East Saginaw courier., 1864-08-03
Learning Something.

IreSlucnt falruelu, one OF the mOsJ
intense lights among the advocates of
radical niggerism in Michigan for
years past has recently travelled into
foreign countries, and ascertained,
much to his disgust, what common sense
people knew years ago, that the form
or professions Of his co-workers, in
the pernicious business OF breeding
dissension among the people of the
United States, the honest, philanthropy
ic abolitionists of England, whose en-
isaries first set at work in this coun-
try the dcspicable influences which
finally eliminated in the chief calami-
ty of the age-the Republican party
were never honest but only sought
by that means to disrupt this Union
and ruin the nation, which, above all
others, they most cordially hated
Their allies on this side Of the water,
the abolitionists Of this section, will
doubtless experience great satisfac-
ton in reading the views of one of
their leaders concerning the fraud by
which they have been duped, as stated
in his correspondence to the Adpcrtiser
& Tribune, from which we copy q
couple of extracts
In England we will find sympathi-
zers with the North; but Of hundreds
that / have met everywhere on the
continent and the East, / have found
not one that was outspoken for the
Union; many. that were quiet, and
more that were open and avowed and
violent enemies of our cause. blush
TO believe it tue, as an English cler-
gyman said to me i'll Jerusallm: at
is a mistake to assume that the great
majority of the English people were
ever cordial in their OPPOSITION to sla-
very"
Indeed, one is naturally, and /
think not uncharitably, led to the con-
conclusion that when thoy formerly
denounced our completely with slavery,
il was not so much because they hat
cd slavery, as because they hated us.
When we were pro-slavery, thoy made
this the protenso for abusing us but
now that we have pretty much washed
our hands of the evil, they abuse us
Just us cordially, and conclude that
the system which we repudiate was
really benevolent institution, and on
the whole about as good a thing as
we had among us
Whoever imagines that the English
people are on the principle opposed to
slavery, deludes himself; and if we
expect any sympathy from even q
large minority Of tho English people,
in our present struggle for free insti-
tutions, we shall find ourselves mis-
taken and disappointed. 1 am sorry
to say it; but after a month spent in
Great Britain, and eight months in
travel generally, in which 1 have con-
stantly been brought into contact and
friendly personal relations with Eng
lisimen, i am compelled to believe
that envy of our national success, and
hostility to our national growth, is
the controlling feeling Of the English
people; and certainly can count upon
the fingers of one hand all that have
fund in nine months who were in
cordial sympathy with us in suppress
ing a pro-slavery rebellion which
seeks TO establish any empire of which
slavery shall be the corner stone
You will understand that have made
it no part of my business, particularly
to seek out our friends; but speak OF
those whom have chanced to meet
n hotels, cars and elsewhere, which ]
think much the fairest way of ascer-
tanning the general feeling. One who
addresses public audiences on the
American side of the question, will
naturally gather about him those Of
his own opinions, and will be likely
very much to misjudge as to the atti-
tude of tho great mass.
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