The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-19

with sparsely peopled and separated
settlements, was promptly disclosed.
They had threatened to send an armed
ship to remove the Virginia planters.
They laid claim to Carolina. and they
directed armed expeditions against the
young colony OF Georgia They were
now not to meet the helpless avage
who a been their victims. but men
OF that same lighting strain who In
this good year breasted the hail OF
death. swarmed up the heights and
planted the color on the entertainments
of Santiago. I pause to reflect II I
claim too much for Georgia strain. Let
me remind you that Gen. Joe Wheeler
is a Georgian.
The bloody Marsh.
The field where the Georgfans and
the Spaniards on that momentous day
In 1912 met il yet called the Bloody
Marsh. The commander of our colon
ial forces vas James Edward Ogie-
thorpe. To his military genius and
the heroism OF his slender force is due
the fact that the Southern territory
OF the United States was not added
to the dependencies of Spain. That
fllustrious E~nglishman should ever nve
In the memory n veneration OF the
American people. He did more to ex-
clude the Spaniards from American
soil than any other man of the English
speaking race. ave that successor OF
Washington. the president who evinces
his fervfd ove Of country and graces
the occasion by his presence to-day.
Defeated in their scheme OF inva-
sion. the Spaniards remained intensely
inimical to our fathers. In truth. IL
Is perhaps probable that the commercial
methods OF those ancestors Of ours
were not wholly free from aggressive
ness. but this was not the chief ON
Germ OF the Spaniards. Grimaldi. one
of their ministers. naively declared
that h Americans may assume the
republican form OF government. and
"a republic" said h eminent hidalgo,
rs dangerous from the wisdom. the
consistency and the solidity of the
measures which II would adopt for the
execution OF such projects OF conquests
as II would naturally form"
Recent events would seem to verify
the philosophic observations of the
voluble Grimaldi.
Indeed the astonishing frankness
with which h statesman admitted
the vices OF their system and the in
evitable results of the American ex-
ample is singular. OF a possible
American republic. De Arandi writes
to the French minister:
1T would grow into a rich. flourish
ing and free state contrasting with
our exhausted provinces. The inhabi-
tants OF our vast Mexican domain
would be led to consider their total
want. OF commerce. the exhortations
OF their governors, the little esteem in
which they were held. the few offices
which they are permitted to NIL: they
would hate still more the Spanish rule
and think to brave IL with security"
This was the accurate Spanish con
ception of the future. II followed that
the spectacle of the young republic MS
ing on the North American continent
50 charming to such philosophers as
Kant and Goethe. such rulers as the
great Frederic. such evangelists as
John Wesley. such haters of tyranny
and lovers of men as Charles James
Fox, was to the Spanish statesman a
hideous and colossal portent. One of
the ablest of them, III prime minister.
Count Florida Blanca, writes Bancroft,
seems to hear the tocsin OF insurrec-
ton from La Plata to San Francisco"
When this eminent Spaniard was in
formed by the French minister of the
American alliance. h quivered In ev-
cry limb"
THE American deputies" he ex-
claimed, are treated like Roman con-
suls. The declaration OF your treaty
with them In worthy of Don Qulxote."
In despair he nov did all in his power
to defeat the recognition OF our indie
p~endence. He rendered the British
ministry the influence OF the Bourbon
family TO secure to England the terri
tory northwest OF the Ohio. n to ex-
clude the Americans from all country
west OF the Allegheny mountains.
Il shall not readily be accused of
fanaticism," said Edward Gibbons,
yet I must admit that there are often
strong appearances of r~etribution In hu-
affairs."
What more striking demonstration OF
experimenting providence which
administers Justice not only to indi-
viduals. but to nations. than the spec
tacle in this mighty city. builded on
the heritage of which Spain would
deprived this people. of this gath
ering of Americans to mark the epoch
when the last Spanish soldier has been
driven from the last foot of soil OF that
hemisphere discovered by Columbus.
May we not Justly exclaim with the
Psalmist OF old. "Oh, clap thy hands,
all ye people. shout unto God with the
voice OF triumph"
spain's Vast Control.
II is perhaps impossible for Ameri-
cans OF this day and time to conceive
how vast was the control Spain might
exercised over the destinies of our
republic. The independence OF the
United States has been recognized. the
constitution had been adopted and the
organized. and yet for
many years she claimed without dis
pute the peninsula of Florida, then a
strip along the gulf extending to and
including h city of New Orleans. and
she held all OF that territory west OF
the Mississippi to the Pacific ocean
n from the Gulf OF Mexico north
ward to the underlined boundaries OF
the British possessions. The Roman
empire in the zenith OF its glory un-
der the sceptre Of Trajsn or Constan-
tine. when IL stretched from the Eu-
pirates to the Pillars of Hercules and
from the mist-enshrouded hills OF Cal
o TO the deserts OF Africa, never
possessed such boundless though I'M
developed wealth. OF his Louisiana.
100000 square miles. was bartered to
Bonaparte for a trifing Italian duchy.