The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-13

wThe Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
produces at length late speech Of Dir. Han
del Cassham, delivered at Bristol, England
Mr. Handel Cassham is a member OF the
Bristol Emancipation Society, and has en-
loved the benefit of being one of Sir Morton
Peto's party which made grand tour last
summer through the North. An English
man is not necessarily stupid Sir Morton
Peto wasnot. He owned considerable rail-
way stock. as also did several of the party
which accompanied him, and he would like
to be gratifcd at the expense of the toad
eating aristocracy that had gone half crazy
with delight at sight ofthe Great Eastern
and deified the boy prince Albert Edward.
The party shonld have been satisfied. If
they came for homage and adulation, they
could not reasonably have asked for more.
From one end of the great North to the
other, their arrival at and departure from
intermediate points was a matter OF the
greatest moment, and was heralded in all
the leading journals. Hotels Wed with
each other in furnishing the most elegant
and expensive dinners for their lOrdly pal
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States might be very good place, the land
was rent with a great shout, while with
tears of JOY the railroad directors and the
hotel keepers laid their hands upon their
hearts and said 1.-The great Englishman is
not angry with our country. He thinks 1t
may do very well. He may shell out some
more stamps and build some more rail
roads,
This Mr.. Cassham was one of the party
but he was q man given to the acquisition
acknowledge, so, .as he says, he left the
party at Niagara ard returned to New York.
He then spent a few days in running over the
country He saw Boston, Hartford, New
York and Washington; passing rapidly
through and of course, with the intuitive per-
ception of an Englishman, he understood
everything at a glance. Speaking of Boston
he says:
Its a city of about 100000 people, and
within its precincts stands Bunkers Hill,
where Americans fancy the British were de-
feated, and have erected a monument to
celebrate the supposed victory. | told them,
however, that they had mistaken a strategic
movement on our part for a defeat, and that
we had simply retired from motives OF hu-
manity.
Having arrived at Washington he enjoyed
the priviledge of meeting Ben Butler and
Gen Howard of the Freedmen's Bureau We
might perhaps think that he had derived
some valuable information from Butler if we
did not feel certain that he 'knew it alr
when he arrived. From Washington he
went to Richmond, where he also fell III
with the best society to be found among the
cutiud brothers and while listening to theil
"oft told tale" was, it seems, much amused
He says:
also went down to Richmond, examined
the defences of Richmond; visited Genera
Terry in the house that was occupied by
jeff Davis; went to the church from viii CT
JEFF. skedadled on that memorable first Sun
day in April, when the telegram from Lee
informed him that he had better prepare fol-
run. l had the pleasure, too, of hearing
from the people at Richmond-and especial
ly from the colored people-the JOY and sat
isfaction they felt at seeing jeff. and hi!
army walk out and Grant and his army
walk in. This was day of jubilee to th'
African race, and it is most amusing ever
now to hear them talk of the circumstance:
connected with the surrender. | visited
while here the rebel Congress house, wher'
arch-conspiracy, that armed outrage upoI
law, civilization and liberty, had talked
treason, and assured the world that the,
would die i'll the last ditch rather than bt
conquered. However, they are conquered
and they appear to be in no great hurry t.
die in bitches; but like brave men they
seem resolved to show the world that they
can behave better in the future than they
have III the past, and that they can now b'
as loyal and patriotic to their Government
and country as they have previousl,
been traitorons and disloyal.
The condition of the negro is, it seems,
matter about which the Bristol Emancipa
tion society wish to know something fo
he gratifes them after this fashion.
"You will naturally expect me TO make
few remarks as to the condition of the col
ored race nee the abolition of slavery. Or
this point I cannot do better than give yol
few of the facts furnished me by Gen
Howard, who is at the head of the Freed
mems bureau, and one of the noblest o
men. He told me that might use his nam
to contradict the widespread statemen
that the negro will not work. He sait
there was less difficulty to get the negro t.
work than there was to get the mean white
population of the South to do so,' and
hence, he remarked, there are more whit
people receiving aid from the Government
down South than there are colored prople."
Here is one fact put forward in this mas
ofsilly p'isapprehension and ignorance
There are many more white men in tn
South receiving benefit from the Govern
ment than there are negroes, but they ar
the attaches of the Freedmen's Bureau
Tax collectors, aud cotton agents, who re
ceive rations, clothes and greenbacks, Will
the advantages issued to the negroes are c
the most questionable and unsubstantia
kind.
Here, now, is an Englshman on visit t
this just discovered country, who finds
inhabited. He finds people principally {
white complexion, who speak dialect, nc
English, to be sure, but still Ineligible /
an English ear. In about week he learn
the habits, manners and customs of this pei
pie, and then goes back and delights Bri
tol audience with the result of his investig,
tions We cannot get indignant at his wan
of information, but we can laugh at his is
norance.
~ A serious disaster had nearly bt
fallen, on the Sth inst, at Kushla, eleve
miles above Mobile, in consequence c
some villain having placed arail across th
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