The Irish standard., 1897-12-04
INSULT TO AMERICANS
THE ANGLICAN BISHOP Of sIBANY
A VICTIM OF ANGLOMANIA.
ENGLAND is "M]ST PATIENT WITH US. "
HE WOULD EALSIEY THE HISTORY
OF THE UNITED STATES
TO KEEP "YoUNG AMERICA" IGNORANT
OF HRlTAIN'S ATROCITIES DURING
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.

The Rt. Rev. William Croswell Doane,
Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the dio-
cese of Albany. N. ", fresh from his joy
full participation in Victoria's Jubilee eel
ebration and saturated with true British
loyalty. made his annual address to the
clergy under his jurisdiction on Nov. Is.
Charged to the lips with hot indigna-
treaty with England. he poured out con-
demnation without reserve upon those
who were responsible for 1t In the fol-
lowing language:
"The strong debate was full of interest
nnd intelligent appreciation, and It's
earnest words not only upon the prac-
| tical details of the horrors of war and
| the practice of arbitration but upon ihc
two underlying matters of public opinion
| and of Christian temper, are of the ut
| most value. Christian mon. clergy and
lay people have far greater and gravcr
responsibility about this than they real
| iZe. There can be no question but that
within the Inst two or three years. from
| various causes and with some fault on
| both Sides the minds of men have been
accustomed to the thought of IA posi-
BILE resort to arms, ns the settlement Of
national questions between England
and America. Whatever may have beon
| wrong and unwise in the utternnces and
attitude over there. you and | are not
responsible for; but we are responsible,
and must be held SO, for the things that
have been said and done, and for the
spirit that has been reused in America,
| and which has in it inconccivable possi-
| bilities of horror.
I at Is unfortunate with us that our pub
| political changes, unframed either in .hc
arts or in the language of diplomacy. 1t
is still moro unfortunate when states
men forget the art of language and
courtesy. Always, in an unamalgnmnted
| civilization like ours, when we have not
| yet become one nation, but are a con-
| glomcration of innumerable nationals
ties only in the process Of assimilation,
| there are two dangers, the one of as-
| sertions of old-time prej,idices and an
tagonisms, which have no place on our
| soil. and no reference to our relations
to any other country In the world; and
tho other the objectionable political
device Of pandering to some of these
transplanted parties.
| "The more mindful men In England
look with amazement and establishment
on what sometimes seems to them the
unbridled violence of our partisan news
papers, the feeling of hatred and dis
| like of England in America. ! am sure
Of the absence Of all such feeling among
thoughtful people at home. With these
extreme expressions of violence, the
English government, the English people
and the English press have been most
| patient; but, unless VIC come to rccog-
nize more than we do the recklessnass
of speech, the facility Of rousing prciu-
the most patient strength, VIC may
bring about q state OF things infinitely
disgraceful and infinitely dangerous to
our Christianity and our civilization.
"Just where the word lingo comes
from matters not, nor where the ugly
thing which 1t describes originated
am quite well aware that he exists in
England, and that the spirit which ami
mates him is more or less lying dormant.
and ready to be aroused; but nobody
can doubt It's prevalence and its unli-
ccnsed utterances among us. It Is the
spirit of bOastfuness selfishness, arr0-
gance. conceit. 1t is unworthy Of our
manhood, and discredit to our Chris
tianity. In an individual it is most
odious to everybody with whom he
comes In contact
"The theory that the old revolutionary
spirit which regarded England as ty-
rant is kept alive by the study of our
school books OF history, may have some
weight If 1t has, it is time that tho
schOOlboOks were corrected, 80 that chill
dren shall be taught that the England
of hundred years ago is as different
from the England of today as the
America of this century is different from
the America of the Revolution. The the
ory that we are still sore and smarting
under the prevalent English sympathy
with the South during the civil war may
have some weight. II 1t be true, surely
It is the sign of high-minded intellIgeniA
to rccognize-that, In the outcome of
that war, we have become strong enough
to forgive the people that misunderstood
us.
"The more serious fact, which ought
to be both restrained and rebukcd, Is
that II we give protection in America
to people from other lands who accoun@
ed themselves oppressed and injured by