Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-11
Some Historical References
They Apply to Cuba.

cal powers of the North and South.
Calhoun sincerely believed that sue
cessful notification would cement and
make perpetual the Union.
The wizards of the English tongue
of cur later Senators were Roscoe
Conkllng, L. @. G. Lemar and John j.
ingalls,. Thou h a Flenchman, Pierre
Soue was as complete master of Eng
lish speech as the greatest of these.
There are passages in his speech on
North American fisheries that are
marvels of felicity. That, too, was a
jingo speech and aimed at England.
He cited tke philosophy of such
writer's as Gallant, Hubner, Kluber,
Vattel, Azuni and Glotius-whoever
they were-against the stubborn 4act
that England was mistress of the seas.
1t was a classic oratiCn as well as an
eloquent one, and as an argument,
based on abstract justice, conclusive
of the question. Unfortunately there
is a quality-interest- must be
leckoned with. and in the Cabinets Of
great powers interest is paramount.
Mr. Blaine knew this when he wrote
the aphorism that nearly all the ad-
vancement modern civilization has
made is due to intelligent selishness.
Others observed the same thing long
before Blaine was born.
British supremacy of the seas began
in piracy, and Francis Drake was the
man. He was the Dewey of some three
centuries ago, but had our Dewey
done what Drake did, he would have
swung from the Olympia's yardarm,
Queen Elizabeth. however, applauded
her heroic freebooter and heaped hon
ors on him. The story is admirably
told by very charming writer of how
the Queen and the fine ladies and gen
tlemen of her court went down to
Deptlord to see the ship-the Golden
Hind-that had been such terror to
Spain. They had dinner on board, and
the Queen put many questions to
Master Drane of the particulars of his
voyage and his battles, and received
from him certain precious and i'm
mensely valuable jewels, spoil of his
marrying of the Spanish Main She
asked:
My lords, is his the man that Spain
would have me give over to them?"
"Your Majesty tits no other" they
answered.
Then the Queen swore great oath
and no sailor in al her fleet could
match her at that-she swore a great
oath that the Queen of England knew
how to make answer to such demand:
Come hittler, MastSr Drake,
kneel." she exclaimed IN terrible
voice. Then, turning TO leicester, she
commanded
Dudley, your sword. My lords and
ladies, this is the man that Spain
would have us give to her; and, by
Cd. this is England's answer:
Arise, Slr Irancis" and with this she
rose a mirror of English Knighthood.
And so British supremacy was
founded-in the herolsm of her sailors.
And so is has been maintained-in the
heroism of her sailors. Perhaps that
supremacy vii be ours, and when it
comes to us it will be in the heroism
! of our sailors. The bitter rivalry OF
Drake and Forbishef, after the de-
struction of the Armada, in which
savage work each immortalized him
self. is recalled in the Sampson-Schley
controversy. In those days language
was coarser and action in private
quarrel prompter, and, had Sir Francis
and Sir Martin met, one CT both would
have been carried away on stretcher.
Our day Is more refined.-SayOyald, in
Commercial Tribune.