The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-20

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How He Faced the Manchester Mob
Mr.Bee$her's Account Of the Affair
Gas Freshly Told 10 a Brooklyn
Eagle Reporter.
landed in Manchester from trim to
the North, and met at the station nv two
friends, Mr.. Watts and Mr.. j.. H. Est
court. Put their names in, for they. par
ticularly Estcourt, are two as grand Eng.
lishmen as the Lord ever made. saw,
the moment they met me, by their man.
ner, that there was something in the
wind, so that, after walking few steps,
1turned and said: '*Estcourt, what is it!
Out with it, now.'' He said there was .
great deal Of excitement in the city. /
supposed very likely they would tell me
the meeting had been postponed. "Well,"
said ], ''what is the subject of e Then
said he: "The streets are all covered
with placards of every description threat
ening violence and mob law ''Then
you have not given up the meeting, but
are only troubled because you think. I
cannot stand it! eyes, :.Well. don't
you trouble yourself. The opposition
that will turn me back and prevent my
speaking is yet to be revealed" He
turned around to me with such look of
admiration and relief, but never said q
word. He walked along, and could see
him cycling me from time to time, as il: to
satisfy himself that had the pluck. He
stopped at the hotel. The meeting was
to be. the next night. I prepared my
notes.
went in the evening. When I en-
tered, the stage was full and the great hall
was full. I was received with curiosity.
l knew that all the reporters from Lon.
don and the great cities were before me.
l kew, too, that there had been deliber.
ate design formed to break me down in
my speech in England, and then to shout
our failure, and determined that would
be heard in England, if it took me ten
years. l determined that would not be
broken down. I might be silenced at
that meeting, but having embarked in the
attempt determined sooner or later to
succeed. commenced my speech, and
after they had listened for five minutes,
as it were for general curiosity, I began
to make my points, and then a tum ult
arose.
may as we'll describe once for all the
character of the tumult. 1t was like-it
was not the whole audience at once in in.
surrection--it would be nest of men on
my right hand breaking out into q dis
turbance, apparently as if they were
quarreling with each other and others
would try to stop it, and there would be
shouting and uproar, which would be an
swered by another nest Of men in
another part Of the room, and then it
would bubble up there away in the back
part of the hall, and then there would be
lull, then cat calls and whistles; then
the billowing and sdrging would begin
again, and the whole audience would
catch it; on one side and on the other
there would be all manner of insulting in
terruptions and. pretcstations against
them, as if the whole audience were
against each other and the whole of them
against me. l said to myself: Two things
must be done at once; first, that ha1
got to throw away my notes; second,
that, while was managing an unruly as
semblage, I would have to be both gen
eral and an orator. It was necessary
that should put out for the reporters Of
the next morning papers such view of
specl of the reading men. The audience
was evidently divided into three parts; a
minority favorable to me. another equal
minority opposed to me, and medium
section who had come there neither to op-
pose nor favor, but were to be persuaded
one way or the other. I was satisfied
that I should gain nothing by going with
those who were already my friends. 1t
was evidently my policy to secure the
great middle section, so I resorted to eve
ry. expedient which man accustomed to
manage audiences employs. When the
uproar was so great that no human being
could have talked with the reporters in
front, sometimes debating to them the
part of the sentence interrupted. At 9TH
er times Hooked on the whole thing as
child looks on storm at sea, when he
stands on rock where it could not reach
him; then, again, laughed outright at
the comical things taking place before |
me.
Z: One man was standing back by the
baize doors, great fat fellow who was
believing at the top of his voice. A po-
liceman, or somebody with marks of
Office on him, sat at the end of the seat
next to him. After the fat fellow had
beloved once or twice, the other fellow
turned around and struck him in the
belly, and the first one fell clear through
the door. which closed on him at once, 50
that he finished his below on the out
side. I Twas convnlsed with laughter to
think how that fellow would feel to find
himself so suddenly out there. The au-
dience laughed with me. Again would
point to some person in the audience,
somebody would catch II and II ,ro,1d