Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-19
MT. RIaine,s Letter of Acceptance
TcoNr1NuED FROM FIRST PAGE

cause ana no O6S1I0 GO III "AOAA any power on earth and we may rest in assur- ed confidence that no power desires to attack the United States.
 With the nations of the western hemi- sphere we should cultivate closer relations and for our common prosperity and advance ment we should invite them all to join with us in an agreement that, for the future, all America shall be adjusted by impartial arbi- tration and not by arms. The pro feet was part of the fixed policy of President Garfe1d's administration, ands it should in my judgment be re- newed Its accomplishment on this cont1- nent would favorably affect the nations be- yond the sea, and thus powerfully contribute at no distant day to the universal acceptance of the philanthropic and Christian pr1nc1- ple of arbitration The effect even of sug- gesting it for the Spanish American States has been most happy and has increased the confidence of those people in our friendly position It fell to my lot as Secretary of State in June 1881, to quiet apprehension in the Republic of Mexico, by giving the assur anc c in an official dispatch that ''there IS not the faintest desire in the United States for terri torial extension south of the Rio Grande. The boundaries of the two republics have been established in conformity with the best iurisdictional interests of both. The line of demarcation is not conventional. It IS more. It separates 8 Spanish American people from the Saxon-American people. It divides one great nation from another with distinct and natural inality."
 We seek the conquests of peace. We desire to extend our commerce, and Ill an esPeclal depree with our friends and neighbors on this continent. We have not improved our relations with Spanish-America as wisely and as consistently as we might have done For more than a generation the sympathy of those countries has been allowed to drift I ,n1ro effort to gain their friendship. Our trade with them is already large. During the last year our exchanges in the western hemi- sphere amounted to three hundred and fifty millions of dollars-nearly one-fOurth Of our entire foreign commerce. To those who ma ay be disposed to underrate the value of our trade with the countries of North and South America. it may be well to state that their population is nearly or quite fifty millions and that, in proportion to aggregate num- bers. we import nearly double as much from them as we do from Europe. But the result of the whole American trade is in high de gree unsatisfactory. The imports during the past year exceeded two hundred and twenty five millions, while the exports were less than one hundred and twenty-five millions-show- ing balance against us of more than one hundred millions of dollars. But the money does not go to Europe in coin or it's equiva- lent to pay European manufacturers for the goods which they send to Spanlsh-Amer1ca We are but paymasters for this enormous amount annually to European factors-an amount which is serious draft, in every financial depression, upon our resources of specie.
 Cannot this condition of trade in great part be changed! Cannot the market for our pro- ducts be greatly enlarged? We have made a beginning in our effort to improve our trade relations with Mexico and we should not be content until similar and mutually advantage ous arrangements have been successfully made with every nation of North and South America. While the great powers of Eu- rope are steadily enlarging their colonial domination in Asia and Africa it is the es- pecial province of this country to improve and expand it's trade with the nations of America No field promises so much. No field has been cultivated so little. Our for eign policy should be an American policy in it's broadest and most comprehensive sense- policy of peace, of friendship, of commer- cial enlargement.
 The name of American which belongs to us in our national capacity must always ex- alt the just pride of patriotism. Citizenship of the republic must be the panoply and safeguard of him who wears it. The Ameri- can citizen rich or poor, native or naturalist, white or colored, must everywhere, walk se- cure in his personal and civil rights. The re- public should never accept a lesser duty, it
 
 lection of the humblest man who owes it loy- alty-protection at home, and protection fa11arIr hin, oIH.onl into TElo+nr CT land he may go upon lawful errand- THE SOUTHERN STATES.
 I recognize, not without regret, the neces- sity for speaking of two sections of our com mon country. But the regret diminishes when see that the elements which separated them are fast disappearing. Prejudices have o1 1oI o1.o x7io1 JUh nCT cordiality warns the southern and northern heart alike. Can anyone doubt that between the sections confidence and esteem are to-day more marked than at any period in the sixty years preceding the election of President Lin coln This is the result in part of time and in part of Republican principles applied un- der the favorable conditions of uniformity. It would be a great calamity to change these influences under which southern common wealths are learning to vindicaJe civil rights, and adapting themselves to the conditions of political tranquility and industrial progress. If there be occasional and violent outbreaks in the South against this peaceful progress, the public opinion of the country regards them as exceptional and hopefully trusts that each will prove the last.
 The South needs capital and occupation not controversy. As much as any part o1 the North, the South needs the full protec- tion of the revenue laws which the Repubi
 
 have already entered upon career of indus trial development and prosperity. These, al least, should not lend their electoral votes tC destroy their own future.
 Any effort to unite the southern States upor issues that grow out of the memories of the war will summon the northern States to com bine in the assertion of that nationality which was their inspiration in the civil strug gle And thus great energies which should be united in common industrial develop, ment will be wasted in hurtful strife. The Democratic party shows itself foe to south I ern prosperity by always invoking and urging | southern political consolidation. Such 8 policy quenehes the rising instinct of patriot | ism in the heart of the southern youth; il
 revives and stimulates prejudice; it substi | tutes the spirit of. .barbaric vengeance for the | love of peace, progress and harmony. THE CIVIL SERVICE.
 The general character of the civil service | of the United States under all administra f tions has been honorable. In the supreme ! test-the collection and disbursement of rev | enue the record of fidelity has never beer | surpassed in any nation With the almost