, 1881-10-15
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l Sh VIC ccothNAh n&kOA q VI AmAC GkI6,
overlooking the bright waves that, on
opposite shores, lave the borders Of tFo
nations, there Is a new-made grave.
Only little mound Of earth mazks the
spot where yesterday the whole Anglo
Saxon race stood with uncovered heads
while the American nation buried its
dead One hundred millions of people,
inhabiting the most distant parts Of the
globe, yet descendants Of the same ances-
tors, kindred in blood, language aud in
stitutions, and common inhsritors of the
grandest history any branch Of the human
species has ever made, we're on that spot
reunited in q sentiment of common
brotherhood by a sense of a common
bereavement
VI Is as hard to express it as it Is to
realize the full meaning of what this
statement is meant to convey. The facts
in which it Is contained come to us in
those amazing Testimonials from the old
family homestead Of the race, which
seem to break down all barriers of space
and time, and divisions Of political ar
rangements, bringing long separated but
still kindred peoples back to a realization
OF the fact that they are offspring Of the
same ancestry, and, though long politi.
caly divided, are still united in the bonds
OF common heritage which nothing
under Omnipotence can sunder.
Have We thoughtfully considered the
meaning Of these testimonials Have ve
asked ourselves why the great cathedral
of st. Paul, in the British metropolis,
was absolutely erammed," Sunday
afternoon, upon the announcement that
the services would relate to the death Of
the late American President When
the solemn Dead March in Saul filed
! the vast basilica in the tones of the great
organ, why was it that :" the whole con-
gregation, numbering many thousands,
rose and remained standing, amidst pro-
found silence, all showing grief, and
many weeping p Why were similar
scenes Witnessed in most of the churches
and chapels throughout Great Britainl
These manifestations of the English peo-
pie certainly sorroborate the declarations
of the English press that the Queens
order for court mourning rightly inter.
prets the feelings Of the English people.
That order was an unprecedented act,
never before done for one neither sov-
ereign or relative, yet it precisely ex-
presses the universal feeling that an
Englishman, who vas in the place of
king, and worthy to rank with kings, had
passed away Wha. means this univer-
sal feeling moving ninety million people
who think in English to be equally visi-
BILE and audible assistants at the funeral
of all American citizen
Doubtless the explanation is iii part
suggested by these words. 1t is because
all these people think in English, and
because the. have had, through many
successive generations, common herit-.
age of English thought, English history,
English blood and English civilization
Though separated by 3 200 miles of ocean
and a century of political diversity,
neither space nor time can permanently
divide the sympathies of two kindred
nations when aiiiiction has heavily laid
its hand ON either Inwoyen in the
Character of two kindred nations, there is
a bond Of unity, unperceived by either,
which the death of the man who was
among the best representatives of that
race character has suddenly revealed to
both. Ii is the revelation of fact
which, says the Spectator, may yet affect
the history Of the world 1t is certain to
affect the history Of America. 1t is GER
tain to set in more rapid motion the
forces which have long been gradually
obliterating from the mental habits of
Americans those senseless prejudices
which, born of political contentious in .
remote past, have been too long kept
alive against nation from which Amer
lea has derived by Inheritance all that is
best and most enduring in her social and
political institutions.
Herein may Americans realize the rich
and ample compensation of this national
bereavement Much too long has sense-
less elf-conceit closed their understand
ings against some of the best and wisest
characters Of the English administrative
system, and nursed their prejudices in
favor Of some Of the worst and least wise
arrangements of their own. While our
brethren in England have shared the
sense Of our bereavement, repre- esentstiye
organs of English thought have not failed
t. perceive and paint out to us ''the nat
ural relation between that which the new
president, with righteous Indignation,
denounces as hideous crime, and the
particular shorteoining In American in
stitutions." Americans have been slow 20
perceive and reluctant to admit the exist
ence Of these natural relations between
crime which has filed the English speak
ing world with the sense Of great ealam-
i.y and one Of the most irrational, vicious,
and degrading executive constitutions
that can be found amOngcivilized na-
tons Shall we not now see and admit
the justice Of the criticism of our national
faults by men who deplore equally with
ourselves their evil consequencesi
The assassination ct two Presidents IS
but small part Of the price We have paid
for that faulty arrangement Ii the
second Of these national calamities shall
result in making US better friends with
our kindred over the sea, and in breaking
down some Of the senseless prejudices
which have blinded US to the yalue and
importance Of their criticisms ON the
faults-plain to them, but obscured to us
by our self-conceit-of our political ar
rangements, the Americans may In the
future realize that the deepest affliction
has not been without lis ample eomPen-
sation- Chicago Timex
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