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Show regulars could defeat 150,000 such men as fought the confederates, This has caused the old veterans to offer Grand Army men to the country without hesitancy. There -are. Americans who would like to test that question. We hope the matter will never be settled on any bloody field. Personally we could not take the life even in battle of one Englishman for all Canada. We '. lave been treated magnificently magnificent-ly across the border. Once a Canadian Ca-nadian woman, at whose house w were entertained, washed our boots with her hands, and we never thought we would like to hunt her husband with a musket, still all the people are not of our opinion concerning con-cerning war. It must be remembered that the United States has thousands of young men trained in colleges to military tactics. It must not be forgotten that Gen. Sheridan said of the Eastern militia who are drilled drill-ed each year, that their military dicipline was fine and "all they needed was service." Sheridan had been where Americans "pushed "push-ed things." G. M. Hardy. To be continued. 1896. The question now at stake is the Venezuela boundary line between British Guiana and the former re- public. President Cleveland's offer of-fer to arbitrate the whole matter was refused by Lord Salisbury and the President s Message to Congress Con-gress made things look war-like. The President's language was temperate tem-perate but his firmness was equal to his avoirdupois. It is hard to estimate his weight as President; it is, however many tons. He said "There is no calamity which a nation na-tion can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor beneath which is shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness." It is well known that both houses of Congress Con-gress sustained the President. The members of the Commission appointed are satisfactory to all our citizens. The American people peo-ple generally, without party consideration, con-sideration, have sustained the action. It cannot be denied that the common people of - England respect re-spect the Great Republic, but English Eng-lish aristocrats fear the growth of our country, and when the slaveholders slave-holders rebellion was in force they supplied vast amounts of money which enabled our country's enemies ene-mies to purchase arms and munitions muni-tions of war. They let their cruisers cruis-ers upon our peaceful commerce and nearly swept our carrying trade from the seas, from which we have not yet recovered. England Eng-land paid in part for that shameful shame-ful work but she tried to destroy us and force slavery on men which a noble Englishman said, "Was the vilest which ever saw the sun." The United States has a history and it is full of heroic deeds and greatness. There may not be war but the outlook is not entirely plain and clear. It depends on the report re-port of the Commission to some extent The United States has gone to an extreme length in this matter and is determined to stand by the republican idea to the last inch and maintain freedom on this continent There has been some talk of war on both sides. Some British subjects sub-jects have said "80,000 English |