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

lnnent from ~ 1ympaahett0 foaeRoasa1
this continent; and they say "let this cruel
war end :" and as the offensive war Is on
the Northern side they feel that when
ever the North will stop aggressing the
South, the war will stop, and 20 are
ao.inst "a. And it may be laid down
that While there are very noble exceptions
| here and there through England, men
that stand ont against their class and
above il, yet speaking comprehensively,
the commercial class are against the North
and 10 favor of the South. Ihave spoken
Of the religious people. 1t is very diff
cult for me to analyze the causes that
have on the whole turned both the Es-
ftsbfnhmsnt and the Dissenters in respect
of most Of their influential men,
The Influential laymen, and most Of the
influential clergymen, am informed, are
mostly against US as body. The ground
usually taken is, that the North IS not
sincere; and, secondly, that war Is great
sin. Nowhere else in the world is there
SO tender conscience on the subject OF
war as England has when she is not
waeing it. She has only three wars, |
believe, now on hand-in japan, China,
and New Zealand, Australia, or some
where-and the rest of her leisure she &C.
cupies with profound regret at war. If
ii was for ship on sea, she was ready to
90 TO war with us; if it was for territory
on the Antarctic Ocean, she was ready to
90 to war with the savagcs if to open
trade, she had no objection to burn down
town of IL 5000, but when people is
making war for their own life, for every
thing that dignifed humanity, she stands
wondering at Gods patience for men that
win make war. lGreat applause. And
am sorry to say that aside from the
friends who have always maintained and
gave their countrymen a consistent testi-
mony against war, those men who were
most Querulous against our war we're men
who had no particular objection to the
Crimean war, the opium war, and wars II
not already on the hands, at least on the
tops of their fingers; and | told them at
Exeter Hall that there was not land on
the globe against which they had not
dashed their blood and that their flag
was signal Of it-a.cross on field Of
blood.
The English nobility as class are
against us. shall read some noble ex
z ceptions, but as a class they are against
3 rs, and for the most OBVIOUS reasons. s.
We are n4 accustomed TO estimate the
; effect of our example upon European in
stitutiohs. When he takes his walk
! ahrna1 tc fba.. levi .p = hot he
; and measures his own gravity as he
treads on the field mouses tail 1t is the
; mouse that medtates. Laughter and
applause. Aud for such gigantic ma
ton as this, on such a continent as this,
, while We are treadng the steps of accom-
plishiDg history, we do not feel the jar
we ourselves make; but those that have
; thrones and aristocratlc privileges do, and
they are the best interpreters of the reac-
tionary influences of American ideas and
! American institutions. And it was The
Saturday Review, that scholarly, keen.
, brilliant, unprlncipled paper of England,
! that had the frankness to say that the
: Americans must not think their remarks
we're because they disliked us, but becaus
they found our ideas and our examples
t working in Great Britain; and they were
, obliged. in order to defeat those ideas in
England, TO attack US in America and,
: as they are fighting their home battles
, for they have an unerring instinct. They
!. have this feeling: if Government can be
so efficient on such a continent, and go
ludlcrously cheap, how can we maintain
SO expensive aud complicated Govern.
ment on our sphere? And, lest they
should not think Of it themselves, millions
! OF the common people who we're being
taxed perpetually suggested it to them
J Do you know that the effect of our Revo-
, luton was 10 send revolution all through
Europe! Being prepared, it was the tor oh
of our Revolutionary War tina. set fire to
, that train, which burned all over Europe,
, and they do not forget it. Such prosperity.
such power, and a. so little expense, and
with so few monopolies and prerogatives
to the favored classes ? And, therefore.
when they oppose US, it is moi to be con
strued as wanion opposition; it is nothing
but manifestation OF self-love and II
you had been born with a coronet on YOUR
head, you would have been Just so. In
Parliament, suppose, If vote could be
taken to day, 10 accordance with the pri-
vate wishes of the members, they would
be five to one against the North. Il Is
believed that the Government have peen
entirely in favor of rupture With the
North, and dared, they would have done
so. 1t is the impression that the Sove
reign of Great Britain has been from FIRST
our judiclous aud unflinching friend -
(Great applause. 1t is believed and was
SO represented 10 ae that the never rightly
estimated and lamented consort was orr
fast friend, and that among the last acts
OF his life were chose which erased from
documents presented to him, sentences
and sentiments that would have infanled
the growing anger. He died with the
blessing upon his head, BLESSED are the
peacenakers." Applause.] And al.ho
IN the British Government as at present
constituted | shat read you the names of
several that are known to be warm and
dlslnterested in their regard, vet there
+ ape0there In The sorern tnanf kb.t - ;nJy