The Portland daily press., 1864-05-13

is over, that the Union is restored, and that
there are uone but freemen on his continent
(hear, hear, then, If could be only few
years younger than | am at all likely to be,
might be induced to promise to pay you vis-
it. Hear, hear.
| DO not know how many of the fifty or six
ty gentlemen here assembled are Englishmen,
or how many Of them are American. 1t is
not at all necessary TO discriminate, but it Is
worthy of notice that you could not tell one
from the other. Hear, hear. That is not
remarkable, for those who were our ancestors
were also your ancestors; but it is a very pro-
voking thing that there should be people who
would make rs foreigners and strangers to
each other. tCheers ! am sure it would
be possible to go through the United States
and select a number of Americans aud En-
glishmen equal to the fifty or sixty now in
this room, and if you put them together you
will find the one-half OF them just as well dis
posed TO the other half as we are to each
other, and just as able to enjoy the good things
prepared for them. There would not be
among them the slightest disposition to quar-
rel. tCheels.) They would begin to think
that all the abuse they had heard of each
other was false, and the lies and shameful
calumnies to which great newspaper here,
and the great newspaper in New York treat
both hemispheres, would no longer be regard
ed. loud cheers. There are some persons
in England who are very jealous OF America.
II is too big, they think, to govern ITSELF
They, citizens of country that rules an en-
pire OF go millions Of people some thousand
miles away, have a most profound opinion
that compact population of thirty millions
is really too large for America to govern
(Cheers and laughter.) This national jeal-
ousy Is very stupid, to say the least of it.
Although We are not at war, the war in
America is producing unfortunate results, to
one branch of our commerce in particular,
and is stirring up memories which had better
been buried forever. (Cheers.) From all
this comes-from men, some partially ig-
norant, some suspicious men of contracted in-
tellect, ignorant of what makes the great and
true glory OF nations-a great jealousy of the
United States. 1t was in ancient times con-
sidered the great glory of a State TO plant
powerful colonies, aud they did not glory the
less in them because they became independent.
tllear, hear, aud cheers. Thus the United
States have been our colonies. They are now
truly an independent nation, but still they are
our colonies. What can be more contempti-
ble than feeling of jealousy of the great ma
ton we ourselves have planted OH the other
side of the Atlantic, in the face of all we are
taught in history to value as great and glori-
Gus! tCheers.) We have achieved whatever
glory is involved in carrying that which is
good IN this country to a higher point than
any other country In history ever attained.
Hear, hear.)
We have lately heard a great deal of the
advantages of an universal language: but
when j look upon the United States, with
population OF thirty millions of people, with
peace restored, with Government re-estsblish-
ed, with schools and classes enough for the
general and religious education OF the peo-
pie, feel that in the short space of ten years
that population will grow to such degree
that even in the lifetime of our children we
shall have the English language spoken by
one hundred millions OF free people. Cheers
What magnificent contemplation that is
(Lond cheers.l
If chance to go further. TO the Australian
colonies, there, too, are our institutions, and
there the English language Is spoken as IL is
in the United States. And then if come TO
our vast dependencies in the East, inhabited
by l50OO0,0O0 OF people, among all of whom
the English language is extending its in1u-
ence, we shall have the educated people of
H;ndostan, in the course of twenty or thirty
years, should the connection continue so long,
also speaking in our tongue. Hear, hear y
In South Africa, too, the English language is
making its way; so that this language, in
which the greatest men who ever lived have
written aud spoken, is being universally ex-
tended, by the help Of commerce and cviliza-
ton, until it promises to belt the world
(Cheers.l This being so, want TO know
why men keep up spirit of cavil and of jeal-
ousy between the two nations. | cannot con-
celve any man more thoroughly an enemy,
not only TO his own country but to humanity
itself, than he who lends himself to create and
keep alive this animosity between the United
States and this more ancient English nation.
tCheers.)"