New-York tribune., 1909-07-08
SENATOR ROOTS 1DDRESS
He BestO5cS Praise on English
French and IOqu0is.

PIattsburg n. y July dwelling on the part
Ilayed by the Iroquois Indians in the early history
Of America Senator Root, in an address repiete
with historic facts paid high tribute to Samuel
Champain and TO those French soldiers and
plorers who shared in the early struggle for
America
He pointed out the influence which the events at
tending the discovery of Lake Champlain three
hundred years ago had on the issue Of the great
struggle between France and Great Britain FOR the
ccnrcl Of tie Continent; the struggle between the
two white races the opportunity to coloniZe and
expand and between the systems of law and
civil poty direction ami development Of civ
iization amoag The millions who TO people the
vast region extending from the Atlantic to the Pa
cifc and from the Rio Grande TO the frozen limits
of the north
The superiority Of the five civilized tribes and
their systematic form government given by
Senator Root as of the primary causes for the
ultimate defeat OF the French and their Indian
allies by the English and the Iroquois. Speaking
Of those Indians he said they Of all the in
habitants Of the New World the most terrible foes
ahd the most capable Of organized and sustained
warfare. and Of all the inhabitants north Of Mexico
they the most civilized and intelligent
Senator Root reviewed the early attempts made
to colonize the new continent. and the priVatons
and difficulties which were met by the coionlsts
AT Quebec twenty-eight Frenchmen, with Cham
plain. had ved the rigors of a Canadian Win
tep. the spring of 1893 but eight remained
alive he said. In this same month OF July
1919 the Half Moon Henry Hudson repairing
damages in Penobscot Fay after her voyage across
the Atlantic and preparing to sail on 20 the noble
river that still bears her commanders name. lie
continued:
that reached out to grasp control seemed few and
feeble: but the period Of preparation was past.
sfupendous movement Of mankind in human , histopy &
ripe for the real conflict 80 begin and 1T had It's
momentous beginning when the chief of the Mo
Ia wks fell before tho arquebus OF Champialn at
Ticonderoga.
Fur9e in the sriy Years Of the seventeenth century
made 1t Inevitable that the struggle for American
between France and Great Britain.
OF al the peoples OF Europe. only the French ara
the English possessed the power the energy, the
adventurous courage. the opportunity and the % oG,
asio1 m ioI eXpslSH o acf6T ] 'g and for them alone
From these countries, each possessed OF great
ceded the colonsts who to dispute for the
possession Of america The world owes many debts
tion the men of every race can find in the noble
examples of such explorers as Nicoet and Joliet and
La Sale: such leaders a Champain and Frontenac.
an no t,arnI, @ nd r}rabGiff and Marquette
all this interesting and romantic story may be
seen two great proXinate causes OF the French
failure and the English success: two reasons whv
from Quebec to the Pacific speak English fol-
low the course of the common law, ana estimate
and maintain rights according to the principles
Of English freedom.
one of these was the great inferiority Of
the Indian allies of the French and the great
superiority of the Indian allies Of the English; the
power Of the lroquois, and their hdeiity 10 the
covenant chain which bound them to fathers
moRarcS f Glagf ete not sodles Build empres that
the spirit OF absolutisn in ROYAL court Is A less
principle than the spirit Of liberty in nation
IN closing, Senator Root said: In these memorial
days let there he honor 10 Champlain and the
chivary France; honor to the strong free hearts
Of the common people of England; and honor also
to the savage virtues the courage and lOval
friendship cf the Long House Of the Iroquois