The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-01


emergency seems 10 have an unseifish
and cordial sincerity. A government
cannot In justice 10 the ultimate inter-
ests OF Q nation always respond to such
o sentiment by official expression OF II:
and sometimes, on the other hand. 1t
takes advantage OF that sentiment to
lay plans for the future welfare OK the
interests intrusted to II. For that rea-
son we may make distinction between
the motives which actuate the British
ministry In seeking our friendship. or
in manifesting friendship for US. and
the lese responsible demonstration made
by the people at large. We ourselves
as a people have long felt the most in
tense sympathy for Cuba, yet We have
been restrained from taking any active
part on Its behalf by the government,
whose duty Il was to be governed BY
judgment and not by feeling.
We believe we do the English people
no more than Justice when We admit
that. notwithstanding q commercial
jealousy between the two nations, there
Is a deep undercurrent of admiration for
the people Of the United States and a
national sympathy with the cause Of
liberty. The English people have led
all others within the past thousand
years In their high conceptions OF indi-
vidual and political liberty. and have
been the most determined in insisting
upon It. The part played by that ma
ton against us In the revolution
aroused a prejudice against all English
men ever since. which il natural but
not altogether just. The monarchy OF
Great Britain sought to impose restric-
lions upon the coionists. but now that
the events of the revolution have
passed into history, and the rancor Of
the conflict has died out. we should, as
an intelligent people, view the causes
and the actions OF that period with the
calmness Of Just critics. We should re-
member that while the governed body
In Great Britain sought to impose exac-
tons upon us, our cause was nowhere
more eloauently pleaded for and our
course more hraveiy commended than in
the British house OF parliament By
British statesmen.
That England sought TO prevent the
breaking away Of valuable possessions,
which were less a source OF profit than
of pride. Is not 10 be wondered AT. TX
we apply the same principles of critical
analysis to all men and ali circum-
stances. We shall find that the spirit
which prompted us TO secede from Great
Britain was the same which actuated
the Southern states In their attempt to
secede from the Cnion. We believe that
the people OF the South were not jus:i-
fed In that act, aud we properly con-
denim il as an act % treason 10 the
Union We sought 10 prevent that Sc
cession and Ia maintain the integrity
Of the United States: and so the En-
glish governing powers sought TO pre-
vent the colonists from making breach
In the British empire.
We need not apolegixe for the spirit
which prompted Us tc resist what We
considered an oppression. and civiliza-
ton has gained by the establishment
ON the American continent Of a great
and independent people. We are not
now considering the meri; 81 our cause
at that time. We are only endeavortng
to paln, cut ,ha, the English people ard
the American people have In their blood
the same fersor. and In their hearts the
same love OF liberty. That Is what
binds the two peoples together today
As Col. Hay said. on a recent meGora-
Ale occasion ia London. we are bound
ny ties We did not forge and cannot
break"
No better American than Henry Ward
peeSher ever lived. and his discern
meat saw. ihiTty-Gye years ago, that
what is happening now was inevitable,
Speaking a, Exeter ball, Tendon. on
October - Lass. he said,
If 'ha love 4 popular liberty - dead IN
Great bv5tala YOU atli 10, understand us
su1 Z the love az liberty lives as II once
ssNea. ana has Worthy SUCCESSORS ef those
renowned mes sFno were ear ancestors as
ua0sa zS yagTs sri whas. example ard
aFs1F4pies Ne .rherft a. - much sead Germ
IN hvs snG fertile land. tasn you viii
enzlsTs,aed rur n9ra and savgncan.t deter
mseAt.an - nghf this war throuxh az all
hazards AID AZ every cost. on
What saers have uet the rrows % yaur
sasFs dashed Mhss land t. there with :
name ARD people W here ye9r banner has
aes led y-spr sosfiegsF Ard when TIE sreas
resurrection revsslis shall Sound II vii,
masssr British soldiers fEcm every cfluas