrifice.
The struggle for above two years. which
loosened all the bonds that held society to-
gether. and gave to millions the means of
showing their capacity, has produced no ge-
Mus, civil or military, while the submission
to every caprice of tyranny has teen uni
versal and habitual. and never interrupted
by a single act of resistance to the most fla
grant iDfractions of personal freedom. The
mischiefs of mob supremacy have been
constantly felt for the calamity of rational
and respectable men keeping aloof from the
managem ept of affairs has resulted in the
tyranny of the multitude. To this tyTant
the nominal rulers have never withheld
their submission, and the press. catering for
the appetites of the populace, and pander-
ing to their passions, has persisted in every
Misrepresentation which might most dis
guise the truth as to passing events, exag-
gerating each succefs, extenuating each de-
feat. often describing failure as victory;
while the multitude. if the truth by chance
haH fhar Aou
pair, another elated to ectasy, almost at the
pleasure of their rulers and their guides.
Nor were the falsehoods thus propagatcd
confiDed to the events of the war, they ex-
tended to all things-to the measures Of
the government and the acts of foreign ma
tons.
The public must not be thwarted, the peo
pie desired to see whatever gratitude their
vanity or raised their spirits, and in this de-
lusiou must they live as long as the war
lasts and the rule is in the hands of the
mob. The truth they will never bear, be-
cause they desire to hear what is pleasing,
and not what is true. But it would be
greet mistake to charge on their false guides
the follies ard crimes which they chime in
with and do their best to perpetuate. The
people are determined in their course.
Far from feeling shame at the cruel scenes,
"uleh nOueIu aSes-hay ONi'S''"u rihieS
have seen nothing TO equal-a spectacle at
which the world stands aghast, almost to in
credu'ity-they actually glory in it as a
proof of their higher nature, believe and
fancy that their prowess would triumph
over the most powerful States of Europe.
In such Illusions their chief may not prac-
tically join, but the people are, beyond
doubt, prey TO them, and will continue so
10 the end.
"Hear the just law, the judgment ofthe skies,
They that nate truth shall be the dupes of lies;
And if they will be cheated to the last,
Delusions strong as hell shall bind them fast.n