The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-29
AN INCIDENT WHICH
 HELPED TO CEMENT
 NGLO-ANIERICAN PEACE


 Peace has it's victories no less than war and one of them occurred fifty eight years ago. come to-morrow, Dec. 30. 1856 On that day the Stars and Stripes were hauled down from the. good ship Reso1ute and the Union Jack was raised in place of the American bann err It was an occa--5 sion for great rejoicing in both coun- tries, for the Resolute had been a British ship, and was restored, after having been lost to its former own. CTS by the United States government. The incident, while not in itself Of great irnportance, had a profound ef- feet in cementing AngIo-Arnerican good feeling, and it was one of those
 f.hands across the seas movements which made it possible for Americans and E1nglishmen to celebrate this month the rounding out of A hun
 dred years of peace. The presenta@ ton of the Resoiute helped to make war impossible between Great Britain and the United States, just as the gift Of the Statue of Liberty to the Unit ed States by France had its effect in cenenting the relations between the worlds foremost republics!
 The British ship Resolute was one of fleet sent out by England in 1852 to search for Sir John FranIklins who with his companions had been lost in the Arctic regions. The Resolute | was caught Lll6 Ice O1L nAS1N1l10 1S51- and and had to be abandoned. More than year passed-4z4 days, to be exac act-when the American Wna1er George Henry, sailing in Davis Strait, came upon an abandoned yesr sell It proved to be the ResoIute, little the worse for wear. How the abandoned ship of Her MaJesty,s na- wy, long considered lost, had reached a point more than a thousand miles away from where her crew left her, without suffering any injury, is one of the mysteries of the sea While the salyors thus became the owners of
 the vessel, they rnagnanimo ously of fered to return her to Queen Victoria. President Pierce then requested Con gress to provide an appropriation for l lute and for repairing and equdppdng l the vessel which was then to be re- turned to England as the gift of the 1 United States. Forty thousand do1-
 lars were set aside for that purpose, l and in December of 1856 the Resolute with the American flag flying and Capt. Hartstein, of the United States 1 navy, arrived at Cowes. Queen Vie
 torias with the Prince Consort, the
 Prince of Wales, and other members
 of the royal family, visited the ship and gave a cordial welcome to the l American commander, who told Her
 Majesty that the ship was restored, mot only as evidence of friendly feeling for your country but as to- Fken of love. admiration and respect l to your Majesty personalIy Capt l I1artstein later visited the Queen at Osborne.
 The ResoIute was then taken to Portsmouth, and the Stars and Stripes l were hoisted all over the city, while 1 life for the American naval aficer be- tcame just one banquet after another. I On Dec. S0tla. when the formal trans I fer took place, the British ship Vic | tory hoisted the American flag and
 fired a salute of twenty-ore guns Then the British banner replaced the
 American acolors on the Resolute, and
 the tars on both ships appIauded wild I ly, the EnglishInen giving vocal ex- presston to their admiration of Amer
 lea, while the Yankee tars gave three I rousing cheers for England, for Queen l Victoria
 That the English people were great 1 1y impressed by the occasion was later l Demonstrated, when the ResoIufe l having become useless, she was or 1 dered by the Admiralty to be disman- tied Every English newspaper. aI- most without exception, protested against this sacri1ege,' and demand
 ed the preservation of the ResoIute l as the symbol of the new era of friendship between Britain and Amer
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