The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-12-09
SIR MORTON rEro,s SPEC OH.

Upon his return to England, after his ex
tensive tour in this country, Sir MoRros PEre
made speech at Bristol from which VIC
extract the following remarks, of speca
interest to Americans:
''He went there at most interesting epoch
| of the history of America--at the close of the
most tremendous struggle known in modern
times. He did expect to find exhaustion,
and society somewhat disarranged; but he saw
nothing of the kind. [Cheers. There was
nothing throughout the whole of the grea,
country that would have led him to suppose
such struggle had existed. Sir Morton en-
tered into statistics which showed the rapid
growth and development of some parts of the
United States, and also alluded to the vast
growth of Boston and New York. To under
stand America, he said, they should 60 there,
and no man of business entering life, should
consider his education complete until he had
the very first war of principle.
The United States army was 1.2e0, 900
strong, and Gen. Grant had told him at St.
Louis he had mustered $4,000 men up to
that day. He stated that he did not mean to
have more than $4,000 men, and if their
friends of the South were sincere, they would
bring the army down to 10000. [Cheers.
If these men could go and be absorbed in
civil life, it must show that the country pos.
sessed resources such as were never seen
before, and which nations in Europe would do
well to initiate. Loud cheers Sir Morton
went on to give an instance of how the sol
diers were absorbed into civil callings, and he
said that in Chicago he went over large
printing establishment belonging to gentle
man who was for some years a secretary of
the Embassy in London. Talking to him
about the war he said that forty yseven of his
compositors were all of them soldiers. That
man.. said he, pointing to one, was major,
that one "a captain-that "a lieutenant-that a
sergeant but they were all at work as quietly
as if they had never left the compositor' S
desk
He had had the pleasure of meeting Gene
raj McCullum, who had conducted the whole
of the Commissariat Department, and who
would be his guest next year, and he hoped
to bring him to see the Bristol people.
GCheers. He learnt from the General, after
going into the whole question on the termina-
ton of the great struggle, that the North
were working on their own account $500
miles of railway, 3sI engines, 5000 cars, 1000
employees in connection with these TLoud
applause Such a course of action had been
instituted that when General Sherman made
his march on Atlanta, the enemy had burnt
every bridge on the railway for a distance of
80 miles; and Sherman gave General " Cul-
lum eight days in which to reconstruct these
bridges. One bridge was l200ft. long and
91ft. high. and it was constructed in three
days and u balf loud cheers and every bridge
in the caurse of that 100 miles was construct
cd in six days, and the whole supplies of Sher-
mans army were earned over that line.
Loud cheersI :"
In regard to the freedmen he said:
II have no fears for the future of the freed
men, unless they are driven by harsh laws to
array themselves against the whites. And If
the South produces less inkAe future than she
has done in the past it will be because she does
not legislate wisely. The barrenness of ia
maica to-day is due to the harsh legislation
which drove the negroes from the plantations
to their mountain patches, where what they
produced was their own.
His idea Of Fenanism was thus expressed:
''What did Fenanism in America mean
Well, it meant this: That number Of foolish
Irishmen. having more money than they knew
what to do with. allowed other people to pick
their pockets Laughter and cheers. The
lrshman in America was different being to
what he was in his own country He had
tneFe cast hSlttt TUE tuHutHct Ol lfH priest.
and was, to certain extent. his own masetr.
He received two dollars day if he only took
the position of the merest laborer.
Upon matter Of the claims in dispute be-
tween the two nations
1.-The Hon. Baronet proceeded to remark
that the idea Of Earl Russell was an admirable
one-viz: to have commission, but il must
be commission fairly appointed, competent
to Judge, embracing all points ofthe question:
but that commission having delivered its YER
diet England must abide by it. He knew
that the feeling of his countrymen would new
er be weak enough to pay for the damage OF
the Alabama, but in the case of nations. as in
the case of individuals, the nation should
make herself so strong that she could afford
to do right; and let him ask them if one Of
their merchant princes made a mistake and he
met his fellow merchant. acknowledged his
wrong and made reparation, was be the less
esteemed or the less man of confidence than
he had been before? but man of smaller
pretensions. a man of less mind, he was n man
who might fear to do right; but England,
while doing justice to the smallest State
could not in in the case of powerful nation
put her back against the wall and in a fit of
obstinacy saw We will not have this -