Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-02
MIR. Gladstone on the Relations Between
England and the United States.

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advise them to look after this railroad.
MIR. Gladstone on the Relations Between
England and the United States.
The 9th of November-Lord Mayors
Day-Alderman Besley, the Lord Mayor
elect, was inducted into Office with the
usual pomp. At the inaugural banquet
in the evening, Mr.. Gladstone replied to
the toast to the Ministry, and the full
text of his references to America will be
read with peculiar interest. We quote !:
Happily, we are dispensed in our re-
lations with the world from propagating
any favorite schemes, for the best of all
reasons that aOe have none to propagate ).
but, without arrogaJing influence, L think
we are bound on every occasion that of
fers to make every effort towards COM
posing those differences and allaying
those disturbances which may arise in
different portions of the world; and |
rejoice to think that, on more than one
occasion since his return to Office, my
noble friend who holds the seal of the
Foreign Office has had the satisfaction
of receiving the liberal and handsome
acknowledgements of foreign govern
ments for the useful contributions he
has made towards the accommodation
of their relations. One exception, per-
haps-one partial cTception-I ought to
name. 1t is an eXcetion of the deepest
interest. refer to our relations with
the United States. But there is no oc-
casion, my Lord Mayor, that l should
refer to those relations in any terms ex-
cept those of peace and concord. Cheers.
Were tempted to depart from that
friendly strain should, indeed, be ad-
monished to judge more correctly and
to speak more wisely by an event which
has happened in the course of the last
few days. Your quick associations will
outrun my illusions. You will know
that refer to the death of Mr.. Peabody
man whose splendid benefactions-
which, indeed, secure the immortality
of his name in that which he regards as
his old mother country, but which like
wise, in a broader view is applicable to
all Hh,inadnity-taught usin this CONNER
cial age, which has witnessed the con-
struction of so many colossal fortunes,
at once the noblest and most needful OF
all lessons-namely, he has shown us
how man can be the master of his
wealth instead of being its slave
lGCheers. And my Lord Mayor, most
touching is it to know, as have learn
ed, that while, perhaps, some might
think he had been unhappy in dying in
a foreign land, yet so were his affections
divided between the land of his birth
and the home of his early ancestors. that
that which had been his fond wish has
indeed been realized-that he might be
buried in America, but that it might
please God to ordain that he should die
in England. lCheers. My Lord Mayor
aUith the country Of Mr.. Peabody aUe are
not likely to quarrel. Loud Cheers. II
is true, indeed, that the care and skill o.
diplomacy, animated by the purest anC
most upright feelings, though they have
not imperiled, yet have failed to lead to
a final issue at this moment the tangled
questions of law that have been in dis
cussion between the two countries bu
the very delay that has taken place, in
, stead of being a delay prompted by
kindred good will and by the belief tha
the Intervention of limited time may
: be likely to obviate any remaining diff
5 Guilty. [Cheers.] My Lord Mayor,
speak with confidence in ANTICIPATING
: that that which the whole world view
with horror and amazement-namely,
parricidal strife between England and
| Americans above all things the mos
unlikely to grow out of this state O
affairs. My confidence is, in the frs
place, in the sentiment which l know
animates the Government Of the United
] States, as well as our own, it is the sen
timent which we believe to pervade the
mind of the people of these two grea
countries; and permit me to add, 1 hav,
: yet another source of confidence, con
nected with some of these changes whicl
we are witnessing in the age in whicl
we live. / mean this change in partic
ular, that as in every country there ha.
} long been, and especially in the bes
: governed countries, notonly a force.oflav
but also of opinion that has rendered tC
, restrain it, so with the augmenting in
tercourse of nations there is now grow
e ing up what may term an information
q al opinion, standard If international
conduct higher than the standard whicl
q a particular nation sets up for itself, ant
to which it becomes more and NOR
: from year to year as we live necessary
], that each country should conform con
: sistently with the rights and duties o
;, the whole mass of the civilized commu
nifty of the world. know of no change
D not even in connection with railway
e and telegraphs-I know of no change il
n the whole of the material and moral de
. velopments which we have witnessed
in our time more beneficial to mankin,
D than that moral authority of all nations
!, over each nation, and depend upon i
a there is no greater guarantee for th,
nnrr1onant Oon6 nrdar Of oaoiafv