The Southern Club in Liverpool.
On the 16th ult. a magnificent banquet, says the Liverpool
Post, was given by the
Southern Club is that city to a large number of conspicuous gentlemen, among whom were
Mr. Beresford Hope, M. P., and
Mr. Spence.
It is described as an elegant affair.
The President of the
Club is
Victor Poutz.
After the first toasts to the
Queen are member of the
Royal family, the main business of the evening began.
Our readers will be interested in the extracts which we give below
Mr. Beresford Hope said: ‘I am not sentimental I am going to give you a toast, not sentiment.-- [Laughter.] Gentlemen, there is such a thing a cords of the Medes.
Assyrians, and the
United States.
[Laughter.] Now, in the leaves of this ambient history there was a thing used to come over the ocean, waited by the on the leaves of the
Knickerbocker and other journals, which was that we and the people on the other side of the ocean were one and the same people, speaking the same language, having the same Threatre, the same traditions, having the same
Shakespeare, the same
Newtons, the Pitts, and the Washingtons, at of whom were felt to be the common property of the English-speaking people.
That thought has deeply penetrated me; and when I can see a man born in any of the four quarters of the glebe where the
English language is spoken — where the
English pedigree can be traced — where English institution reign — when I see such a man as that stand out beyond his fellows, I say, "God speed our brother;" and if I can see a man who lives in so many lines of wisdom — great in many signs a greatness — great as a soldier; too modest to thrust his greatness forward — great in the council — great in debate — great with his pen — greatest of all will that calm and supreme wisdom, that sold time contempt for passing popularity [cheers.] on which greatness depends — which the father of the country must put on if he means to rear his progeny it lasting life — when I see such a man — when I know such a man is born of an English race — when I see that such a man speaks an English language — when I see the sentiment to which he gives expression, I say I hail such a man, if such a man there be living on the face of this earth.
[Cheers] And I say all Englishmen here must hail him too; but speaking in a mixed assembly of our one common people, who are somehow politically divided into two nations — and I believe that man is as
England is, only a fellow citizen of our great Anglo-
Saxon face, the representative of supreme authority — the idea of law and order, of Government and the centre of Confederate loyalty.
I say, then that man is the one whom we could all receive with all the love and honor and respect. [ therefore, without further prelude, give on the health of one whom, in this room, we all recognize, [cheers] one whom we hope, are many months are over, will exchange those active acts of authority and of diplomacy which heads of great States must exchange with each other.
[Cheers.] I give you "The health of His
Excellency, the
President of the
Confederate States of America. " [Loud cheering.]’
The toast was drank amid every demonstration of enthusiasm.
Then followed a toast to the memory of
Stone wall
Jackson, which was offered by the
President of the
Club, accompanied by a brief and touching speech.
It was drunk "standing, and in solemn silence."
The next toast was to the "Army and Navy of the United Nations of the
Southern States and
Great Britain." This was responded to for the army by
Capt. Bullock.
The
Chairman proposed "The health of the guest of the evening,
Mr. Beresford Hope, " [Loud cheers,] in whose praise too much could not be said for the interest he had taken in the
Confederate cause when it was not smelled upon by other men.
Mr. Beresford Hope, in responding, said he took up the cause of the
Confederate States because he found among other things a good, devotional, God-fearing, honest people, both men and women, while in the
North he saw greed, avarice, ambition, and unprincipled just of empire.
[Great cheering.] He had made his choice, and by his election he would stand.
[Renewed cheering.] --The cause had often seemed a losing one, but he had never lost heart, and if he might prophesy, as far as man could be allowed to prophesy, he would venture to say that the cause of the
South would be crowned with a glorious success.
[Great cheering.]
The
Chairman gave "The health of the heroes-- the brave defenders of the city of
Charleston."
The toast was drunk amid rapturous applause.
Mr. Prioleau, of
Charleston, responded, in a fervent and patriotic speech, in the course of which he declared that it might be in the designs of
Providence that the foot of the
Yankee should pollute the city of
Charleston; but that if it did, it was within his knowledge that never — never-- would the city yield until every man in it laid down his life blood in the ditch, and every woman was driven from the place at the point of the bayonet.
[Tremendous cheering]
