Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-03-25
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 V Of the cause so much, as the decision O 70 Great Britain to throw the weight of he l. influence oD theside of the South. IL va { evident from the beginning, that a wal - n the United States would almost des , troy Tor the time being, the supply O - raw cotton to English manufacturers 3 this together with the natural jealous,
 of the ruling powers of England, agains ! the success Of republican form o government, caused them to extenC , their sympathies to the South, which a that time meant great deal. Southerr ports were declared in "a state o - blockade" but how easy it would have
 been for England to have raised the
 blockade. II WAS at this very critical
 period in the history of the late war
 that John Bright, that far seeing honor.
 able English statesman came forward
 with his great eloquence and logical
 reasoning ID favor of The side Of the
 Unlon. In this noble work the late
 MT. Golden went with hun. and side by
 side they laborsd 10 Parliament and
 among the people to create sympathy
 for the North and prevent open aid to the States in rebellion For time 1t looked as though theIr efforts would be | ID vain, but such earnest workers could not long be without followers. They were soon reinforced by John Smart Mill and others, and by the siptIng of parliament in the spring of 1862, they had created such an impression among the people in favor of the Union that no action was taken to strengthen the South, and we were allowed to settle our own difficul- ties.
 The American people have never for gotten the noble efforts of these men in favor of the cause the Union, and even many people iu The South recognize their honorable acton, and believe that 1t was ID the best interests Of all the States both North a. ] South.
 l. has been the intention of Mr. Bright to come to this country, and on one or two occasions he has named the year when he would visit the country in which he had more friends than in his own native land; but when the time arrived other duties seemed to have greater claim upon him. Recently the Union League Club Of New York invited him to visit this country during the present year. The London News, in referring to the subject, says:
 Mir. Bright must have felt some genu- inc pain when he declined the invitation of the Union League club, of New York. tU visit the United States as the guest ol the club, which was to celebrate this month the twentieth anniversary Ot its foundation. The Union League club Was founded with the object of givlnA strength tO Mir. LIDcOlu's goveruMelt, and to tle E-publicau prIncIpais-wt lS- .Ils nurti LOW m the American partS seuse-Uulcd the events proceeding the w.,r had Crs stalIzed to distinct form. Inc same klnd Of wolk which the Union League club set Itself tO do iu New York MT. Bnght was setting himself to do ID the House of Commons aud ln English public life. About this l time Mir Golden and Mr. Bright were | the only two EngllShmeu of really com | handing position Ill politics who thor | Oughly understood the northern cause, | and who believed ID its ultimate | success as well as in its | justlce. They had undoubtedly a great | ally in NIT. Mill, but Mir Mill mp to that | time had not been public man, and iu | facl, was only drawn into public life ID | the first instance by his interest in the l success Of the north and his earnest de- | sire to promote it. Mir Bright was re- | garded by all Americans Of the north | ern States as their especial champion | and friend. His pnworful olo4uoaoO | was Of immense servlce ln Parliament | and on the platform in resisting the kind i of passion with which society m tnIs | country unluckIly committed itself % | the side of the South. MT. Cobdein did | not live long suOugh to see the complete | triumph of the cause he favored; he | died, If we remember rightly, just a | fortnight before the fall of Richmond. | Alter that time many invitations were | made to Mr. Bright to visit America, | and be had the offer of an American | ship Uf-Tar to bear hlm across the At | lantic. It IS curious to note how the | vulgar estimate of a public man | changes within a short space of | time. Sarcastic or JOcular artl- l cles were written in London week | ly papers about Mr. Brlghts | demeanor on board of the American l ship war, the point of most of which l was to represent Mir. Bright delivering | fiery orations with the object of stirring | up the crew to mutiny against the cap | tain. Mir. Bright dld not go then, | dreading, for one thing, the probable | penalties his popularity ID the States the interviewers, the crowds, the torch | llcht processions, the serenades, the | receptions at railway platforms, and | the making of and listening to speeches. | Now, in his letter he expresses a l melancholy doubt as to whether he Is | ever likely to visit America. My once 1 strong appetite for travel has subslded, | be says, 'and I can not but feel that the | friendly welcome promised me on your | side of the Atlantic would force me into | publicity from which I shrink" This | latter objection, however, might, we think, surely be got over. If 1t were an- l nounced in America that NIT. Brlght's | condition of health would not | allow him to accept any public demonstrations of welcome, we can not doubt that his desire would be complied with and bis motive thorough ly understood. Some such announce ment was mace on behalf of Mr. Dickens when he visited America for the last time, and II We remember rightly hls wish met with universal and respectful compliance. The force of such re- quest would be still greater m the case of MT. Bright, who is much farther ad- vapced in years than Dickens was when he last visited America. Itseems pity that Mr. Bright should not have an op- pCrtunity of seeing a country with whose institutions and whose progress he had so much sympathy. People here have now almost forgotten that there was time when the fiercest Teproach hls enc mics thought proper to fling against him was the charge of an anxiety ol hls part for the "Americanizlng" of our Institu- tions. Mir. Bright has made 1t clear to every one since then that an Englishman could wish cordial success to Repubh- | can institutions iu America, and yet be and at the same time an earnest and loyal supporter of mon- archy in England.
  THE Star says: "There be those in Tue son who think that all enterprise should l be controlled by old Arizonans. This spirit must be submerged, or Tucson will suffer. New corners, new blood, new a,a-gv ia what TucsOu needs Let the 1,