The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-08-08

ConuekCG now WeetY, W would oe beyond the possibility ot king or queen, of the cz2r or kaiser, or statesman of any rank to bring these nations to war Tcheersl Then need not say here-for everybody knows who has made the least of observ- ation of the course 1 have taken iu past years-that my sympathy with the United States is as warm at the present moment as 1t was when we received week by week accounts of the proceedings of your great struggle. believe that in that time the interest felt in this country was as great as in yours As an American lady, rear relative of mine-I never saw her till yesterday, she was born in the states, and her grandfather was my mothers erother-to whom was speaking on this very point, said: " Yes, you had the news every week we had an that excitement every day." which was very true. Here it was on Sunday that the news generally arrived in London, and to sensitive per sons like myself in the West End of Lon. don it was sometimes disturbing to hear the news vendors calling out in the streets Grand Confederate victory P Well grand Confederate victories caused us great distrust, but they never caused me distrust. knew many Americans in this country, and talked with them on these occasions, and consoled them There was one man in Manchester who was killed by his sorrow over that con- fiict, and think if could have seen him once week he would have been living now. There were many Americans in this country whose hearts failed them in that time, and there were men in con- nection with the embassy whose hearts failed them also. l remember Mir. Deni- son, then the speaker of the house si commons, said to me one night, when standing by the speakers chair: went up yesterday to speak to MT. Adams He said that at . critical time like this it would be pleasure to him to see any man who could sympathize with the troubles of his country"
 No American can form sny idea of the interest with which your struggle was watched. Those who sympathized with the slave trade are very difficult to be found. Most of them wished they had never held those views, and had never given expression to them but now there are no men in this country who will not honestly say that the war ended as i, ought to have ended and who will no, say that it was to the advantage, not only to your own country, but to the whole world, that that great and odious curse was not set before mankind-that a state should be established on basis of hu- man slavery. have nothing more to say, but notwithstanding am in the pres. ence of two eminent Americans from the state of Vermont, and though have heard that, taking that state, not more than one in ten is in favor of that kind ot freedom to which have referred, yet hope the time will come when there will be another Independence day in the United States-not to free bodies of white and black men, but to free, permanently and as freely as believe we have done in this country, the labor of the whole population [cheers]. thank you heart. fly that you have received me with SC much kindness only wish could have made my observations more compressed or interesting, but find when come to the question of America, that there is nc question on which speak about that think about with so much interest. want the two nations to be one people [Cheers. want them to be foremost 1T political and religious freedom. 1 wan also, and hope the time will come, wher there will be that other freedom, which the states may be as proud of as the grea bulk of Englishmen are, of the freedom we have achieved.