The Life and Speeches of the Right Hon. John Bright, M.P. (Volume 2)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. AMERICA AND THE CIVIL WAR. Mr. Bright and the United States.?Secession of Southern States.?Outbreak of the Civil War.?Neutrality of England.?The Affair of the Trent.?Surrender of Messrs. Slidell and Mason.?Mr. Bright on the American Struggle.?The Duty of England.?The Cotton Famine.?Debate on the Affair of the Trent.? The Condition of International Law.?Mr. Bright at Birmingham.?Speech on the War and the Supply of Cotton.?He justifies the Policy of the North.? Slavery and the South.?Birmingham Chamber of Commerce.?Speeches of Messrs. Scholefield and Bright.?Meeting at Rochdale.?Northern Sympathy with the Distress in Lancashire.?Speech of Mr. Bright.?Meeting on the American Question in 1863.?Mr. Bright at St. James's Hall.?At the London Tavern.?Debates in the House of Commons.?Mr. Roebuck's Motion for recognizing the Southern Confederacy.?Eloquent Speech by Mr. Bright.? Public Breakfast to Mr. Lloyd Garrison.?A noble band of Abolitionists.? Appreciation of Mr. Bright's Defence of the Northern Cause.?President Lincoln's Staff bequeathed to Mr. Bright. TO statesman of eminence has ever spoken in -L- such unstintedly generous terms of the United States as Mr. Bright. He has watched the growth and development of the American Union with peculiar interest; and from the tenor of his convictions and opinions, he has naturally regarded with admiration the free institutions of that great Eepublic. But he has done more than this. Mr. Bright was the steadfast friend of America in the moment of her deepest peril; and when many English statesmen were predicting the dissolution of the Union at the time of the Civil War, Mr. Bright never lost faith in thefuture of America, but stood forward as the uncompromising champion of the cause of the North. We know now how that struggle...