Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-06-08
Hon. W. E. Forster on Mr.. Summers
Speech.


Hon. w. E. Forster, M. p, well
known for his support of our national
cause during the war, and one OF the
ablest and fairest members OF the En-
glish Liberal party, has been address
ing his constituents of Bradford, chief
ly in review of Mr.. Summers speech.
After referring in high terms to Mr..
Sumner as his personal friend, and
after presenting the usual English OBJ
jections to his speech, Mr.. Forster
makes the following remarks, which,
we are sure, our people have no wish
to underestimate
"Well, but then they say, if Amer
lean travellers came TO England they
could not 90 into a drawing.room in
Belgravia, without hearing some re-
proach against their country. We'll,
there were drawing-roomS IN which
that was not the case; but, generally
speaking, it was so, grant 1t. But
is it come to this, that Republican
Americans are to judge OF England
by her fashionable clubs and her draw
ing.roOms If they wanted to know
what England felt, they, the RepuoIi-
cans, the men OF the people, ought to
have gone to the workshops of the
people and the hearths of the people.
There they would have found III that
workshop i'll Lancashire, which was
no longer a workshop because OF their
war; by that hearth-StOne which was
cold and dreary, where there was
hardly a meal that could be cooked
because OF their War-there they
would have found their friends; and
it is not fair for Mr.. Sumner, or tor
any American, to forget those friends
and merely to remember those fash
ionable men who, after all, diu not
guide the destinies of England.
have talked about what individuals
have done, but feel that that Is not
what we really have to do with. But
| ain referring to it because our Amer
lean friends so constantly talk abou
what individuals have done. Blu
what they have to do with Is wha
the Government has done. Well, yol
and we've by your help, kept the
Government straight, and the Govern
ment did not fling its sword on tit
side of slavery. 1t Is true that Lore
Russell, or rather the men who werr
acting under Lord Russell-becaus
it was not his dolng-aIlowed the Al
ALBANIA to escape. There was great
as | believe, great neglect, in allow
|. ing her to escape. l believe Their
was u great mistake In allowing he
refuge in British ports. You know
that | did my best to denounce AM
expose shat mistake; but feel tina
| have some little right to complain
against my friend Mr.. Sumner wheI
in this question, and this great crioi
of question, he quotes my words "a
it were against my own country, with
out remembering that those word
were used for his country, and use,
with success, for we did keep Eng
land, say, from breaking the neu
trality. There was that great mis-
take upon The Alabama, for which W
are willing to submit to arbitration
and to pay damages little arbitrator
e as / dare say he loould-decldeS agasn'
t us. But it must not be forgotten tia
although Lord RusSell-or, rather
e the men who professed to serve Lor
! Russell, and served him badly i'll tina
matter of letting the Alabama out
that Lord Russell, guided by eXper
encc strained the law to keep I'll
s rams from going out"