The Republican journal., 1910-06-23
THE OLD NAVY.
ropN O. JOHNSON OF LIBERTY.
III

a,c last had successfully closed the
!" 18TH Tripoli and Algiers, but there
Wa ;,cidents in connection with that
We. that cannot refrain from mention
"' The principal feature was the con-
'S shown the officers of the little ma
Il, ., Al the little new nation, by the Off
W. # tbe British ships of war then
.-..7q IN those waters. Whenever
5.r met IN port, which was frequently
.ss. they had but little respect for
,re by reason of their supercil
naughty manner, had none for
IKE officers, like men, and when
r.g- met on shore there were nu-
.,..g. 1rts among them, and usually
.-.-,r, was with those who had the
rrmbvrs. We.were their equal
.,..-5rs, and at times much more
.... r. They seemed to have for
.- -.st we Of the new nation We're
..-,arts rts of the best blood of Eng
-.. scotland and Ireland; not of the
..-.-. Tut If the sturdy yeomanry who,
.....,- l..a reared on the islands and
-.,r ., coast of the United States,
.-.-. r.r.t both to land and sea and
r... -.. 4sI Of any seamen on earth
,----. ,r.e. This is fact they learned
...r-i-7s. before the close of the war
-.,-.-. Indeed, they learned it be-
,---ra-. FIR though we had but small
.s,r. s. sa. growing merchant marine
.-a r-r...i saw and knew what fine
,.-ot s.a.r- "a manned our merchant ships;
.s. r......t or pretended to believe,
.sa. -t-e were mostly British sailors,
d, s.blssts If the British crown. And on
.s- .-Ige.p. that once British subject,
.qsss British subject, and being sadly
i- es-f IF seamen to man their navy, as
,,sy had many ships and few men-by
,s.ser the logging in the English ma
-.er Weyi ID not enlisu-and so they re-
..-s he press gang in their own
,r.-ts. claiming that their seamen
had f. heir country and come to the
r,-sa states to avoid the press gang
ru.r was true in many instances) they
boar th American ships on every sea
an -u.s rom them any and all seamen
ina. r resumed to be British sub
e.. .tr thstanding they exhibited an
8rs arotection, paper with the
r S S- upon it obtained from the U.
.-ra House at the port from which
,,sr sd lie giving a description of the
-., Ill ..rtlfying that he is an Ameri-
ear - and entitled to the protection
t.s rnment of the United States.
Blu IT, fress gangs from the British
| ships -r ignored these papers, claim
|r.t grit Of search and seizure upon
II ~ a while our government con-
as t hey had no such right; and
n H.. cause of the war between
5rt 5n and this country known as
lie 6-s If 1872. They fought US for
u E ars, or more, and got the
a f. particularly upon the sea.
H. 4y gave up the war, and also
gar 9l L- searching of our ships, but
a--r tted that they did not have
ID -., 10 do so for more than fifty
!as lutil we had a chance to pay
ten as in their own coin. You re-
nar nat at the first of the War of
h5-.-.ion, Commodore Wilkes of our
sy- r3ed a British ship on its way
H. NASSAU, n. P, TO Liverpool and
nj 1-i $50 Americans, Messrs. Slidell
e. LAS emissaries of the Confederate
Es ID also remember that England
tFF --, age and demanded that we
n4s. -t- aem up or war would be de-
a,s l is at once. They called to-
gI-. Jaw officers of the Crown,
VII ar4 ously declared that the act
W eE nd great insult to the Brit
H5a- I demanded that the men be
are .ere to the British Crown at
se To which President Lincoln repli-
bril-, that he would gladly give
asnu. Hell knowing that the act was
9s hat the U. S. Government
ID .oea intending for that fact for
nlt i1aa fifty years and this was the
3 1t.5tion from the law officers of
liz Brush Crown acknowledging their
"@ d .ung the same thing which was
8F Cause Of the War of 1912. So by
~aF-sre hat though the mills of justice
s1a slowly they grind exceedingly
la. alt. to use trite saying, curses
a' clnsens to come home to roost, and
-g-sae lst much longed for opportu-
-| OF 1opping on our backs when we
Y. gu, hands full in front.
''a that have strayed long way
~ my aase, but found it necessary
4-5T 10 SPIN out the thread | had be-
" It's proper length. will now cut
aa turn backward for more than
~'s'g again cross the Atlantic, enter
Aemtfrranean and come to anchor
as lttle island of Malta. This,
''gi small island is big in history.
gl- miles long and 8 miles wide.
47o70 to have been inhabited for
well 1Hired years before Christ, and
''aaGs # lives have been sacrificed in
,''7foas captures and defences. The
N' ''s' 10000 lives in an effort to
".- x II one time, and were defeat