The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1863-01-20
a Change Of Sentiment.


in throughout England and France, in
favor of the North and against the South.
This is apparent in the tone of the press,
with few exceptions; in the voice of pub
lie gatherings, aud in the efforts of no
ted writers, such as Professor CAIRNEs
In the captured dispatches Of JEFF. DA-
Wis and Cabinet, the correspondence
with Mr.. MASON shows that the latter has
complained bitterly of the GOODNESS OF
Lord JOHN RUSSELL to him--a treatment
which, Mason says, does not comport
with his sense of propriety or with the
reasonable expectation of the Confeder-
ates. Addresses Of sympathy with the
North and with President LINCOLN, have
been voted by Manchester, and the work
ing men, who are suffering the most from
the war, are open in their expressions Of
their regard for our government and
people. The London Times, and the ar
istocracy, are still, to great extent, cold
and unsympathizing, but the reaction
will reach them.
Whence comes the change? No man
is al loss TO answer. 1t is apparent in
every line of their writings, in every
word Of their proceedings. 1t is simply
because they have come to better under
stand the nature of our quarrel-because
they have learned that it means simply
the crushing out, or the entire suprema
cy, Of slave tyranny. When the contest
first opened, they saw that every effort
was being made by the North, in obedi-
ence 10 prejudice, and to secure una
nimity Of action between the two politi-
cal parties, to conserve slavery-to leave
it untouched in the struggle. They saw
our commanders returning TO bondage,
driving from their lines, fugitive and
loyal slaves, They saw Fremont and
HUNTER snubbed and discarded for their
blows against slavery, and they were
ready to believe rebel emissaries-we
ready to believe Mr. GLADsToNE-when
they announced that the South was fight
ing for independence and the North for
power Ii is well known that the argu-
ments used by MASON and SLIDELL, and
rebel emssaries in Europe, at the first
the arguments they deemed most potent,
and used most persistently, TO prejudice
the European mind against the North
were against the Northern claim o. op.
position to slavery. They quoted our
declarations, our speeches, our military
orders, to prove that the slave had moth
ing to expect from us in this war. And
just so fully as they established our lack
o. sympathy for the save-just SO fully
as they showed that it was our wish TO
leave slavery intact-just so successful
were they in alternating sympathy from
US, and in securing their own advantage.
How much they rested their cause in
foreign encouragement is evident by
JEFF. DAyis's own admissions in his off
cial documents, and how hopeless would
have appeared their attempt at rebellion,
at the start, had this sympathy and en-
couragement not been given TO them,
may be easily surmised. They would
have lacked this sympathy and encour-
agement had our willingness TO strike
them through slavery been decided and
apparent, ard thus might The rebellion
been crushed in It's infancy. How much
this tenderness towards the crime of sla.
very has cos, us is now apparent
So long rs our action against slavery
was indecs,e and insncere, so long we
lacked foreign sympathy. That SYM
patty, and the moral support arising
from it, has increased just in proportion
as our action against slavery has become
known and understood. 1t is the KEY
note Of every appeal in our behalf from
our friends abroad that we are fighting
slave de5potism and when t was shown
that our government was not careful
OF slayery-waen it was shown that we
had driven tie inhuman institution from
the National Capital and from the Ma
tional Territories-whe il was seen that
We gave it no protection from our army
tn n the cl,riou VOICE Of JOHN BRIGuT.
and the trenchant pens of PROBES ior
CAIRNEs and EicroR HuGo, were enabled
10 stir The public pulse in our behalf.
And when. in September, The words Of
tie Emancipation promise Of our noble
hearted President we're sounded abroad
over tie Continent, then we began to
discern that reaction in our favor OF
which lie British press now distinctly
speak.
But il our flienls lave been fortified, /
and our oppor"nt, discouraged, by The