The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-06-11
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Iminons towards the efforts of this country to
put down the gigantic rebellion, and also the
feeling i'll reference to the building Of War
Ships foe the Shareholders Confederacy. We
find in the Citizen the account Of a Meeting
of the citizens of Glasgow held at the City
Hall, to protest against building ships OF war
and supplying British capital to aid and abet
the Southern Shareholders Confederacy." Prof.
NIouoL of the Glasgow University presided
and made theprincipal Speech ofthe occasion.
We quote from the Citizen
Professor NIoHoI, who was received with
great applause, after some Introductory re-
marks, said will request your attention for
few minutes to a rapid survey OF some other
misconceptions which, as appears to me, have
obscured our view OF this great question. We
have been told that the Northern statesmen are
Protectionists, and that we, having been 30
| long Free-traders, can have no sympathy with
protection. The dispute about tariffs may have
been one of the minor causes which brought
/ on this war, but II was entirely subordinate
that it never entered into the calculations OF
Southern statesmen. (Applause.) They scarce
| ly ever allude to it III their nanltestoes nor
!
tariffs ever imposed III America were imposed
with their sanction and supported by their
votes. Their own account OF the grounds OF
the quarrel is perfectly explicit. This Union"
saws Mr. Spratt, ''has been disrupted IN the
effort of slave society to emancipate itself. .
Having tyrannised over the Union for forty
wears, the Southern shareholders have rebelled
in defence of the power to tyrannize for ever
over half continent. They tell US plainly not
only what they arc lighting for, but, what Is
even less generally acknowledged here, what
they are fighting against; for the bitterest
word which they apply in their hercest lnVec-
tives against their Anniversaries, IN word which
happily has not yet lost all favour isou ears
they say they are fighting against the Aboll-
tionisln which has corrupted the North. 10
this end they are ready to sacrifice everything
for this they will do and dare all things. The
establishment of perpetual slavery Is the Mag
Ma Charta of their boosted rights, and the re-
establishment of the slave trade will be one Of
their earliest measures. In vindication OF this
policy Mr.. Spratt argues that there need be
no dread of any serious opposition from Euro
pean States. Recent Indications" he writes,
have shown that as they have no repugnance
to slavery i'll accordance with their interests
so also can they have none to the extension OF
it. They will submit to any terms OF inter
course with the Slave Republic i'll considera-
ton Of it's markets and its products. An in
crease Of slaves will increase the market and
supply. They wM pocket their philanthropy
az ms profits together" How much Of our
Abolitonst policy we have already pocketed
in the hope of doubtful profit, let the contrib
utors to the Confederate loan declare; how
much we are ready to pocket for more ready
~ Il Testify
Will we be resolute in assailing the slavers OF
the future when the Alabama, and the Flori
da, and the Japan (gLtGS the Virginia. shall
be at hand to convey them over the Atlantic
1t is said that it is natural to sympathlze with
the weak. This, at least, is manly this Is
chivi.IrOus. | do not admit that weakness can
Justify criminal cause but how much OF our
sympathy with the South is to be traced to
our belief in it's weakness? II the Northern
troops had crushed the rebellion III SIX weeks,
they would have crushed out our sympathy
, along with it. 1t is the strength OF the con-
spiracy that has really arrested our admira-
ton We do not sympathise with the garot-
ter who is laid hold of by the police; but the
bandit who eludes justice is often made the
hero Of novel, There is | confess, a charm
III concentration and singleness of aim. We
have an artistic dislike OF unwieldy masses
of Il wavering purpose, of broken plans-but
this ought not wholly to override our moral
sense. All the sentiments that lead us to sym
pathise with the compact olgarchy Of the
f South would lead us to sylnpathlse with the
rebel angels i'll their warfare against mankind.
l(Applause.) All the reVerses sustained by Mr..
Liucoln's Government may be attributed to
the fact that the South has acted as militia
| ~ despotism prepared for the event, the North
.la,l,,
its policy, and awakening only by degrees to
a consciousness of its cause. But if its policy
, has been slowly, it has been surely drifting
into definite course. We were wont to hear
the Abolitionist party arraigned for violence.
Slavery, it was said, must be modified, and
| uprooted it ought to be resisted, rather than
assaulted, and left to die natural death. This
was at first the policy of Mr.. Lincoln's Gov
ernment; it proceeded upon the principle of
respecting vested rights. Then the cry arose
You are not fighting against slavery, you
Iprohibit your generals from proclaiming eman-
cpation. Mr.. Lincoln at length adopts the
policy Of the Abolitionists, as far as his author
ity permits him to do, and he is charged with
designing to provoke universal massacre
Ii this sort of criticism is not blowing hot and
cold at Il breath, know not how to define it
it is at least worthy Of those who at one mo-
ment call upon US to sympathise with the
South, because it is weak, and at the next be-
cause it is invincible. (Applause) One word
more on our duties in the present crisis. | do
not believe that the Union will ever be restor-
ed as 1t was nor is it,sperhaps, desirable But
the great question is, who are to dictate the
terms of sepatation? Is the South to have its
own way, to recover the Border States to
grasp the territories to the Pacific? Then
slavery may flourish like a bay, and endure
for centuries. Is the north to decide? Then
slavery, as economists prove, and Shareholders
assert, will be hemmed in and stihed for want
of fresh fields to devastate. l firmly believe
that the choice between those two issues rests
with England. We are all in favour of neu-
trahty. Letus take that for granted but there
is latitude IN neutrality, and on our use of
that latitude our chances of peace depend
There is a border land of opinion on the out
skirts of law and if that bristles with hostil-
Iity, legal pretext may be easily found or
made for making hostility active. If there is
a war between the two countries, l believe
that the legal slip which may lead to it will
be made by America; for our Government are
not ike men in a life-and-death struggle and
they can more easily keep their temper. But
great wars do not really spring from such
slight causes as many are apt to imagine. An
OUNCE nan lIllIt
will turn the scale when nations are trembling
on the verge of war. \ dispute about key
and a scarcely perceptible emendation in
note, drove our soldiers to die i'll the trenches
Of Sebastopol. But these are only the occa-
sions and the pretexts of war Its causes ran
kle deeper in the heart of people when an
cry thoughts are fermenting with the birth of
tier ugly progeny. Ambition, mistrust, ri
val interests, the misrepresentation Of igno-
rance OF malignity, scornful sneers, hot words