The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-03-25

continental congress were invited to the
requiem at St. Joseph's Church, Phla-
delpllia. Thereupon a proclamation to
the officers and soldiers of the Ameri-
can army appeared. do you know"
it ran, "that the eye which guides this
pen lately saw your mean and profligate
congress at mass?" The author of the
proclamation was Benedict Arnold.
When Washington was elected president
under the constitution, John Carroll,
who accompanied Chase and Franklin as
commissioners to Canada, had been
named archbishop of Baltimore, and on
behalf OF the Catholic clergy and laity
Df;, "ented to Washington an address
'se;s..s'sots H;... in which appears this
"Whlls. preserves her
freedom and indepe.. nee, we shall have
well-founded title to claim from her
justice the equal rights of citizenship, as
the price of our blood split under your
eyes, and of our common exertions for
her defense, under your auspicious con-
duct" To which Washington replied:
81 hope ever to see America among the
foremost nations in examples of'justness
and liberality. And I presume that your
fellow-citizens will not forget the pat
riotic part which you took in the accom-
plishnent of their revolution and the
establishment of their government"
The second instance: "Our war with
the Confederate states, as we now know
and realize, was formidable enough in all
its aspects and consequences, without
the aggravations of simultaneous con-
fict with England and France ;"
The emperor said that when
the French people were out of employ
ment the government were expected to
furnish them with bread. He
sought and expected the cooperation Of
England, a large majority of whose citi-
zens were with him in sentiment and
sympathy. Autobiography OF Thur
low Weed, p. 64o. In May, 1861, the
most powerful statesman in England
Lord Derby, had said in the house OF
lords: 1T is essentially necessary that
the northern states should not be in
duced to rely OH our forbearance." In
October John Hughes, archbishop Of
New York, was invited by Secretary
Seward to go to Washington. 1T was
proposed by the cabinet that I should
accept special mission to England and
France, in connection with very i'm
portant national questions between the
United States and those powers. made
known to the president that if should
go to Europe, it would not be as par
tisan OF the North more than of the
South, that 1 should represent the inter
ests of the South as we'll as of the North
in short, the interests of all the United
States, just the same as if they had never
been distracted by the present civil wal" !"
Life of Archbishop Hughes, p. 44o.
The commissioners sailed together,
Archbishop Hughes going to Paris,
Thurlow Weed to London. Before the
end OF the year the archbishop was able,
after much indirect and some direct
communication with the emperor, to
write to Secretary Seward that the en-
peror was no longer "hostile to the
United States"
Mr. Weed was less fortunate. Every
frst-class British statesman, OF both po-
litical parties, was against us, and so
remained to the end. Mr.. Gladstone said
in the House OF Commons, speaking for
the entire ministry: eve do not believe
that the restoration of the American
Union by force is attainable. I believe
that the public opinion of this country
(England) is unanimous upon the sub
ject."
Mr.. Gladstone profoundly believed in
Ills own errors on every question until
he discovered them. He lived to con-
fess that he misunderstood the United
States and the civil war. He did not
undertake to expunge any part of his
governments record in relation to it,
but he owned that he had himself been
wrong in affirming that the national
American course chad been without any
adequate or worthy object" Lord Sal
isbury, for years the paramount intellect
in guiding the destinies of his country,
had said in 1862: The plain matter OF
fact is as every one who watches the
current OF history must know, that the
northern states OF America never can be
Our sure friends, for this reason: we are
rivals politically, rivals commercially;
we aspire to the same position; we both
aspire to the government OF the seas;
we are both manufacturing people, and
in every port as we'll as every court VIC
are rivals to each other"
Lord Salisbury has never confessed
that he was in error. He spoke the
truth. 1t is the truth to-day as it was
when uttered. 1t is more true to-day
than then. Happily he has lived to see
sectional consciousness itself almost
eliminated from the United States, and
the South, like the North, manufac-
turer as we'll as an agricultural pro-
ducer Tt is the entire limited States