Year: 1862

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have had but to will that thing should


be done, and il was done. Their course


has been a course of prosperity and adj


vancement without example and without


single break.


Vel, gentlemen, it is not 10 human


nature that people who have been sub
jectcd to an experience so fattering, so


soothing TO human selfoye, should al


once learn, with perfectly good grace,
t. accommodate and submit itself to the
necessities of our human condition. IL
/ is easy for Us to suffer. We have suf-


tered before. We have gone through
| the very agonies of these dismember4


ments against which the northern people
of the United States are now struggling.


We have gone through it, and now that


we bave gone through it we know that it


was not bad thing after all But they
have not gone through it, and all | say is
let US bear with them all we can. Let
US keep toward them kindly temper
let Us not allow ourselves to be adversely


criticised on that side OF the water let
US be very cautious of adverse criticisms


upon them hom thi5 side of the water


Depend upon ii, that course steadily
pursued will bring It's reward, and it is
the course which they have a right, upon
every ground of good will, courtesy and
Christian feeling, TO expect that we
should pursue.


Why gentlemen, they are our kin
they were, at any rate, if they are not
now, our customers, and we hope they
will be our customers again. But they
have shown also that under all circum-
stances, when their good feeling could
have fair play, they have warm affections
toward England. Never let us forget,
whatever momentary irri ion may cross
the minds Of that people--never let US
forget the reception of the Prince of
Wales. Let every Englishman engraye
upon the tablets of his heart the recollec-
tion Of that memorable day and G oa-


casionally he may be tempted to anger
( az seeing his country misapprehended or
even misrepresented, let him calm bis
tendency to excited sentiment by that
recollection. And, gentlemen, it is the
more necessary that we should do this,
because think we are pretty much of
one mind as to what is to come.


We know quite well that the people
mean the people of the Northern
States-haye not yet drank Of the cup
they are still endeavoring to hold it far
from their lips-they have not yet drank
of the cup which, Notwithstanding, all the
rest Of the world sees they must do
We may have oul own opinions about
slavery-we may be for the south, or
against the south, but there is no doubt,
/ think, about thls-Jefferson Davis and
the other leaders Of the south have made
an army-they are making, it appears, a
uavy-and they have made a nation.
Enthusiastic cheering, which was pro-
longrd for some time) l cannot say
that | for one, have viewed with any re-
gret their failure TO establish themselves
in Maryland.


1t appears to me TOO probable that, il
they had been able TO establish them
selves in Maryland, the consequences of
their military success in any aggressive
NOV IN ut would have been that politi-
cal party favorable to them would have
been formed in that State; that they
would have contracted actual or virtual
engagements with that political party,
and that the existence of these engage
menlS hampering them in their negOtia-
lions with the Northern States, might
have formed new obstacle to peace.
Gentlemen, from the bottom OF our hearts
we should desire tha; no new obstacle to
peace may be formed (llear, hear, and
cheers) We may anticipate with GER
tainty The success of the Southern States
so far rs regards eifrcti1g their separa-
ton from the North. |, Tor my own part,
cannot but believe that that event is as
c-rtian as any event yet future and con-
tinEent can be.


But it is from feeling that that great
event Is likely TO arise, and thal the north
will have 10 suffer that modification, that
earnestly hope that England will do
nothing to inhict additional shame, sOr-
row or pain upon those who have already
suffered much, and who will probably
have TO suffer more. 1t may be that
time might arrive when it would be the
duty of Europe to offer a word of ex-
postulation, or of friendly aid toward
the quarrel. If it be even
possible that such time as that may ar
rive. how important it is that when that
word comes it should address itself TO
minds which are not embittered by the
that unkind things have been
said ard done toward them in Europe,
and above all. in England, the country
" which, however they may find fault With
il from time to time, we know holds the