New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-27

day. Besides TIRE confidence you gt,e Ee NIeh VIC
are together feel quite sure that the fact OF your
being present with the power OF reply exerts
restraining influence on lamC!stou ana the otn,r
speakers on the Treasury hrnc"' a'iu ~ Is especy
ocrasiop. / hnps therefore that Won Will find your
sell in u situation TO como for one night
A few months later he wrote to Mr. Bright as
follows
aSome shallow and indiscvoot members of cur
aristOcracy exclaimed AZ the outbreak 81 me c'Fit
war The Republican bubble ~ burst ; but ~. sA-
perieuce OF the last two years SHOWS lhat. MhSt''
In uoace or war this Republic, instead of bubble,
is the greatest and most solid lct in all history.
II is to lo hoped that gradually our cduTlIeI MOP
of the clubs will become, however hIWliIhgly, az
ouaintrd with the warllIe resources oil America ~
present nine ont OF ten Of them are uHncr 'He
moment to raise the blockade ana erect peace on
tho hasig of separation And such Is the inVniher-
able conceit Of large part OF our aristocIatlc
middle class chat If such facts as have gwen
owe were unhishcl by yOu or myself, they would
he read with increluiiIy, ard No should he nc
nounced as Yankee Synpa'hIers.
In ore Of the last Of his letters, written about a
fortnight before his death (lS65, he expresses 10
Mr.. Bright his sense of the alteration of tone
odopted hy tho governing class toward the United
states when il became evident which side would
win: at is clear that the homage which was re-
fused TO Justice and humanity Will be freely gwen
TO success No part OF your speech was to me moro
acceptable tan where you threw IN the parenthon-
cal reflection that the sacrifices OF the North were not
70 nut Bourbons on the throne OF France or To Keep
Tho Turk m Europc. sin do not lot MS deceive
ourselves There will be back reckoning M
Cobdc, had no fear of war with America, because
orr generous homestead law and our rich public
lands offered free to the immigrant, must convince
tbc ma Of the English people that tLey have lar
biokcr stake in the United states than in tho coun-
vof their birth; but. re continued though the
governing classes will not b. abo TO involve us IN
,yc-. thew viii. think, il they continue to hold
their present rule in tins country, bring on us some
great humiliation from America. which never could
happcn if the people a. whole controlled inc
politics Of the state"
Mr.. Coblcn had always so strenuousIy opposed
thc FOREIGN policy Of Lord palmcrston that there
ap,ears 10 be something almost grotcsquo in the
offer OF Il seat in tho Cabinet maize to hun by TAT
merston in 1850. Many OF his friends urged him to
accent il. and were disappointed when he refused
thouah Mr. Bright with h, usual sagacity. saw that
Cobdcn was right The invitation to join the new
Ministry WAS placed in Nr. Cobdcns hands on his
arrival nj Liverpool after the second American
voyage:
e yorgor 4f6 J,Iy. 1851 thought it best on my
arrival IN town 20 20 Grst To l&lmcrston' and eN-
plain plainly and frankly everything IN calling
talked as usual for few minutes on everything but
what / went about. At j. 1gth l hroNe the zee III
thi5 way: You have acted IN so manly nnd naS,
nanuous manner in pressing me tc take Once III
your Cabinet that feel bound to come and talk to
Won without reserve Un0a tn snbl'ct. My case Is
Tins: For the last twciv" years | nave h'rh tne
s,stsnatic and constant assaillnt OF the principle
ON which your torcgn policy ha5 been carried
on | believe YOU 10 be waruhc' intermeddHhS'
and 0uarrul,omr, and that your policy was cacn-
IeteJ I'm cubrOi Ms with f1Ici,n nations. At the
gorne time have expressed q general want OF conil-
drrcc in ycur domestic politics. Now may nave
been altogether wrong IN my views; u Is possible
,1,y have been but I put il Caudiily to you
whether Il ought 10 he IN Nuur CABINET, whist
holding a post of high honor and cWoiumcnt derived
IRON Won that | should make the ursl ayowalo OF
change Of opinion respecting Vour pu'hc poucy
Should | not exuosc myself to fcycrc suspicious.
and descrveily So. II ] were uudcr these ctcum'
stances 10 step from IN Atlantic steamer into your
Cabinet Understand, | beg. that have no per-
sonal feelings which prevent me from accepting
your otter. / have OPPOSED You ~ the supposed
representative of what / b icycd 10 hc dangerous
principles. If have ever been personally ofen7iy"
IN my opposition il not intended. and assurcdly
yon never gave me any lnsuhcauoh ior hNeh
course
In reply he disclaimcl any feelings OF personal
kind and sad that even n there had preu any per
sonatIes, they never ought TO be remembered Tor
he thought Gibson had hit him gutc as h1rd as |
had Then he cOmupnccd O. combat my objections,
aud to offer, with apparently great Sincerity
variety of arguments % show hat ought 20 enter
the Cabinet dwelling particularly on the iact that
rs questions OF foreign policy were now uppcrmoN,
and those questions were IN the hands OF thc TX
ecutivc. it was only hy joining the Government
that | could influence them. ltr ana }our iIicnds
complain he said. Of q secret diplomacy and tllat
wars are entered into without consulting the
people. Now it Is in the Cabinet alone that cues
lions of foreign policy are settled We never con
sul' Parliament tll Gfier they are settled. II.
therefore YOU wish 10 have "a voice 10 tho qurs-
tions vOu can only do so N the Cabinet. This was
the argument ] found II most dinioult to answer,
ana therefore he pressed il most strongly
81 But finding me still firm in my objections he
observed laughnRly: Why are you IN the House of
CommonsP 1 answered also with a laugh Upon
my word hardly know, But why did you enter
public lfer said he. i hardly know was my
answer; it was by nero accident, and for
special purpose and probably II would have been
better for nae and my family II had kept my Pr
hands, and with n laugh louder than before. he eV-
claimed: Well but being in it, why not 60 on ?
lie added: kccollect don't offer You Tie seat from
any desire Of my own 10 change my colleagues. II
left 10 me- would OF course rather have gone ou rs
before with my old friends. | offer YOU the scat
because You have a right 10 it,
ln answer 20 ms remark that perhaps Others
might De fond quite rs much entitled Us Wysol to
represent the advanced Liberals IN his Government.
ne replied quickly: Will you be good enough to
mention the naino OF anyone excepting Bright
Gibson aad yourself that | could bring into tho
Cabinet as the representative OF the ltadicalsF
urged that Bright had been unfairly judged, and
that his speeches nc Birmingham, ctc., not Of
kind 10 exclude him from m offer of a seat, and
remarked that no had very carefully avoided per
sonalitcs in those spe8chcs IL is not personalities
that are complained Of; public man., sad nc rs
right in attacking pcrsOcs. But II Is his attacks
cL1sses hat have given offence 10 powerful bodies
who can mako their resentment felt
q" In the course of his rcmark5 he gave me q full
explanation Of his views Oh the present war and
expressed his determination to preserve u strict
neutrality observing that, the people Of England
would soon think OF cvacuating thoso islands
"a &C. 20 to in behalf Of Austria and a. France
did not ask 10 help her. lac could not see any POS
sibility Of our being mixed mp in the fray. On this
point he remarked: II you are afraid OF our
abandoning our neutral ground, why don't you
come into the citadel of power where you can have
"a voice in preventing itT
"On his rcmarlling upon the difficulty there
would be in carrying on she Government unless all
parties united, and how impossible 10 was for
him TO do so if the natural representatives of the
Liberals would not take Office, replied that the
very fact OF his having offered me Office was so far
as ] was concerned, his Justification; and that