The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-11-03
|MPART|AL|TY IS
L|NCOLN'S ADVICE
AS To One Nation Dealing
With Another.
WISE COUNSEL OF A PATRIOT
Sees Nothing But Trouble
Where Noticeable Favor.
itism Is Shown.
FITS MArrEns JUST AT HAND
CFrom Washington's Farewell
Address

Address,
I'm the execution of such a plar
nothing is more essential than that
! permanent. inveterate antipathies
against particular nations and pas.
sionate attachments for others
should be excluded, and that. in
place OF them, just and amicable
feelings toward all should be Guilt
waited The nation which INDUCES
toward another an habitual hatred
or an habitual fondness is in some
degree a slave.
ut is a slave to its animosity or
to its affection. either of which is
sufficient to lead it astray from it's
duty and its interest. Antipathy in
one nation against another disposes
each more readily to offer insult and
injury to lay hold of slight causes
of umbrage. and to be naughty and
intractable when accidental or trif-
ling occasions of dispute occur.
Hence frequent collisions. obstinate,
envenomed and bloody contests. The
nation prompted by ill-will and re-
sentiment sometimes impels to war
the government. contrary to the best
calculations of policy. The govern
ment sometimes participates in the
national propensity and adopts
through passion what reason would
reject. AT other times it makes the
luminosity of the nation subservient
to projects and hostility instigated
by pride. ambition and other sinister
and pernicious motives The peace
often. sometimes perhaps the liber-
ty, of nations has been the victim.
so likewise "a passionate attach
ment of one nation for another pro-
duces variety of evils. Sympathy
for the favorite nation. facilitating
the illusion of an imaginary common
interest in cases where no real com
mon interest exists. and infusing
into one the enmities of the other, |
betrays the former into participa-
ton in the quarrels and wars of the
latter. without adequate inducement
or justification.
1t leads also to concessions to the |
favorite nation of privileges denied |
to others, which is apt doubly to in
jure the nation making the conces-
sions; by unnecessarily parting with |
what ought to have been retained; |
and by exciting Jealousy, ill-will and |
a disposition to retaliate in the par
ties from whom equal privileges are
withheld: and it gives to ambitious,
corrupted or deluded citizens (who
devote themselves TO the favorite ma
tom facility to betray or sacrifice
the interests of their own country,
without odium. sometimes even with
popularity gliding, with the APP
pearances of virtuous sense of OBJ
legation, a commendable Difference
FOR public opinion or laudable zeal
Tor public good the base of foolish
of ambition. corruption
or infatuation.
AS avenues to foreign influence
n innumerable ways. such attach
nents are particularly alarming to
he truly enlightened and independ-
mt Patriot. How many opportuni-
les do they afford to tamper with
Domestic factions. to practice the
lrts of seduction. to mislead public
opinion, to influence or awe the pub
ic councilsl Such an attachment Of
small or weak toward great and
nation dooms the former
o be the satellite of the latter.
Against the insidious wiles of
oreign influence. | conjure you to
'elieye me, fellow citizens. the jeal-
'usy OF free people ought to be
awake. since history and
experience prove that foreign inhu-
nee is one OF the most baneful foes
'f'republican government. But that
ealousy to be useful. must be inn