Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-12-08
An Englishman Returning Home
Good Natured.

heretofore " has been rare for an
Englishman visiting the United States to
return home without displaying to the
pubic some manifestation of ill nature, in
The form of censure or sarcasm. I'm,
doubtedly this has been in many instances
deserved, for these travellers have not
met with very favorable snecimens of
our countrymen. They have generally
been surrounded by men of shallow in.
tellects, whose vocation il is in this co,r
try to hang around the wealthy and iu-
auental, for the sake Of the notoriety or
the gain which they obtain in this posts
ion. When they have been really met
by our intelligent and high minded men,
their distant, stiff and rather unsocial
habits have often impressed them unfa.
vorably, and, above all, the excessive
love of appreciation, as it is termed in
chronological nomenclature, is dstasteful
to the Englishmau, whose weak point is
a superabundance of self-esteem, mani
tested by a comparative Indifference as,
TO wha. others think of him.
For these reasons we have always
been disposed to excuse the abuse which
English tourists haye showered upon US.
! Sir Morton Peto, the leader Of the COM
psny of English railway capitalists, who
recently visited the United States, seems
to have been favorably impressed with
all that he saw, and on his return home,
in a speech before a charitable society at
Bristol, passed high eulogium upon our
people and their general prosperity. We
quote some passages from the repor. OF
his speech in the London Times. He
said:
ale went there at most interesting
epoch of the history of Amerca-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 great country
that would have led him to suppose such
a struggle bad existed. Sir Morton en-.
tered into the statistics which showed the
rapid growth and development of some
parts of the United States, and also al
luded to the vast growth of Boston and
New York. To understand America, he
said, they should go there, and no man
Of business entering life should consider
his education complete until be had paid
that country visit. The war was from
the very first war Of principle"
Sir Morton went on to give an instance
how the soldiers were absorbed into civil
calings, and he said that in Chicago Ire
went over large printing AsiahnahmAnf
belonging to a gentleman who was for
some years a secretary Of the Embassy
in London. Talking TO him about the
war, be said that AZ of bis competitors
were all Of them soldiers. "That man."
said he, pointing to one, "was n major,
that one captain-that lieutenant
that a sergeant but they were all at
work as quietly as if they had never left
the compositor's desk.
He bad the pleasure of meeting Gen.
M'Culum, who 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 peo-
pie. (Cbeers.) He learned from the
General, after going into the whole quss-
ton on the termination of that great
struggle, that the North we're working on
their own account $500 miles of railway,
3S9 engines, 5000 cars, 1000 employees
in connection with these. cloud ap-
plause.) Such course of action had
been instituted that when Gen. Sherman
made his march on Atlanta, the enemy
mad burnt every bridge on the railway
or a distance Of $50 miles; and Sher-
nan gave Gen. MCullum eight days in
which to reconstruct these bridges. One
bridge was 1200h. long and oft. high,
md it was constructed in three days and
/ half, cloud cheers) and every bridge in
he course of that $50 miles was con-
tructed in six days, and the whole sup
,lies of Sherman's army were carried.
'ver that line. Loud cheers)
The London Morning Post, in an edis
orial on Sir Morton Peto's late speech to
lis constituents at Bristol, says:
"His testimony TO the good will of tho
people generally will be APP
,reciated here, and we cannot but be glad
o be told that the war with England is
lot gravely or favorably entertained
amongst responsible people. No doubt
hey feel strongly about the Alabama,
,ut their leaders know as well as We do
hat the challenge pay or fight is not the
way TO settle dispute which is purely
me of internal equity. With a proper
disposition to do what is right, and on tho
'ther side TO ask nothing that is unreason-
bile, there car be no difficulty in Ultimate
, finding solution to problem which
iced have no difficult conditions but those