Show A TIME ron FOR EVERYTHING ER People are talking a good deal about Abraham Lincoln these days an and they not nol better employ their time But nUl there Is one ono lesson In the tho career jot of of that t remarkable man man which m may 1 meed a n. little special examination That Thal ps isas his recognition of ot tho fact tact that athIng athing a u thing ma may be bo right arid and proper and yet that a wrong time for Its expresion ision ion sion may bo be chosen Ono One gets a a. pretty clear evidence of ot that In the case of ot Mason and Slidell I commissioners from tho the Cont Conf states o to to tho the court of at Great Britain at tb end of at 1861 I Captain Charles Wilkes of ot the United States na navy Intercepted the Trent an on English English vessel having the commissioners on board and and- took them off He Ho knew what was their mission and ho bo had a stronger and bett better r armed vessel than tho the Trent There was no use of ot the Englishmen refusing him So Mason and were vero carried to Fort Warren at Boston Boston Bos- Bos ton Imprisoned there thero and Captain Wilkes was wan feted by the tho Boston folk talk cheered to the echo by loyal people all over tho the North and even thanked by action of ot congress It was a blow at the young oun confederacy and a dc- dc fiance flanco of or England And there thero was plenty of British anti spirit yet et l left leftover leftover rt over from tram Revolutionary days das and Of r I 2 L or the second war X J 3 I n gg I t fi se cnn cr necessary step to an invasion from the North was as taken A A demand was wa made on the tho United States government government govern govern- ment for the surrender of the tw two tw commissioners who had hod been taken by force from an nn En English vessel To use the demand was to In- In volvo olvo tho the country In a war with England England Eng- Eng iland land at a n time when all the power of at tile i-tile the republic would certain be bo needed t to suppress the rebellion In states tates The temper of tho the people was I evident evident enough They were willing to o light t England and yet they didn't see ee difficulties of the case the tho Imp Im- Im p of ot carrying on that war In addition to the very great conflict already already al- al ready Y under way In the tho nation L Colonel Dan C. C Loftus submits to The Republican an old scrap book In InI I 1 which is n a very Interesting article recounting re- re ej e- e counting the incidents of that thrilling thrilling j ling time Secretary Seward had seven days t ti 1 jl i reply to the ultimatum of at Great Glent lInt lInt- I aln Ho took his time searched every record for precedents and the law Jaw of ot tho the case and finally formulated a note j I which saved the tho nation from a war I Ij is fl j I certainly could not havo have afforded afforded- 1 from which It could not have com corn lout out successfully Ho contended that j tho Trent Treat was engaged In a service unfriendly to the tho United States when l tr carried those thoo commissioners from froman an ran enemy of ot the United States But i hE conceded that Captain Wm Wilkes es ex- ex Deeded his authority when he made mad madej i j himself Judge in the tho matter and took the commissioners away lie IIo should In n the opinion of or Secretary SeWall i have taken taleen the Trent Into port and let the tho matter b be tried before an In International In tribunal Sinco Sindo o that had bad piot been done and yet without raced raced- jing an inch from rom tho the safe position of ot the the United States th the secretary pr- pr pr- pr i posed to surrender and Slidell to tu the British at Boston Boston or or to a ship i ent b by the them to Boston harbor Tho The effect of it was that the ancient claim of or Great Britain that she had a aright aright right of ot search earch and ond seizure could get st no indorsement from tram the tho republic Iwas I I- was was a mO most t a ablo Jo escape from a threat- threat inning dilemma Mason and Slidell were t taken to the British ship and resumed their Interrupted in interrupted In- In Journey to England where the they nought to get that nation to recI rec- rec I at least the belligerent rl rights of or ortho ho tho tho Southern confederacy It was n n. blow to the enthusiasm I fm of the people a and nd d thousands thousand'S round roundly 1 abused Lincoln for tor hip hiv action in the matter Yet he WOH OK right Ho woul have destroyed his nation b by any other course courso lit II could not havo survived pd d a a. war with l England when his l o n country y wa was divided There Is a D. little lesson leson In it tt for tor us usI I of ot Utah Some times a majot- majot sty fly of ot citizens declare for tor a n. certain Jaw The They are arc honest and sincere j And An yet it may not be the best thing thinS for nr th them m. m Their worst friends s will wUl fan fan their enthusiasm and to try to mal mako e Selfish uso uto of ot it Their best friends will prevent the enactment of harmful legislation Their best friends will concede that t 3 the thing aS asked ed for tor it J Cold facts faCU good gOOl but ma may bo be untimely will Sul guide e tho the action of ot men in authority England would You see sec a war with administration have havo been charged to the tion and tion-and and properly rho Tho people wh VhO hero shouted for 01 Wilkes c rind and made modo a of ot him would not have been punished under tinder President so much as would the action whoso whose authority that Injudicious wits was accomplished hed slow better to gb go Somo Some times it Is in iii done bo be Even a right thing thinS may tho the wrong time tImo for or tho the ultimate goodof good goodof OO of all |