The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-03-13
A sgorcHMAN,s As1EarcAN NorEs.
SIR GEORGE caarBELLs lMrREssroNs--wnAr
THE MEN, WOMEN, CITIES, AND HOTELS ARE
LIKE~-A WORD ABOUT pRrvATGER!NG.

SIR George Campbell. who has recently
made an extended tour in the United States,
delivered OH February 9th a speech to his
constituents in KirkcaIdy Free church,
which was fully reported in the Fife. Free.
Press. lie Is a Liberal III politics, and an
influential member OF Parliament He is !
son OF Lord John Campbell, Chief Justice
OF the Queens Bench, q voluminous COM
! pilcr Of law reports, and the author Of the
Olives of the Lord Chapcellors." and also
OF the Olives OF the Chief Justices OF Eng
land" AS he has persuaded himself that
no one can be political student, or ATTEMPT
to master the politics OF England, or those
OF any other country, without having seen
something OF the United States, and as,
moreover, he is trained observer who sees
what is TO be seen and does not insist upon
seeing what he has made up his MUD to see
in advance. these extracts from his speech
are profitable as well as interesting reading:
- have strong belief that all OF us
ought 10 know The Americans better than
We do. They are really and truly our kin.
[ ApplanSe.l This is not 4 mere phrase
When one goes among them one finds that
they are very little renewed from us after
all, An intimate acquaintance and friend
ship With them must be most beneficial to
both parties in order to cultivate the arts Of
peace ana material progress, and still more
10 avert the possibility CT war between
two sister countries; than which, in these
modern days Of destruction, nothing can
be more awful or more terrible, but risk
to which we arc always exposed Is long rs
misunderstanding are possible. 1t seems
to me very unfortunate that most Of the
popular English writers who have described
the Americans have caricatured them
low tl,ne f1 {, ~,
the men OF the ra>t who have suffered
from American finance, or otherwise, but
even the popular writer Anthony Trollopc,
who is still among us, and who. some years
ago, gave us GeSci Upton Of the Americans
in his very vivid and popular manner,
seems 10 me to have done them the greatest
injustice. Not only does he seem to make
the worst OF everything, but most OF their
ways and institutions be unjuStly con-
dcmns; and We may Imagine the spirit in
which he wrote when | mention that, Wri-
ting in the latter part Of the great civil war,
he condemns in language the most scathing
all who would do anything so mad and fool
ish as to emancipate the slaves, the only
wonder 10 me is that, after all that has
passed, the feeling OF the Americans toward
us is so good rs it in fact is. They really
have very kindly feeling Oh their part;
and il there is misunderstanding, !
think it is more due to Ignorance and
prejudice on the part OF many people in
England. though | hope not in Kirkcaldy,
which has 50 much and so beneficial bust
ness with America. 1t Is certainly the case
10 ~. t'iS 'I..''9 ~ :?
nnI .ors'.n,,ontI,. :, hn,,nams, roT" H.
,,,n,,,,hIa FOOT T Liri.Eti,,t almost invo-
, 49,, .r.h~ s,a,din, q 5nv dcrS ~ I've
nn,,trv M, :ecinc Wind.or Stratford-on-
.ynr and AbhotSTord. they 90 abroad 10
49,, Toriinrnt NJ Frrorr. AMI snfnd their
.;,,n ga ,,oror thorn I ,hinI. this shou,d
na owed We should welcome them mora
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w. Imam
FORTY EAGLAHpS.
'On tie whole. thoM. taking The country
mile fcr mile ant, acre for acre, | can say
that it is about equal 10, but not Superior
to, England; but, then. there Is thls vast
diftrcncc-that II Is rot enc EnSs:hc, hut
~: ai,Inh i,r Az t:i,,istons:s rocnnt ~
ticln. when lie sail that tie United States
II they kept together, must certainly sur
mass us. ii seems to me that Mr. Gladstone
only smoke 4 truth, which must naturally
he self.eyidcnt. without attrihuting to the
American ueoplc any great superiority over
ourselves. 1T Ill events over Scotc:.men.
IApplause We are 4 People Il little
over thirty millions, who have no means
Of extension in our own county. We
arc. as it were. like hive OF bees,
which is constantly sending forth
swarms to establish other hives else
where. but does not itself admit OF extern
sion: whereas the Americans are already
t upwards Of 40. 900. 600, perhaps nearly 49,
l 900, Coo OF people, who are continually OK
. tending themselves every day, WHO have not
one hive but forty hives, ard these only
very partially occupied, and not only send
their Swarms into their own hives, but are
continually receiving new swarns from lis
and from others, II follows, as IL matter Of
course that ,Indor such circumstances the
far,r h;vn. nuSt surna,s the one hive in
nn,,'',,.tinn and nro6uction. if only they
inan to~o,bor And we NAV We very com
fnr.ahIc ,i home without "rId.in" them
,ha;,, nyts,cinn In trutb what the Amcrj-
ra,s srtr.r from If nrasent 1s too much land.
N'''~
AMERICAN lplcMS.
1--WE have heard Ct the popular Iaa-
keeisms' which are supposed TO give lis
fair specimen OF the American people; but
what found when | went there was that
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