Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-06

not have been more enthusiastic had they
been listening to the eloquent lecturer him.
himself. This scene continued without In
termission until the close of the meeting
When Mr. Beecher aud his friends issued
from the building, they were again re-
ccivrd with loud cheers. A call for n
cheer fer Abraham Lincon was responded
to in II manner that only an English crowd
can exhibit. A strong body of police were
stationed in the Strand and Burleigh street,
but no breach of the peace occurred call
ing for their interference. During the eve
ming large number of placards denOunc-
ing in strong language the North, its Pres
ident and its advocates, were posted in
various positions In the nsighhoFhcod OF
the hall and elsewhere, mr. s-lAr
A sees.Ilo.a GatneEiag In Enslssaa.asd sa..d
Slave Trader.
Tne fslinwing spas-L was made at an
agricultural meeting in England, by Col.
Lamar, late of the Confederate army-who
gained considerable uOteriety some years
ago by importing cargo of slaves, direct
from Africa, to the State of Georgia, in
defiance of the law of the country brand
ing the trade as piracy. He is fit repre-
sentative of the Rebel cause in England:
tbs SPEECH.
Colonel Lamar In reply, thanked the
chairman for his remarks, and the
company for tho cordial reception
OF his name. Their generous and cordial
reception touched his heart and ELECTED
his most sincere gratitude. The enthusi.
Asm which had been manifested was the
more gratifying to him that it was mani
tested at farmers dinner. He belonged
to a country which was nation of far
mers [cheers not, as they had been told,
a country of iudo'ent, wealthy and disso-
lutte planters, OF poor white trash and de-
graded slaves. 1t was not that, but
country of independent, Intelligent free
men; of the eight millions of whom two
thirds earned their subsistence by the
sweat of their brow, nearly one half of
them owning the land they cultivated and
nearly all OF them seeing in each up-turned
sod of their fallow ground that which was
more precious to them than the gold of
sparkle of independence
and personal liberty. rCheers. Many
of the qualities which that people had ex- |
hibited during the last two years, and
which had been so kindly alluded to, were
in his opinion due to the fact that they |
were nation OF farmers. lie believed,
without disparaging other pursuits, that |
from the culture of the soil, the draw
ing of sustenance from the bosom Of |
mother earth, they derived a certain |
moral uutriment, certain richness of sen
meut, OF capacity for self devotion and |
sacrifice, which kept the heart fresh and
pure, and made the nature of men simple |
and unaffected. [Cheers. II has been |
represented to England that the great con. |
dict, the bloody WArWhleh has been Waged, |
md was ssat being szged, sgHiust the
he Ebrth, was VA on behalf Or civil |
liberty and Of CONSTITUTIONAL government |
against n band OF lawless conspiFatoTs, who |
fought to trampIe down those liberties and |
20 overthrow the august structure of that |
Hear, hear Fortunately |
Tor the South, in coming before the British |
people, they came before tribunal fully |
to consider the question. He
EIgIishmen on their practi.
cal knowledge of civil liberty. Hear,
hear. They had it in substance they
knew it by certain broad, practical facts,
and they could not be misled by subtle re-
finements or tanciful theories. When |
Euglishmen were told Of civil liberties they |
thought of certain great his
tOricnl guarantees for that liberty-the |
right Of habsas corpus, OF trial by jury, the |
supremacy of the law, the subordination of !
the military to the civil power. Those |
things constituted to an Englishman the |
true indications of civil liberty hear III
and their history taught them that when |
ever despot or tyTant under any disguise |
sought to destroy the liberties OF tue peo-
pie, he commenced by attacking those great
guarantees of civil liberty Hear, hear.
Let them test the contest in America in
that manner, and let them say which party
was contending for civil liberty and con-
stitutionnl government Cheers. Let
them look at the Northern States. Did
they see any OF the great bulwarks of En-
glish liberty existing there2 [Cheers. His
friend the chairman had spoken OF his
sympathy with dowutrodden and oppress-
ed natioralities. He thanked his friend
for his kindness and hospitality to South
erners. They were people, but they were
not downtrodden, nor oppressed, and by
tue God they never would be. Cheers.
Liberty might sometimes be crushed under
the armed heel of the despot; hut in the
Southern country, whence he came, could
be seen old men and young standing up
side by side for their country, their bAyo.
nets glistening in the sun, unstained by
aught save the blood OF their enemies
But il was well TO recollect that the South,
abused, bleeding, her life blood draining
away, was fighting not alone for her own
liberties, but also for the liberties Of that
people who were sending armed millions
to subjugate and crush her. More than
that, the South was struggling for freedom
everywhere, and was seeking to rid the
world of one of the most intolerable, ag-
gressiye, overbearing Powers that ever dis
turbsd the repose Of Europe, or menaced
the peace of civilization [hear, hearl-a
Power which stood as the embodiment of
the sovereignty of brute force, which, If it
succeeded in its designs, would be fire.
ship among nations, and which even now,
in anticipation of it's triumph, laughed
TO scorn the faith of treaties, the
obligations of humanity, and the
laws of civilized warfare. Cheers