Lord Brougham is very anxious, now that the North has
succeeded, to disavow all his virulent anti-Northern sentiments. In the House of Lords on Monday, he said "the conduct of the United States Government had been perfect upon the subject of slavery, and he was astonished at the utterly groundless reports which injudicious friends of the Union had propagated of him, as if he had taken the part of the slave-traders and slave-mongers of the South." " Some good men," said his Lordship, as late as September, 1864, " have been duped by the pretext that the North fight to free the slave, whereas the Emancipation edict was a mere belligerent measure and an after-thought, they (as Bishop Wilber- force said) caring no more for the freedom of the black than they do for that of the white. But it hid been reserved for the latest act of the tragedy to see that Government, when destitute of other troops, drive herds of the unhappy negroes to slaughter, with no more remorse than sportsmen feel in clearing a preserve." Is that the " perfect" conduct which Lord Brougham now attri- butes to the North? After language of this kirid, is it quite wise for this noble time-server to claim credit as a true friend of the North ?
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