Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-12-14
Mr. Golden at HTnnchestsr--What he thinks
Of our rWar--AristOcTacy and Democracy.
TIE CAUSE OF TIE WAR

Of our War--AristOcr racy and Democracy.
TIE CAUSE OF TIE WAR.
Is il not astonishing, in the face Of facts |
like these, that any one could have the te-
merity, with any regard to deceHcy or any |
sense Of sell-respect, to get up in the House |
of Commons and say that the secession Of
the Southern States has been on a question
of free trade and protection2 [Cheers.
Tlis is war to extend and perpetuate hu'
man slavery. Prolonged applause. Il
| is war not to defend slavery as it was
left by their aucestors-a thing to be re-
tanned, and to be apOlogized for. 1t is
war 10 establish slave empire, where
slavery shall be made the cornerstone Of
/ the social system, where it shall be defend
ed and justified on seriptural and ethno-
/ logical grounds. Cheers. say God
pardon the men who, in this year of grace,
/ 1868, should think that such project as
that could be crowned with success.
| TCheers N5w you know why have, from
the first, never believed it possible that the
South could succeed, and have not found
ed that faith merely on moral instincts
which teach US to repudiate the very idea
that any ythiDg SO internal should succeed.
No. It is because in this world the virtues
and the forces go together, and the vices
and weaknesses are insepsrable. Ap-
plause.
NATURE OF THE CONFLICT.
It is, therefore, that 1 felt certain that
this project never could succeed. Ap-
plause Fer how is it2 Here is 8 COM
munity with nearly half of the population
slaves, and they are attempting to fight
another community where every working
man is freeman. L is as though York
shire and Lancashire we're to enter into
conflict, and it was understood that in the
case of one, all the lsborers who did the
muscular work Of the country in the field,
in the factory, on the rOsds, or in the do
mestic establishments-all the bone and
muscle Of the country-should be elimi-
mated from the fighting population and
ready to take advantage for themselves If
an opportunity was offered them of running
away how could community so ciroum-
stanced fight against the neighbOring coun-
try where every workingmsn was fighting
for his coultry2 How could the one have
chance of succeeding even ifleft to phys
icsI force, without the moral considerations
to which have referred. This is the con-
dition in which the two sections Of the
United States are now placed. In the one
case you have honor given to industry
labor is held to honor. What do we hear?
Have we not heard by way Of reproaoh by
some people who fsncied themselves in al
lisnce with our aristooraey-someo Of our
writer's who wish to be supposed they are
themselves of the sristocratic order-as
stigma against the North, that their Pres
ident was once rail-splitter? Cheers. !
But why is that rail splitter elevated to be
President of the United States? Because
labor is held to honor in the United States
Cheers.
ARIsToCRACY Ad4IEsT DEMOCRACY.
With such q conflict going on, and with
such a result as feel no doubt will follow,
is it fair to speak Of such e contest as that
and say thatit is struggle for empire on
one side, and for independence on the other2
| | say il is an aristocratic rebellion against
a democratic government. Applause
That is the title would give to it. In all
history, when you have bad the aristotracy
pitted against the people in ply sicsl force
and conflict the sristocraHy has always
gone down under the heavy blows Of the
democracy. Hear, hear When speak
thus let nobody say / am therefore indif-
ferent to the progress of misery and devas-
tation and ruin and bloodshed that is now
going on. No; my indignation against the
South is that they fired the first shot and
made themselves responsible for these re-
suits. ] take, probably, a stronger view
than most people Of this country-and GER
tainly stronger view than anybody in
Ameries-of the vast sacrifices of life aud
Of economical comfort and resources which
must follow to the North from this strug-
gle. They are mistaken if they think they
can crrry on a civil war like this, drawing
= million OF men from productive indus
try to be engaged in the processes of de-
structiou-to spend two or three hundred
millions sterliDg-they are d-luded if they
think they can carry on civil war like
that without terrible collapse, sooner or
later, and dreadful prostrsnon in every
part of the community. Hesr, hear
That being so makes me stiil more intOle-
rant of the cause. But of the result have
no more doubt than of any subject which
lies in the future.
THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPEAN GOVERN
MENTs.
Now l would ask you why do some peo-
| pie wish the United States should be cut
in tWo2 They think II desirable it should
be weakened. Will that view bear dis
cussion for q moment2 l hold not l am
of the opinion which our statesmen we're
in the time Of Canning, who thought it
desirable for Europe that America should
be strong, becasse it would thereby pre-
vent Europesn powers from interfering in
American affairs. That has been the case
hitherto. That country has prospered,
/ and it has never come to interfere with
/ unlffiag nh az kau La1 t.,
ropsan governments from interfering in
other American states which have been
less prosperous or less orderly than the
United States. What has followed If this
disruption2 You have France going into
Mexico and Spain to st. Domingo There
are horrors unuttersble going on in St.
Domingo because spain has invaded that
country-[hesr, hear with a view to
re-conquest. And the French Emperor
has embarked on a career in Mexico which
will only characterize as the greatest
mistake he has ever made. Loud sp-
plause.
Those enterprises would never have
been undertaken if the United States had
not been in this difficulty, and it is the
least creditsble part of these enterprises
that they have been undertaken because
America was weak. Hear hear 4 1t
only required that the North should have
been liltle weaker to have enabled those
silly people who are going about the coun-
/ try TO have carried their project. and TO
have induced England and France to in
terfsre to settle the rebellion. Hear
Is lhst desirable? Cheers. Don't you
think Ae have enough to do at homer Do
You SUPPOSE that EuTope has 80 little TO do