The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-09
ANGLO- AMERICAN LEAGUE
CONGRITULATORY AD-
 DRESS TO AMBASSADOR HAY.

It Says Among Other Things That tho
 Principle That There Ought to be n
 Permanent Friendship and Cordial
 Cooperation Between the British Em-
 pire and the American Republtc ts
 One Now Regarded as D Fundam entaI
 Principle of British Foreign Policy.
 London, Sept. S.-A committee of the Anglo American league, headed by it's chairman, James Brice, to-day present. ed United States Ambassador Hay with an address congratulating him upon his acceptance of the portfolio of secretary or state at Washington. The address expresses regret at his departure from this country where you have dis- charged the weighty and delicate duties of ambassador with such eminent tact. Judgment and courtesy as to win the cordial appreciation and confidence of the British people, Continuing. the address says: Tt has been your for tune to represent your country here at a time of exceptional interest, when the war, now happily ended, gave occasion for the expression of the feelings of affection and sympathy towards the United States which the British peo- pie have long entertained. But never before have they been so conspicuously manifested. You carry back the assur~ ance of the depth and strength of these feelings. The principle that there ought to be permanent friendship and cordial cooperation between the Brit 1sh empire and the American republic IS one that all parties and all states men here agree in regarding as fun damental principle of British foreign policy and by it the whole people de- sire that their government should be guided. We rejoice to believe that in your country corresponding sentiments are entertained and that a correspond- ing principle is now largely accepted Knowing that no one holds these con- victions more firmly than yourself, or can express them in clearer or more felicitous terms, we gladly acknowledge the great services you have rendered to both nations and console ourselves on your retirement by the reflection that you are called to duties in your own country even wider in their scope. graved in their responsibility and more important in the results they may se- cure.''
 Rrian T1rr yH LN- l~ remarks which he made upon the oc- casion dwelt upon the admiration for | the splendid gifts and boundless ener- gy of the people of the United States and the sympathy with the principles of their constitution, which have been quietly ripening among the British people and which this year found a sudden and hearty expression. He also said he saw in the universalfty of these sentiments here and the fact that they were reciprocated by large majority of the Americans happy au- gury as he believed that nothing could contribute more to the peace of the world and the welfare of both nations than the sense of essential unity of the two peoples
 >"ASAASA AA@y III ACPiy ACIOllSd AO luC qualification he experienced in hearing such words from men so qualified by experience and character to speak for the British people, with certainty. He added: My voice has no such sane, tion as yours, but give it for what it is worth, to assure you that your sen- timents of kinship and amity are recip- rocated to the utmost in my country'' The ambassador also said that his work in England had been made easy by the instructions he had received from home and by the frankness of her majesty's ministers and of all English men he had come in contact with. He then said: "On both sides of the ocean the conviction is almost univer- sal that a clear, cordial and friendly understanding between Great Britain and the United States is g. necessity of civilization. I shall hold myself sig nally fortunate if I am able to do any, thing to continue and strengthen the relations of fraternal amity between our two nations.''