Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-01
THANKSGIVING IN ENGLAND.
Mr.. GladstOne's Speech at Cyrus W.
Fields Banquet, In London.
England and the United States COngrat-
ulated on Account OF their
Friendly Relations.

Friendly Relations
LONDON, November 2S.-Cyrus w
Field gave q grsnd banquet last evening
Al the Buckingham Palace Hotel, II
celebration of the American Thanks
uiving Day. The company included
Mr.. Gladstone, General CesnOno, L. d.
". Hay, Baron Enale, Erlanger Bax,
ter, NJ. P, Sir Charles Wingfield, Sil
John HAY, Sir Charles Wheatstone, Mr.
Pender, Sir James Anderson, Admira
Richards, Mr.. Massey, Mr.. Macarthur
Mr. Narley, Mr.. Liemens, and others
During dinner several kilograms were
dispatched 10 America and answers re,
ceived.
Mr.. Field, chairman, proposed " the
health Of the Queen" and next that
Of the President Of the United States
These toAsts were enthusiastically hon.
ored.
Mr.. Field next proposed " Great Brit.
sin and the United States of Amer
lea, two countries destined to be united
in friendship as closely as they are In
6inship.n In connection with this toast
he would mention one whose name is 8
household word throughout the whole
world - Right Hon. William Z.
Gladstone. LChesTs.
Mr. GLADsTONE's SPEECH.
Mr.. FIELD AND GENTLEMEN-I
do not know, sirs, whether you
have been fortunate in this choice
Of the individusl whom you have
hOnOred by requesting him to re-
-pord TO this toast; but feel quite Ger
tain that you have been fOrtunste in the
occasion on which it is given-the day
when, in full cOnsonsnce with the Chris
tian feelings Of your country, you ren-
der thanSs to the Giver Of all Good for
die bounty which Heu 5 poured out.
And it Is given on a day when there is
gathered around this hOspitsble board
body of gentlemen united with yourself
iu 2 great work, which constitutes al
once one Of the most signal triumphs Of
modern science and an offer of gUaFan-
Lees for the peace and amity Of the
world. Cheers. 1 therefore feel sure
that this is an occasion eminently suited
for the expression of the sentiments you
nave embodied in the words Of the toast;
Great Britain and the United States of
Ameriea-two countries destined to be
cuited IN friendship as closely as they
are in kinship.n / hope, sir, that that
i the case, and l firmly believe that
your to8st speaks no more than the
truth. ] an afraid, Mr.. Field, that
2; often happens that when special
friendship between two countries is
toasted OF, that it does not so much mean
The appreciation they entertain OF one
another as an antipathy toward some
BODY else The meetings of the repre-
=entatives Of countries are not unfre-
uuently considered to be a token Of
something that is formidable to their
tSighbors; but if there be, as l think
Iere is, a special relation of friendship
between England and America, it Is a
friendship which implies nothing impe-
-ious and nothing dispsraging to any
country in the world. lCheeTs. 1t is
not founded on any views Of aggression
nat We entertsin in common. 1t
IS L. hardly conceivable that there
was desired only by England and Amer .
lea, unless it were an object beneficial to
-Nery other country in the world. 1t is
4 -pScialty OF friendship, founded upon l
The close relationship Of our race; upon /
a united Language; upon sympathy, at I
least, IL not identity of institutions;
IIpon the love Of freedom and the nation
Il order Of self-gOvernment, which alike .
distinguishes these two great countries.
Cheers And if We found our friend
-biD upon considerations such as these,
We desire not to be peculiar to ourselves,
f.ut shall be glad TO share them in COM
non with ourselves by every other
lpeeple on the face Of the globe. [Cheers.l ,
RI Is quite true, sir, that the relations of
England and America have been
marked by features which are, l believe,
without parallel in history. 1t is not
often thai history has given US an ex-
,,ufUle of a colony like the United States
saF
70 vigorous, 50 full Of promise and Of
poweT-so different from any of those
colonies that have been founded by other
European countries. When the day of
separation came, il came attended by
circumstances Of pain and evaporation,
but it now affords happiness for both
sides Of the water when we can look
back 10 il without either pain or
evaporation; and on your part ! am
quite sure you are ready 10 feel and to
make allowance for a gallant people,
believed, though erroneous, that
were struggling for the nations
and that on the unity of the En-
re depended the happiness ef their
country. We, on our part, are now able
L. see that with these motives,
honorable as they were, We were
an error, that We were struggling
against nature, struggling, may
venture TO say, even against PrOvi-
,lence, and the Americans themselves
do not more honor the day Of their
emancipation and their independence, ]
than We Englishmen, who give them I
ful tribute Of our sympathy, and would
not If we could, undo or re-
verse the course of things. LCheers.
Mr.. Field, the relation Of the two (
countries, close as they had been, and
served as they were by so severe q pro
cess. were distinguished in another most
Fmportant particular, from every other
"a. of the kind that has been known
I'm the history OF the world. We were
severed politically from one another, but !
rh. severance was not, TO use g hOmely !
EXPRESSION, what may be termed eIean
-pverance. Ii was not, for example, as
iu the case Of the two countries Of the
Peninsular, which, when they were sew
cred from their colony and possessions in !
south America, had no longer special ]
relations or any special controversies, 1
with them. After the indie
pendence 0f the United States was
= tablished Great Britain continued
10 be an American power. From that |
circumstance, and from many other '
circumstances, 10 has happened that
been q mother and daughter country I
that had such strong reasons for friend {
ship and affection, neither has there s
ever been q mother and daughter 0OUn- I
Try which, in time OF independence,
we're menaced with 50 many possible {
subjects Of controversy, and Of possible {
difference and discOrd, and consequently [
there las been, all along, this singular l
contrast in the feeling Of the people Of c
the two countries toward. one another: [
.hat while We have been powerfully at a
.racted by all the causes 20 which / have Q
referred. we have felt that the seal Of
has been stamped upon US v
ly the hand Of the Almighty himself, {
aud that noble motive that tended 10
promote true union OF feeling was fur :
her quickened by the vast and extraOr-
binary community Of interest between &
ls. On the other hand, at almost every {
point OF the wide circumference, there C
were questions Of controversy, which, b
rom time 70 time, divided US, and which 4
,-As a w0fk Of time and Difficult 10 set {
le. Tntl this present day K would 4
hardly have been practicable to point to
he moment at which there has not been 4
some one or other subject Of correspond
.nce, and even Of dispute, remaining d
Unsettled between England and the z
United states. But, Mr.. Field,
here is this happy difference d
% he observed: ! have said p
ye have had most powerful impulses 10 Z
Inion and concord. ] have said we b
nave had many occasions Of difference s
md Of controversy; but the occasions Of o
iur differences and Of controversy were
n their nature temporary, and capable d
ii being settled by intelligent good sense n
and friendly temper. The time Of that s.
settlement has now happily arrived, y
when we can speak Of il, not rs thing b
% Boz hoped or to be dssirsd, but as a
onsummation which has happily been
Accomplished. Loud cheers Those ]
temporary differences have passed away. a
The motives 70 union remain. They e
ire not like other controversies, marked e
l-ith \ fugitive and transitoTy char Il
lcter. Every one Of than Is pro a
Oundly rooted in the circumstances OF o
he two countries, and IN the character Of d
he people by which they ere inhabited |
o that, although there has been in other &
lines strong and uncOnquerable senti- b
nent tending toward fraternal union, a
Jet that sentiment hes been liable to lie {,
by opposite and GOntepding Z
now it can move with q full o
md equal flow, with nothing to inter a
upt 81 and nothing TO fix the term Of b
iurAtion Of feeling, which we rejoice 10 .
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