The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-25
The Name "American.

Il! Sir Edward Clarke made very dis
courteous speech last night at the
Thanksgiving banquet Of the American
society at the Hotel Cecil in London,
where was gathered notable company
Z of Americans and Englishmen. =.
Sir Edward proposed Ambassador
Choate g health and undertook to criti-
{ else severely our state department for
issuing an order to call all our en-
1 bassies "American,' saying that we
are not entitled to the name, as it i'm
piled domination over the western hem
1 hphere, which was an unwarranted as
sumption, which he proposed to abolish
by giving us the name "Usona,' the
American people to be called "Uson-
ans the name made out of the initial
letters of the words "United States of
North America Mr.. Choate reply
ing, told Sir Edward that Americans
are perfectly satisfied with their name,
which is eminently true, and took no
notice Of the baronet' 8 ill-natured re-
marks upon our judiciary's salaries and
upon our naval construction.
As to the name Of our country, there
lis not the slightest possibility of any
change. Sir Edward Clarke will pass
away and be gathered to his fathers,
and when the milleniad of the founding
of this nation shall be celebrated, we
shall still be known as the "United
States Of America,' the same which
appears stamped upon the coin of the
realm. We are not the "United States
Of North America, - and never have
been and never will be. The "Fathers' -
selected the name with the larger sug-
gestion, no doubt because they cher
,ished an intuition of future expansion,
which began with the annexation Of the
North West Territory and the French
province of Louisiana. To be sure, the
HFathers" might have called the new
nation and country "Columbia,' but
Americas Vespucius got in his work of
displacing Columbus from the privilege
of affixing his name upon the new
world, and the civilized world accepted
the nomenclature. f.. s.-.... s.- .,
The fact is, we hold an irreversible
patent upon the name American
We were the first to take it. Spair
called her colonies in the new world
New SPAIN France, when she domi
mated Canada, called it "New France
The original revolving colonies of Eng
land on this continent were called il
England, colloquially and officially tn,
American colonies - England gave
us the name "American,' and we hav,
simply, in our larger estate, kept it AM
officially affixed it to our country. w
are in a peculiar sense the american
nation. We are the intermingling an,
amalgamation of tho bloods Of variou
nations; blending Of variant char
acteristics, with a resultant huma,
amalgam which is destined to over
shadow the habitable globe by it's self
contained power, intellectual and ply
steal. The essential homogeneity
somewhat in the future, but it wi
come.
The name American - is irrevocab1
cut into this wonderful amalgam Of tn
human race. No other people on thi
continent can claim it. We find "Spa1
ish- Americans but they are nc
ttAmericans' There are aborigin,
tribes and tongues and kindreds. br
these are not Americans. = The ,coul
try of the amalgamated peoples, bal
tized into the American name; tt
country of great facts accomplished an
n to accomplish; the country, which
spite sof the abuse and misrepresent
ton Of its enemies, within and Withou
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