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WHAT WE OWE SPAIN.
MANY ACTS OF FRIENDSHIP DUR
ING WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE.
How She Behaved Towards Us in the
Stirring Days of the Birth
of «old Glory.”
[Extract from speech delivered at Fan
uil Hall, Boston, in 1859, by George
Sumner, a brother of Chas. Sumner.]
“But it was not i'rance alone which
came to our aid duaring that summer
of 1776. One of those brave men who
were the creators of the naval glory of
our country, Captain John Lee, of
Marblehead, cruising under a commus
sion from congress, having taken and
sent home five valuable prizes, and,
finding it necessary to refit and obtain
supplies and munitions of war, enter
ed the port of Bilboa, Spain. The cap
tain of two of his prizes and a part of
their orews were on board, These of
ficers immediately protested against
their capture, and had Captain Lee ar
rested on the charge of piracy. The
local authorities sent the documents of
the case to Madrid, together witn the
commission granted by this new and
unknown power. Here was a critical
juucture in our affairs. On the decis
ion of the Spanish ministry depended,
not alone the fate Captain ILee, but
whether some of the most important
ports in Kurope should be opened or
closed to onr cruisers and privateers,
The English minister in Spain brought
all his influence to bear against us. Al
this moment the declaration of the
Fourth of July reached Madrid. The
complaint against Captain Lee was dis
missed ; supplies for his ship and aid in
repairing were furnished, and public
declaration made that in Spanish
ports the new flag of America was as
free and welcome as the old and
haugity flag of England.
“This open act of friendship. had
been preceded by another., On the
27th of June, 1776, the Spanish minis
ter of foreign affairs sent to Count
Arranda, ambassador of Spain, in Par
is, 1,090,000 francs, as a free gift for
the American colonies] (I have seen
the dispatch enclosing this dratt); and
on August 11 this money was paid over
to the agent with whom Silas Deane
and Arthur Lee, as delegates of con
gress, were in treaty for the shipment
aris aud supplies.
“But this was not all. Cargoes of
military stores were sent to us from
Bilboa. Then the hint was given that
3,000 barrels of powder stored at New
Orleans were at our service; the port
at Havana was open to us on the same
terms as to France, and the further
hint given that if an American ship
would look 1n there. occasionally it
would find the door of a certain maga
zine open, and something in it useful
to the colonies,
“Nor was this the end of Spanish fa
vors. Blankets for ten regiments
were sent as a present to congress
through John Langdon, of Ports
mouth; ship-loads of stores were de
spatched through the house of Gardo
qui, at Madrid, as minister of the new
states, without any provision being
made by congress for money to pay
even his house rent. Another gift of
$150,000 was made to him for us.
‘*iore yet., Though the declaration
in regard to Captain Lee was the ear
liest act of recognition by any power
except France, Spain abstained from
making a treaty with our minister, for
the very excellent reason that to do so
would have been tantamount to a de
claration of war against England, for
which she was not prepared. Buu the
eminent man who, on February 19,
1777, took the reins of power, Flori
da Blanco, was not ddle. He immedi
ately commenced building new ships
and arming those already built, and,
in the spring of '79, thirty-six ships of
the line, mounting more guns than any
fleet she ever had, being ready for sea,
she declared war against England.
This immense fleet, of which seven
were three-deckeérs of 100 to 200 guns
(our solitary three-decker, the Penn
sylvania, has never yet got to sea),
joined the Krench fleet, sailed to at
tack the common enemy, and during
that and the succeeding year inter
cepted the troops and supplies which
had been sent to aid in our conquest.
“Florida Blanco did not stop here,
but while engaged in his naval prepar
ations made a treaty with the Emperor
of Morocco which closed his ports to
the English. He also opened relations
with Hyder Ali in India, and fomented
war which that powertul prince main
tained - against England. Benjamin
Rush, writing shortly after to Gen
eral Gates, says:
** ‘Heaven prosper our allies! Hyder
der Ali is the standing toast at my
table .’
“Florida Blanco did not rest content
with this, but used all the wiles of di
plomacy and the force of ®pain to
make difliculties for England in every
part of the giobe. When we are dis
posed to stretch the hand of
covetousaness toward any possession of
now weakened Spain let us remember
the belping hand she gave us in our
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But the labors of Spain did not end
with this England, driven to desper
ation, used all her arts to draw the
northern powers into her alliance, and
with Russia succeeeded so well that
orders were issued to fit out fifteen
ships of the line at Cronstadt, and the
intimation was given by the Empress
Catherine to Sir James Harris, after
wards Lord Maimesbury, that this
fleet would soon be ready to aid Eng
land in her contest. British ministers
aunounced the joyful fact, and one of
their journals, even before the ice was
open in the Baltic, declared that vhe
Russian fleet had already arrived at
| Plymouth,
“In one week all this was changed,
and there suddenly appeared in the
spring of 1780 the important declara
' gion of Russia that led to the armed
neutrality, which has called by writers
’()n international law ‘the character of
liberty of the seas.” By this the em
press declared that her fleet was fitted
out, not to aid England, but to main
tain the principles that free ships
make free goods—that the neutral flag
covers enemies’ property—and that no
blockade made merel by the London
Gazette would be recogmzed as valid.
‘““John Adams, then minister at The
Hague, saw at once the whole force of
this step, and a dispatch to congress
said: ‘A declaration of war against
England on the part of Russia could
not have been more decisive:’ and
again, ‘l'he pretended pre-eminence of
the British flag is now destroyed. Rus
‘sia will now never take part with Eng
land, and all the maritime powers
must either remain neutral or join
against her.
‘ **ln the house of lords a wail of de
‘sp:air was sent up. ‘I shudder, said
‘the Karl of Shelburne,‘when I think of
this Russian manifesto. By it the inde
pendence of America is consummat
ed:’ and Lord Camden declared that
‘the queen of the seas was deposed, and
herscepter fallen !
“Desperate efforts were made by
British miuisters to meet the emer
gency. Appeals were addressed to
Denmark and Sweden, but without ef
fect; and during this year, 1780, Swe
den, Denmark and Holland joined in
the league with Russia, which was in
its effect aleague of hostilivty against
England., Holland also soon joined in
the war; so that on one side stood
Engiand solitary and alone—on the
other, using all their forces against
her, the United States, France, Spain,
Hyder Ali, Holland; while all the
northern powers were armed nominal
ly neutral, but really hostile to her
autocratic pretensions.
“One of our wisest statesmen, John
Adams, exclaimed a few years later:
‘We owe the blessings of peace not to
the causes assigned,jbut to the armed
neatrality.,” And who was the real au
thor of the armed neutrality! Who
conceived that act, and who, by his in
genuity and indefatigable persever
ance, led Russia and with her northern
powers to adopt it? Florida Blanco,
the minister of Spain. And to him and
his country I here render the honor,
with a'l the more pleasure that this
has not usually been done, and thav
she documents whieh establish their
claim to it are 1n my possession.
“For such aid as the armed neutrali
ty gave us again we have to thank
sSpain,”’
A Lucky Shot,
One of the stcr ¢s that tue late James
Payn liked most ¢+ tell mas about what
he called an American duel, wherein
two duellists, with one sec nd, met with
in doors and drew lots to decide which
should shoot himself, A, was the ua
lucky man, and without a word, he re
tired into the pnext apartment to carry
out the purpose of self-destruction. B.
and the second, both very much moved
by the ta gedy of the situation remain
ed in liscening attitudes. At last the
pistol was heard; they shuddered with
emotion and remorse, when suddenly in
rushed the supposed dead man, triumph
antiy exclaiming, **Missed, by heavens!”
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DRUNK ON FROZEN ANTS.
sad Plight of a Lot of Lumbermen Who
Could Get Nothing to Drink,
The ownership and management of
Willimantic and three or four adjoining
towanships in Maine is vested 10 a Con
necticut thiead company, which has al
ready cut off thousauds of acres of white
birch and converted the white sapwood
into spools. The company not only owns
the land and the mills, but it is sole pro
prietor of every store, boarding house
and brush or log shanty for 10 miles
around, By this means the corporation
is enabled to regulate the conducs of its
employes and count on getting its work
done in time to meet all orders. Until
these measures were taken the hands
about the mill were in the habit of tak
ing too much liquor at tirses when they
should have been at work, thereby caus
ing great expense and delay. Under
the new rules no liquor can be brought
into the township without the consent
of the superintendent, and if a man ar
rives there in an intoxicated condition
and looks for work he wastes his endeav
ors. No matter how valuable an em
plove may be to the company his useful
ness is al an end as soon as he dallies
with the forbidden cup.
After more than two years of indu-stri
ous and monoton us sobriety a good
part of the mod:1 eolony is just recover
ing from a protracted and highly inflam
mitory debauch, Symptoms of alcohoi
ic excitement weie first noticed amoug
the ‘*bolter,” a cr'w of men who cut the
round timbers into boards, waich are
afterwards sawed in square spool bars
For a day or two the men acted strauge
ly, singing aopd laughing abont their
work and making a great deal of need
less distutbance. They los. their appe
tite for tood, going all day without tast
ing a mouthful. Later their eyes grew
bloodshot, they sbook as if afflicted with
palsy, and then collapsed eutirely, so
they had vo be put vo bed.
A pbysician who was called to see the
pat ents had no hesitation in saying they
were all drank, though some of the
sy.aptoms did not indicate alcoholism.
I'he pulse was slower and more regular
than in cases of drunkenness, while the
pupils of their eyes were enlarged to
twice their original dimensiin. The
vooms of all the men were searched for
lignor, and every newcomer was closely
questioned, but nobody could throw any
light upon the mystery. The wen re
mained in a semi-co:natose state for sev
eral days, returning to their senses and
rations atter repeated doses of bromide
and chloral hydrate had been administer
ed. KEvery victim denied that he had ta
ken any liquor. When asked to account
for theirillness they said they believed it
was brought on from eating large quan
tities of the great brown and red ants
which they found in the hollow butts of
the trees. These insects are well known
io all lumber camps, where Frenchmen
and others with a taste for sharp acids
eat them freely, winnowing them from
sawdust and chewing them as they
would radishes, or mixing them with
molasses and using them as a substitute
for cranberry sance, These ants barrow
ho nes for themselves in the trunks of
aged trees. During the summer they
roam freely in the woods, but at the ap
proach of cold weather they return to
winter quarters, where they asparently
freeze up stiff and remain unul thawed
outin the spring. As their bodies are
strongly impregnated with acid the
woodsmen eat them greedily, preferring
the taste of frozeu ants to cranberry or
avple sauce.
It is now believed that the workmen
were falsely accused of drunkenness.
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Truth is might—that is, it's mighty
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Woman is nearest perfection when
most womanly. i
It is a wise man that doesn’t speak his
own wisdom.
Only about one third of what a man
positively knows is true,
Many a would-be-poker player makes
a stake in his calling.
The less honor a man has the more
sensitive he is on the subject,
A bird in the bush is worth the pre
vailing price at the milliner’'s,
Gents who wear pants carry canes,
Gentlemen who wear trousers carry
walking sticks.
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Sinmming loar,
Dr. Brougliton, the “‘Parkbuist of At
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on hand for every person who will
2o out and see what he saw recently
during a slamming tour, The doc
tor concludes that it is not quite so
tar from Atlanta to the bad place as Sam
Jones said it was, Indeed, Dr. Brough
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parts of Atlanta the lid of the cauldron
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probabilities are that Atlaata is na
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a matter of doubt if the best means to
ihat end is to describe from the pulpit,
10 decont and refined church-goers, the
orgies and sins committed in the pur
lieus of the city. Such discourses do not
raise up the fallen creatures described ;
but do they not rather smirch the pure
minds which listen to them?
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Texas farmers have been holding, ac
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be devoted to corn, feed stuff and to
bacco,” South Carolina will be left
with the unseasonable bag of lint to
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same degree of common sense. Texas
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can, If four cents cotton 15 bad for
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