Show a s L w r w j p A NCE the duke of A argyll r g va r is one of the fe few NT public men of england who have friendly to america Ameri cn during C the present struggle 0 of freedom against the despotism of slavery tile the english people us f a calill community detest and abhor the slave system of the sol south ith and in the years that are arc past ha have re given evidence of this feeling in the stylo style and tone of the public receptions they have offered to ta our represent tive tire men who have visited them the conduct of tile english government towards this government during the present en t war has ever been tit nt variance with the well ivell known feelings 0 of the grea gre rt mass of the english people the following extract is from a speech recently made in the house of lords by argyle I 1 upon pon I 1 a deb debate tte on american affairs the words honor the man and will find a re spon sive echo in the heart of every loyal american lie ile said 11 the rising glory of america has been dimmed by slavery the awakened moral purpose of a great people has joined issue with the evil its defenders zare are unscrupulous s c in lhoir weapons of warfare I 1 I 1 and to perpetrate it its reign they have not only sought to blunt the purpose of freemen but to destroy the life of the nation those freemen and that nation through its constitutionally elected adminis administrators to ra have laid the crushing hands of confiscation confiscation and emancipation upon the firmest basis and the mightiest instruments of slavery tho the soil boll and their theil slaves the one throbs responsively and with marvelous marv clous prolificacy to the touch of free cultivation and the other leaps with the impulses of loyalty from tb tho condition of slaves into that of courageous obedient and efficient freemen and in face of all this europe but especially ally england stops to question the motives by which this last hast glorious result has been prompted thore there come times in uie the history orall struggled 7 when deeds in the grandeur of th their air results rise above the petty questions of motives moti vvs and this last greatest grandest of ic ical ill deeds is one of thorn them for whether it has been dictated by military nece necessity mity or not it is relieved rocie reci ved eved by y a popular impulse and suppo supported byan almousfi almos fi universal patriotic conviction among the people who ulio I 1 care nothing 0 about motives and an d kupa less of military necessity and until this approval of a free p people is revoked it is a shame to the poti political pro gross gres of europea europe a disgrace to the loreeen preten led ded philanthropy of eng england andarza andar Xa crime e committed by christian men int n to leave 1 the broad and glorious glor lous facts of such a triumph of justice and freedom to sift amona among r tile the motives and necessities wb which 1011 may hive have them |