The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-12-25
GOLDEN ON AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
His Speech at Manchester.
The English Mania for Interven-
ton Rebuked.
Why the American Rebellion
Cannot Succeed.
Ignorance of American Affairs in
Europe.

AuIUp6s
On the oath ultimo Mr. Golden deliv-
cred his annual address before his consti-
tuents at Manchester. Three thousand
persons were assembled, and the Mayor of
the city presided. Mr.. Golden devoted
the greater part of his speech to consid-
Grafton of American affairs, especially in
relation to the attitude of the British gov
ernment towards the United States. AZ
ter few preliminary observations on the
necessity of Parliamentary reform and of
the completion of the free trade system,
he spoke as follows:
TIE ENGLISH MANIA FOR INTERVENTION.
Some people say that there is great apa-
thy and Indifference in the country. do
not think there is any want of interest in
the country upon public affairs. l think
there is lively interest in the public pro-
ceedings of the whole world, and the pub
lie mind is very demOnstrative. But what
/ observe is this, that the attention of the
country is rather given to the affairs of
other nations than to its own. Hear,
hear We are something as nation as
you would be in Rochdale as borough, if
your town council were pretty generally
occupied in discussing the affairs of Pres
ton, Blackburn, or Manchester, instead of
their own. Hear, hear That is the
state of public opinion in this country, and
it is curious enough while we are devoting
more than ever of our attention to foreign
politics, we are still constantly protesting
the principle of non-in:ervention. We
have nen-interventiOn upon our lips, but
there is always desire for little inter-
vention in the corner of our hearts for
some special object or other abroad. lido
not charge this against any particular par
ty or government. We have all our little
projects of intervention. Some will man
age the affairs of the Americans others
will take in charge the regulation of the
affairs OF Poland others are interested in
Italy; and SO it is that, in spite of our
professions Of non-intervention, we are in
fact, think, as far as my observation goes,
interfering more than ever in the affairs Of
foreign countries. Some people say it is
the teleeram. [Laughter.] They say
that Reuters telegram is daily morning
dram, and it SO stimulates the palate with
some conclusion of the brain from Amer
lea, with a great battle in Poland or some
where else, that you have not the taste for
the simple ailments of which your domes-
tic affairs are made up [Cheers.]
TIE ADVOCATES OF INTERFERENCE IN AMERI-
CAN AFFAIRS.
At the present moment there is a party
in this country actively advocating an in
reference in the affairs of America Hear,
hear When | say interference, l mean
We have party here who are advocating
either recognition or something which
means interference, if it means nything.
Hear, hear.] l have seen lately report
of two meetings of constituencies in the
west of England - at Bristol and Plymouth
at which liberal members, representing
popular constituencies, have been recon-
mending that the government should enter
into engagements with some foreign coun-
try in Europe, in order that they may re-
cOgnize the South in America and inter-
fere to put an end to the war in that coun-
try. ["Very proper, and "No, no."]
observe that the idea which pervaded
those members and their constituents was
this that this affair in America was to be
settled in peculiar way, according to the
dictates of those particular parties Hear,
hear. From the beginning of this Aineri-
can war, this lamentable CONFUSION, from
which you have suffered SO much, one great
and fundamental error in the conduct of
statesmen and governments, ard in the
conduct of large portion of the influential
classes in this country, has been that they
have made up their minds that there can
be but one issue to this civil war in Ameri-
ca, and that is separation between the
North and South [Cheers.l I told you
when was here last, when that spiri- was,
if possible, even more ri pc than it is now,
that did not myself believe the war would
issue in that way. have stated the same
opinion since in the House of Commons
yet / declare to you that, taking what is
called by can't phrase in London $50
ciety," (which means that upper ten thon-
sand with which members of Parliament
are liable to come into contact in the clubs
and elsewhere, nineteen-twentieths of the
ruling classes Off may use the phrase) that
you meet in those purleus in London have
been firmly convinced from the first that
the civil war could only end in separation.
Hear, hear.l How far the wish was
father to that thought will not pretend to
say. [Cheers.] l believe the conviction
has been sincere; believe it has been
founded on the belief that, looking at the
vast extent of territory occupied by the in
surgents in this war, it was impossible that
they could be subjugated by any forces
that could be brought against them by the
North.
IGNORANCE OF ArERICAN AFFAIRS.
But there has been most lamentable
display of ignorance amongst those classes
to which refer, if we may Judge from the
conduct of the organs of the press which
may be considered the opponents of their
views. There have been errors 10 geo.
graphy: mighty rivers to which those in
England can bear no comparison, with
hundreds of miles of steam navigation,
have been described as running into one
river and into another, in utter disregard
of the facts Of geography. There are a