Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-07-19

THERE is something very uncongenial
to the better feelings Of Englishmen in a
formal tender of English congratulations
TO those who have been victorious in q
war of conquest. Such congratulations
SAVIOR too much of triumph over the van
quished; Of insult to the fallen, the un-
fortunate, the, oppressed, than which
nothing can be more hateful to true
Englisbman. Such a festival has pc
culiar flavor Of meanness 1t is not
while six or seven millions of our kiDs-
men are held in Political bondage de-
spoiled of all legal and personal rights,
and menaced with the con6scation on
their property, that Englishmen should
bow down before the advocates of tyran-
ny and spoliation. Such, however, is
the real sense of the banquet given to
Mr.. Garrison. 1t processes to cele-
brate only the extinction of slavery
But the extinction Of slavery was
a mere accident Of the war-an in
cident and unforeseen consequence of
that which forms the true subject Of this
feasting and rejOicing-the subsection of
the South. The war was not waged to
destroy slavery but to maintain the
Union. 1t would be too absurd to feast
and glorify Mr.. Garrison because his
objects were attained by an accident in
the pursuit of other ends Only those
who sympnthized with The Union jsined
in the demonstration, which is really one
OF cordiality towards the dominant party
in the North, towards the party of Fee
nianism and confiscation, of Sumner and
Butler and Stevens. And the chairman's
name is a sufficient proof of this. Mr..
Bright never abhorred slavery till slavery
broke up the Union. In no case, in no
cause have the sympathies Of England
been with John Bright-London Herald
AT the banquet given to Mr.. Garrison,
Earl Russell remarked that whereas DIFF
ferences Of race, religion, or institutions
often led to sentiments Of hatred between
nations, and 70 sanguinary wars, Eng.
land aud the United States, having the
same ancestry, the same religion, and,
though different institutions, the same
love Of freedom, ought to be perpetual
friends. Cheers. he acknowledged
having been at fault in thinking. when
the Southern States endeavored TO es.
tablish their independence, and at the
hdht ltnt ptTptAualt tluftEy. klat the
North ought at once, not enlY to have
declared their adherence Of slavery, but
decreed It's abolition. Distance and want
Of knowledge Of the circumstances OF
America, led him into that error, but he
was convinced BY the eminent man who
represented the United States in this
country mr. Adams, in frequent con-
versations upon the subject, that he had
not rendered due justice 70 Mr.. Lincoln,
who was not only the friend, bat ulti.
matoly the martyr Of freedom. lCheers ]
After pointing how much more difficult
abolition was in America than in the
West Indies, on account Of slavery being
bound up with al the political and social
relations Of the South, and eulorizinc
the course PARSED By President Lincoln /
and bis government, his lordship ex. /
pressed his hope that the animo-iiies Of /
eighty years ago had become extinct /
that We Englishmen shared In
he admiration Of Washington as The
nan Of puresi patriotism among an the
,reat men Of modern times, and rejoicea