LETTERS TO THE EDITOR,
AMERICA AND THE WAR.
[To Tug EDITOR OF Tam " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—I have road with interest and great sympathy quotations from the Spectator in the American newspapers with reference to the last Note of the United States to England. And I know that I am expressing the fooling of tons of thousands of my countrymen when I say: I trust that the English people are not overmuch worried concerning that unfortunate epistle, in which appears the " hands " and the " voice " of our Administration, and not the sentiments or the wish of the real American people. What we wish had been written, and what we earnestly desire to have written, is a Note to the murderers of our people and your people, demanding an immediate reply to the last adminis- trational literary effort submitted to the " Two-Huns " with regard to a crime for which a sufficiently infamous term has not yet been found 1 As I earnestly hope that the English people already know, the sympathy of the large majority of Americans is with England and her allies ; and we feel utterly chagrined, disgusted, and indignant at the "pernicious neutrality" of an Administration whose whole policy has been nothing short of damnable ever since the invasion and " rape " of Belgium. For myself, and, I believe and hope, for a large number of our people, I would say : If, in order to defeat that Prussian-Austrian. Turkish-Bulgarian unholy alliance, it is necessary to wipe every American vessel and cargo off the face of the ocean, go as far as you like, and may your arm be strengthened I My ancestors, without exception, have been American for two hundred years. May God bless England and her righteous cause.—I am, Sir, &c.,
WM. HENDERSON WANTS,
Rector of St. Mary's Church.
Haledon, New Jersey, November 13th.
N.B.—The enclosed letter, clipped from to-day's New York Tribune, is another expression of American " neutrality " ;— " AMERICA UNNEUTRAL.
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