The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-17
BISHOP DoANE WORRIED.
UNSPBAKABLE JIN0OES DISTURB
mrs SENSE or sECURITr.
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Uhieta We Arc Wore Carefal IN Oar speech
we May Arouse the English I'd Forcis
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ALBANY, Nov. l8.-The Right Row. William
Crosswell Doane, Bishop OF Albany, presided at
the annual convention OF tho clorgymcn and
delegates Of the Albany Episcopal diocese which
opened hero this morning. In his annual nd.
dress the Bishop reviewed tho proceedings OF
tho meeting OF Bishops Of tho Anglican com.
munlon held this year in London. He referred
to a committee report In favor OF international
arbitration. saying:
There can DO no question but that within the
past few years, from various causes and with
some fault on both sides, the minds Of men have
been accustomed TO tho thought Of q possible re.
sort TO arms as tho settlement of national cues.
lions between England and America. We are
responsible for the spirit that has been aroused
In America. and which has In 1t inconcoivnble
possibilities Of horror. II IL unfortunate for us
that our public men are by the force OF our con-
slant political changes unframed either In the
art or in tho language Of diplomacy. 1t Is still
moro unfortunate whom statesmen forget the
art and language OF courtesy.
Always in an unamalgamated civilization
like ours, when we have not yet become ono
nation, but are n conRlomeration Of
bic nationalities only in process OF assimilation.
{ ere are two dangers-the one OF the assertion
OF old-time prejudices and antagonism which
have no place in our soil, and no reference to
our relations to any other country in the world,
and the other the objectionable political device
Of pandering to some Of these transplanted pre-
judices, in order to secure votes for one or tho
other Of our political parties.
IL am quito sure that the more thoughtful
men in England look with amusement and
,otopiobp,opt m What eop,otin,aa eaatpo IN tbou,
from the unbrldlcd violence of our partisan
newspapers, the feeling Of hatred and dislike Of
ENGLAND In America; am as sure ct the 40,
pressions Of violence the English Govern.
ment. tho English people. and the English
we come to recognize more than we do the rogk-
lessness of speech, the facility Of rousing preiu-
most patient strength. we may bring about a
state Of things infinitely disgraceiul and inf
nltely dangerous to our Christianity and our
matters not, nor where the ugly thing which 1t
that no exists in England. and that the spirit
which animntes him Is more or less lying dor
doubt It's prevalence and it's unlicensed utter.
ancee among US. 1t is the spirit Of boastfulness.
of uar msn ah6SSan "na c q disered II i to oar Ghrisy.
tianity. In an Individual 1t is most odious to
everybody with whom he comes IN contact.
IL tbNoly tiHA INV ohe WV Elthhu
which regarded England as n. tyrant Is kept
alive by the study OF our school books OF history
may have some weight. II 1t has, 1t Is time that
the school books were corrected, 80 that children
shall be taught that the England OF a hundred
years ago 10 as different from the England of to-
day rs the America of this century Is different
from the America of the Revolution.
THE theory that we arc still sore and smart
ing under the prevalent English sympathy with
the South during the civil war may have some
high-minded intelligence to recognize that, in
tho outcome OF that war. We have, become
strong enough to forgive the people that mis-
understood us.
both restrained and rebuked. is that il wo give
protection in America to people from other
lands who accounted themselves oppressed and
injured by foreign governments when they were
at home, we have the right to demand from
them that they shall leave their q~uarrels behind
t~inctions Of Communications, or Irish-Ameri-
cans, or Americans of any qualification what
And for that wretched party spirit which.
for the serving Of temporary political ends. 10
capable of risking the permanent horrors Of an
alienation between two nations which are ALSO
1utely one, in origin. in character. in interest, in
responsibility from God, in language. in history,
and in religion. there ought to be, at the polls,
In the press, from tho pulpit. and in the personal
intercourse OF Intelligent men, the ~stornest
condemnation and the most incessant rcbuke.
NO greater outrage, 1t seems to me. can be
conceivable, and no moro lasting ana serious In.
jury to all tho best. interests OF humanity
the straining OF the close tie which binds
America TO England. A war would he only less
O fratricidal war than our un ortunatc rebellion
but tho prevention OF 1t must be not by the ma
chinery Of statecraft and Cabinet counsel, but
by the cultivation of the true spirit and temper
| nj tho peODlea NJ both Nations"