Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-08-21

believe the time will GOMEZ do not ex-
pect to live to see it myself, although |
may see some advances toward 1t, but l
believe my children and grandchildren
will as certainly see it rs anything before
the eye now-i believe the time will come,
when the American Nation having by
vast sacrifices of blood and treasure ac-
complished the freedom of men, the labor
of men will be as free as the bodies OF
men, The Duke of Argyll said the great
men of nations help to form the greatest
of nations. Well | should say that these
great nations-the one on this side OF the
Atlantic, and the one that promises to he
much greater on the other side of the At
lantic-these two nations will, To great
extent, guide the future policy of the
world 1t often strikes me as IL very curl
Gus thing that in America the Massachu
sets man has not the slightest objection
to deal commercially with somebody IN
Louisiana or Texas, but he has the great
est objection-no one can tell why, except
that it is a superStitiOn-tO trade with
people in Canada or in Great Britain and
Ireland. But why If we were all showed
into the United States, if we were one
country, with only one object, nobody
would deny that nothing would be more
natural than that the manufacturers Of
the two countries should intellningle, and
everybody would agree that 1t was not
only the best but also the most profitable
thing for the population of the two coun-
tries.
"My point is that the great question of
military pre- parations, establishments and
wars will receive in all probability II com
plete solution by the free commercial in
tercourse of nations rather than from any
other teaching; that if you will allow the
people of other countries frankly and
openly to trade with each other they learn
the lessons of peace from the pages of their
ledgers. These vast armies IN Europe
you ought to thank Heaven every day that
you are not Europe-these vast armies
in Europe are kept up under the pretence
and with the use of the argument that the
people will bear the cost of them. They
are kept up, it is said, to safeguard the
peace of the nations to which they belong.
There is nothing under Heaven SO adverse
to peace as the establishment and mainte
nance of these great armies. | am satisfied
that if it were possible for England and
France and Germany and Austria and
Russia and Italy to abolish the tariffs and
let commerce flow freely, it would be be-
You'd the possibility of King or Queen or
Car or Kaiser or statesman of any rank
to bring those nations to war.
Then need not say here-tOr everybody
knows who has made the least ObServa-
ton of the course | have taken in past
years-that my sympathy with the United
States is as warm at the present moment
rs it was when we received the week by
week accounts of the proceedings of your
great struggle. / believe that at that time
the interest felt in this country was as
great as in yours, only as an American
lady, a near relative of mine-I never saw
her till yesterday, she was born in the
States, and her grandfather was my moth
er'S brother-tO whom | was speaking on
this very point, said Yes, you had the
news every.week; we had all that excite
ment every day which was very true.
Here it was on Sunday that the news gen
orally arrived in London, and to sensitive
persons like myself in the west end of
London it was sometimes disturbing to
hear the newspaper vendors calling out in
the streets, Grand Confederate victory. ;
Well, grand Confederate victories caused
us great distrust, but they never caused
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-
flict, 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 cornec-
ton with the embassy whose hearts failed
them also. | remember Mr.. Denison then
the speaker of the House of Commons,
SAID to me one night, when standing by
the speakers chair: 4 went up yesterday
to speak to Mr. Adams He said that at n
critical time like this it would be Pea
sure TO him to see any man who could
sympathize with the troubles of his coun-
try. No American can form any idea of
the interest with which your struggle was
watched. Those who sympathize. with
the slave trade are very difficult to be
found. Most of them wished they had
never held those views and had never Civ
en- expression to them; but now there are
no men in this country who will not hon
eStly say that the war ended as it ought to
have ended, and who will not say that it
was to the advantage, not only of your own
country, but to the whole world, that the
great and odiOus curse was not set before
mankind of State being established on
basis of human slavery. ! have nothing
more to say; but Notwithstanding, | am
in the presence 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 of freedom to which | have referred
yet / hope the time will come when there
will be another Independence Day IN the
United Statesmen 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 pop
ulation. ! thank you heartily that you
have received me with so much Kindness
| only wish | could have made my obser-
vations more compressed or interesting
but find when / come to the question of
America there is no question on which
speak that | think about with so much
interest. want the two nations to be one
people cheers and | want them to be
foremost in political and religious free
dom. | want, also, and hope the time will
come, when there Will be that other free
dom which the States may be as proud of
as the great bulk of Englishmen are of the
| freedom we have achieved"