Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-09-11
The Spirit Of Liberty mot Quenched

ment Of the true position of the people OIL
England. That country, like ours, has its
snobs, soulless spectators and demagogues.
The London Times is not the peoples organ.
The Spencers and Lairds may negotiate Con-
ftderate bonds on change, and build private
ships, but they do not hold the heart of the
English nation. The aristocracy of England,
cold, proud and scornful, still believing in
the divine right of Kings to rule, may be in
sympathy with their rebellious friends on this
side Of the Atlantic, but the men of the IA
ton, the humanity, the morals, the worth
of England, is all with liberty.
We take this occasion to acknowledge the
receipt of the Manchester Examiner and
Times, an English paper Of the proportions
of the New York Tribune and like dailies,
and published, as its title indicates, in that
great cotton manufacturing district, where so
many thousand operatives have been thrown
upon the cold charities of the world by the
Southern rebellion. In this number, we find
the preamble of the Union and Emancipation
society of Manchester, with list of over if
teen hundred names, comprising the Presi-
dent, Vice President, Committee, Treasurer
and Grand Council. We have, with much
care and interest, examined this list, and have
been astonished to find an unprecedented
array of the greatest and best men of Eng
land. Of this society, Thomas Bayeley Potter,
Esq, is President, the mayor Of Manchester.
Lieutenant General J. P. Thompson, five
members of Parliament, Prof. ]. Z. Cairness,
A. NJ, of Dublin, Prof. John Nichol of Glas-
gov, Prof. Goodwin Smith, of Oxford, the
celebrated Prof. F. W. Newman, Of London,
Rev. Newman Hall, IL. D., London, Rev.
James W. Massie, d. D., IL. D., London,
DR.. John Watts, Councillors Murray and T.
Warburton, Robertson Gladstone, Esq, Pref
Rogers, of Oxford, Rev. Robert B. Drum
mond, B. A. Edingurgh and host of others
whose names are ss familiar as household
words to the reading public of this country,
are the Vice Presidents. Members of Parlia-
ment, Doctors Of Divinity. Barristers, Pro.
fessors and gentlemen, form the Grand
Council. There are already organized some
forty branch societies, and the good work
still going on.
That our readers may be apprized what
OUR friends are doing among the aristocra,s
Of the parent country, we make the following
extracts from the Society's Preamble: 1.-THE
Union and Emancipation Society Of Manches-
ter has been formed to give expression on
behalf of the population of this district, to
their earnest sympathy with the cause of
freedom, and fraternal regard towards their
kinsmen of the United States; and TO RESIST
FEDERAcY." The disastrous consequences
attending disruption of the American Union
are thus forcibly portrayed:
"The breaking up of the American Union
into two or more separate governments would |
be a worldwide disaster and entail many
grievous calamities Such disruption would !
substitute for single and cheap government |
two or more of very expensive character
would impose upon each the necessity OF |
keeping up large standing armies, which |
would absorb, as in Europe, third of the
resources of the state, imposing heavy taxes
on the people; would provoke. sooner or later,
other wars as disastrous as the present.
would encourage the secession of other States,
and thus paralyze that magnificent develop
ment of human activity and constitutional
liberty, which has been the admiration of the |
civilized world; and would reopen the Afri
can slave trade with all its horrors and bar
barities. We are, therefore, deeply convinc-
ed that the maintenance of the Federal Union
of America is an object of unspeakeable i'm
portance to the whole human family, and |
that its disruption would prove a calamity
to the cause of freedom and to the interests
of civilization.
"With every wish to uphold the principle
of non intervention and strict governmental
neutrality, we are ippelled to declare that this
nation is by its feelings inclined, as by its an
tecedents bound, to give its whole moral sup
port to the cause of order, of civil freedom,
of constitutional government, and of emanci.
patton, all of which are represented by the
North in its struggle to maintain the Union.
''The so-called Southern chivalry' is waging
war against free, popular government, with
the intention, unblushingly proclaimed, of
forming new Confederation, whose chief
corner stone shall be the execrable system of
human bondage. The men who initiated this
wicked rebellion, did so by perjury, robbery,
and fraud committed against the community
by whom they were paid and whose constitu.
ton they had sworn to defend"
Thus speak the friends and advocates of
universal freedom in England, and they speak
as OUR FRIENDS. Believing that "the mainte-
nance of the Federal Union is an object of
Importance to the whole human
family" they are bound, regardless of gov
ernmental neutrality, to give to that Union its
whole moral support. While these express
ions of sympathy and fraternal kindness
come to our ears, there still exists among us
a political party claiming to be powerful and
great and vainly hoping for success on open
and avowed opposition to the government of
the Union and sympathy with treason and
civ
Traitors in disguise and craven towards
there are among us, when the officers of
State call for patriotic and heroic action from
every citizen. Born on our soil, fostered by
our laws, supported in many instances by our
treasury, these men have less interest in the
Federal Union than have they who look to
these shores from afar off as the last resort of
Freedom.
While we have the sympathies, prayers
and cooperation of the men who compose
the English Union and Emancinafion Societv |
we need entertain no fears of recognition of