are to make for peace with honor or for humiliation and perpetual strife, are questions that do not belong to party—are not to be wrought into platforms, decided by majorities, or shouted over by stump orators.

At home, the flag hangs idly from many a staff, and serves to mark many a mean and ignoble thing. We often pass it by without regard. It is when it rises, solitary and brilliant, against some far-off foreign sky, that it touches the heart of the American wanderer with a new emotion, and a larger sense of all it stands for. It is then he "smiles to see its splendor fly." It is then he feels of how much account it is, that whereever it is seen among the nations of the earth, whereever it floats on any sea or shore, it should still remain, as Massachusetts has said before, "full high advanced, not a stripe erased, nor a single star obscured."

The views I have tried to present address themselves with especial force to you and the class you belong to. They appeal to the thoughtful men of America: those who do not traffic or haberdash in the public welfare; who value not merely their country's material prosperity, but its fame and example everywhere; who know that it is not all of national life to live or to grow, and that with governments, as with men, there are some deaths that are better than some lives.

It is in your ranks that the country must find those in whose hands this most delicate and difficult branch of its service shall be left. Your voices, your pens, your influence, your efforts, must set forth and maintain the principles upon which it ought to be carried on. If you and such as you do not heed and care for them, they must be unheeded and uncared for, now and always.

VIII

ADDRESS

DELIVERED AT THE MANSION HOUSE, LONDON, JAN. 24, 1889, AT THE FAREWELL BANQUET TO

EDWARD J. PHELPS

FAREWELL TO ENGLAND

MY LORD MAYOR, MY LORDS, AND GENTLEMEN,-I am sure you will not be surprised to be told that the poor words at my command do not enable me to respond adequately to your most kind greeting, nor to the too-flattering words which have fallen from my friend the Lord Mayor, and from my distinguished friend the Lord Chancellor. But you will do me the justice to believe that my feelings are not the less sincere and hearty if I cannot put them into language. I am under a very great obligation to your lordship, not merely for the honor of meeting this evening an assembly more distinguished, I apprehend, than it appears to me has often assembled under one roof, but especially for the opportunity of meeting under such pleasant circumstances so many of those to whom I have become so warmly attached, and from whom I am so sorry to part. It is rather a pleasant coincidence to me that about the first hospitality that was offered to me after my arrival in England came from my friend the Lord Mayor, who was at the time one of the Sheriffs of London. I hope it is no disparagement to my countrymen to say that, under existing circumstances, the first place that I felt it my duty to visit was the Old Bailey Criminal Court. I had there the pleasure of