The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-03-22

Ear, Of Shclbumc lie had the greatest
affection and friendship for Benjamin
Franklin. the ,rs.St relations with
John Jay and Il r.NcrrutEl admiration
admiration for George Washington. At
his request Washington sat for full
length portrait of himself Five years
ago that portrait appeared FOR sale Uur
morning IN the gallery Of ASucw. tie
Bond Street picture dealer. Before
night il MAS the property Of another
British statesman who has enjoyed i
great career. and is destined - Il greater
one who knows the United States bet
ter than any other Englishman living
and whose friendship for America and
Americans Is ever NEST Sympathe
That statesman is the Liberal leader.
Lord Kosebcry. This portrait of Wash
ington. the best Of him | have ever
seen occupying the place of honor in
The hom" Of Hosehcry. is really u rstoTial
monument Of the fall of the North Min
lstry. of the recognition Of American
INDEPENDENCE, of the birth and marvellous
growth from the American Revolution Of
liberal Ideas III Great Britain and in
Europe. 1t has also its lesson for to-
day. One power alone in Europe sym
pathiZcd with Lord North and George
III. iii their attack upon the rights or
the American people, one power alone
i'll Europe held off till the last-until
long after Great Britain herself had
actcd-in the recognition of the indie
, pendcnce of the United States That
power was Spain. She had at that time
the most magnificent Of colonial en-
pires. she possessed nearly onc-half and
the most productive half Of the CONT
ncnt Of North America, the whole uf
the lsthumus Of Darion. the whole Of
South America and nearly all the r
lands Of the adjoining seas. She feared
J THAT the example of the American Rcyo-
luton would spread to her own colonies
| Had she learned the lesson of the
American Revolution she might still
have been an imperial power. That
| lesson Of the American Revolution in
colonial empire was home rule and self
government for the people Of the colonies
and the working of their own ,iestinc-
| according to the conditions of the count
ry in which they lived and the sur
roundings. This lesson cost Great Bri-
tain the faircst of her possessions, but
by adopting the policy which it taught
! her colonies now enrich the globe 1t
was one of the sights Of the century to
see III the Jubilee procession last sum
mer the representatives Of every CONT
ncnt and climate of the earth of very
race and religion, loyally following the
Queen as subject to her authority, in
an imperial sense and sovereign them
selves in their own home governments
Spain has persistently chung to the idea
Of Lord North, and worse than that to
the Roman pro-conSuar system, which
recognized prosperous colonies only as
opportunities for the rIpacity Of impc-
rial rulers. The spirit of the age has
broken her power, has Wrcstcd from her
the marvellous possessions and has re-
duccd the Empire of Il quarter Of the
globe to Il few fertile islands in the
Atlantic and the Pacific Too hate she
recognizes. when aIl is lost in Cuba, tho
folly Of her past and Of her present.
With the Independence Of Cuha viii dis
appear from tn" face 0f the earth the
last remnant Of that Kind Of power which
was represented by Lord Month and fell
with hrs ministry W.