Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-16
HARRISON SETTLED TROUBLE
ny PEACEFUL NEGOTIATION.

By PEACEFUL NEGOT4AT1OH.
When Benjamin Harrison was presi-
dent the people of Chilli conceived
violent dislike to the United States for
our insistence upon neutrality during
the CHILEAN revolution. When this feel
ing was at it's height one junior officer
from the United States warship Balti-
more was killed outright in the streets
of Valparaiso and sixteen of our sailors
wounded, of whom one afterwards died.
In a message to congress OH January
%, 1892, supported by Secretary OF
State James G. Blaine, and on evidence
submitted by Fight Bob" Evans and
Winfield Scott Schley, President Har-
rison said this assault on our honor mad
its origin in the hostility to these men
as sailors of the United States wearing
the uniform of the government and not
in any individual act of personal ami
mostly" and that this nation must take
notice of the event as an infraction OF
it's rights and dignity and as an in
vasion of it's international rights"
But we didn't go to war. Harrison
settled our troubles by negotiation just
as the president of the United States is
trying to do today.
When Lincoln was president this
country's rights were violated on every
Spain were guilty of such fragrant vio-
laticns that Secretary of State Seward
advanced a plan to go to war with all
of them at one and the same time.
France used every possible influence
short of open war to inJure us. she
not only permitted the building or Con-
federate vessels in private shipyards
bug she allowed at least two to be
built in the national navy yard of
France and she supplied them with
supplies from her government arsenal.
And England did more.
Through his secretary of state Lin
coin called England to account for the
seizure Of the United States ship Chesa-
apeake on the high seas bound from
New York to Portland, for the burning
of the United States ship Roanoke off
Bermuda, for the seizure on Lake Erie
of the ship Philo Parsons and the scut-
thing of the Island Queen, the shooting
of it's engineer and the wounding of its
passengers; and he protested to Eng
land against the invasion of the terri
tory of the United States by a band
of southern sympathizers from Canada
who rode across the border into YER
mont, burned a portion of st. Adams,
looted its homes, robbed its banks of
S21I 900, killed one Of its citizens ana
wounded several more. III SllHSllS
language he told England that she vio-
lated neutrality by permitting 1.-The use
of British ports and British borders as
a base for felonious depredations
against the citizens of the united
States" and he wrote into history his
diplomatic battle against England Tor
letting loose the Alabama to prey upon
our commerce, to destroy one hundred
million dollars worth of property, to
capture eighty of our vessels and
drive our flag from off the seas NO
nation ever inflicted upon another ma
ton q more damnable or more madden
ing wrong than England inflicted upon
the United States in the Alabama out
rage.
LINCOLN SETTLED TROUBLES
ny PEACEFUL. NEGOTIATIONS.
But we didn't go to wa. Lincoln
settled our troubles by negotiations just
as the president is trying to do today.
When Pierce was president the Brit
ism minister in this country and three
of his consuls violated our neutrality
during the Crimean war. We gave these
representatives of Great Britain their