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Show ENGLAND'S RIVAL. It was on April 30. 1803. that Sv leon I sold the territory known . Louisiana to the United States. ..rty 100 years ago. When the transa. t o was completed the first ronst 1 uu these memorable words. l na' lV-given lV-given England her rival.' He tyi and predicted the greatness 1 ' country. His motive was n"t n ( for the purchase money. Si--- f which the United States paid toi isiana, but to help to ra.se up a t . to England's power and to rier in the way of her aggra 7 V spirit of greed. He spoke pha ; f and as the event has proved, t .1 uth t m We are England's most f.trn u rival, and she cultivates us ass ly in consequence; she fear , she fawns upon us. Cecil ".J, jpon is an attestation of England s eagerness to be close to ' . Jo De fully understands that w e are 1 feared above all other people . no ; much politically, but m the w which awakens British trepidation the marrow of its bones, commm Here indeed we are pros-she pros-she knows it and quakes at the . pect. Our agricultural resoun es a vast that w alone can feed th . or our industrial resources are dev ' . beyond circulation. We h'1' it handle, and John Bull of i only too well. The recent P""- rf. the English steamship lines J n ; can capitalists has tvighten thoroughly. What is to become of "i , when American capital steps J ;t. under his nose, and buys up m a, est shipping enterprises, he the -ways considered himself Urd 1 is ocean, and in this, the domain 01 highest pride. America aggx pr intrudes with the stride of a f I t Surely there is a change cumin? S the face of the world. . dieted it a hundred years n()f tha generation will live to see some wide reaching results, of huh prophecy was the foreshadow in. |