New-York tribune., 1885-03-29
THE NEW MINISTER TO ENGLAND.

HIS OWN POLITICAL CHARACTER AS RFFLrcrED IN
HIS ESTIMATE OF LINCOLN AND TIE HEROES
OF THE WAR FOR The UNION
On Friday The Ner- York Uorld, under O
Burlington, VT, date line. printed elaborae descrD-
ton and eulogy OF the person. character and career of
Edward J. Phelps, the American Minister to Eng.
land To most readers Of the interesting points
of this article the long quotation from speech
which Mr. Phelps delivered before conference of Demo-
Gratis the evening of August 8, 1s6i--during tho
Presidential campaign. Careful Investigation behalf
OF The World failed to discover the slightest evidence
that the speaker falsely reported On the contrary
Mr. Phelps denied the accuracy Of the report and
Burlington says that .he undoubtedly did deliver IL,
just as 1t was reproduced In The Rutland Herald in $780,
when Mr. Phelps running for the Goyernorshp OF
Vermont We copied the other day sentences from
this speech as they quoted I'm The Seo York Times
during the campaign of 1880, and here few more
You can remember as well as how long ago 1t was
when there used to be SET Of long haired miserd6e
tes around Me country pedt,0 phat they called dboli
tion-laughter dirty he set cy iscrs, as yo1 all
country and s,teS up Meir drty iiie ha@d5s and hare
meeting Well, there would not be many there except
would have good time, If they could get rid of the
ride one of them out OF town in u while a rail-
and then there would be awful about free speech
T G,%s s s@ seS SsS" sS" @"s% oySp AsfS%
lase and laugher the man, inDoad upon people Uho
hin ,Oithom one single qualification for staiesam~noi
one not oHe-when he Baugurited and stood there
the Capitol steps and received the oath of office
hands OF the venerable Chief Justice 1t not late
then, even though the people OF the SOUTH excited.
alarmed. were looking this way and that and each
aaking his neighb0r, What is going TO be dOnel
But II you have not got enough OF 1t, then 90
straight on In the path which this Administration pro-
poses to If they acquire lease power
hands Send the rest OF your children down 10 the
slaughter from which there few returning foot
seps-earry up the expense OF living, Of your daily
bread until you have population most OF which Is be-
an Administration which already possesses every ee-
ment OF oppression but its dignity gre Ue rest Of yot
property u rat the rest Of this Of riilains that
hanging on 10 he skirts ot this Well, Congress
has already abolished the Communication, and how about
the substitute business Why, ransacking every
part OF the world to buy nggers and Hessans for sub
stitutes. That's where you are getting your troops
You have had about 100000 in the country and you
can't get them any more. You have got to buy your
troops, and the men that you are able 10 buy
pretty miserable set Now IL is proposed to extermnate
these Southern people with that kind OF stuff We have
succeeded in doing 1t with own native stock
We going TO do IL with those Hessians
that we have bought up, every man OF whom re-
quires two men TO guard him.
III the God OF fathers has not utterly deserted
and don't think he has-I think that the God thas
planted this colony I'm the wilderness and led IL by tho
hand till IL the first Nation the face OF the carth
till It's plain destiny gather together ali the
tiOns Of the wOrldIe God that did that is not going 10 let
90 10 ruin tor ne Gggrdnd.enen ora miserable. dirty
lot Of politicians And II IL Is going to be at
tempted surround the balloboK with bayonets, then
they going to the biggest fights they
lUproaGious applause And don't sag that In tho
spirit Of those aboonist leaders who always hur
rahng that they don't dare engage in don't
say 1t in that light.