The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-01-22

1t has been found often that far
sighted minds sec at q distance what
perhaps, they might not sec well i
nearer.
DeTocqucyille certainly gave bet
ter analysis of our Institutions, ant
closer predictions Of their tendcncies
than any American ever did, and
now Mr. Golden, at the late grca
meeting at Rochdale, have made
some points which ought to be
brought to the notice Of every Amer.
lean, North and South
Could our Northern masses see the
truth as these English Democrats do
the Rebellion would be crushed in
three months. Could the five millions
o. laboring whites at the South, whe
are fighting to confirm the yoke of
two hundred thousand shareholders
Tor less upon theis own necks, see
it, they would hail our armies as de
| liverers.
And yet, strange anomaly, the al
lies at the North of the slave aristoc-
racy dare to call themselves Demo
crate, and under that disguise to mis-
lead the laboring men Of this coun-
try.
Let every working man ponder
well the eloquent words of the two
great Democrats of England, John
Bright and Richard Golden, who sec
that the North is now fighting the
battle oftrue Democracy for the whole
1
AN ARIsToCRATIC REBELLION.
tExtrac from Mr.. Cobden's Speech at Roch
| dale.l
us it not astonishing that in the
face of facts like these that any one
should have the temerity, with any
regard to deceney and selfrespect.
to get up in the House of Commons
and say that secession has been up
on a question Of free trade and pro,
lection? Laughter Well this is
war to perretuate and extend hu-
man slavery. 1t is war not to de-
fend slavery as it was left by their
Iancestors,-1 mean thing to be re-
tanned and to be apologised for,--it
is war to establish a slave empire.
[ loud cheers, where slavery shall
be made the corner stone of the social
system--where it shall be defended
and justified on scriptural and chino.
logical grounds. Well i say, God
lparoon the men who, IN this year OF
grace, should think that such pro.
ject as that could be crowned with
success. Cheers. Now, you know
that have, from the first, never be.
lieved it possible that the South could
succeed, and / have not founded that
faith merely upon moral instincts,
which teach MS to repudiate the very
idea that anything so internal should
succeed. No, it is because in this
world the virtues and forces 90 to-
Gether, and the vices and the weak
nesscs are inseparable. Applause. I
1t is therefore, that felt certain that
this project could never succeed. For
how is it? Here is community with
nearly half OF its population slaves,
and they were attempting to fight an.
other community where every work
ing man is free man. 1t is as tho
Yorkshire and Lancashire were to
enter into conflict, and it was under
stood that in the case of one all the
laborers who did the muscular work
of the country, whether in the field or
in the factory, whether in the roads
or in the domestic Establishments
in the one case you would have all the
bone and muscle, the sinew Of the
country, eliminated from the fighting
and not only eliminated
from the fighting population, but
ready to take advantage Of this war
either to run away or fight against
yon. How could community so cir
fight against a neighbor-
ing county where every working man
fighting for his country-how could
the one have chance ifleft to phys
ical force without the moral consider
ations? That is the condition in which
these two sections of the United
States are now placed. In the one
case you have condition in which
labor is held honorable. Have wei
not heard il used as Il rcproach by
some people who fancy themselves in |
alliance with the aristocracv-somei
of our writers who would lead us toI
suppose they are of the aristocratic
order? Now we hear it used as a,
stigma against the North that their
President Mr.. Lincoln, was "rail
splitter" But what does that prove
with regard to the United States, but
that labor is held in honor in that
country Hear, hear. And with
such conflict going on. and with
such result as feel no doubt will
follow, is it fair to speak of such al
contest as that, and say that it is a
struggle for empire on the one side,
and independence Oh the other?-
Loud applause. say it is an aris
tocratic rebellion against Democrat.
ic Government. Cheers. That is
the title l would give to it; and in
all history when you have had the ar.
istocrocy nittal auainct tho ,,oo,,lo T..