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Show Illy W. U. Tolograph.J JAMES AXTHOSYFHOl'PE. New York, 16. At the bacquct given to James Anthony Froude, the great English historian, last evening, the distinguished guest made a short speech, in wbiuh, niter alluding pleasantly pleas-antly to the friendly reception he had mot with, and returning his thanks for the honor done him, he spoke of the natural friendship which exists between England and America- I insist, bo said, that Kogland and America do not stand to one another as foreign nations, foreign the sence that France, or Russia, is foreign to us both. Politically seperate arc may be, but we cannot shake off our relntiooship. Sprung from a common stock, with a common history, common language, common laws, charged as we both are by Providence with the carrying out of that grand principle of ordered liberty on which, as we believe, the amelioration ameliora-tion of mankind depends, we may be rivals, but we are, rivals only as to which of us shall represent thse principles prin-ciples most wisely and most effectively. We may quarrel, and when wo quarrel it will be with the peculiar bitterness which distinguishes family disputes, k tUia xj,.rt onrimnns ia. Clf it- Self, an evidence of the closeness close-ness of the tie which biod us. For the sting rises from the supposed absence of the special good will which each of us conceives wc havo the right co look for from tho other. Referring to the subject of Ireland, he said, America had a special interest in it and a special rii;ht to express an opinion, opin-ion, owing to the peculiar relations between be-tween Ireland and America, which are the outgrowth of more than ono bun-1 dred years immigration to America of all classes of tho Irish people. For more than three and a half centuries I Englishmen had sought in vain for the cause and remedy of Irish discontent. , Wise men have said that the plant has never grown that can heal tho wound, 1 but though undiscovered in the old hemisphere, he believed it might be found in tho new. It ia that plant which I have come in search of.- I believe be-lieve it to be American opinion. We are at our own wits end. If America i will counsel England what to do that I she has left undone, what wrong she yet can redress that Ireland may justly , complain of, England, I am certain, 1 will listen, respectfully, cordially, great-fully. great-fully. If, on the other hand, a time 19 ever to come when political agitation is to end in Ireland, when the Celt and Saxon, Protestant and Catholic are to live side by side in peaco and quiet- , ness, it will be when America tells the Irish they have no longer a grievance which legislation can redress, and that they must depend for their future prosperity pros-perity on their industry. |
