Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-01-16
As . Foreigner Looks
at it.

Dec. 10. 1t is undoubtedly one
of the greatest tributes ever paid
the American people by q for
eiguer, and is Of peculiar interest
TO us, as 1t serves to show the
Anglo American controversy as
viewed from the standpoint OF a
dismtercstcd party.
"British pride has been subject
ed within twenty-four hoars to
the severest trial she has had to
endure since the beginning of the
century. The President of the
United States addresses to Con.
gress in Washington message
which will be heard far and wide,
for it strikes a severe blow to
England's pristige in all parts of
the world and places her in a di.
lemma either Of trying the most
dangerous Of adventures or OF
yielding to the naughty ultimatum
addressed to her.
"The United States will not per-
nit England to arrange according
70 her own caprice the boundary
line between her Guiana frontier
and that of Venezuela. The Mon
roe Doctrine is to be applied.
English diplomacy having rejected
all arbitration, the great American
republic will send a commission
directed to give an exact account
of the rights and wrongs of the
two parties to the case. an ap-
propsiation will cover the expense
of the commission, which must
make it's report in as short a time
as possible.
s'Such is President Cleyeland's
declaration, and he ends with
these solemn and proud words:
1T will be the duty of the United
States to resist by every means in
its power, as willful aggression
upon it's rights and interests, the
appropriation by Great Britain OF
any territory which, after investi-
CATION, we have determined OF
right belongs to Venezuela.
am fully alive to the responsibility
incurred aud keenly recognize all
the consequences that may follow
| am, nevertheless, firm in my con
viction that while it is a griev'
Gus thing to contemplate the
two great English.speaking peo
pies of the world as being
otherwise than friendly compel
itors in the onward march Of
civilization, and strenuous and
worthy rivals in all the arts Of
peace, there is no calamity which
a great nation can invite which
equals that which followsa supiut
submission to wrong and injustice
and the consequent loss of nation
al self.respect aud honor.
"Since the MS, alreadY distant
when NapoleS' threatened Eng
land that he would transfer to hel
soil his arms so long victorious
no chief of state had ever daret
to make the foreign Office listen t.
language so firm. The arbitration
which Lord Salisbury put aside il
officially forced upon him. Thu
United States reserves to itsel
the power to judge and put al
end to the difficulty. 1t take
measures to make the intervent
ion at once equitable and irresist
ible, and it from the start inclOse
the Queens government within
, a terrible dilemma-submissiOn
which means humiliation or resist
ance, which means war.
"War-that is, an implacabl,
} duel against all the energies, al
) the ardors, all the moral az
material forces that United Amer
lea can let loose-England is i
no condition to run its risks o
accept its chances. Seven mlllio
of Irishmen, whom her policy G
iniquity and violence has drive
from their native soil and cast uI
on the territory of the republic
where they are powerful and fret
y would lie the soul Of the stubbor
(. contest. ~.a
"What an opportunity for requ
tai! And what an army it woul
be, in which the avengers of Ire
i land marched side by side wit
8 the grandsons of the heroes Of th
war Of independence. The who'll
of Europe would not dare to BRAY
the New World, united in it
strongest passions, its most impe
u0us wraths, its dearest Interests
} But England would stand alone
. and in it's gigantic struggle copl
count on the support or compl
city Of no one.
"The sea, which she has so lon
ruled and oppressed, would 500
ba coyArpd with her wrecks. TIL
agreement that interdicts priva
, teeriug is mere scrap of paper
which the first wind would blow
, away. At the signal given by tn
J United States more than on
J bold sailor of the Norman, Bretol
] or Provencal coasts wonld fee
J boiling within him the blood o
J the Jean Barts, the Surcoufs, tn
J Suffrens; Africa, Asia would move
, Tho throofnnod dopuar xvou1d Ia,