No.hing should be allowed to carry us into precipitate or intemperate action. Let us wait patiently to learn the right and then perform it courageously and with steadfastness. Ihe spirit of our national administration in this serious business deserves our confidence. There need be no fear that the firm maintenance of its position will result in war."

'Watchman' (Baptist): "The appointment ot' a commission to determiae the rights of Venezuela, upon the basis of alt the facts attainable, was within our province, and might have furnithed the ground of a fresh repre sentation to the British Government. That commission might have been international in its composition, but the weak point in the President's Message is that he not only assumes that Great Britain is wrong, and asks for a com mission to ratify that judgment, but threatens Great Britain with war if the decision of that commission is not acceded to by the British Government. Thai"threat was entirely un called for, against all recognised diplomatic usages, and calculated to embitter the relations of the two countries, so as to render the amioable adjustment of thejr differences much more difficult. The circumstances did not call for bluster and threatening!". 