The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-05

NEW YORK. Jan. A meeting was
held at Hartman hall tonight of Vene-
zueians. 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 senti-
ment of the meeting being expressed
in the adoption of the following ad-
dress to President Cleveland:
Strive address ourselves to you,
who so worthily fills the first magi-
tracy OF this republic, in order to pre-
sent, through your high intermediary,
TO the government and people of the
United States the most sincere assur-
ance 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 to
see in this great American democracy
the foremost sentinel Of liberty, the
legitimate representative before the
whole world Of those high principles Of
civilization and justice which consti-
tute the republican ideal of the ma
tons Of this continent,
For more than half q century Vene-
zuela has been making uneXampled eff
forts to settle the question OF bound
aries actually pending without ever
having been able to get its powerful
adversary to agree to the only method
acceptable 10 modern civilization for
the equitable settlement of contro-
Versies of the kind. There only re-
manned, therefore, for our country a
choice between these terrible alterna-
tiVes; either to renOunce the dig
nifty Of a free and sovereign
nation through submission to a
most hUmiliating spoliation, inflicted
by the authority of might alone, or
else in an unequal and desperate StTug-
gle to defend at all costs and to the last
the integrity of the national territory
which a generation Of heroes had &C.
ouireG by the sacrifice Of their blood.
But now the voice of justice, the I'M
aaswera;5le voice Of right. protecting
weakness against might, has spoken
with potent sound; it is the voice OF
the great American people, who. faith
full 10 their glorious traditions, pro-
claim and support once more the prin-
ciple of the perpetual and immovable
sovereignty of the republics esta bliShed
on the free soil of America To you,
cir, as representative Of che win OF the
American people and first guardian and
defender of their institutions, to you
has been awarded the lofty mission Of
completing the work OF your glorious
predecessors in the high position you
are so worthily fixing. For this are
YOU now taking q firm and decided
stand before the world in maintaining
in this last portion of the nineteent cen
fury the chartered rights Of reason.
the most philosophical and advanced
conquests of the fnviolaIhle law Of ma
lions.
"For your noble Efforts to obtain an
Impartial arbitration which via finally
pronounce Judgment in this old and UNI
fortunate debate, your name, sir, VIII
be the honor and pride Of the American
spirit and will always remain en-
graVed In the affection Of all just men
on earth.
please accept our patriotic assuranc-
es OF the discreet conduct of Venezuela,
and the expression Of our deep graft
tude end utmost respect.