Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-12-16
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what the Chic. Justice Of Es9lan1
las % Say abeas this Csaasry.
AT the reception given to LORI
Coleridge of England, in New Yorl
city, that gentleman spoke as follows
of the United States:
1T is not only as . lawyer thai
your country has interested me. Tht
1 first question that Is almost al
ways put to me is whether am no,
amazingly struck by the vast size oil
the county. 1t was not the size thai
particularly impressed me. II size
were to he regarded I should say
that smallness rather than bigpese
should be insisted on. Men are grea,
10 proportion to the Smallness of their
natural advantages.
II can't agree with Golden, if be
said so, that the st, Lawrence, Miss.
issippi and Amazon are better worth
seeing than the Tiber and Orontea
because they pour SO much greater a
volume of water into the sea. Nor
with Lord Sherbrooke, who did say
that Marathon was not worth seeing.
because the slaughter there was not
up to the proportion Of q railway &C
cident. l believe that if Marathon
preserved to US art, philosophy, his
tory and the freedom of the Greek
nation, it Is worth far more the
knowing than all the great slaughters
of Yenghis Kahn, Attils, Julius C@-
sar and Napoleon, the four great
slaughierers whom G0dspermitted to
walk the earth.
What of the size of your coun-
try? you didn't make it. It is not
the size but the products that are to
be looked at Russia and Africa are
as large as the United States, and
doubt whether the British North
America possessions are much small
er. Your population is vast but
where did il come from? You are
the receptacle Of the emigration of
the world You are the judges of
how far this has proved an unmixed
good-how far the Integrity of your
political system has been affected or
not not l. II is not the size or force
or strength that constitute true great
ness. but when men rise against Op.
preston, when the good, honest.
God-fearing citizens 60 to war sooner
than suffer the disruption of their
country; when they fight not by the
aid of mercenaries but with their own
best blood aud the blood of their
children and their children's children;
when they say what is good for them
selves is good for others tOO-that so
far as their rule extends every man,
whatever his race, origin or color.
shall be as free as themselves; that no
traffic in human flesh shall ever take
place in their domains; when they
endeavor to do justice to themselves;
when they are not afraid OF ashamed
to confess and atone for their errors
then such nation Is truly, nobly
and indisputably great. Forgive a
friend ii he says 10 you that it is not
because OF your strength, vastness or
energy. but because you show that
you have the making of true great.
ness in you that he respects you.
You paid II price that no other ma.
tionever paid, but believe me, you got
the worth of It.
AS for your wealth. it was not
your colossal fortunes that interested
me. l cap:see great estates and sufii
GENTLY enormous fortunes at home.
should be disposed to give q wide
berth TO these things. because mil
lions of dollars confuse my mind and
are irrelevant 10 my tastes But what
l do rejoice To see, what has filled
me with delight, what have long
ed 10 see, but what will never see in
England. is the condition Of your
upper and lower middle classes.
met highly educated men, who woult
do credit 10 any capital. diffused
through the country, and, what j!
still more delightful, l saw tens o
Thousand, III comfortable houses al
lived in by the owners.
IL AIN told that the possession o.
homes is pretty general; that you
farmers generally own their farms
your gen,lefolks their houses. ant
your artisans their cottages. The in
teresi in them that results from thei
being their own homes is one tina
nothing else can give. Think whs
solid satisfaction and coptentmen
this is in time of peace. This is you
great glory-yOur real happiness
Let me entreat you to keep 1t. Il
guard it, never 10 let il go. Don't b,
deluded by the splendor followed b,
discomfort and misery where . tsuda
system prevails.
II say this because certain Eng
lish periodicals are constantly advis
ing you that you would be 80 mucl
better of under monarchy
J with entail and the other patriarchs
, relations that we have found 50 pleas
ant in Ireland. / can't help askinI
myself whenever | read these things
Where did those people 60 in Amer
lea. what air did they breathe an,
with whom did they consOrt:'
Though feel deeply" said th
speaker in conclusion, 1.-The excel
] lence of the American system, it mus
not be supposed for q moment that
am Oil0u 10 MY own country. LAC
Is the complement OF the other. Imi
tation in either case would in m,
judgment be . great mistake. 1t
the simple truth that, joined togethe
as allies, England and Americ,
would be absolutely irresistible Il
the world.
II must earnestly hope that tn
present happy state Of feeling vii
long continue. ! assure you tina
there is not in any honest English
man q trace Of grudging when b
thinks Of the magnificencc of you
future. l hope no unscrupuiou
statesman. or msglignant writer O
either side Of the water will eve
separate Us"
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