Year: 1863

barter tha rights Of millions of their fel


low creatures that they might bask il


the smiles Of the great. But we know tha


there are Ministers of state who do no


wish that this insurrection should breal
up the American Union-that there ar


members Of the aristocracy who are no


afraid of the shadow of that republic


that there are rich men not deprived 0


their riches, and that there are public


writer's Of eminence and honor who viii


not barter human rights for the patron


age of the great but most of all, be.
! lleve-and | am sure that it is SO in Ian


cashire, where the working men have


seen themselves going down from pros.


perity TO ruin, from independence to a sub


sistence on charity believe, l say,


that the unfranchised but not hopeless


millions Of this country will never sym,


pathize with a revolution which is inten-


ded 10 destroy the liberty of a continent,


and to build on its ruins mighty fabric
Of human bondage. (Cheers.)


But gentlemen who differ from me,


when speaking privately on this matter,
generally end by saying that the repub


lie is too great and too powerful. But if
we were at New York or Boston, and


were speaking of England instead OF
America, and if any one were to say that
England had grown too bg-not her
81, 900, 600 at home, but her 10000
900 in Asia, and nobody knows how
many millions in nearly every other part
of the globe-what would be our feel
ings? | shall, perhaps, be told, that the
North do not like us. Well, it is not
necessary that they should but if the
North does not like US, does any one be
lieye the South does When the South
was in power--and it has been in power
the last fifty years-hostility towards
this country was cherished, was stimu-
lated to the utmost degree, by some Of
those very men who are now tho leaders
of the instruction. (Cheers.) People
do not know in America what we know
Of public opinion here. There are men
in this country. aud men in our cabinet,
who arc as great friends to freedom AMI
rs much resolved against slavery as
am. know fora certainty that there
are men in the highest aristocracy who
hold the same opinion as | do on the
subject but they do not know in Ameri
ca what is the opinion Of the great body
of the working classes of England
There has been every effort that money
aud malice could make to stimulate
amongst the suffering people Of Lanca-
shire an opinion in favor Of The slave
States, but they have not been able TO
get it.


| honor the people for their fidelity to
their principles and to freedom. and |
think the conduct they have taken
ought to weigh in the minds of the peo
pie Of America against miles of leading
articles written in the London papers by
men who would barter every human
right that they might serve the party
with whom they are associated. l main
tain, after all that is said, that the people
do not err. We know, and the work
men know, that in the last fifteen years
2. 500, 900 men, women and children,
have left the United Kingdom for Amer
lea. where they have found home in
the free States, and every man of them
is in position Of much higher comfort
and prosperity than he would have been
had he remained in this country. There
IRE not 600o.o00 of grown men. sub
ects of the free States, excluded by the
constitution OF their country from the
There is free church,
free school, free land, free vote,
rreer career for the child of the humblest
parents of the land by counuymen who
work for your living. Remember tha,
here will be one Mild shiek that will
,tartle All human kind If that American
Republic is oyerthrown. Slavery has
been the one huge foul blot on its fame
It is an odious outrage against human
light and Divine law. The pride and
passion Of man would not permit lis ex.
inc,ion, but there was no more stupen
lous means for bringing about the abol
ion Of slavery than the suicide the South
has committed.


do not believe thst any man here
links the cause of the North hopeless.
or the restoration Of the Union impossi.
Die and although the Chancellor of the
Exchequer made use Of an equiyocal ex
preston three months ago on that point.
be has been ever since trying 10 make
nponia understand what he meant Hn