Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-05-29
THICK AsGLo.sAxoN BLOOD.

THICK ANGLO.sAXON BLOOD.
Admiral Hopkins of the British war
ship Blake Gives Utterance TO Noble
Sentiments Previous TO His Depart
ure From Boston-He Gives Greal
Praise to the United states.
BosToN, May 28-The British warshipl
Blake and Tartar sailed this afternoon, thu
Blake for Bar Harbor, Me-, and the Tartar
for st. John, N. B.
Admiral Hopkins said to q newspape,
man to-day: "Tell the people of Boston
particularly, and the people of the United
States generally, that when the New York
celebration was over last year I said to my.
self, God permitting, I will stop over al
Boston next spring and do my quota to-
| ward cementing what felt was blossom
| ing into q closer bond of union In the
hearts of the two greatest nations OF the
world, England and America-mother and
daughter. We have been here In Boston
all too short time, and we leave with that
regret which marks the parting of not only
kin, but blood relatives. There have been
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. In the past between
England and America that were as natural
in the course of events as the feeling be-
tween father and son. The parent watches
the sturdy growth of his bone and sinew,
and revels in the pride.
1.-THE young man in the full power of
strength is independent. By and by when
life has become something more than day
dream the fathers deeds and struggles are
the sons boast and pride. They are seps-
rate households, but blood is pretty thick
In Anglo. Saxon veins, and In my own, per
haps, have tried while on this station to
show whenever possible that we are your
brothers who come from a land where your
fathers were born. Perhaps my feeling
be best expressed in the words of the his
torian, ]. R Green. should have quoted
them In public had the opportunity offered
and should be glad to have you publish
them for me, not as being 'cribhed,' but as
sentiments l hold: Whatever might be the
importance of American independence In
the history of England 1t was of unequalled
moment in the history of the world. If 1t
crippled for awhile the supremacy of the
English nation 1t founded the supremacy
of the English race.'
ence the life of the English people has
while the older has shown little signs of
greatness which has changed the face of
the world. In 1888 America was q nation
of three million of Inhabitants scattered
thinly along the coast of the Atlantic
ocean. 1t Is now a nation of sixty Ave
million, stretching over the whole CONT.
nent from the Atlantic to the Pacific
In wealth and energy as in
numbers 1t surpssses the mother
country from which 1t sprang. It is al
ready the main branch of the English peo-
pie and in the days that are at hand the
run along the channel not of the Thames
or the Mersey, but of the Hudson and the
Mississippi. But distinct as the currents
are every year proves more clearly that In
spirit the English people Is one. That
distance that parts Eogland from America
lessons the day. The ties that unites them
grow daily strong. The social and politi-
cal differences that threatened a hundred
years ago to form an impossible barrier be-
tween them grow less.
against this silent and drift of things
the spirit of narrow isolation on either
side of the Atlantic struggles In vain. 1t
English people will remain forever separate
political existences. It is likely enough
that the older of them may again break in
Pacific may assert as distinct a national
life as the two English people on either
side of the Atlantic. But the spirit, the
influences of all these branches will re-
main one. And in thus remaining one be-
fore half a century is over 1t will change
the face of the world.
"But one issue Ia inevitable. In the
centuries that lie before US the primscy of
the world will lie with the English speak
ing people. English institutions and Eng
lish thoughts will become the main features
of the political, social and Intellectual life
of mankind.
"Our visit here has been most gracious
on the part of every one and the hos
pitality shown us has only been limited
by the hours since we anchored In
the harbor. Our reception by the
state and your city have, of course,
been rather private functions than set af-
fairs, and we have thoroughly enjoyed them
accordingly. But there has been no op-
portunity to express what would like to.
With our Mr.. Stead say: 1T is gratifying
to know that Great Britain and the United
States of America are 60 closely allied in
the protection of mutual interests-inter-
ests which excesd those of any other two
nations on the face of the globe. Although
of two nations, we are but one people,"