Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-02-26
by the timely approach of several men,
both horses were soon quieted, and no fur
Their damage was done.
ENGLISH SENTIMENT.


ENGLISH SENTIMENT.
There appears to be no reason to ques-
ton the vigor and completeness of the re-
action which is taking place in English O.
pinion upon the subject of American war.
The late meeting at Exeter Hall surpassed
in numbers and enthusiasm anything that
has been witnessed since the days of the
Anti-Corn-Law League. A subsequent
one at Bradford, the heart of the great
West Riding of Yorkshire, was almost as
large and fully as excited, and was crowd
ed in imposing force by the brawny and
hard headed race, who marched into
Wakefield in gigantic column to vote
for "MoRpETH and Free Frade," at the
famous election of 1916. Even in
Liverpool, the Confederate prophet,
SPENCE, has been shouted down when he
attempted once more to make the Apostle
Paul and Onesimus do duty for the slave
holders. And,by all accounts, the fame
is spreading. The Spectator, which is
by no means disposed to take sanguine
view of our affairs, predicts that in three
months more the friends of the North will
have made clean sweep of the island, and
elected from the middle and lower classes
a shout of encouragement for what it calls
"the narrow-minded but indomitable
race" which is struggling through many
failures and many blunders toward the
ultimate magnificent result"
II Il Il - -
There is a disposition among some of
our contemporaries to underrate the impor-
lance of this agitation in our favor because
it is not led by any of the great names of
the aristocracy. But very slight &C
quaintance with English political history
during the last sixty years would one
would think, have suffced to prevent any
error on this point. Not single great
movement of the present century was eli
Their inaugurated or smiled upon at the
outset by the leaders of the upper classes.
The Abolitionist movement was set on
foot by obscurities was violently opposed
and sneered at by the world of fashion,
was carried on to a triumphant conclusion
by the Dissenters and working classes.
The Electoral Reform movement was op-
posed at the outset by the entire body of
the aristocracy, with few Wing except
ions, and was forced through the house Of
Lords by the threat of the Birmingham
traders and artisans to march on London.
And the greatest movement Of all-the
Anti-C Corn Law agitation-was set on foot
by two obscure manufacturers, Bright and
Golden; enjoyed the fierce hostility of the
Times down to the very year of its final
triumph was carried on by the very same
classes-Dissenter and farmers and me-
chanics--who are now bidding us God
speed, and by just such meetings as those
which are now greeting our victories with
shouts af reclamation. These men can ex-
ercise precisely the same influence on the
foreign policy of the Government that
they have always exercised on its home
policy. AS long as they are with us, we
have nothing to fear from any concerted
scheme either of recognition or interven-
ton. TO have them on our side, and the
civilized world with them, we have but
to fight on courageously, and to retract
nothing, change nothing, and repent US of
nothing.