Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-05-24
THE DEBT MUST BE PAID.


are not in conformity to the welfare
and interest of the nation, which to-day
stands equal to any on the face of the
globe in art, science and agriculture,
and the rights of mankind.
The American people are enlighten-
ed and progressive, overlooking with
hospitality, and always ready to extend
the hand of sympathy to the down trod-
den of every cline. Their policy for
years has been to build up and dissent
nate those principles which go towards
making great and mighty people.
Not only have we done justice by the
foreign mechanic and laboring man on
their arrival upon our shores but the
same spirit has always been exhibited
to the English scholar when called to
fill important positions in a public ca
pacity.
Goodwin Smith, president of the Cor
nell Institute, since his advent in this
country, has received from the hands
of the American people all the honor
that any man ought to expect from the
sposition which he holds as the head of
public institution. He is evidently
man of abilily, otherwise he would not
have been called to his present position.
and it is expected that he would endea-
vor to instil into the minds of those un-
der his supervision, the teachings of our
form of government, and to abrogate
British notions and doctrines so far rs
his public duties are concerned. Whe
ther he has done so, up to the present
time, the people of the country must
judge.
They will however, recollect, that
during the recent rebellion, the British
government, which claimed to be at
peace with us, allowed the armed yes
sci, the Alabama, to leave one of her
most prominent ports, to prey upon
American commerce. That she did
commit injury to our commerce is an
indisputable fact That the attention
of the British Government was called
to this outrage ever Mr.. Smith cannot
deny.
But we as q prudent and far-seeing
people abided our time, and after an
elapse of several years, one of our
ablest statesmen, Mr.. Sumner, declares
in the United States Senate, in one of
the most lucid speeches that ever was
delivered before any Legislative body,
that the time had arrived when the Bri-
fish Government should make amende
honorable for the injury due to Ameri-
can commerce during our late internal
strife. There can be no misunderstood
ing of the issue. A gross injury has
been committed, and Mr. Sumner has
prefaeed the facts with so much clear
ness and force as to leave no doubt on
the English mind what the American
Government have right to demand for
nothing in Mr.. Summers speech but
will meet with the commentator of
the calmer and reflective mind and the
American people endorse it to a man.
He asks, in fitting terms, for the Amer
lean people only that which is right,
and which, as matter of equity, the
British Government should not hesitate
to enforce
But strange to say the American peo-
pie are surprised by a president of an
American university, Goodwin Smith,
denouncing in satirical manner the
position taken by Senator Summer,
which according to- the rules of law,
would be readily sustained before any
impartial court of Justice.
We are inclined to believe in all can
dor, that Mr.. Smith, had forgotten to
consider, that, the American people are
not DESTROYS of being instructed upon
matters which do not harmonize with
American ideas, and which i'll q nation
al point of view is generally looked up
ON as being iHjudicious, more particu-
larry when taking into consideration
the position which he holds among us,
we have an undoubted right to expect a
different line of policy.
We would in all franilness say to Mr..
Smith, that we are living in a time
which borders on the 18th century
and while Young America" is ready
to extend q cordial greeting to English
men, yet they cannot shut their eyes to
matter wherein their interests, as
we'll as well settled principles of law
are at stake, and allow them to pass
by unnoticed.
Mr.. Smith is undoubtedly man OF
letters, butlwe apprehend there are 9th
er men to be found within our own
borders equally as able, and while we
we are. ready and willing to respect him
as a scholar, we wish to be distinctly
understood that we cannot remain in
the quietude of sleepless Indifference,