, 1864-12-19

s1AfoFJ. GqeTyopuy 0tW Autu!se tn2t, Hnat-
ever Is the issue Of The struggle, slavery will
be abolished. told you two years ago that
I did not believe that I should live to see TWO
independent States on that continent Of
North America. have repeated that asser-
tion since, and now come to confirm that
opinion, but with fur more emphasis than
ever expressed before. 1 do not believe that
that country In my day will erer BE- separa-
ted. Hook upon the geographical difhc ultles
In the way Of separation to be absolutely In
sp1mnountable. SUI lChecrs:l Taks T the case Of
ries flows through 20, 600 miles Of nayigable
waters into the Gulf Of Mexico, and in order
that the United States night have Its mouths
In their own occupation, that they might
hare, as It were, the keys Of their own doors
the First Napoleon the State Of Louisiana
with the money Of the old Union for three
millions sterling. Hear, hear.l Well, now,
some two or three hundred thousand people
could have squattcd there. Some English,
have taken into their heads that they
will carry of this State, and place the
mouths Of that great river, the outlet Of taht
vast country, In the hands of a foreign state.
I have said that 1t would be tar easier for
Essex or Kent to carry of the mouths Of the
Thames and set up IN East Angliau kingdom
than for Louisiana to carry off the mouths of
the Mississippi and set up foran independent
State. There are some few hundreds Of thou
sands IN the counties Of Kent and Essex, but
the valley Of the Mississippi will become the
home of200, ,0oo, coo. and this makes In infin-
itely more impossible that the United States
shonld allow the mouths Of the Mississippi to
be carried off than that England should suf.
fer the Thames TO be taken away. Why
should they do 80 when they can prevent it
by the smallest expense, and retain posses
sion Of it, for few gunboats could
Even if the North cannot conquer
Louisiana they might cut the dykes above
New Orleans and drown the whole Of that
State. In saying this am speaking Of the
motives and possibilities, md not wishes or
that Mr. Jefferson Davis would be con:ented
with the Cotton States and not be allowed to
extend into Texas. he would not thank you.
They are fighting in tho South to carry slave
~ beyond Texas into the vast regions of Cen
tral America. Now, I say that if the geo.
looked at by the ruling classes and those who
write in the newspapers, they would not have
arrived at conviction Of the success of the
Southern side. Th ere Is newspaper pub
lished in London read by everybody, but I
have maryeled ut the Ignorance which It has
territory. In one article recently there was
river Of $50 miles Of internal navigation, to
which the largest river in this country Is
mere rivulet, and 1t Was made to turn up hill
fhese two rivers m seem ce,ncntca G WeTe made to M 5ai1
into Il third river. into which neither really
pours q drop Of Water. iHcar, hcar.l Now,
there Is q real danger in tie Ignorance OF
what, for want of a better term, I may call
the ruling classes Of this country-thcre Is
real danger from their total ignorance Of eve
rything relating to America, and you may get
into difficulties from this Ignorance, which
may, cost much national dishonor to escape
from. [Cheers If were rich man, I
would endow a professors chair at Ok
ford and Cambridge to instruct the under
graduates Of those Universities in American
history. would undertake to SOY, and I
speak adyisedly, that will takc any under
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