Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-06-02
FAIR STATEMENT OF FACTS.

Editor vi The Gazette: | think
you will lie willing tn publish
fair true statement off acts which caused
the order for the expulsion of the Uni
yersal Peace Union from Independence
Hall.
True to the obi ect Of the Union, we
have nevor made II practical effort to
avert the present war. We supported
and encouraged our Piesident anu HIS
advisors in this most patriotic en-
deavOr. We earnestly appealed to the
Spanish government TO accept tbs terms
of the Presidents message and consent
to Withdraw tho Spanish army from
Cuba. IL was for this object that the
letter to Sagasta aud the Queen was
written. 1t was sent before war WIS
declared, hoping to ipduce Spain to
accept the terms required hy our
government. The latter was returned
after two weeks and after war WAS
commenced. marked Dispatch to Spain
prohibited in tins of war;" A. Love
says:
THE letter was then sent by ma to
Washington whera messenger was in.
Htructed to interview the adm Illustration
regarding 1t. 1t was taken TO the then
Assistant Secretary of State. Judge
h(ult uuN WINS tuhhiuo' ~ uio
with the massage that IL could he sent
through correspondents in Europe,
mentioning England or Switzerland
/ sent it to the international Peacs
Bureau at Berne, Switzerland. and have
heard nothing from it since. "
Let any candid person compare this
frank, plain statement with the grosa
Misrepresentation of the Evening Bull
letin, representing that President Love
had said he had "outwitted the govern
meat and forwarded it in round about
way" Alfred Love further sayH:
''AH far as having the Spanish flag at
our rooms 10 concerned, the whole
matter is little short of an ahsurtlity.
In 1899, the Peace Union decided TO
procure the flags of all nations and
place around each broad white
lIorder, an a sign Of peacs and good will
toward men; this was done. These
flags were all exhibited at the World q
Fair and afterwards we're all sent to
our rooms, at Fifth and Chestnut
streets, the Spanish flag among them.
The room was decorated with them, no
notice was taken of the Spanish flag I;
We did not even notice its being there
until some one called our attention to
it when 1t was taken down, folded and
laid away in my office. 1t 10 untrue
and most unjust to accuse our members
of t1isloyHlty. We are actuated by a
sincere and unselfish desire to serve
God and our country. The letter sent
to Sagasta contained an urgent appeal
to the Spanish ministry to surrender
Cuba and stop the war !"
Now. the truth is, that tbs solo and
only offence of Alfred Love and of the
Universal Poace Union has been in its
unremitting endeavors to preserve to
our dear country the blessings Of peace
and TO avert this dreadful war. No
mnie truly patriotic society has ever
occupied these rooms. We hold that
true patriotism is consistent with
Christianity, and with the holy PRO
ceEts of Jesus. II is because we love
our country and ara anxious for her
honor and prosperity, that We have so
earnestly underworld to avert this war.
Alfred Love has given more than 20
years of most unseltish work and many
hundreds OF dollars from his privats
purse for tbe peaceable settlement oil
differences between individuals. States
ami nations, and surely he will obtain
Ghrist'n blessing upon the peRoeuiakers.
lie has worked with charity toward
all and malice toward none. p"
| Though lying lips may torture
| Thy mercy into crime.
| And the slauderer NAV flourish
AS the bay-tree for time;
Yet the words which thou hast uttered
| OF the true soul are part.
And the good seed thou hast scattered,
Is sprlnging from the heart.
p. Ferris.
| Wilmington, May Goth, 1893.