The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-06-14

ATOm Gnglan0 OF rebel war vessels
which had been built in England for
the Confederacy, he wrote:
Barring the conduct of foreign
powers, / should say the rebellion
would collapse before New Years, but
the pestilent malignity of the English
and the insidious craft of Napoleon
are not yet exhausted.
And two days later, referring to
the said subject, Mr.. Adams sent to
Lord Russell his ever memorable dis
patch: 1t would be superfluous in me
to point out to your lordship that this
is war
No Tribute to England.
Am I not justified by the mere
statement of the foregoing historical
truths in protesting against this
great national festivity being turned
into an obsequious and fulsome trib-
ute to Great Britain? Let us not be
misled by twaddle about the tongue
OF Shakespeare and of Bacon or the
essential unity of the two great
branches of the English people.
Great Britain now in our day of
strength seeks our alliance and claims
credit for our position of pre-emin-
ence in the affairs of the world. She
does not deny her misdeeds of the
past-she simply attempts to ignore
them. A serious work has been pub
lished in which Benedict Arnold has
been pronounced a patriot and mar
tyr. The genius of great poet has
attempted to palliate and defend the
awful treachery of Judas But for
these shameless deeds of the past
England sits today and will forever
SIT in the pillory of worlds execra-
ton and no honest man will plead her
defense. By stealth and false pre-
tence, by hypocritical protestations
OF lrrepressible love for everything
American she is now endeavoring to
annex to herself a large share of the
good will and prestige which we have
won against her every effort in the
esteem of all the nations of the world.
she has no more right to a title of
that priceless national possession than
she had to the farms and mines of
the gallant Beers of the Transvaal,
or to the soil of Venezuela when
Grover Cleveland drew the dead line
and babe her take no farther step.
The spirit that blazed from the great
soul of that great President is not
dead and although Andrew Jackson
sleeps beneath the sod of the land
from which a century ago he drove
the banner of st. George the heart of
America is as sound today, her pride
as keen, her sons as loyal and as true
as when on that bleak winter morn
their rifles cracked in victory defend
Ing flag and home. Let us be honest
with ourselves and loyal to the peo-
pies which have been our friends. Re-
ce1ve with dignity and self-respect
the representatives of that Power
whose defeat and humiliation we
shall recall, but hail with loud and
warm acclaim the men who come
from the generous nations, which have
been true to us in all our national
hfe-the countrymen of Lafayette and
Rochambeau, of Koscuisko and Pu-
laski, of De Kalb, the German, and
Alexander, the Gar For my own
part remembering the pathetic isola-
ton in which my country stood half
century ago, l would greet the rep
resentative of George the Fifth with
cold and formal ceremony, and reach
warm and grateful grasp to him
who bears the greetings of the Auto
crat of all the Russias-recalling the
words of an American-patriot as well
as poet.
Bleak are our shores with the
blasts of December,
Fettered and chill is the rivulet's
flow,
Throbbing and warm are the hearts
that remember
Who was our friend when the world
was our foe"