The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-07-21

yards, but she allowed at least two
to be built in the national navy yard
Of France, and she supplied them with
supplies from her government arsen-
| al.
And England did more.
Through his Secretary Of State
Lincoln called England to account for
The seizure of the U. s. ship Chesa-
peak on the high seas bound from
New York to Portland, for the burn
| ing of the U. s. ship Roanoke off Ber-
muda, for the seizure on Lake Erie of
the ship Philo Parsons and the scut-
Ting of the Island Queen, the shoot
| ing of its engineer and the wounding
of its passengers, and he protested to
England against The invasion of the
territory of the United States by a
band of Southern sympathizers from
Canada, who rode across the border in
to Vermont, burned a portion Of St.
| Adams, looted Its homes, robbed it's
banks of $211,00 killed one of it's
citizens and wounded several more.
In singing language he told Eng
land that she violation neutrality by
permitting "the use of British ports
and British borders as base for fe-
lonius depredations against the citi-
zens of the United States" and he
wrote into history his diplomatic bat
tie against England for letting loose
the Alabama to prey upon our COM
merce, to destroy one hundred million
dollars worth of property, to cap
ture 81 of our vessels and drive our
flag from off the seas. No nation ev-
er inflicted upon another nation a
more damnable or more maddening
wrong than England inflicted upon
the United States in the Alabama out
rage.
But we didn't go to war. Lincoln
settled our troubles by negotiation
Just as the President is trying to do
today.
When Pierce was President the
British Minister in this country and
three of his Consuls violated our neu-
trality during the Crimean war. We
gave these representatives of Great
Britain their passports and sent them
home.
But we didn't go to war. Pierce
settled our troubles by negotiation
just as the President of the United
States is trying to do today.
When Van Buren, was President a
detachment of Canadian militia. dur
ing the internal troubles in Canada,
boarded the U. S. ship Carolina in the
American waters of Niagara. River,
killed an American member of the
crew, fired the ship and sent her adrift |
over Niagara Falls.
But we didn't go to war. Van Blu |
rem settled our troubles by negOtia- |
ton just as the President of the Unit |
ed States is trying to do today.
When Jefferson was President Eng
land seized hundreds of our ships and |
Napoleon hundreds more. From 1893 !
to 1907 historians say England and
France together captured 1,600 Amer |
lean vessels and $60,0O0,000 worth of |
American property. England COM
PEELED over 1000 American seamen to
serve against their will in the English !
navy, and Napoleon ordered the seiz-
ure and confiscation of American ships |
wherever found. Our shipping rotted |
at every French and British port, our
crews were cast into prison and left |
to die of abuse and neglect, The |
British ship Leopard fired upon the
American cruiser Chesapeak in |
American waters, killed and wounded |
several of our sailors, took three ma
tlve-born American citizens off the
Chesapeake and hanged one of them
in Halifax.
But we didn't go to war. Jefferson
settle our troubles by negotiation
lust as the President of the United
States is trying to do to-day.
When Adams was President France
preyed upon our commerce. She ex-
tended her seizure, searches and CON
tlscations to the very waters of the
United States themselves until she
had piled up in our State Department
charges of over 1900 violations of
neutrality's law. American Ambas-
sailors who sought to adjust these
wrongs were refused recognition and
openly insulted at the French court.
President Adams called Washington
out of retirement to head the army,
he created the Navy Department and
he built IL battleships.
Blu we didn't go to war. Adams
settled our troubles by negotiation
Just as the President of the United
States is trying to do to-day
When Washington was President,
and, neutrality" first declared, war
Europe, our ships dared not '
out out to sea, commerce was paralyz- {
ID and business depressed, American ,
passengers and American crews were
brown into priso-: and deprived of =
egal rights. Genet, the Minister I
rom France, fitted out privateers in
,ur harbors, flouted our Officials and
lied to rally this country to the sup !,
'ort of France in return for the help
france gave us in the Revolutionary
var. England and France seized 400 t
# our ships and confscated millions j
# dollars worth of our property, and 6
Up in Quebec Lord Dorchester prom ]
sed Canadian Indians the pleasure of
turning American homes and scalping
american citizens. 4
But we didn't go to war. WASH :
ngton settled our troubles by nego-
iation Just as the President of the
United States is trying to do today.
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