Year: 1863

distress may be relieved, is from the Ipeekiy
Times, published in London, and reflects
the truo tono Of the great mass of tho Eng
lish people, in contradistincton to the bittor
mvoctivos indulged in toward the loyal
pcoplo of this country by He Times, the
Post Herald, and other English organs re-
tecting the viows of the aristocracy of that
country. 1t will well repay close and
attentive perusal


The distress in Lancashire is a portion.
tious illustration of the community of inter-
ostS which binds nations together. In the
internal affairs ot any country we see con-
stant illustrations of the inseparable con-
nection that exists bctweon different classes
Iot the community, and we cannot explain
the recent prevalence of gurrotng without
considering how far uristucratic principles
of government have brutalized many to
sustain the luxurics of the few, and have
left (as an eminent Judge remarked few
days ago. nothing but crime for certain
portion of the population TO commit The
same law ot mutual dependence exists be-
tween one country and another as between
different classes in the same State Lord
Derby was not wrong in telling tho late
County Meeting at Manchester that we have
depended too much on the cotton trade ;
that we have viewed it, like the old Assy-
rian monarch, as the great Babylon we
have built for the honor of our majesty;
but the noble leader of tho Tory party erred
considerably in comparing the crash and
fall of the cotton edi6co to any supernutu.
raj declaration that the kingdom has de
parted from lis. Independent of the defects
inherent in our present factory system, on
which we shall not now enlarge, the cotton
trade was III prccarious plight from tho
rottenncss of its foundation As the Rev.
Newman Hall Justly described the matter,
every bale OF the raw material received
from America, ought to have been labelled
" stolen goods The Southern planter, not
withstandng his aristocratic prctensions,
was robber, He lived by plundering the
negroes, iust us Lord Dcrhy's ancestors
lived in former times 10y plundcring the vas
sails beneath their sway--thc only differ
ence being that American slavery is an in
initely more degrading and vicious nstitu-
tion than any form of teudalsm which Eu-
rope ovcr knew. We suffer from want of
conformity between the practice of the
Americans and the moral law Of the uni
verse. In the beginning we wero the
founders OF their slavery, and have been





to the folly of looking to man.steulers for
the means of keeping our mills working,
and vast portion of eur population en-
ploycd. This real origin of Lancashire dis
tress should constantly bo borne in mind
or while charity contributes to its allovia-
ton with ono hand, Il misdiroctcd political
feeling will extend it on the other. The
Rev. H. w. Beecher speaks the sentiments
OF those whose religion is not sham, when
he says, " hear many cXclaim it is horrible
to think of brothers slaug ghtorng each other,
but is it not Just as horrible to think that
OH Southern plantations so many men are
yielding up the last sigh, torn by the whip
of the overscer? All, civil war is II fear
ful thing, but know of something that
would be still more fcarlul--to see the evil
which reigns in the South invade tho whole
country. Peace is not the first good for u
nation. Justice is still more precious.
You have no right to wish for peace until
God has made justice to reign. Such is
the teaching of the Gospel. When we
shall have done with injustice, our peace
will flow like IA river. God forbid that
peace be obtained until the rcign Of JUS
ticc be established amongst u.s."


There can be no doubt that one cause of
Lancashire distress has been the disgrace





by the bulk of the aristocracy, and by many
of the middle-class in this country While
the planters were plotting their great re-
bcllion they rcckoncd confidently upon
English support. Members of the Govern
ment and members of Parliament were con-
stantly shouting their praises after the war
began, and leading them to believe that
England would demand the recognition of
their Independence. and break tho block
AIDE. The bitter remarks of dissppoint-
ment contained III the Southern newspapers
that have Just reached this country prove
how firm was the reliance placed upon Brit
iah aid and now that that broken reed of
talIacious expectation fails, they accuse lis
Of being entirely actuated by selfish mo-
tiycs, and desiring to see America exhaust
ed by prolonging fratricIdal war. The
anti-slavery party in the North was astound-
ed at finding English sympathy turned
against them. Nothing could be more
proper than the Sevcrest reprObaton of the
exclusion of negroes from public vehicles
used by whites, or similar insolent and un-
Christian exhibitions of the pride Of race
but the prevailing tone of our sO-called
upper classes has been one OF indiscrmi-
nate insult to every Northern man. The
Republicans who carried the election of
Lincoln on an ant-savery platform were
commonly abused more than the Demo
Gratis" who either would not trust slavery
at all, or were disposed to surround that
most odious of institutions with further pc
nal enactments of the Fugitive Slave bill
kind. This monstrous misconduct of the
ruling class in England has greatly ham
pered and hindered the Emancipation party
in the North, and obstruCted the possible
formation of an anti-slavery party in the
South. 1t has thus prolonged the war. to
the scandal Of English character and the
great detriment of our artizans. We do
not revert to this question for the sake of
mOralizing on the past We ullude TO it to
show what should be our conduct at the
| present. As mere matter of sell-interest,
it is the hight Of folly to subscribe our
money for Lancashire operatives, and then
use our influence to prolong tho causes of
their tremendous distress. Were we think
ing only of tho interests of our manufactu-
rers, we should proclaim the duty of the
hour to be to give moral support to the
great proclamation of liberty for the ne
groes on the first day of the new year.
This noble measure must be sustained
against the arms of the South, and against
the Vaccinations OF the slave.holding party
in the North.


The slave party, whether in the North or
South, is the advocate of violence and fraud.
1t cannot be otherwise from tho baseness
of its principles, and the peculiar institu-
ton " it has to serve Let there be no de-
lusion upon this point in the minds of the
by the idle pretence that the abolition of
slavery will revive the horrors of the first
French Revolution. This is the sort of
cant always emDlOVe1 bV raactionarv man