New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-20
OUTBURSTS or PATRIOTISM.
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lions. After one hundred years Washington is
fe'erehced as the founder Of tho most benehceHt
government the world has ever known, and as the
ioleinost man in all the elements OF patriotism,
aga ora Sorh q 9s ~ h Kns his
ana MS friends passed his declining years
fortune of his cd age but his blindness in not
ing me tendencies of the time and the Using spirit
passed his declining years possessing the love and
Inc Inc sraiude OF his country and the admiration OF
WITH TheTS daoheT sn HsS .y
OF Chatham and Burke and Fox that he remained
y W Ss @f WHOLE the OF ihs
s or b s @ 2S % e9mIg n Sa so% on
The Jurisprudence Of the United States and make
the Jay treaty Of alliance. between the TWO coun.
between hsse two efE Ni PTsei peoples the
spirit of which grows stronger ard more bench
as it Is io-dSy This Salesman was the Earl q
Shclbnrne lie had the greatest affection ana
friendship for Benjamin Franklin the closest re-
!ations with John Jay and reverentiaI aa Mn
non for George At his Teqo s bmss
Five years ago tina, portrait aPpeared for Sale one
picture dealer. Berore night It was the property
of another British statesman who has en-,
'V greater ''a one. '''y wno knows the United
States better Than any other En sn man
leans is most cordial and sympa heiic That
Statesman is the Liberal leader Lord Roseber S
best o. KIM have 1 ever P0 seem oscupsng
Of honor in the nome of Rosebery Is really, kt,.
slry. OF the recognition OF American independence.
Of the birth and marvellous growth from the Amer
ican Revolution Of liberal ideas in Great ftritaiis
and in Europe. II has also It's lesson Tor to-day
LESSON SPAIN DIDN'T LEARN.
Ore power alone IN Europe sympathized with
Lord North and George III In their attack upon
the rights OF the American people one power alone
in Europe held off til the ast-until long after
Grent Britain herself had acted-ln the RECOGNITION
Of The Independence of the United States; That
magnidcc1t Of Colonial empires; she possessed
nearly one-half end the most productive half Of me
Continent Of North America the whqie o, e
and nearly ali the islands OF the adjoining seas
She feared ,hat the example OF the AmeriGan
Revolution wond spread 10 her own coloics. tiau
she learned The lesson OF the American Revolu,
ton she might stn have oeen an i pIeai,,
power That lesson Of the American ,, heVS snd
government for tn. people of the colonies ana
the working out OF their own destlies II "a
and their SURROUNDINGS. This lesson cost ti'tt
Britain the fairest Of her possessions bu, ny ao0pv
ing the policy which II taught her cGI1b , 81 ps
century TO sec in the Jubilee procession iast sum, sum
the representatives OF every con'ihe,itt t Tu'
climate Of the earth, Of every race ana renelon.
lovailv following the Queen, subject to her au-
thority IN mpe ial sense. ana sovereign omu.
selves In their own home governments tApp,dHsTr,3
North and worse than that, to the Roman pro-e0h-
sular system which recognized prosperous r U,on
rulers Tie spirit OF the age has broken isr
power has wresisd from her her marvellous pos.
sessions and has reduced inc en tn The Atlantic
and the Pacific Too late she recognizes. when an
Is lost in cuba, the folly OF her past ana OF mer
present With the independence OF Cpoa WI. n,s
nner from tho face of the earth the last remnant
Of that kind OF power which was repfeTenteu oS
Lord Norti and Tell win his Ministry Pr''ohseu