Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1863-10-31

now, since Great Britain had been snubbcd,
and threatened, and dominccrcd over 10y
the Southcrncrs, who could sufficiently
admire the progress of Christianity in this
realm, that Great Britain should throw her
arms of love round the Southcrncrs and
turn from the Northerncrs. MOI she
didn't! lie could only say that she had
been caught in very suspicious circumstances
Hear and laughter. He had said this to
obtain an expression of feeling from that
meeting. He told them that The hostility
felt in America towards Great Britaih had
been Southern, and he wanted them to say
TO him, and through him to his country,
that the liking for the South which had
been so widely expressed in the English
papers did not represent the feelings of the
great mass of Englishmen. The audience,
in reply to this remark, rose and chccrcd
for several minutes, at the same time waving
their hats and handkcrchicts. He accepted
those cheers as the coming acclamations Of
friendly nations, and regarded the waving
handkerchicts as symbols of peace for all
countries.
NORTH AND SOUTH.
"Now l call you TO witness that. in a
period of twenty five or thirty years of con
slant conflicts with the South, at every
single step they gained the advantage, with
the single exception of Kansas. What was
the conduct ofthc North Did they threaten
scccssioni No. Did they threaten vio-
lcncc | No. So sure were they of the
ultimate triumph of that which was right,
provided free speech was left to combat
error and wrong, that they patiently bidcd
| their time. BY this time the North was
cured of its love of Or indifference to slavery
! BY this time II new conscience had been
! formed i'll the North, and vast majority
of all the Northern men at this time stood
fair and square on the doctrine of anti
! slavery. Cheers. 1t went through all the
quicksands Of that infamous demonstration
Of four years, in which Senators, sworn bN
the Constitution. were plotting machination,
to destroy the Government, in which the
members of the Cabinet who drew thcil
! pay month by month, used their time and
their official position to steal arms, tC
prepare Notifications. to make ready, and in
which the most astounding spectacle thai
the world ever saw was witncsscd-oul
great people paying men to sit in the plaCCs
of power and office to bctray them. Hear
! hear
During all those four years what die
we! We protested and waited and said
| GOU snail Elsc us tnc victory, Tor II Is GOu
truth that we wield and Gods truth W,
! promote, and with God, in his own goot
time, shall be the giving of the victory.
! Great cheering. In all this time we never
made an inroad on the rights of the South
! Cheers. We nevet asked for rctaliatorN
law. We never taxed their commerce, ol
touched it with our little finger. We cnvicd
them none of their manufactures. but sought
to promote them. We did not attempt Il
obate, by one ounce, their material prosprri
ty; we longcd for their prosperity. Cheers
Slavery We always hated; the Southern
men never. Cheers They were wrong
And in our conflicts with them we hav,
( felt as all men in conflict feel. We were
| jealous, and so We're they. We were in the
right cause; they in the wrong. IChccrs
We never cnvicd thGin their territory ans
it was in the heart, and it was the faith o
the whole North that. in seeking for tho
abatement Of slavery and its final abolition
we were comforting upon the South tn,
greatest boon which one nation, or part q
u nation could confer upon another Tha
she was to come down and pass through
the valley of humiliation during the pro
grcss of her institutions till She passed from
forced labor to free labor have no doubt
but it was not in our heart to humble her
but rather to help and sympathize will
hers