Year: 1874

one sentence which struck me very much. He was
returned, l believe, by the Democratic party
- laughterl or. at any rate, he was
the favorite Of the Democratic party. 90


suppose he spoke from their point OF


view. But in describing what no hoped would DE


their future policy, he described, believe. the pocy


that every patriot favors-be he Democratic or he-


publican-throughout your great country, and ne


described it by saying that the policy was peace Do


tween the sections, peace between the races. zap


plausel Now may add ono other word-peace be-


tween you and IGreat applausel Not on'y


between the races. but friendship among oil En-
glish- speaking communities


Now, took an intense interest in your war. l


earnestly desired that the Rebellion should be put


down, not merely because believed it was for the


good of your country but for the good OF civiliza


ton, and the good of England. and the good OF al


countries that the Union should be preserved; not


merely. too because hated Slavery. and lonGed 10


sec it abolished, but because had other asplra-


ton so deep-seated ~ the desire for an Anglo.
American alliance and while Slavery existed thi'
alliance was made almost impossible Hardly any


of the entente cordide could exist when there was


disagreement in principles between the two Uov-


ernments. Now let me say word or two upon the


alliance because believe great many OF you de


sire it as much as / do; and | believe IL iih'
/ portant to define what we believe about
it, At any rate, l will tell you what mean
by it, and why SO earnestly desire it, III ~ no1


from feeling of sefintcrost, or from feeling ior
the commercial interests Of my country. Ii Is not


from feeling of fear-not even fear OF yonr power
full country, however great it may be. IL IL not


from fear of between and you, il by that the


meaning appear of your defeating us, that mas


caused me to have that feeling so strong IN


~


you, and You also have fear of war


with us. Not because either of us can foretel the


defeat of either for who is the man bold enough to


say that if tho alliance of these two countries IN


heriling a common bravery which has come down


from their common ancestors and inheriing their


endurance and determinaion-who can say, i re-


peat with all their resources and iall their courage


who would come out cOnquerOrf But L lear


with you because it would be civil war;


and you know what civil war means War bet"cen


US and you would merely bo civil war. 1t Is not


merely that we are kinsmen by our common


ancestors, but that knship has been constantly


renewing. There are thousands upon thousands OF
men in almost every one of your cities that have
their relations in our country and there is scarcely
any man of towns and villages that
has not got his kinsmcn here And !
can recollect when I was addressing
my constituents at the time Of that civil war. OF
catching this up and saying. This is not foreign
country. for who Of you present has rot got ms
relations in Americai" and almost half OF tho
audience jumped up. corrected ny self at fist by
saving il was not fear Of war. Bat l say we
60 fear civil war between you and u.s. IL is not
calculation Of sclf-ntercst or nero fear OF
war that has Induced that strong desire
with us; it is tho belief that you and
we together-that your Government and our Gov
ernment-yOur commonwealth and our common
wealth-may together influence the world, NAV to-
gether lead the Christian nations in the path Of pro-
greSs and together teach the weaker nations TO fol-
low in their paCh. IApplause Now do not
say that this is Wild sentiment, that
these are unmeanls phrases. or threat to
other nations. claim TO b3 practical politician.
If have had any success whatever III
political life il is because tried to keep fast hold
Of practical matters. and it il just because am
practical politician that earnestly desire that you
and we together may help each other i'll so putting
into practice the same principles of freedom and
order that by tho power of our success we may in
duce other nations To follow our example, and so
persuade other people thai thcy may persuade. nay,
force other governments to follow that example,
aud disband those strong armies which keep back
civilization and do indeed threaten the world.





Geneva. don't know whether that ls popular
thing to talk about here. daughter and applau5cl
believe YOU think you didn't get half enough
money. Laughter 1t is not at present
very popular in our country. [Laughter.l
You know when pays money
that he thinks he ought not to pay he feels worse
probably than who expected To get more; but
may say here what have never shrunk from say
ing in England either in Parliament out OF IT, that


struggled hard to aid tho arbitration, and that when
there seemed possibility tha it might fall of on
account of some things that were said here that L
will not alludc to. [Laughterl clung to it deter
mined if possible that it should go on, and will tell
You Just the simple reason why did so Will
not go into the old question of the claims
or how far you right and we
were wrong. and how far you were
mistaken in thinking We were, 80 as you sup
posed. [Laughter.l 1t was case in which lawyers
could on each side talk indefinitely, but
one reason to which / allude tonight
was that was very much struck by
description which appeared in and seemed to
meet with the approval of of your princpa
papers, 1t was written by that great European
statesman, CASTELAR,, who considered arbitration
:. sublime humiliation" Now / am proud of
that Sublime humiliation" l do not know
that l should be proud of it II
I thought it was humiliation al
all, but had no fear whatever but that history
would pass proper verdict. l believe that IN
both our countries it will very speedily be ap-
proved, although not at this moment. lawsuit
is better than fsticuiis on any occasion.


But the ground on which struggled was this, that
having that dispute between us to arbitrate ana
having kept that arbitration going until we came
to the decision, it would be almost impossible
for anybody, any government on either side how
ever much 1t may wish it. however powerful any
mischief workers on either side may be it will be