action greater independence. ItHaein
unlikely however, that any change in
the Presidential term will be made
unless miiiid unexpected event should
stir into action a thought that ia now
of a theoretical rather than a practical
rant."
W. It. HuMalU on tlie President's Heu(
From Hiirper'a Weekly..
In commoti with the rent of the
American people I wan greatly stirred
the other day in reading the Presi-
dent a message concerning the en
ezuela boundary dispute. I did not
like hi having lour relative pronouns
in one sentence towards the clone of
hit tnenNage, and upon the whole the
literature struck me as turgid and
clumsy-but I accounted for that by
the excitement he must have been in
when he wrote it, and I felt a reapon
aive thrill, which I took to be a pat
riotic emotion as I read it. I recalled
the behavior of several disagreeable
Knglish people I had met at different
times ; I felt a resurgence of the indig
nation which the treacherous attitude
of tireat I'.ritain during our civil war
roused in us all; I remembered the in
Juries done us by that power during
our colonial and revolutionary period:
and I was glad that we were about to
extirpate, extinguish, and exterminate
her in behalf of a sister republic on
the northwest or the northeast shoulder
of the South American continent.
have not a map, by me, but the precise
geographical position of enezuela
does not matter, and it never did.
