Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-08-04

and pride. II is one Of the misfortuues
Of man that natura has 81 formed him
that he grows tired Of old associations
and ideas; that familiarity breeds con
tempt; and that no matter how well he
builds he grows weary in building and
wants to tear down and build somewhere
else. But the uniform inconsistency of
such nation is remarkable. and so is
the acquiescent gratitude and contented
satisfaction with which it receives such
ilattery considering its source and the
times and manner in which il has been
/ bestowed.
No greater Inconsistency can exist
than for people who as soon as they
have achieved their own freedom buys
another people or the right of dominion
over them. America desired TO be free
England objected. Luzon desires to he
free; America objects. America SAYS to
Luzon, ''you are incapable of self-govern-
mcnt." England said the same to
America. The latter was indignant and
maintained the defiance: then turns To |
Luzon and says, Il ann the sole Judge of |
your competency or incumpctency and .
my own will and Judgment must deter
mine when You shall become compc-
tent" When England said that she
was consistent. TyrantS are consistent
when they say it. America is not. The
South bought and sold men at retail and
exercised dominion over them. often
fogging them for their guod-for their
reformation. America bought and has
for sale or to keep men at wholesale and
often Slaughters them in droveS to civil
i2e them. America was once indignant
because men from across the seas were
sent to rule over it. 1t rose and threw
off such odiouS rule and this enabled her
to impose it in more arbitrary form on I
another people across the seas, not for |
the purpose of uniting with them in the c
bonds of statehood or freedom, but to ,
rule over them at will, and for what pur- ,
poses or to what end no one is able even ,
o conjecture. 1t is but natural that the ,
mother country should indulge in flat {
cry now, although it has vein of sar-
assn and a shadow of the ludicrous in :
t. The mother followed the offspring ,
II infancy through all the hardships '
oils. dangers and sutferings that a rug |
,ed SOIL cold climate and the unnatural q
mother could occasion by the aid of a y
lireling soldiery; and in youth thought |
see an opportunity to drown it in the !
ca, and then when the shock of rebel q
ion came she sat smilingly on her i
hrone while her boys in club houses
nd elsewhere called her loving children
cross the seas low, cowardly Shop-keep-
ne fellows, and not content with ac-
the belligerency of the
south built vessels for the enemy and =.
'ermitted them to use the British fac
S decoy for the victims of predatory
XcursionS. She alone of all the first
lass powers of Europe save one contri- d
'nted proximately and remotely, directly
md indirectly to the overthrow of the 5
american government. But the mo- '
nent Dewey achieved brilliant victory
nd the world was filled with the story t
II American valor the proud mother see il
ng how she could turn it to advantage
nd induce the child to follow her illus =,
rSouS example and fasten on another 81
eople conditions that she failed to fas- :
Ell on America cried out, Come to nv
rms loving children What a glorious -,
ictory and it is all ours and all done by l.
English blood and English civilization ~ ,
What a wonderful ebulltion of love -
'ithout the least change in the history -.
+ the relations of the two nations. -,
And so nations as we'll as individuals l.
re ready to rejoice with others in pros :,
Gritty and assail them in adversely. But ~
Il that neither reconciles nor iustifes ~
Il the sickly sentimentality of the times, =