Litchfield enquirer., 1867-06-27
WHOLE NO. 2247.
JOHN BRIGHT ON AMERICAN AF-
 FAIRS.
A London correspondent writes:

I London correspondent writes.
 ni' Prlght deserves the title of the cham
 p1on Of American liberty in the British
 Parliament. There has never been Q m l ment when he has doubted or turned back
 m the support of genuine republican prin- clpIes. His anxiety for the success of the ! great Radical party of America was we'll calculated to excite my gratitude. Proud and full of praise of the manner in which the AAAlAth and XLth Congress had completed the work of reconstruction. he IS extremely solicitous that no mistake may endanger our triumph at the coming Pres ldentl'd election, and that nothing will hinder wise and continued administra- ton of the National Government by the men who saved 1t from ruin. That such a man should be loved by the English mass es' ana faithfully followed by his associates Ill Farllament, IS very natural, and we in Amenca should not refuse to listen to his counsel | never shall forget the fervor With which he said: ''Nothing in history equals the glorious triumph of humanity ana liberty In your country. You will find thlngs much changed for the better in Great Britain. 7He overthroac of your ene- mtes Gt home haS surrounded you' cause aoih frte"ds a6rood IHe acondey'm magnanimity W"@ 'ch'ch you hace treated tue Rebels (acho
 1o"(d 1'1S(ontly hore been lung by Hundreds J
 "0y No0 tuhen a1'has against e m0narcly) has 0eeA c te7T16Ie contrast 5o tue cruelty of these O1A "'en, 0"d an 0dnonuion and example to lhe ty'0nts of Ne eQrth." As MT. Bright had been laborlng for several days past to save the lives of those Fenian leaders who have Deen @ sentenced to be hung Especially bufke,) and as, when he spoke to me, there was some doubt whether the efforts of his friends and himself would prevail, he gave peculiar emphasis to this remark: "You tell me- he went on to say, "what know ana deeply regret, that Irishmen in Amer lea vote With the falsely called Democratic party and against the noble Republicans, who are tho courageous friends of hnman rights all over the world, and this is the more painful when tell you that the Lib efal party Tn Parliament has never had so aole ana faithful body of supporters as the majority of the members from Ireland. but tune will cure all this If God in His infinite providence does not bring the 1flsh Tn America rightly to view their duty to the only country in which they can truly prosper, they will gradually be lost in the oVerWheimlng growth and preponderating lnlluence ot the native-born element, white ana black. In the nature of things, the tide ot emigration from Ireland to America cannot be greater than it has been, while the increase of your homogeneous popula- tion will render any attempt to oroanize internal combinations, based upon either the Catholic religion or hatred of a partic- ulaf people, comparatively intellectual" NIT. Bright said the department of the col orea people III our country since their lib efatlon was the |" sublimest spectacle in history; and when Iassured him how ccm- pletely they had disappointed the predic- Ilons or thelr foes and the fears of their friends, he sald he never doubted how the experiment. of setting them free would end' The ballot-being the representative o1 an lnallenable right, natural franchise, Whlch, belonging to all men alike in civ 1llzed country, cannot be withheld without gross injustice, and even when conceded, conveys the assumption of a revolting pre- sumption by those who aspire to concede l1-makes men emulous to be worthy of the responsibilities of citizenship. "I may not live to see the day, but Burning to ms son, a young gentleman of about 20 years of age, standing at his side,) this lad Will, when colored men as able as any of your whites, will figure in your national councils" One part of this interesting in terview deserves special consideration that where MT. Bright took especial pains to deny that the Liberal leaders entertained any purpose of creating bitter feelings be- tween England and the United States. His language here was precisely what have heard from the lips of John Stuart Mill M P, Goldwin Smith, Thomas B. Potter, M F., Thomas Hughes, M. F., the author or " Tom Brown,o Lord Charles Freder- 1ck Cayendish, M. P, William Edward Forster, M, P, Sir Francis Crosley, MP, and other men of the same school