Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-07-23
Of state won for us the Floridas.

Az oHo OiO'C VI Vic war OF 1917
John Quincy Adams and Gallatin
and Clay and the elder Bayard met
the representatives of a power that
had one-half of the world for her
allies and the other half at her feet.
England had just overthrow Napo-
leon on land and swept the navies of
Europe from the face of the sea.
Yet we came from the contest of
war and of diplomacy with every
right and liberty unimpared, our
honor without stain, with added
glory to our flag, and the pretension
for which England had gone to war
with us never to be heard again.
We had another war within our
recent memory. Our foes were of
our own household. Our ancient
enemy and our ancient ally sat at
their gates, gazing across the At
lantic to see if they could discover
any pretex for throwing their weight
into the scale of rebellion. England
gave us provocation enough. But
you remember the sublime patience
with which Abraham Lincoln waited
until the hour of our strength came.
1t was the fortune of another Adams
to address to Earl Russell one qniet
sentence, perhaps the most eloquent
that ever came from an American
pen: cit is superfluous to observe
to your lordship that this is war;"
Foreign office and law officers re-
versed their decisions in less than an
hour, and the rams were stopped.
You know how the French emperor,
victor of Sebastopol and Solferino,
in the height of his military strength,
hurried out of Mexico at a word
uttered by Mr.. Seward. You re-
member the time when General Grant
gave notice that any American cit
izen who had claim against Great
Britain should bring the evidence to
him. That naughty power sent over
her commissioners to apologize for
her wrong and was held as depend
ent to make compensation. You re-
member how the diplomacy of the
same great administration induced
nearly every first-class power in Eu-
rope to renounce the old doctrine of
perpetual allegiance and let our
adopted citizens alone.
Those were days when the Amer
lean citizens, national and adopted,
held up his head in the pride of his
citizenship. Those were days when
our ten thousand millions of wealth
was becoming fifty thousand; better
still, when slaves were changing into
freeman and freemen into citizens.
those were days when the flag
beautiful as the flower to those who
loved it, terrible as meteor to those
who hated it.-foated everywhere in
peaceful seas and was honored ev-
erywhere in friendly ports. No pet
ty British officer hauled it down from
an American masthead; no Cana
dian minister of justice laughed IN
the face of an American citizen when
Grant was in the White House.
/ confess that, much meditating
on these things, / take little salts
faction when l think of Grover
Wv IND. / do not like the policy
which everywncfe roDs Amelros.n
citizenship of its glory. l do not
like the methods of fraud and crime
which have destroyed popular cleo
tions in so many democratic states.
would have the box where the
American freeman casts his ballot
sacred as a sacramental vessel. /
do not like this conspiracy between
the old Shareholder and the English
manufacturer to strike down the
wages of the American workmen and
the comforts of the American work
mans home. | do not like your re-
fusal to maintain the American navy
and to fortify and defend the Amer
lean coast. And | like no better
the present treaty. 1t leaves the
American sailor to be bullied and |
insulted without redress aud aban-
dons the American right to the fish
cries, older than the nation itself,
which the valor of our fathers won
for us and the wisdom of our fathers |
preserved for us.