The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-01-16

The English Aristocracy $ympn-
ahiye with the slave nlIgIrchf--
the Masses Win the Free People

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The English Aristocracy ~S"Ph~
ihize with the shave ntiG"rchf--
the Masses with the Free People
of ,hc North.
The New York Post publishes a letter
from an English correspondent, a liberal
member OF Parliament, who says tina, al
though the aristocracy OF England, through
national fellow feeling sympathjz, wiki
the arlstocracy Of the South, the people
generally, in IL ali,;at Of their sufierings
resulting from tie slaveho.Iing rebellion,
still hope for the triumph of our Govern
ment and the destruction Of slavery
The truth is That the arlstocracy Of the
sltv,h"lding South, Of lyc tisIed gentry
OF England, and Of the Seymour exoffce
holders and office seekers Of the Locofoco
party Of the North are united by fellow
feeling of aristocratic caste against free
dom and the representative man of IL
people, who has become the constitution
al head of our Government by the free
sutiragcs of the masses The English
writer in the Post says:
- ne pass Of the population have had
no sympathy with the South in any part
of the Kingdom. While the Times has
been writing up the Confederaes with a
talent and zeal WORTHY o better cau-c,
il has never been possible 10 hold an open,
unpac%ed, pa5he meeting in London or
elsewhere TO express Sympathy for the
South. The working class of England
have had vague notion that the cause of
the North is their cause. They have not
had very clear comprehension of the
character Of the quarrel, but they know
on the one side there is slavery and on the
other free labor, and ,!i,t has decided
them III their support of the North Still
1t must be admitted that the working class
IN this country have not great political
influence, apart from the middle class, in
asmuch as they have no votes and
have, | confess, been always afraid that
our government, urged on by lis sympa-
thies, and by its fears of tho etlec, on the
revenue OF the country, and the employ
ment of the mass Of the people, to be pro-
duced by the blockade, would Join in
some act Of intervention, with view to
obtain the much needed cotton. Latter
ly my apprehension on this point has been
much alayed by new element which has
developed itself in the public opinion Of
the country.
The old antislavery feeling was ava
lencd ly the Presidents ptocamaton.-
1t has iycn ~tjll further aroused by his
message to Congress. a>t received. The
religious bodies are beginning to move,
an you know that when the religious
sentiment of the middle classes and the
sympathy Of the millions are in harmony
IN this country, all opposition to these
prominent feelings goes down before it
like grass before the whrwind. The
more your contest assumes the character
OF freedom rersus slavery, the more Ger
tain you are 10 enlist the sympathics not
only of the religious class in this coun-
try but of every pohtieiaa who looks for
the support Of the Liberal party.
On every ground therefore of freedom,
justice, peace and humanity, hail the
direction IN which public opinion seems
evidently moving in the free States -
Once let il be evident that the great ma
Jority of the North are resolved that they
will never reconstruct the Union on the
basis of a compromise with slavcry, and
you will have secured the sympathy o.
England mean Of that part OF iis peo-
PIE which can control the rest and pre-
vent any measures being taken in spirit
Of hostility 10 the Federal Government