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going to take his exposition of international law against that of the law officers of England. (Applause.) The speaker, after expressing himself in favor of the principles of Wendell Phillips, rather than those of "Lincoln and Seward," went on to say: The North was like the "dog in the manger" When he saw the Northerners sitting upon five or six million bales of cotton which it could not eat or manufacture, and which it did not know what to do with — when he saw the people of Lancashire looking a little blue at the aspect of the times, and by no means certain as to the result of the coming winter — his "enlightened conscience" taught him to apply the fable, and to conclude that England would be as entirely justified in getting her share of that cotton as the hungry cattle would have been in tossing into the air the dog who lay in the way of their getting the hay they needed. [Laughter.] The comparison between the suspension of the English habeas corpus act of 1848 and of