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[Laughter, and "No."] Your labor is too skilled by far to manufacture bagging and linsey-woolsey. [A Southerner: “We are going to free them, every one."] Then you and I agree exactly. [Laughter.] One other third consists of a poor, unskilled, degraded white population; and the remaining one-third, which is a large allowance, we will say, intelligent and rich.

Now here are twelve million of people, and only onethird of them are customers that can afford to buy the kind of goods that you bring to market. [Interruption and uproar.] My friends, I saw a man once, who was a little late at a railway station, chase an express train. He did not catch it. [Laughter.] If you are going to stop this meeting, you have got to stop it before I speak; for after I have got the things out, you may chase as long as you please you would not catch them. [Laughter and interruption.] But there is luck in leisure; I am going to take it easy. [Laughter.] Two-thirds of the population of the Southern States to-day are nonpurchasers of English goods. [A voice: "No, they are not;" "No, no!" and uproar.] Now you must recollect another fact-namely, that this is going on clear through to the Pacific Ocean; and if by sympathy or help you establish a slave empire, you sagacious Britons-["Oh, oh!" and hooting]-if you like it better, then, I will leave the adjective out-[laughter, Hear! and applause] -are busy in favoring the establishment of an empire from ocean to ocean that should have fewest customers and the largest non-buying population. [Applause, "No, no!" A voice: "I thought it was the happy people that populated fastest."]

Now, what can England make for the poor white population of such a future empire, and for her slave population? What carpets, what linens, what cottons can you sell them? What machines, what looking-glasses, what

combs, what leather, what books, what pictures, what engravings? [A voice: "We'll sell them ships."] You may sell ships to a few, but what ships can you sell to two-thirds of the population of poor whites and blacks? [Applause.] A little bagging and a little linsey-woolsey, a few whips and manacles, are all that you can sell for the slave. [Great applause and uproar.] This very day, in the slave States of America there are eight millions out of twelve millions that are not, and cannot be your customers from the very laws of trade. [A voice: "Then how are they clothed?" and interruption.]

There is another fact that I wish to allude to- -not for the sake of reproach or blame, but by way of claiming your more lenient consideration—and that is, that slavery was entailed upon us by your action. [Hear, hear!] Against the earnest protests of the colonists the then government of Great Britain-I will concede not knowing what were the mischiefs-ignorantly, but in point of fact, forced slave traffic on the unwilling colonists. [Great uproar, in the midst of which one individual was lifted up and carried out of the room amid cheers and hisses.]

I do not ask that you should justify slavery in us, because it was wrong in you two hundred years ago; but having ignorantly been the means of fixing it upon us, now that we are struggling with mortal struggles to free ourselves from it, we have a right to your tolerance, your patience, and charitable constructions.

No man can unveil the future; no man can tell what revolutions are about to break upon the world; no man can tell what destiny belongs to France, nor to any of the European powers; but one thing is certain, that in the exigencies of the future there will be combinations and recombinations, and that those combinations that are of the same faith, the same blood, and the same substantial interests, ought not to be alienated from each other, but

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ought to stand together. [Immense cheering and hisses.] I do not say that you ought not to be in the most friendly alliance with France or with Germany; but I do say that your own children, the offspring of England, ought to be nearer to you than any people of strange tongue. [A voice: "Degenerate sons," applause and hisses; another voice: "What about the Trent?"]. If there had been any feelings of bitterness in America, let me tell you that they had been excited, rightly or wrongly, under the impression that Great Britain was going to intervene between us and our own lawful struggle. [A voice: "No!" and applause.] With the evidence that there is no such intention all bitter feelings will pass away. [Applause.] We do not agree with the recent doctrine of neutrality as a question of law. But it is past, and we are not disposed to raise that question. We accept it now as a fact, and we say that the utterance of Lord Russell 1 at Blairgowrie-[applause, hisses, and a voice: "What about Lord Brougham? "]-together with the declaration of the government in stopping war-steamers here— [great uproar, and applause]—has gone far toward quieting every fear and removing every apprehension from our minds. [Uproar and shouts of applause.] And now in the future it is the work of every good man and patriot not to create divisions, but to do the things that will make for peace. ["Oh, oh!" and laughter.] On our part it shall be done. [Applause and hisses, and "No, No!"] On your part it ought to be done; and when in any of the convulsions that come upon the world, Great Britain finds herself struggling single-handed against the gigantic powers that spread oppression and darkness[Applause, hisses, and uproar]-there ought to be such cordiality that she can turn and say to her first-born and most illustrious child, "Come!" [Hear, hear! applause, tremendous cheers, and uproar.] I will not say that

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England cannot again, as hitherto, single-handed manage any power-[applause and uproar]-but I will say that England and America together for religion and liberty— [A voice: "Soap, soap," uproar, and great applause]— are a match for the world. [Applause; a voice: They don't want any more soft soap."] Now, gentlemen and ladies [A voice: "Sam Slick," and another voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, if you please "]-when I came I was asked whether I would answer questions, and I very readily consented to do so, as I had in other places; but I will tell you it was because I expected to have the opportunity of speaking with some sort of ease and quiet. [A voice: "So you have."] I have for an hour and a half spoken against a storm 5-[Hear, hear!]—and you yourselves are witnesses that, by the interruption, I have been obliged to strive with my voice, so that I no longer have the power to control this assembly. [Applause.] And although I am in spirit perfectly willing to answer ány question, and more than glad of the chance, yet I am by this very unnecessary opposition to-night incapacitated physically from doing it. Ladies and gentlemen, I bid you good-evening.

Why did the announcement that Mr. Beecher was to speak in Liverpool meet with intense opposition?

How can you account for the fact that an audience that had assembled presumably to hear Beecher speak seemed so unwilling to listen?

What means did Beecher take to gain the sympathy of his audience?

Was Beecher successful in gaining the attention of his Liverpool audience?

Do you think Beecher, in spite of the uproar against which he strove to speak, accomplished anything of value that night? Do you think that Beecher delivered this speech approximately in the form that he outlined before he came to the hall?

Can you find an instance in his speech where Beecher changed

the conclusion of a sentence so as to turn the laugh on opponents who had interrupted him?

When Beecher said that England might say to her first-born child, "Come," do you suppose he had in mind such an emergency as the Great War?

What had Beecher hoped to accomplish in his English addresses, and to what extent was he successful?

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