534 . RELATIONS BETWEEN UNITED STATES AND GEEMANY. 



again to the initiative of our Emporer, took an honorable position, 

 and in a competitive exhibit of industrial arts, particularly in the 

 scientific field, obtained the unqualified and freely bestowed appro- 

 bation not only of our American hosts, but also of all other rivals. 

 We again recognized where our strength lies. May we never for- 

 get it ! 



To the youthful culture of America there was contributed during 

 the past year, likewise through a noble impulse of our Emperor, 

 a fresh memorial of our renewer and second founder, King Frederick 

 the Great, whose memorial day we celebrate together with this anni- 

 versary of our Emperor's birth. The statue of the great king lias 

 been set up in the capital city of that Union toward which, at the time 

 of its formation, he evinced deep interest and a friendly appreciation. 



The fact that there are men who, as has been shown in this connec- 

 tion, think it necessary to find fault with everything, and, unfortu- 

 nately, others to whose low and hardly human intelligence nothing 

 seems worthy of esteem, shoidd not trouble us. All this vanishes be- 

 fore the manly words with which the clear, wide-seeing, and nobly 

 thinking President of the United States Avelcomed the gift of our 

 Emperor. Seldom, indeed, has the great general, the provident 

 statesman, the friend of science, and the true philosopher on the 

 throne — Frederick the only — received so just a valuation as that from 

 Theodore Roosevelt, the President of the great American Republic. 



It seems appropriate on this occasion to recall the attitude of Fred- 

 erick toward the young assemblage of States across the ocean whose 

 waters afford an unimpeded passage to our own shores, and to asso- 

 ciate with it the attitude of modern Germany toward the United 

 States of to-day. This may be regarded as a legacy of the King, our 

 renewer, reaching down as far as our own times, when thousands of 

 hands have grasped each other with friendly 2:)ressure from across the 

 sea. 



George Bancroft," the former ambassador of the United States at 

 the court of Berlin, Friedrich Kapp,'' and, recently, A. Pfister,*' who 

 have drawn so exhaustively from the archives of this country that 

 there hardly remains anything for their successors to find, give us a 

 clear picture of the sentiments of Frederick the Great toward the 

 rising States of the Union, as of the attitude which he assvnned 

 toward them. A strongly woven historical bond unites the develoj:)- 



a Bancroft, George : History of the United States from the Discovery of the 

 American Continent. Boston, 1874. 



6 Kapp, Fr. : Friedrich der Grosse nnd die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. 

 Leipzig. 187L 



f Pfister, A.: Die Amerilianiscbe Revolution, 1775-1781. Stuttgart uud Ber- 

 lin. 1904. 



