Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1878 — England and Her Neighbors. [ARTICLE]

England and Her Neighbors.

Finally, I am selfish enough to hope, in the interests of my country, that in the approaching conference or congress we may have, and may use, an opportunity to acquire the good will of somebody. By somebody I mean some nation, and not merely some government. We have, 1 fear, for the moment profoundly alienated, if not exasperated. 80,000,000 of Russians. We have repelled, and, I fear, estranged, 20,000,000 of Christians in the Turkish empire. We seem to have passed rapidly, and not withont cause, into a like ill odor with its 20,000,000 of Mohammedans. It is not in France, Italy or Germany that we have made any conquest of affection, to make up for such great defaults. Nor is it in Austria, where every Slav is with the first 20,000,000, and every Magyar with the second. Where is all this to stop? Neither in

personal nor in national life will selfglorification supply the place of general respect or feed the hunger of the heart. Bich and strong we sre; but no people is rich enough or strong enough to disregard the priceless value of human sympathies. At the close of the year, should an account be taken, I trust we may find at our command a less meager Btore of them than we have had at its beginning.— Gladstone's paper in the Nineteenth Century.