Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-01-10

Iwould rather you would express no signs
of appreciation or rdis4pprobation until have
painted my picture. Hear. Your papers
are guilty Of gosding you on 70 all the hor-
r0rs Of brutal war, and lead you 70 suppose
that America is your bitterost enemy instead
Of your truest friend. Perhaps | can bring
the frontier nearer home by drawing another
picture. will in few words state who is
your friend-who your enemy. Well, then,
France IS your RGtaEal tTieaa-Ameriea your
natural enemyl OF course Americans know
that your great army OF Volunteers Tcheels1
IS got up against them-not your old friend
Face. Laught.r ] Your enormous Army
and Navy they know is not against their trus
ffeind France but against their natural enc
my, Americal Let me show you the force of
my argument in an other way. During sew
en- hundred years have you not always been
friends Laughter Have you not com
mon literature, q common law, and do you
not speak the same laDguageP
What better proof can you have that
France is your beat friend than by talking
with the officers Of the French navy, who
worship England for the burning reoOl-
leoions Of TrafslgaT2 lOheers.l The ar
my, too, love you as a brother, for the ster-
ling lessons you taught them OF Waterloo
Laughter and applause The merchants
like you for having rivalled them every
where in trade. And the priesthood al
most adore you for having done SO much
for their religion, and shoWered 90 often
blessings On The head Of their Pope. APP
plsuse and laughter Have not proved
that France must naturally be your friend 7
II not, then I have another argument,
stronger yet The people, they must nat
turally admire, revere and respect the ma
ton that took their royal guest out Of the
Belleropkon, and sent him to die, Parrha-
sius-like, on o sterile rock in the Southern
Ocean Hear
Oh, yes France is your friend. Read
the Debsts, the MoniteuT, Ls Presse, and
the Constitutional. Don't you see how
friendly they are2 How different from
the hostile comments Of your natural enc
my, America. A nation that takes twenty
three millions Of your manufactured goods,
and gives you forty-fouF millions Of your
raw material, must naturally be your enc
my. Are we not always insulting your
Read your pepers-WhGt an outrage that
was fourteen years sgc-hoW insulting to
sell Erin, pale with want, large oargOes Of
food for aothiRg. Loud applause. Ad-
mitted gross insult vas offered by having
burned down the City Hall to honor your
officers in New York ct the time of the At
lsutic Cable. [Cheers. And mora yet,
that outrage of searching out the Arctic
WandereF IS . token Of our desire to insult
your QuseD. ICheers. But if l have
failed to show that America is your nstu-
raj enemy; observe how We outraged all
rules Of etiquette in the Royal welcome
We gave The son Of the noblest lady that
ever sat upon the throne Of a mighty peo-
pie. CLoud cheers. That insult should
never be forgotten. Hear, hear. This
change Of positions Of France and America
may show you how uncalled fer is this up
rising of your people-eiVihzation is bar
barism when it's result is snsrohy. Amer
leans want to come out to your Exhibition
next year. TCheers How can they in
the midst of war then you will want to
turn it into an exhibition of FIRE arms.