Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-12-09
PEblie Opinion in Engiand--IIOW the Ii0stil-
ity of the Arist0eraey has been Restrained.


Beecher-
With this state of facts, you will ask, how
is it, then, that this English people have been
restrained +? How Is it that they have not
gone into overt belligerency: The nobility
as class, are against us-at least, the gov
eminent is divided, one part being against
us; the Plutocracv is against us and | think
| may say that while the brains that repre-
sent progress in Great Britain are in our ia
vor,- yet the conservative intelligence in
Great Britain is against US. All that there
is upon the surface of society, representing
its dignities and its power and its intelli
gence is anti-American and the question
that propose to YOU is: How, with the pa
pcrs, and the magazines, and the universities,
how with their titled estates and their Gov
eminent and all their powers against US, how
is it that they have been restrained as they
have been? 1t is the influence of the un-
wealthy, and, to very great extent, the un-
voting Englishman, that restraints them; and
that was what | conld not understand.
learned in England what surprised me-that
the men that couldn't vote when everywhere
united and determined, had the power of con
trolling the men that did vote. That is not
an anomaly. 1t would be in our Institutions,
but it is not in their English Institutions, and
| among other reasons because in nation
where one class has permanent privilege, and
of selfpreservation teaches the upper class
not to goad this underlying class to madness.
They stand on their patience, and there is al
ways that dragon of revolution coiled up that
they dare not arouse; and therefore 1t Is when
the underlying class is determined upon any
point they always carry it. Men whose lor-
tunes are made-that class of men, as
general thing are against US; men
that have very little in the present that they
hat Str hpf fin
ture for themselves and for their children,
that class is on our side. But they are "a
class that have not much voice and very lit
tie expression, and therefore they are but
little heard from. Their report is not waited
across the sea, but their influence is felt on
the other side of the sea. And it seems to
me peculiarly beautiful and fitting that we,
who are the representatives of the common
people, should find our allies have been the
common people of Great Britain Cheers.
The result has been that the Government has
more and more modified it policy, until now
1t has come to that condition. IN which be
heve we all feel satisfied III the main. Eng
land has determined that ships of war shall
not be built in her yards, nor sent out foom
her ports to harry our commerce on the seas.
The action of Lord j ohm Russell IN this has
met with few dissentient voices, yet 1t has
met with the assent of the great mass OF the
British public and the Government rein
forced, and will undoubtedly stand upon that
pillar There is growing and enlightened
sympathy throughout the realm; there is
more publishing, there are more men lectur-
ing, more meetings being held, now than ev
er before. When men say that they doubt
the English feeling, refer to this fact, that
that the English Parliament, which is known
to be adverse to the North, dare not vote
against it. I advert to this fact that not
more than twelve or fifteen meetings out of
four or FIVE hundred have been carried
against the North. Cheers. 1t is chal-
,enge which stands open and recorded, of
some eight or ten public meetings that have
been hell in Liverpool, there has never been
one that has been carried against the North.
In that great meeting which 1t was my
privilege to attend there (cheers), the vote
was TO l at least in favor of the North. The
noise and the tumult with which the meeting
was conducted had given expectations OF
something very different, but when IT came
to the vote the noisy ones were about in ),
and the men of peace and quiet were out
of ). 1 hold in my hand letter from Rich
ard Golden. (Cheers.) He says: i gu
viii carry bac', an intimate acquaintance with
the state OF feeling in this country. Among
what, for want of better name, call our
ruling class, the sympathy Is undoubtedly
strongly for the South, with un instructive
satisfaction at the prospect of the disruption
of the Great Republic. This is natural
enough, but do not forget that we have In
this case, for the first time in our history,
seen the masses of the British people taking
the side of foreign Government against its
rebellious citizens. (Cheers) In every 9th
er instance, whether in the case OF the Poles,
Italians, Hungarians, Corsicans, Greeks or