The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-02-10
Justice TO Great Britain.
Editor Times:

Editor Times.
I see an article in your Sundays edi-
ton which I am bound to notice, ana
hope you will allow me TO do so i'm your
columns 1t is a thing hitherto unknown
in American journalism. viz: fair ana
irnpartial review Of England as nation.
| have lived for five years in America
being an Englishman by birth, ana II IL
the first time have ever seen an Amerl-
can editor attempt to do justice to Eng
land or her foreign policy. For ENGLAND
the majority Of American editors profess
an aversion that would be perfectly MAJ
ural in France or Russia, but at hrst sur
prised me in America. l question II any
foreign born American has any more love
for America than l have, but l do not see
why love for the Union necessitates "trai-
torlsm" to my mother country. As far as
| can see, all other nationallties band
themselves together here in societies. but
as a rule, Englishmen do not. Italians
have had their Malta, some degraded Irish
their Molly Maguires and Cian-na-Gael
(no offense TO the many excellent irish
men / have met. and whom | still honor
and admired. but can any American edi-
tor cali to mind any lawless club or even
a street mob composed of Englshmen? |
think not, in the whole history of the
United States. Are the traducers of John
Bull aware that Washington, Lee. the
Fairfaxes, the great Boone, too I believe.
and a host Of other great Americans We're
offshoots OF the said John Bull? The ac-
cusation is frequently heard that England
is all on the grab, grab, grab" but can
any person adduce an instance where
provocation had not existed years and
years before the grab" became a matter
of history?
Can no American ever be brought to re-
alize that the two great nations of Great
Britain and America each have their des-
tiny2 America will undoubtedly possess
ultimately the whole of the Western Hem
sphere, and to England may be left The
civilization Of the OTTER part Of the world
Mr. Gladstone once made the remark that
he would defy anyone to put their finger
on a spot where Austria had done good.
TO apply his words a little differently.
Can anyone point a spot where England
has once planted her flag and not done
good. with the exception of ireland. and
there it seems TO me that for years she
has been studying how to accomplish
her purpose, without plunging the country
into all the horrors of a civil war? Some
time or other American papers (Which are
the educators of the people, will know
their duty better, and teach their schol-
ars that England is not jealous Of the
United States; does not live in mortal ter
ror of the United States taking Canada:
and. furthermore, that both shades Of
the political creeds over there are dis
tinctly friendly TO America, rather than
adverse, and that there is more real loy-
atty to and love FOR the American Union
among the Anglo-American citizens of
this country than is TO be found among
the semi-civilized hordes OF immigrants
who come here in droves Anyhow, the
subscriber is judging by himself partly
and partly by the many Englishmen and
Scotchmen he has met in America.
Hoping you will give this tine publicity
I would like to give it myself, l sign my
self, respectfully,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
February 5, 1893.