The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-11-28

~" VI t0O m n 0ORA0s
We make the following interesting
and instructive extract from the reception
address of Henry Ward Beecher on his
return to Brooklyn:
found, in the first place, upon going
there, that every man that met wae><I
Southern man; not literally. born in the
South, but this is the derision they have
themselves made, and these are the terms
applied. They are Southerners or North
erners, even more than We ara here. /
i found that on the railways, on the boats,
in the hotels, wherever there was trav-
$ cling public, there was public that SYM
pathized with the South and were adverse
TO the North. 1t was not an uncommon
thing to hear gentlemen talk freely and
kindly with me upon other matters, say
ing, as the news was discussed "Bad
news We have got by the last steamer"
"What is the news?" | asked, little
troubled 81 understand that Meade has
dri en- Lee entirely out of Pennsylvania
"God send US much more bad news then,
said |. Applause. Coming from COM
munites enthusiastic and almost homoge-
neous in their feelings upon this subject,
at least, 1T was strange to my ear to hear
well-dressed and well-bred men, of ordi-
nary intelligence. congratulate themselves
upon the disasters of the North, and re-
joice in the successes of the South. But
such is the case. Nor will there return
to your city one young man that has been
travelling who will not bring back sub
stantially this account, that wherever he
went almost every man that he met, with
scarcely an exception, was against the
North aud in favor Of the South You
will well imagine the impression made
under such circumstances A mans first
impression would be that there is no
question about this matter. that these old
English people, this old British nation,
were all against us. Go where you will,
up or down you will find it all the same.
That was the effect produced upon the
MUD Upon still further inquiry was
disappointed to find that those supposed
| should have right to leau upon we're
not to be leaned upon-I mean the body
Of Dissenting Christians. That denomi
nation to which | myself belong, the
gatlonalist, known as Indepen-
dents In England, had supposed. since
they were sending out their testimony
for freedom. would have been arrayed al
most invariably on the side of the people
struggling to sustain their liberties.
had supposed should find them right
| did not do not mean that there is
not very large part of that body that
perhaps are right; for they will be inclu-
ded under head which | shall mention
by and by; but am sorry to say that
did not find an influential and leading
clergyman of that denomination, nor an
influential and leading layman on our
side They said that they sympathized
with liberty exactly as an icicle sympa-
thizes with sunlight in Summer. 1,
chliis you to go near it; and l said to
them, | want no such frigid sympathy: !
want nothing if it cannot come more
glowing from enthusiastic hearts than
this. 1t does US no good. and we DO not
want 1t found also the most profound
ignorance OF our affairs and all the pro-
visions OF our institutions, and that. too.
IN quarters where had right to expect
more intelligence. | found the most ae-
tive and INSCRIPTIONS efforts made. by
southern men to stir up luminosity and
war. And let me say, bad cause was
better served than a good one there, as to
some extentit has been in our own land
| am sure that the South, for bad cause,
has more nearly put forth its entire
strength than we for good cause. So
abroad; where we send one man to Enp.
land to influence public opinion, they
send score. Where we print one book
OF Information. they library of them -
Where we touch one spring, they hun.
dred. They seemed to pervade ENGLAND
and they seemed with the unerriDg in.
stlnct OF seihshuess and despotsm, to
know just where TO undermine the gen.
erous and better feelings, just where to
invoke the cloud of ignorance, just where
to touch man SO that principle should
fall and profit take Its place.
You will then Imagine the surprise and
skepticism with which | received the as
sufances OF the friends on our side that
the great heart of the British nation was
on our side. had found nobody excent
tie confidential friends of emaneination
In whose society was thrown, almost
nobody that spoke kindly of us, or that
seemed to be IN sympathy with US and
yet my ears rung with the assurance. day
aud night. "You are mistaken-mi.ta-
ken; this great English people are sound
at heart" And said, .swhere under
heaven DO the English people keep their
hearts - applause And if | had
saoken in my early visit to England in
June, | could not have spoken as now do
or shall Neither on my FIRST return from
the continent in September, could have
understood and felt what | understand
now. la some measure entirely believe
that they were right, and that, after all
tie srelt heart Of the British nation i
with US at the North. Applause Let
me take W then one part Of society after
another, and state what | understand 10
be the fact. First, there is the grs.,
commercial class of England; those that
are making money, and those that have