Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-25

that our thirteen colonies might not
go down under the cruelties of war.
Again, in 1913, Russia stretched forth
toward us merciful hand. When our
dreadful civil war was rigging and the
two thunder clouds of Northern ana
Southern valor FLASHED, Russia practi-
cally said TO the nations of Europe:
"Keep your hands off and let the brave
men of the North and the South settle
their own troubles" / rehearsed some
scenes to the Emperor last July. say
ing: lyon were probably too Young to
rememter the position your fat her took
at that time," but with radiant smile,
he responded: "Oh yes. remember,
remember" and there was an
accentuation of the words which dem
onstrated TO me that these occurrences
had often been talked of in the i'm
perial household. stood on New
York battery, during the war, as /
suppose many of you did, looking off
through n magnifying glass upon
fleet of Russian ships. What are
they doing there?" / asked, and so
everyone asked: "What business have
the Russian warships in our New York
harbor?" Word came that another
fleet of Russian ships was in San Fran
CISCO harbor. what does this mean?"
our rulers asked, but did not get i'm.
mediate answer. In these two American
harbors, the Russian fleet seemed
sound asleep. Their great mouths of
iron spoke not word, and the Russian
flag, whether floating in the air or
dropping by the flagstaff, made no
answer to our inquisitiveness. Will
lam Ii. Seward, Secretary of State,
asked the Russian Minister at Wash
ington, the meaning of those Russian
ships in American waters, and got no
satisfactory response. Admiral Farra-
gut said toa Russian officer, after dining
in the home of the eminent politician,
Thurlow Weed, that maker and un-
maker of Presidents: What are
you doing here with those Russian yes
sells of war?'' Not until the war was
over was it found out that in case of
foreign intervention all the guns and
the last gun of these two fleets in New
York and San Francisco harbors were
to open in full diapason upon any
foreign ship that should dare to inter
fere with the rights of Ameri-
cans, North and South, TO set
tie their own controversy. But
for those fleets and their presence in
American waters, there can be no
doubt that two of the mightiest ma
tions of Europe would have mingled
in our fight. But for those
two fleets, the American government
would have been to-day only name in
history. ! declare before God and the
nation that believe Russia saved the
| United States of America. Last July
/ stood before great throng of Rus
SLAMS in the embarrassing position of
speaking & an audience thu ec-fourths
of which could not understand my
language any more than l could under
stand theirs. But there were two
names that they thoroughly understood
as well as you understand them, and
the utterance of those two names
brought forth an reclamation that
made the City hall of ST. Petersburg
quake from foundation stone TO tower,
and those two names were George
Washington" and Abraham Lincoln"
Now, is it not important that we
should feel right toward that mighty,
that God.given friend of more than
100 years?
If the population of the rest OF
Europe were poured into Russia, il
would be only partially occupied. AT
ter n while, America will be so well
populated that the tides of emigration
will go the other way, and by railroads
from Russia at Behring straits-wherc
Asia comes within thirty six miles OF
joining America-millions of people
will pour down through Russia and
Siberia, and on down through all the
regions waiting for the civilization OF
the next century to come and culture
great harvests and build mighty cities.
What the United States now are on the
Western Hemisphere, Russia will be on
the Eastern Hemisphere. Not only be-
cause of what Russia has been to our
republic but because of what she will
be, let us cease the defamation of al
that pertains to that great empire II
Russia can afford TO be the friend oil
America, America can afford to be the
friend of Russia.
But you ask, how will this Russopho
bia, with which so many have been bit
ten and poisoned, be cured? BY the
God of Justice Blessing such books and
pamphlets as are now coming out from
Prof. de Arnaud of Washington, Mr.
Horace Cutter of San Francisco, Mr.
Morrill, of England, and by the opening
of our American gates to the writing,
of some twenty-four of the Russian
authors and authoresses, in some
respects as brilliant as the three
OF four Russian authors already
known - the translation of those
twcnty-four authors, which an
authorized from Russia to offer free o.
charge to any responsible American
publishing house that will do then
justice. Let these Russians tell their
own story, for they are the only one
fully competent to do the work, a,
none but Americans can fully tell tho
story of America, and as none but Ger
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