The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-06-24
A TARHEEL IN ENGLAND
CONSUL HALE's SPEECH AT MAN.
CHESTER.

What q Former North Carolina Edi-
tor had to Say.
The SENTINEL acknowledges the
receipt of an English paper contain
ing speech made by Maj. E. ]. Hale,
former editor of the Fayetteville Obser-
DER and now United States Consul at
Manchester, England. The speech
was delivered at the Queens Hotel in
that city on the Oath ult. the occasion
being the celebration Of Her Majesty's
9th birthday, presided over by the
Mayor and attended by many disting-
ushed guests, embracing the chief dig
nitaries of the city and noted visitors
from other parts of the kingdom, to-
gether with the consuls representing
the different nations abroad and other
members of the diplomatic corps.
This speech which will be read with
rare interest by all North Carolinians,
is as follows:
Mr.. Chairman, my lords, and gen.
tlemen 1t is my pleasure, by the
will of my colleagues, to make response
to the eloquent words in which the
heads of all foreign nations have just
been pledged by the representative Of
the great Emperor and it occnrs to
me that nowhere in the world, at the
present time, can such a toast be SO
appropriately given or so graciously
| of
chester. For England has become
the habitation of material endeavor !;
and Manchester I hold to be the en-
bodiment of the spirit of England and
the best exponent of her material gran
deur. The able gentlemen to whom
that subject was entrusted will speak
to you in behalf of the commerce.
Without trenching in any degree upon
their perogatives, propose briefly,
Mr.. Chairman, to ask attention to the
other side of the question, and to point
out the changed relations which the
heads of the nations haye assumed to
that which chiefly concerns Manches-
ter, and which these gentlemen will so
well uphold. For the enlightened
rulers of the present day have rejected
the policy of the ancient dynasties.
and find power in promoting the gen.
eral welfare by the extension of inter
national trade. { Hear, hear.) It is
not necessary, as it would be unbe-
coming this convivial occasion, to
dwell upon. the remarkable events
which produced these changes in the
worlds history. For you all know
how, up to compar atively recent
period, there was strife between the
political and commercial forces of the
world how trade between the nations
in the early days, was driven from the
land and sought safety on the seashore
and an international highway on the
sea; how, feebly at first, but with
growing strength when once it had
learned to choose its own battlefield
it expressed itself in successive stages
of power through Tyre, Carthage
Venice and the towns of the Dutch
Republic it found an abiding
triumph in this magnifed Venice, the
vast seaport of the British Isles. Cap
plause.) These things we all know
But [ do not know that the worlc
understands do not quite know
that Englishmen altogether appreci
ate-the part that Manchester played
in this shifting of the seat of power
that accompanied the victory of com
meree. For, however little attention
be paid to the fact, she is the metrop
oils Of the largest industrial population
on earth, and she bred the men thai
made the machines and that formula
ted the economic truths that have
revolutionised the world She may
be said, indeed, to have given t.
mankind all that made the victory
worth having, when she gave to manu-
facturers Arkwright and Crompton
and to commerce Peel, Golden anC
Bright. (Applause.) But more,
find among the people Of Manchester
evidence Of uncommon good sense thai
| is in keeping with their other com
mercial attributes.
Two examples of this have especial
ly struck me. One is their apprecia
ton of the newspapers of Manchester,
and the other is their marked recog
milton of the consular body as such
which here enjoys unusual distinction
1t is not difficult to account for the
first of these phenomena, for the news.
papers of Manchester are, without
doubt, the best commercial newspap
ers-I use the word commercial .
in its highest sense-they are, without
doubt, the best commercial newspapers
in the world. But with respect to the
other, vicarious modesty in behalf
of my blushing colleagues forbids my
pursueing the subject There is, how
ever in all seriousness, ssan important
truth that underlies these facts, re.
member that when | was boy, they
used to say IN my country that " cot
ton is king. Whatever the original