Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1883-12-22
LAND OF TIE FREE.
AN EMBELLISHMENTS COMPLIMENTS To
AMERICA.
What tho Chief Justice OF England Has
TO say About the United states.

wins. The chief Justice OF England Has
TO say About the United states,
At the reception given to Lord Cole
ridge of England in New York city, that
gentleman spoke as followsUf the United
States:-"It is not only as a lawyer that
your country has interested me. The
first question that almost always IS put
to me is whether / was not amazingly
struck by the vast size Of the country.
1t was not size that particularly i'm
pressed me. II size were to be regarded
! should say that smallness rather than
biguess should be insisted on. Men are
great in proportion TO the smallncss OF
their natural advantages.
Il can't agree with Golden, if he said
70, that the st. Lawrence, Mississippi
and Amazon are better worth seeing
than the Tibcr and Orontes because they
pour so much greater a volume OF water
into the sea. Nor with Lord Shcrbrooke,
WHO did say that Marathon was not
worth seeing because the slaughter there
was not up to the proportion Of a respect
able railway accident. / believe that if
Marathon preserved to us art, philoso-
ply, history and the freedom OF the
Greek nation, it is worth far more the
knowing than all the great slaughtcrs OF
Yenghis Khan, Attila, julius Cesar and
Napoleon, thr lTir greatest slaughterers
whom God permitted to walk the earth.
"What Of the size of your country?
Yon didn't make it. 1t is not size but
products that are to be looked at. Rus
sia and Africa are as large as the United
States, and ] doubt whether the British
North American possessions are much
smaller. Your population is vast, but
where did it come from? You are the
receptacle of the emigration Of the
world. You are the judges Of how far
this has proved IN unmixed good-how
far the integrity Of your political system
has been affected or nOt-nOt L. 1t is
not size or force or strength that N
stitutcs true greatness, but when men
rise against oppression; when the good,
sooner than suffer the disruption
Of their country; when they fight
not by the MD OF mercenaries but
with their own best blood and the blood
Of their children and tlrcir children's
children; when they say that what is
rood for themselves is good for others
too-that so far as their rule extends
every man. whatever his race, origin, or
color shall he as free as themselves; that
no traffic in human flesh shall ever take
place in heir domains; when they en-
dcavor to do justice to themselves: when
theytarc not afraid or ashamed to confess
and atone for their crrors-then such q
nation is truly, nobly, and indisputably
great. Forgive n friend if he says tc
Won that it is not because of your
strength, vastncss, or energy, but be.
cause YOU show that you have tho
making of true greatness III you that he
respects You. You paid a price that NJ
other nation cver did, but, believe mr
Won got the worth OF it. =. re-.
Gas for your wealth, it was not you
colossal! fortunes that interested me.
= can sec great estates and sufficient,
enormous fortunes at home. l SHOULD
be disposed to give wide berth to thes,
Things, because millions Of dollars con
fuse my mind and are irrelevant to m,
tastes. But what / do rejoice to sec
what has filled me with delight, what
have longcd to sec, but will never Sc
In England. is the condition of you
upper and lower middle classes. I me
highly educated men. who would d
\rrrdlt to- any capital, diffused through
on: the country. and, what is still NOR
delightful, | saw tens of thousands {
comfortable houses all lived in by tn
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