Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-10-24 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

BERESFORD 110 PE ON TILE AMERICAN WAR.  •• ----A numerous meeting (net confined to those of Southern views) was held on Friday, at the rooms of the Southern Club, Liverpool; M. Victor Pouts in the chair. Mr. Beresford lope, who was received with hearty cheering, said he believed he was addressing the representatives of two great nations,—his own and the Confederate nation. (Applause.) lie characterised the remark of Lord Russell, made from the Olympian heights and mists of Blairgowrie, that the majority of the English people sympathised with the Northern States in the present conflict as D. grave misstatement, and he gave numerous instances which had occurred during his travels through England of earnest admiratien and sympathy expressed for the South whenever the question lui sph rat lien had looked upon America through Northern spectacles, I olhiatidest,akEenng lulling on horseback and lashing his nigger, Os it used to be to get rid of the notion that a Frenchman did nothing but consume frogs, and was our natural enemy. It was astounding, however, to netice how recent events in the South had tended to sweep away wmaasnbyroyaecahres,d.b 0 t lie ei ititelpi tlearinatetdiretlaiantdhpe Southern cause entirely from coaviction, ae his previous sympathies and interests, if they had been allowed full sway, would have led him in the other direction. For 1 and it was as difficult to divest ourselves of the idea that I the Southerner was a person in a striped jean jacket, I whose time was equally divided between the two occupations of previous rinse inceptions and prejudices •, and friim the high estimation in which General Jackson was held, and the indignation caused by the proceedings of General Butler, the speaker argued that English sympathy was unmistakeably with the South. Even Lord Palmerston, amidst the resounding cheers of the British Parliament, had denounced General Butler as infamous. If facts like these did not c.mviiiee Lord Russell of his mistake as to the public opinion of England, Hie Lordship was as hard to eenvince as the gentleman who would never believe a man to be intoxicated trail he saw him attempting to light his pipe at the punip—(laughter and cheers.) With regird to slavery Mr. lope sail that though England was opposed to the system it should not be made the hone of contentien or the means of alienating two cognate peoples like England and America. lie believed froin the progress of opinion in the Southern States, that in the course of years, and doubtless after tl:e same kind of troubles which had attended many of our great reforms in England, American slavery would be abulished, lie contended that a liberal , policy and feeling should be maintained towards those II who had inherited their "black peasants" with the soil, 11 and who for the most part treated them with consideration and kindness. lie asked whether black slavery could be worse than the slavery imposed by an Anglo-Saxon people which abolished liberty of speech, of the press, aud of commercial action in order to wage a war of exterinination.—(Loud cheers.) Talk of our sympathies with the free states! How could we tell that when the war was ended the Satrapies of the North would not make themselves into mock empire under Brummagem Napoleons ? Laughter and cheers.) Alluding to the raise, with the " Mahometan appellations," recently constructed at Birkenhead, and to the rumours as to a change in the law upon the subject. Mr. lope denied that there was any possiblity of a change being made in the law in consequence of any foreign intimidation or bluster, and soil that aily government that proposed such a change and for such a cause would be indignantly hurled from power. As a proof of this he quoted the speech or Lord Russell (February 9,1858), and the action taken by Parliament on the Conspiracy for Murder Bill. On the motion of the Chairman, seconded by Mr. Spence, a vote of thanks to Mr. nape was passed.