The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-04
yOhn Sluart Mills ON English
Sympathy with the Rebellion.

In the course of one of his speeches to the
Westminster electors, Mr.. Mill said:
Now this sympathy of the rich for the rich
had manifested itself in a very decided way
| during the Last two or three years, by the ex-
| traordinary good wishes Of the higher classes
of this country for the success Of the Ameri-
can shareholders. He did not make this a
matter Of reproach against the rich and high
er classes OF this country. for he was quite
ready to let bygones be bygo1es; bat they
were not al liberty to renounce the privilege.
nay, the duty Of drawing lessons from the very
| things before their eyes hear. hear. and.
/ he should like 70 make a few remarks upon
the cause and meaning of the sympathy of the
rich for these shareholders
| Ii was not that they loved hvery. he ae-
quilted them Of that Hear. Hear.l But he
could not aeqnit them of having realized to
| their own minds by experienced or reflection
what dreadful thing slavery really was, and
| wha; were the results it produced and gave
rise to. 1t gave power-whether those who
had it used 1t or not-of tortur1ng human be-
| ings to death at their caprice. Hear, hear.
The Government which the stockholders en-
deavored TO establish had fortunately been
| frustrated, or there would have been..a kind Of
reign of evil on the earth.
| II was this which had giveh rise to the
bowie knife and the revolver, not the pure
government of democracy. Hear. hear.
Our privileged classes did not consider this.
or he believed they would have acted in diff
| ferent manner from that which they did
They merely saw just one thing Ia privileged
class opposed BY those who they thought
wanted to take that privilege away; and when
| they that then they said '.1hese [the
| Sontherners must be the gentleman with
whom gentlemen ought TO symbathize." He
believed that to be exaggerated. Hear
| hear The man who nearly murdered Mr.
Sumner, on the floor of the House of Con.
gress, was that man gentleman? And the
wives and daughters of siaveholt Hers, who rails
ed subscription TO mark their approval of his
conduct--shev were gentlewohen but the
refined and polished, the highly intellectual
society of Massachusetts, the poets, orators
philosophers, the popular preachers, tbs
brightest and best, those who took the lead
against such enormities-men such as Chan
nlng. Emerson, Theodore Parker, Lowell,
Bancroft, Motley, &c, these. we're not gentle
men, they were low radical and vulgar dema-
gognes [Cheers.l
So blind were these peopls-these privil
Il eyed ones--on our side of the water, that they
| did not know care that the people whom
they were thus attacking were those known te
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English literature, sympathizers with the
English people, admirers of us and tolerant O
much that was bad in us.
He did not make thisa matter Of reproaci
to any one, because, when 50 many joined II
It, 1t would not be right to apportion a share
Many who were well worthy Of their respec,
had yielded to this general psryersion of sen
timent; aud the moral he drew from it wa.
this, that they had here one of the-most sig
nal instances, and so recent that it could moi
be objected to as belonging to olden times, Of
how far men could be carried away by. theil
bias,r unconscious and uiptentonnl bias be wa.
persuaded, but still one that made the rich
sympathize with the rich, the privileged witt
the privileged and the practical lesson which
he deduced from il Was this, thatit was just
and proper thing that there should be ricf
men in Parliament for the purpose of watching
over the interests of the rich, but also, If they
wanted . similar care TO be taken Of the poor
they had better not shut up the House of Com
mons upon poor man.