The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-09-04
AND AMERICA


I About the middle of the eighteenth
/ century the William PITT who lafez
became Earl Of Chatham. vas he Nm
lister o. King George II and The raj
ruler Of Great Britain His admins
/ uauon was one OF III. moSt successful
/ ana most glorious the realm has ax.-
known On land and sea British arms
! were everywhere victa-sous-j, FL
! rope. IN India. IN America. whe-ev@-
{ the issue OF battle was joined. and
thus I is that the fame Of Cha.h ham
rivals that Of Cromwell, Or Marlbo-
ouSh or that of Nelson or Wellington
after him. in English annals. Ar .hsr
. Hne the thirteen co.onies Of North
! America, extending from New EamD-
shii 10 Georgia, were 4 part OF the
BRUSH empire. and every one Of hem
! as loyal 10 King Georce as kenr ~
/ yorkshire. or Somerset, CT No~tnura-
/ oeEiand- II was the genius OF Pit.
/ operating on the army and navy OF
England that wrested Canada from
rance and made N English possess
! ION OF IT, and American soldiers and
/ sailors helped in the enterpr s.. They
We're gallant 10 a degree in III. cap
+ tnTe OF Lewisburg and the reduction
+ of Cape Breton
! After the accession o, George III a
! new administration was formed
Grenville, Butte, North, Towns nd.
/ Elden, Wedderburn. and Others MO
agreed with them took IN hand ne
/ a1alrs Of the British empire. They
proposed 20 tax the thirteen colonies
to impose on them Iart Of the ex-
penSe or defending them Il was per-
/ 1ectly -egal, and if II We're n5I 50
! u9patriOuc, | would say II II. Nha: !
/ think OF 1t, that ii was TerIeetly ;uSt
Tor the war was on our account as
We'll rs on account Of the rest OF he
! realm. But it was 4 foolish thin. I'd
+ DO, however legal. and he result WIS
our independence, Of which We ara
still glad and proud, When peace vas
made England wanted to fling in Cana
ola for good count and pull out of the
western hemisphere: but Washing On
refused. He knew that France wanted
Canada for the help she gave US in
the Revolution, and he preferred the
English faG up there TO the French.
Since the creation Of the Fe1era
union England has been an Almost
constant factor in American politics.
Hamilton was the friend f England
and Jefferson was the friend Of France.
We We're in actual war with Franc
during the administration of the elder
Adams, and it was then that old Tom
TruXton performed feat on the
quarterback of the Constellation fri
gate against two French men-Of-
war which a Decatur. a Preble Per
TE, Porter, Il FarTa gut, or a Dewey
might envy. IN 1872 we engaged in
war with Engl md, and it was in urS-
ing us to that encounter that Clay
Webster and Calhoun laid the fOunda-
! ton OF their immense parliamentary
Teputa lions. JackSOn'S victory was
the more glorious because it was a
| victory over the English. For long
years and years England was cordially
hated by our people. Every Fourth o.
July Grafton was a philippic and 4
threat against England; every Ameri-
can orator loved TO twist the British
/ lions tail; there was not day for
nearly half a century that war with
England would NOT have been i'm
mensely popular We sent John G.
Heenan TO lick Tom Savers. ana
though he made a rather poor work
Of it, we sincerely believed that he
accomplished il, and bra@gei aDJu:
that prize fight more tnan We did OF
the glorious day in Buena Vista How
we did glory in Paul Morphy, whom
the English chess champion, S;aunton,
ran away from.
We were on the verge Of war with
Englandseveral times. II was old
Bill Allen, then democratic sem
ator from Ohio. who gave the reliant
Cry "54: 40 or fight when we had the
dispute about the line between our
country and the British possessions Al
the northwest We stopped short Of
81: 10 and We did not light. There was
Il big row over the Maine BOUNDARY, /
which Webster managed u compose
without war. There were ilnumer3 bl" I
disputes about the fisheries and when
an American commodore took Mas II
and Slidell off a British merchan'mln
there would have been a war, as Ger
tain as fate. but for the good sense Of /
Abraham Lincoln and the good Offices .
of the prince conSOrt. There IS 2 deal /
of chimney-corner history regarding /
tIe presence tik 4 IkH>S4 dlI Id dI II
dron in New York Harbor during the
war between the states. and thousan ands I
of men OF average intelligence think I
unpatriotic to question the assertion /
that by the stroke OF Russia intimated
England and prevented her from IN
terferring in our family fight 3 1Sh,
The British feet At Halifax alone
could have sunk the entire Russian
navy an hour after il 2o- n gunshot
OF it. There are TWO things that pre-
vented England from Interfering
one. a majority OF the English people
sympathized with the north, on &C
count OF slavery. and those Of them
who svmpathized with the south BE-
lieved that the south would not deed
any help DO believe that II Lord
Palmerston had supposed the no-th
would prevail he would have picked
a quarrel with the Lincoln admins
-rarion thar would have made war n