Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-09-22

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Professor Goodwin Smith, of Oxford
University, England, who with Mil, Cob
den, Bright and others, constitute the lead
ing Iberalist friends of the North, in Eng
land, is now at Chicago. He addressed
the High School of that city
and thus expressed himself on the relations
of England to the North. ,uI
The London Times sometimes speaks
fercely, but it did not represent the En-
glish people. Applause. There was
time when that great paper was the organ
ofthe masses, but now its proprietors bad
grown rich and aristocrstic. They had
mingled in the society Of Aristocrats until
their paper became the representative
of London clubs, the organ Of English
aristocraev The London Telegraph a
paper with twice the cine1la-
ton of the Times, and the great organ Of
the middle Glasses, was not, though hostile
to the war, and hostile to the American
people. Many Englishmen bitterly oppos-
ed the present conflict waging in this
country, but had no feeling of hostility to
the Northern people, he would frankly
confess that at the commencement Of the
war he considered they were rushing TO
national destruction Since that time he
had studied the questions at issue more
closely, and had revised his opinions lap-
plause1 great masses of his countrymen
flad .15s 5ff5SJeu TuIs revision.
Then there were large numbers of En-
| glishmen, who were not hostile TO this
Government, but were friendly to it, The
lower part of the middle classes-the re-
presentatives of the free Churches which
contained the true religion of the country
were friendly-the working men of Ian
cashire wished them well In their struggle
though that struggle brought starvation tC
their very doors. Cheers. Twas truG
that many of the London literary meI
we're opposed to them, but such were mixed
too strongly in the tide of fashion and die
not represent the genius of the country.
At Oxford, where he was, four Professor
besides himself were members of the UnioI
and Emancipation Society, which had 70
its chief aim the endeavor to properly rep
resent Americans TO the masses of the Eng
lish people. Then among the local pres
the Manchester Eranline7, a paper with
circulation nearly equal to the BondoI
Times, is favorable to this Government
while very few possess the extremely rad
cal views of the Thunderer. [Cheers.
Americans who visited the old country an
carefully studied the aspect of affairs wer
beginning to see the fact Henry War
Beecher went to England supposing hehs
to encounter an element antagonistic to bi
countrymen, but ere he left it, unless th
speaker was mistaken, those ideas had var
ished -5 sLss eli
Regarding, continued the speaker, th
hostility by England-the building an
equipment of the Alabama, he would lik
to say few words. That equipment wa
not the set of the English people, but wa
effected by party Of Liverpool Mercl
ants. Liverpool, it must be remembered
was rather branch or Offset of the South
ern States, than a truly English city.
had ever been q slave buying, slave deal
+. ing port, and was in the popular languAg
of the British people, built with the bloc
of the bondsmen, othe great dishonor {
the country, and the indignation ofthe EI
glish people. Applanse.J sajar
Regarding the hostility of the Britis
? aristocracy, it was less malignant hatre
or dislike than fear, for their own position
The progress of free religious and free il
!. stitutions in this country, combined wit
.REPBEeaakgs &sslisrs-.s A. 49,, ~
conspired to render their situation yer
. precarious one. So when the America
| people saw that the apparent hatred of Il
aristoeracy WAS not so much the effect
malignant dislike as of natural fear, the
3 will think less harshly of the British pc
l pie. Cheers- v bzu 1sa