Winchester daily bulletin. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn) 1863-1863, 1863-03-22
Captain Semmeb at Kingston,
Jamaica,

mes, the Captain Of the Alabama, by
the British merchants of Kingston,
Jamaica, and by the British bark John
Boulten, which arrived at Philadelphis
a few days ago, we have the following
report of the speech he made on that
occasion
Capt. Semmes thanked the Assem-.
blage and the public for the cordial
reception he had received, and express.
ed his delight ST the sympathy which
he had detected in the community for
the cause he represented. When ap.
preaching our beautiful island, his first
impressions were that feelings of pre-
judice might exist against him, but
with great pleasure he fonnd himself
disappointed and, instead, he found
true sympathy, and cJuld add, with
truth, much friendship. rCheers,1
But why, after all, ST. ould he antici.
pate any other reception ? Had he
not como to Il British colony, and was
he not received by Englishmen, and to
whom more dear than TO them were
freedom and liberty. and for what else
were the COnfcde' ate States fighting ?
[ Loud cheers They had been called
"Rebels," but we're they ?
In England he had met the same
cordial reception which he received
here, ninc.tcnths Of the people of that
country being sympathisors witIt the
South, but he had found u few, only II
few, who asked whether he could sus.
tain ireland or Wales, wern they torise
in rebellion against England; whether,
in such case, they, like the South,
would not be rebels He rcpli d, "No."
Bv the condition nf the compact
under which the st tcs were united,
from the first day the thirteen wrrc
handed together, each State had within
herself her own sovereignty. and,
when the Southern States desired TO
sever themselves from the North, what
more did they do than follow the
original example, when, as - colonial
possession of England, America fought
for and gained her liberty. rItcar)
No--they were not rebels-thcy were
fighting for the cause nearest the
heart of every man, and especially an
EnGli,'hman's rcheers. ! for that same
liberty for which Englishmcn them
selves fought till the glorious advent
OF the Magma Charta. Hcarl But
again. they had been called pirates.
and been accused Of interrupting com.
mcrce, and further, Of destroying En-
glish property. This he pronounced
falshood--for, in his whoe career, he
had never touched one dollars worth
OF British property. Hear, hear.l
True, he had sccn througA the blind
misrepresentation that would. under
the prctonce of its being British, pro.
tect property fairly his prize. and he
had batfled such attempts at deception,
but, he repeated, never in his lifo had
he destroyed one dollar Of British pro.
perty. (Cheers.] As far as otherwise
affecting tho commerce Of the North,
he admitted it, and, in doing so, could
do no more than to say that he follow.
Ell the eXamp plein this respect OF Great
Britain herself who never failod Wig.
iIantjy to pursue the same course when
she had war on hand. Hear, hear
But ultimately might he not hope
that, apart from national considera-
tions, even commercially the world
would benefit by a severance ot tho
South from the North; for while the
South now fought to be relieved of one
hundred per cont. on goods from the
North, the Southern ports would be /
thrown open to the world. From Lyons,
in France, would they get silks for their
wives and daugh.ers--from England,
broadcloth for the coats of their sons
and themselves, and, who would say
that. in the course of time, they might
not, as the advocates Of free trade, get
even from the Yankees themselves
their onions and their pails7 [Hear,
hear, and voice, "and wooden nut.
megs," laughterl Capt. Senmes ,
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