Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-06-04
The speech Of Prof. Goodwin smith.

Y Of the subject that nothing is to be SAID in re
10 joinder. Prot. Smith occupied some time IL
= showing that England Is no longer the aggres
: sive power among nations that she used to be
n which, true or not. has little to do with The
+ question at issue between England and America
e He gave some space to the threatened annexa-
: ton Of Canada which was threat Of Mr.
r Summers; and to the proposition that Canada
should be set off by England to this country il
# compensation Of the Alabama claims,-an alb
,uri idea. broschel in some Of the news
y paners. hut which has found no such favor
e with our public men Or people that it need have
n been dieuifed with any notice by Mr.. Smith.
e Discussion OF these outside matters seems but to
F. show Mr. Smiths reluctance 10 come to the
e real matters st issue.
e He comes 10 these il the statement of two
e. specific charges against England, viz: prema-
s. tgre recognition of the rebels as helligerents.
= and failure to arrest the Alabama. The charge
e of having prolonged the war two years, Mr..
! Smith does not regard as specific and response
bic; but he takes it up, not any too ingenious
/ ly we must say. by calculating back two years
from the end Of the war, when finding the rebels
b then at their fooi-tIe Of success, he concludes
that the withdrawal . the sympathy Of Eng
land would no, have induced them to lay down
their arms at once This is really
little better than quibbling Of course
the point Of those who urge that British
sympathy prolonged the war two years, is that
without tina, sympathy, without British money
put into rebel loans, without encouragement Of
British statesmen, wit out British Alabamas,
the rebels could not have reached any such
a'oi-;ido of success as they enjoyed in 1868
Their cause must have lauguishel from the first
without aid and comfort from England, and as
Mr.. Summer and many Of his countrymen he
Heye, its subsection would have cost two years
less time, a billion less of money, and hundred
thousand less OLIVES Nobody has maintained
that when. with the aid Of encouragement and
substantial assistance from England. the Con-
/ feieracy had became the formidable affair It
was ia -sa, It would have laid down it. arms if
that encouragement had been suddenly with
drawn.
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nd Of every american that the british Gov tiou
lment desired to have the Alabama s. sim the
ay Just as she did; that the order for her de- e erJ
tlon so per e7crinqlv and strongly asked for by /
Aiimsi vas plrpose'y delayed I'LL Just after 'iol
last moment when it could be Of any use; won won
that future rofrs,l. =, cbo,l nor career of nav
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ei ia British r0r.s. was Of a niece with the mus
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l.yarI nj I..verno5l. "
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