The crowned heads and aristocracy of Europe have never been really friendly to the United States of America. They have always looked at us with a jealous eye and a contemptuous scornful sneer.

The superior intelligence, the far more comfortable condition of our people, our great increase in population, the rapid strides we have made in the wealth and power, and our unprecedented prosperity in the last 50 years, as a self-governing people under simple republican institutions, has been a continual condemnation of their favorite systems of privileged classes, hereditary legislators, royal rulers, costly governments, immense standing armies and downtrodden masses.

They foresaw that the uninterrupted progress of the great american republic in such a grand career of greatness would make it such a mighty nation that its example, and its potent influence, must be felt by all the civilized nations of the earth. They knew that a full knowledge of the United States and its superior advantages under free government and equal laws could not be kept back, and they knew also that their own people would be making comparisons and demanding reform after reform, change upon change, that must ultimately fritter away their own aristocratic distinctions, and dwindle them down into the ranks of the people.

And no matter how much the masses were elevated by wise changes, no matter how many fold their comforts and general happiness were increased, no matter how well the people were educated, or how well behaved, no matter how worthy or how capable of dignified social and intellectual intercourse, your Royal Dukes, your proud peers, your noble lords, your entailed Esquires your prim sprigs of primogeniture of all ranks have a most holy horror of themselves and their “Families” being swallowed up in the common stream of population.

Consequently when our slaveholding aristocracy rebelled against the great life giving principle of republicanism, free sufferage, and seemed able to overthrow our government: divide and subdivide us, destroy our example, and make our free institutions a miserable failure; they had the warm glad sympathy of your ruling classes and their hangers on in Europe

Your government gave them belligerent rights immediately, man-stealing slaveholders though they were. Your rich men built them war steamers, and your authorities winked when they went to sea to burn our ships and destroy our prosperous commerce.

Your freedom hating aristocracy wished to see us crippled in every possible way. Mean[?] mushroom royalty in Europe espied the oportunity, and set about pulling down a neighboring American republic to build up monarchy on its ruins while legitimacy looked on and supplied the transatlantic throne with a prince of pure blood for its occupant.

The privileged wealthy classes and moneyed men of Europe have helped our villianous rebels with hundreds of millions and vast quantities of war material. They are helping them still and mean them to succeed in splitting up the great Republic if peaceful aid can enable them do it. The governments of Great Brittian & France would have acknowledged the independence of the “Confederacy” before now and forcibly intervened to establish it if it would not have been

founding a new nation in the middle of the nineteenth century entirely upon the infamous institution of human slavery. This they knew the masses of their people would never assent to, Especially after our president issued his emancipation proclamation, giving liberty to millions of slaves. But from the hungery avidity with which the British government seized the Affair of the Steamer Trent and the hot haste with which they hurried on preperations for war” , it is plain that they are all the while longing for the pretext to push their people into a war they think must be fatal to our republic.

Your British Tories have never forgiven the Revolution of 1776 which gavefreedom a refuge and a home in America at the expense of their empire. They have longed for revenge ever since and now after waiting so long, they think the time to strike must surely be come when we have such a terrible quarrel among ourselves. All they want is a pretext (they have the oportunity) to break with us,take sides with our rebels, and get your people to back up their intervention policy.

Well Genl. G.B McClellan is the out and outspoken proslavery candidate of our negro hating, slavery loving free state “copperheads”.

If by the vengence of a just God; whom we have so long offended by our want of the true love of liberty; he should be inflicted upon us as president, his most infamous policy will be this. He will be for reestablishing slavery in all the slave states and in the district of Columbia (Washington city.) Giving the slaveholder the right to take his slaves into all the territories and everywhere else within the United States. He will be for reenacting the odiously infamous fugitive slave law and returning all slaves made free by the war back to their cruel masters.

This is the openly declared policy of him & his party. Well, I know that every friend of the north, out of the United States, is an antislavery man. An “Abolitionist”. I know that if we of the north now elect a thurough proslavery president and return to our cowardly, mean, dastardly, infamous subserviency to human slavery, we shall not have a friend left in christendom, not a friend left in the world.

I know you antislavery men of Britian, will brand us as crazy fools, unprincipled knaves who deserve to be kicked out of all honest society. Mean dastard spaniels whom the brave gentleman slave driver will have a perfect right to lash to the full of his own good pleasure. I know you will consider us beneath your pitty, below your contempt and entirely unworthy any further consideration if we should elect a man-stealing president north, a fit compeer for Jeff Davis south. |

You, the people of Europe, will throw up your hands and be done defending us entirely. You must give us up for ever. Well the ruling classes of Europe, who are our bitter enemies and the warm friends of our deadly foes, will be free from all further restraint and at full liberty to aid

the infamous confedercy very far more than they have done already. Sooner than the Confederacy shall fail they will surely drag you into a war against us whether you are willing or not, because they have now a double motive for desiring the destruction of our government and nationality.

Remember all the aid the British enemies of freedom have given our demoniac insurgents has been silently, often openly, encouraged by your legally constituted authorities.

Blockade running from & to British ports to supply our enemies with British cannon, British powder, British bomb shells, British balls. British muskets and British Bayonets seems to have been looked upon as a legitimate British business ever since this war against our government began.

Your government has allowed war vessel after war vessel to be built in British ports, armed with British guns, supplied with British ammunition and stores, man’d by British seamen, coaled with British coal and then sent out to play the pirate and plunder, burn and destroy the unarmed merchant ships of a friendly power you professed to be at peace with.

When one of these villianous vessels was expelled from a French port and forced to come out and fight one of our war vessels of equal strength, she was man’d by seamen from your royal navy because they were believed to be the best gunners. And, when after a little over an hours fight, the pirate vessel was sunk by our brave tars, with all on board, a British steamer was there to rescue the scoundrels and hurry them off to a British port for safety, notwithstanding they had broken plain English laws and set your good queen’s proclamation of nutrality at open and impudent defience.

Why were not these bad men, and the many other rascals who have broken your own laws, to our great loss and serious injury, prosecuted and punished as they deserve? Simply because your ruling classes encourage them in it and your authorities connive at these acts of open hostility by British subjects, in the confident belief that we shall never again be in a condition powerful enough to call your government to account for it.

They know we have a just demand against the British government for many many millions of property destroyed by these English pirates and damage done to us by the aid and comfort Great Britian has given to our enemies.

A British built and British armed war steamer flying the rebel flag has just burnt, sunk & destroyed about forty vessels along our shores east of the Delaware Bay. She was a very swift steamer, well man’d but lightly armed. She came right in among our unsuspecting coasting vessels and destroyed all she could catch from fishing sloops up to 1500 ton ships, and was off before any of our war vessels could catch her. Your slavery-loving freedom-hating rulers will laugh in their sleeves at the slow Yankees being caught napping. But they will be called to a strict account before 10 years are over, unless they can get the British people to

back them up in a war against us while our rebellion is in full blast.

If the combined forces of France & England can be brought against us now, in alliance with our slave lashing rebels, we shall have a terrible war here. And I firmly believe that if we of the north now elect a proslavery president and return to a full proslavery policy, it will be so, for the reasons I have stated, and because you antislavery people, you “English abolitionists” as our democratic slavery lovers spitefully call you; can then be no longer our friends.

You must then feel like having more respect for the brave chivalerous South (though it be blood thirsty, cruel despotic & proslavery) than for the cowardly, cringing, mean dastardly north, that will then have approved itself basely treacherous to the cause of human liberty and the common rights of man, infamously unfaithful to Christianity and the sacred teachings of him who said, “As ye would others should do unto you, even so do ye unto them”, and totally and entirely unworthy and unfit to be associated in the family of civilized nations of the world.

If we should prove so entirely unworthy of the friendship which the common people of Europe have felt for us, you will know it about 20th November. Our northern proslavery president would take his office on the 4th of March 1865. That gives Mason and Slidell, the rebel commissioners now in Europe, over 100 days to operate in. We shall not then have a friend left in Christendom. You common people will be too much disgusted with us to say a syllable in our defence. Your royalty and aristocracy, who hate us and have dreaded our example, will be then left free to make the best bargain with our rebels that they can. Mason and Slidell will soon have it all arranged, and when the 4th of March comes and McClellan takes his seat, Jeff Davis will be quite prepared to snap his fingers at the north and be far more insolent and defient than ever. What may come then God only knows.

But you now see the danger and ruin our proslavery mad democracy & develish demogogues would rush us into. They have already plunged us into the gulf that has swallowed up all great republics before us, rebellion & civil war. And instead of helping us all out again on the only safe side, they would add a foreign war to make sure of the complete destruction of our Union and the entire dismemberment of our country. Should this unhappy fate befall us the most meloncholy reflection will be that the poor man brought this calamity and the loss of his own liberty upon us and upon himself. Strange that the poor men of the north, who would never own one hundredth share of a black baby were slavery reestablished all over the north today, are the most anxious to keep the poor negroes enslaved and forever prevent their getting free.

A fifty dollar franchise would sweep this northern proslavery party out of existence at the next election and our danger would be gone for ever. I am a republican and go for the greatest good to the greatest number. But I am not in favor of universal sufferage, because I have watched its mischievous effects for 35 years, and if ever this grand experiment of the capability of man for self-government fails, it will be universal sufferage that causes that failure. And yet it is only with universal suffrage that experiment can . .