Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-03
NOT BOUND TO ENGLAND.

Charles A. Dana, when he is not en- gagged in riding some of his pet hobbies
 or splitting venom at some public man who has been unfortunate enough to
 incur his enmity, very frequently says
 some bright and striking things. This
 was the case at the banquet given at
 Boston Wednesday evening in honor of
 General Butler on the twenty seventh
 anniversary of his occupation of New
 Orleans.
 After some beautiful references to the
 power of democracy that has been so
 strikingly shown in the building up of
 this wonderful nation, "which stands
 first among the powers of the earth" MT
 Dana said oft This is the feeling of
 nationality which binds us to America
 alone; not to any other country, and
 least of all to that country which we call
 England. We are Americans for Am
 erica; we are democrats for democracy:
 we are the servants of the future and
 not the servants of England" Strange
 as 1t may appear, Americans need to be
 reminded of this and at no time could
 the reminder be given more appropri-
 ately than when the minds and thoughts
 of the people are turned to realization
 of our glory and majesty as a nation. America is d great, a glorious land, and though yet in the very cradle of its pow CTS has a wealth of tradition that lift il into the hearts. of it's people above and beyond any land on the broad footstool of the Almighty. When the Americanism of a century ago was alive in its people, when the recollections of the struggle for liberty and equality were still strong in their hearts, they need not have been told that America is not bound to England. But could
 Washington come back from his eternal sleep, could John Hancock come out from the vapors of his voiceful tomb. could Patrick Henry look in on the spirit of this people, they would be as- tonished and grieved at the marvellous changes that time and fashion have in American sentiment for Eng land. It has become the fashion for our gilded youth and those who would as pire to be among McAllister's four hun- dred to, ape the vulgar mannerisms of British aristocracy, to bow like brass tlunkies before the august presence of every titled tadpole from the frog-ponds of royalty and the slums of European courts, to stifle the spirit of liberty and American man hood that Is greater than all the trap plngs of ancient principalities and British royalty. It is an evil tendency and one that if not checked may in time penetrate the com mon people to the ruin and destruction of our power and prestige as nation. Indeed. so strong has this spirit of funk eyism grown, and so cunningly has it been nursed by the British themselves who never neglect an opportunity of obtruding their motherhood and com mon blood heresy upon us, that it seems almost impossible to check it's baneful growth.
 But we are not bound to England: we are not servants of England. When Cornwallis laid down his sword at York town the badge of our servitude disap- peared, and America has since been the land of freedom, the land of equality. the land of democracy. It is we'll, amid the pomp and glory of our centennial to think of this and to think of the jealousies and hatred that have prompted England on every possible occasion since to hamper and impede our national growth. Had the south succeeded in dividing the Union 1t would have been largely the result of the assistance given it by England, which would to-day be gloating above the ruins of our destruction as a nation It would be the most glorious day that England has ever seen when this ma. tlon which threw off her domination 'plit into warning division of states. But that day, let us hope, will never lawn for the power whose cruelties and oarbarities have been the disgrace of | 
 1t will not be if the warnings of events | ,he warnings such as that of Charles A Dana are needed. The aping of tba British aristocracy should be made un-