The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-01-09
VENEZUELAN GRATITUDE.
AN ADDRESS TO THE PRESIDENT
AND THE PEOPLE.
AS the Representative of Liberty on
the American Continent, the Uni
ted States Receives Their Thanks.

New York, Jan A meeting was
held at Hartman hall tonight of Ven
ezuelans resident in New York, to ex-
press their gratitude to the Govern
ment and to the people of the United
States for their action regarding the
Venezuelan boundary dispute.
The proceedings were brief, the sem
timent of the meeting being expressed
in the adoption of the following ad-
dress to President Cleveland:
"Sir:-We address ourselves TO you,
who are so worthily filing the first
magistracy of this Republic, in order
to present through your high inter-
mediary, to the Government and peo-
| pie of the United States the most sim
cere assurance of our gratitude and
| respect for the attitude, both noble and
| justice-seeking, which has been taken
in the boundary question, now long
| pending between Venezuela and Great
| Britain.
I'VE have long been accustomed tC
see in this great American democracy
the foremost sentinel of liberty, the lie
| Ultimate representative before the
whole world of those high principles o
civilization and justice which consti
tute the republican ideal of the nations
of this continent.
For more than half century Ven
eZuela has been making uneXample,
| efforts to settle the question of bounda
| ries actually pending without ever haV
ing been able to get it's powerful ad
versary to agree to the only method &C
ceptable to modern civilization for tn
equitable settlement of controversies c
h. l. Id .,..1 10
fore. for our country a choice betwee
these terrible alternatives: either
renounce the dignity of a free and SOY
ereign Nation through submission to
most humiliating spoliation, inflicte
by the authority of might alone, {
else engage in an unequal and de-
, perate struggle to defend at all cost
and to the last the integrity of the N;
, tional territory which a generation
) heroes had acquired by the sacrifice
, | their blood.
, But now the voice of justice, Il
! unanswerable voice of right protectir
weakness against might, has spoke
with potent sound; 1t is the voice
n the great American people, who, fait
: full to their glorious traditions, pr
n claim and support once more the pri
S ciple of the perpetual and immovah
: sovereignty of the republics establish
/. on the free soil of America. To yo
t sir. as representative of the will of t
y American people and first guard,
t and defender of their institutions,
(, you has been awarded the lofty missi
of completing the. work of your glo
Gus predecessors in the high positi
you are so worthily filling. For ii
are you now taking firm and decid
stand before the world in maintain
II in this last portion of the nineteen
century the chartered rights of r,
son, the most philosophical and
Is vanced conquests of the inviolable Ii
1t | of nations.
,s For your noble effort to obtain
impartial arbitration which will fina
y pronounce Judgment in this old a
st unfortunate debate, your name,
will be the honor and pride of
rs American spirit, and will always
I'd main engraved in the affection of
lie Just men on earth"