Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-16

ers living upon them 1t was thus in old
pro-slayery days prior to the war. 1t was
thus during the four years of the rebellion
and In the period of Reconstruction. 1t
is so still. Between the English Liberals
OF the Gladstone type and the Republi-
can party of the United States there have
been and there still is much In common,
though on the questions of Free Trade
and protection the English Liberals and
the Tories are equally hostile to Republi-
can opinions. How entirely opposed were
the British Tories to the Republicans dur
ing the war Of the rebellion is evinced
by the following During the
discussion in the British Parliament on the
recognition Of the Southern Confederacy
the great manufacturing power in our in
dustrial, financial and commercial progress
was clearly exhibited and thoroughly ap-
preciated by British statesmen. Lord SAL
isbury, then Lord Robert Cecil, at present
the leader Of the Tory party in England
and the advocate of twenty years bitter
coercion for Ireland, was one Of the bit
terest foes Of the Union, chiefly on this ae-
count. He was one of the Vice Presidents
Of the 'Southern Independent Associa-
ton" for the promotion of the cause of
the Rebellion and for supplying the Con
federates with money and arms, and for
the ultimate object Of founding an empire
Of slavery on this continent. In his
speech then, on the Southern blockade,
the future Lord Salisbury made the fol-
lowing allusion to the dangerous prosper
ity Of the Northern States Of our Union:
The plain matter Of fact is, as every one
who watches the current of history must
know, that the Northern States of America
never can be our sure friends, for this sim
pie reason, not merely because the newspa-
pers write at each other, or that there are
reludices on both sides, but because we are
rivals; rivals politically, rivals commercially.
We both aspire TO the same position. We
! both aspire to the government of the seas.
We are both manufacturing people, and in
every port as well az at every court We are
rivals to each other. With respec: to the
Southern States the case is entirely reversed.
| The population are an agricultural people.
They furnish the raw material of our indus
try, and thty consume the products which we
manufacture from II. With them, therefore,
every interest must lead US to cultivate
friendly relations, and we have seen that
when the war began they at once REQUIRED TO
England as their natural ally"
On the 10Th Of last December the Lon
don Saturday Review, which is said to be
the semi-official organ of Lord Salisbury
commenting on President Cleveland's free
trade message, said
| 1T may be taken for granted that the
President has not acted without previously
consulting the leaders of the Democratic
party and receiving their approval. He and
they have taken up again the Old free trade
policy of South Carolina politicians, un-
connected with what, in the jargon of Amer
lean politics, was called the sectional issue.
Nothing can be more explicit than the Presi-
dents message. He says, The simple and
| plain duty which we owe the people is to
reduce taxation to the necessary expenses of
an economical operation of the Government,
and to restore to the business of the country
the money which we hold in the Treasury.
| In America this means free trade
moving wei that the Deinocratlc par
ty of this country is still directed by the
southern Bourbons, that such men as
Bayard, Carlisle, Mills and Breckenridge
hold substantially the same ideas which
the slaveholding aristocracy used to main
tain in the years prior to and during the
war of the rebellion, it is not strange that
the English Tory aristocracy have for
| the former strange prediction. 1t is
thus readily explained why their news
papers and reviews are so bitter in their
assaults on the Republican party and
Republican statesmen, and why they so
strongly desire the reelection of Cleve-
land, the representative of Southern
Bourbonism and the candidate of the Free
Traders on both sides of the Atlantic.