Year: 1864

IRON the EQluDufg Mercury Ocl. 10


Mr.. Golden, when he last year ex-
posed so terribly the turpitude of the


London Times, and held its guiding
spirit as q moral assassin, who did not
scruple to fabricate charges and Circus
late calumnies against political oppo-
nents, announced as fact that nearly
all the great reforms that the Times
had set itself to oppose had been car
ried, and nearly all the men that had


been unscrupulously assailed in its col
urans, were men who had lived and


thrived regardless either Of its favor or
its frown. He considered cause to be
equivocal when it had the Times sup
porting it, and ina far way to success
when that journal was found condemn


ing and opposing it. His was judg-
ment borrowed from experiences
logical result deducible from series of
facts which history would not permit
him to questicn-and it was concur
red in by all who, like himself had had
experiences, and were in a similar de-
gree read-up in historical facts. Though
the end of the American war is still to
come, the Hon. member for Rochdale
has now another experience, and an
other series Of facts to add to those that
have gone before No journal in the
kingdom has been so unscrupulous as
the " leading journal" in misrepresent


ing the origin and ground of quarrel
between the Northern and Southern
States of America, in glorying over Fed
eral reverses and CLOSING over Confede-
rate defeats, In calumniating the friends
of constitutional rule and human frees
dom, and bolstering up and defend
ing a confederated band of conspira-
tors against the laws of nations and the
rights Of the human race. 1t nas cor
rupted much of the sound mind of Eng
land on this subject; it has poisoned
by its studied errors not few trusty
souls who would otherwise have exhib>
tied energetic life inasserting and main
tanning the claims of Northern freemen
against Southern shareholders; it has
over and above, so misled crowds of the
thoDghtless and unwary that, in many
quarters, looking at the tide of feeling
in favor of the slave oligarchy, one IS
disposed to ask whether it is really true
that in this country Wilberforce ever
fought or Clarkson ever fell in the strug-
gle that secured the emancipation of
our own West Indian slaves, or wheth-
er, only some ten or twelve years back,
multitudes of our people stoTmed away
on public platforms against the whole
system of American slavery and de-
Eaanded immediate and unconditional
emancipation This has been in the
meantime the work of the Times and
its miserable satellites ofthe Press, who
borrow all their light or gather all their
darkness from its potential rule; and
what are the public now seeing-the
thoughtful and intelligent of them hay
ing ell along seen it? Why, that the
Federal cause moves on 70 prosper as it
should do, and the Confederate cause to
go to the wall; that all the predictions
against the Federals and in favor of the
Confederates have proved false; that ali
the hopes inspired among recreant
Wings and senile Tories that the Amer
lean Nation would go to ruin or be
broken into fragments, and that the
"chivslry " Of the south would estab-
lish a Government on the bodies and
souls of prostrate race, have given up
the ghost, never 70 return. There Is
no talk now. except among driveliers,
of peace on Southern terms; there is |
not word said out of regions of men
tai imbeeiity about the North being
exhausted in men and means there Is
not syllable uttered in vindication OF /
our own conduct as people IN allow
ing Alabamas and Georgias to traverse
the seas as wholesale destroyers of the
vessels Of friendly power and il can
not fail 10 have been noticed that there |
has been of late an entire absence Of !