Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1859-06-08

gwen. And adding TO that sum derived
from taxation loan Of S20,0000O0 n year
| If you want loans--for England could give
the Queen loan of G20,000, 900 per am.
mum for ten years running if necessary,
ii the honor Of the country required il I;
and at the end of that period the national
resources, instead Of beng exhausted
would not really be found considering
the circumstances Of the case-that the
freedom of her people, the independence
of her realm and the greatness OF her em.
| pre- were at stake-to have been serious
ly impaired by such contribution. (Cheers)
When ! know these things am not in
timidated hy the leagues of Kings and
Emperors. l know well, if there is to be
a war OF nationalities, Of opinions and ra-
ces-a war Of revolution and reconstruc-
ton, we shall weather the storm Cheers. J
1t will not be England that will suffer-
1t is Europe that will be desolated, and
the very potentates whose pride and am
bition, and lust of conquest are bringing
about this perilous state of affairs, will
find themselves at the end in an inferior
position to that which they now occupy.
| (Cheers.) Gentlemen, we hear great
dead OF the balance of power Of the inn
| portanco of sustaining certain barriers in
Europe, and many other axioms, all of
which TO q certain degree are true, and
which may for n certain time continue to
prevail. But let me take this opportu-
nifty OF imprcssing upon you that the day
is coming, if it has not already come,
when the question of the balance of pow
er cannot be confined to Europe alone
Since the time when that doctrine OBJ
tanned great communities have risen in
another hemisphere, who will not permit
the balance of power to be limited to Eu-
rope. You have on the other side of the
Atlantic vigorous and peaceful communi-
ties, who will no longer submit to your
circumscribed theory of authority. The
Australian colonies, though now in their
youth, but in the youth Of giants, have
already, as it were, thrown their colossal
shadow over Europe. And it is for old
Europe | lament that she is oXhausting
her energies and her resources in these
wars. ! could wish that she would rather
prepare for that awful competition which
in coming times she must encounter.
would rather see France, and Germany,
and Russia develop their resources, i'm
prove their agriculture, increase their
population, and cultivate the arts of life,
social and scientific, instead of wasting
their strength, risking their stability, and
sinking when the era to which have re-
! ferred arrives, by their own mismanage-
ment and want of prescience, into an in
ferior and exhausted position. Remem-
Der always that England, though she is
bound to Europe by tradition, by atiec-
tion, by great similarity of habits, and all
those ties which time alone can create
and consecrate, is not mere Power of the
Old World. Her geographical position,
| her laws, her language and religion, con-
meet her as much with the New World as
with the Old. And al though she has oc-
cupied not only an eminent, but ] am
bold to say, the most eminent position
among European nations for ages, still, il
ever Europe, by her short-sightedness,
falls into an inferior and exhausted state,
for England there will remain an illustri-
ous future. (Cheers.) We are bound to
the communities of the New World, and
those great States which our own plant
ing and colonizng energies have created,
by ties and by interests which will sustain
our power and enable us to play as great
part in the time yet to come rs we dc
in these days and as we have done in the
past. (Cheers.) And, therefore, now that
Europe is on the eve of war, say il is for
Europe, not for England, that my heart
sinks. And this hope, that it will be
by the influence of England that the un-
happy struggle which has just opened
may be one OF short duration that it may
be limited in its range ana local in its
character and that after some brief en-
counters of arms both France and Austria
may feel that it would be well, by the in
fuence of those who have not been Sc
duced by their political passions, to ter
inmate their strife and secure at the same
time the better government of Italy and
the peace of the world. (Cheers.)