Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-08-07

bat there Is no need 10 dwell upon tn
national achievements Of the last thirteen
years-they iwere too conspicuous not t,
have been seen they are too recent to b,
/ forgotten. 1t viii suffice 10 present sched
u,e oi the leading eyentS.
At home and abroad the MON was pro-
/ CANNED to be dissolved in l-6l. The Nor
/ Is restored now.
Nine States then claimed to- have left III,
! protection Of the constitution forever They
/ have all returned To that protection now.
Those that th0u saTest me | have kept,
and none Is lost, said the Saviour Of men.
| The Republican party has preserved nor,
/ than the States YOU committed t. it, keep
ing 1t has found those which were lost
In 1851 the Confederate States of Amer
lea, 50 called, were clamoring for admis-
sion into the family Of nations There Is
no longer any such pretence. Zach one Of
those great, but misguided. communities
now has honorable recognition IL an inte-
gral part of the nited States
\ race numbering millions has been raised
from the condition of chatte> to the state
Of man. Human rights have gained the
sanction of three new chapters added to the
national constitution. Murder organized
in several State. bearing the name OF ku-
klux, wearing the garb and plying the
trade OF ficnds, has been exposed, convicted
punished.
Abroad our career has been scarcely les
triumphant. Great Britain has corrected
the mistake she made when she assumed
that the appearance of the Confederate
States was the sure premonlti0n of The de-
parture of the United States. She ha done
what Great Britain never did bcfJre-she
has apol0gizcd for a mistake. Out Of that
mistake has sprung new era in diplomacy.
Without the employment of force, but
peaceably. the republic which was deiicd by
her own citizens. and deSpised everywhere
in 1851, has led Great Britain voluntarily to
submit her conduct to the Judgment of ma
tions. and, in pursuance OF their judgment,
she has paid a fine OF fifteen millions for
the wrong she did Us.
That Is not all. Those islands to which
she made claim on our northwest coast are
relinquished. That claim Great Britain
submitted TO the judgment of the emperor
Of North Germany and submitted herself to
Naturalization of being told to surrender
it. She was not given an equivalent for She
was simply told she had claimed great pos
sessions to which she had no right.
That is not all II there ever was one
principle of English jurisprudence which
England believed to be lrreyerslOle ana I'M
alterable, it was the principle that British
born subject could never change his allegi
ance. "Once a Briton. always a BrltOE,n
was law she held to be as fixed As grayi-
tatiun She fought one war with us IN de-
fence OF it. But after seeing our pitiful
army OF IL, 900 men suddenly swollen by
volunteers to nearly I.OOO,oO0, she wisely
concluded it was not worth while to fight
another war in defence of this principle,
and by peaceful negotiation she has repealed
the law she so long and 50 obstnately held
to be irrepealablo. Germany has followed
that wise example. or rather set the exam
pie. Belgium, Sweden, Norway and Den
mark have done the same, and now when
the republic grants the boon Of citizenship
to one of Irish, English, German or Sean
linavian birth, the grant is recognized in
the land Of his nativity.