384 WALL STREET AND THE WILDS 



crisis was so defiantly met that our flag was 

 saluted, the guilty soldiers bastinadoed and their 

 officer ate out of the minister's hand, before the 

 sun went down. Our modern Moses was not in 

 command of the State Department at this time. 



It is the day of great accomplishments and the 

 opportunity of the ages is ours, to measure up to 

 as the benefactors of our race, or to sink beneath 

 in weak timidity and slimy selfishness. 



