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Not Far From Right

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
January
Year
1881
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Spectator, om of Kglaod' m(M liboral, and at tb same time must capable nowspapers, mingles great praise of our rountry, ita abilities, resources, prosperity, ate., with toritmm whieli ia all the more keen and eutting becausc of its truthfulRepwJg our prooperity, the Bpmtatot says : "There never was such a financia] triumph in tho history oí a nation, or one which reflected greater credit on its authOn, than that by which the halfruined people of 1865, with their consols at 4S, and an irredcemable paper currency fluctuating _' per cent. in an hour, have in l'i the credit nf Croat liritain and could raise 000,000 tor n war. " It also recogclearly the rank taken liy this country as already the neoad of the white pow the world in point of population, and affiruis tliat American woikingmen obtain a living which, as fttm, clothiiig, lodgintc and t.dui:ition, is "di-tinctly ipcitiT than that of any large population in the past or present of the oM world." But here foltowí a oritiowm wliidi is juut. h reminds Americans that "niuch of their hriinniing protperity ia ponsbMod at a heavy moral price ; " that they delilicratcly "do less for the world involving selfsacrifiec than any gntt piople in it. óflleH it be the (Jerniaiis; " that " no nation il bonda looks upward to tho great rcpublu for aid, no struggling people turna to lier fleet with loogtnCi n" l't-rihing race so niuch H hoMf that the we.stom - -;l drive away the opprtüOr; ana that, to be brief, America is tboroughly selfish in lier policy of isolation, seekingand gaining her own hAppiMM hy indifferente to thal of the inhaliitanN ot the reniainder of the world. We umy say that Satan should not rebuke sin. That Kngland, with her hee upon helplcss icople and natioos in al portions of the globe, and particularly blind as sbe is ia not seeing the condition of the Irish people direetly under her nose, and flatly refusing as aho does to grant them any relief, is the last nation on earth which should criticise others respceting -eltishnoss and lack of liberality in spirit, yet that fact makes the accusation none the lcss truthful. Two wrong.s cannot uiake a right, and becauac Bngl-d does wrong is no reason we should do likewiso. The refusal of this cuuntry to aid tho L'ulians in their long continued and grand :e for indopendence, has of itsell been a blot upon the escutcheon of our nation. There are other things which can bo brought up agalnst us too, but that aloiic is sufficient for the present, ünteaja iMThaps, the Spectator would Hice to see thfl I nitod States demanding of' ringlanc iiisticc for the Irishmen. IIow would that -uit the critic?

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Ann Arbor Courier
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