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REPUDIATION OF THE AMERICANS…

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REPUDIATION OF THE AMERICANS BY THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH. TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE MORNING CHRONICLE. Sir—having been unwell for some days past, I have had no opportunity of paving my respects to General Duff Green, who (whatever be his other nuyi^h) has certainly not shown liiiuselt a Washington in defence of his country. The General demands, with a beautiful simplicity, Whence this morbid hatred of Amp-rica ( But thin question, all-affecting as it is, is stolen from fLtl)IC8 A 1"x," tjays Pilpay, "caught by the leg in a trap near the farm-yard, utterred the most piercing crie* of distress; forthwith all the birds ot the yard gathered round liiin, and seemed to delight in his misfortune; Lens chuckled, geese hissed, ducks quacked, and cliaati clerr, with shrill cockadooles, rent the air. Whence,' said the fox, stepping forward with infinite gravity, < whence this morbid hatred of the fox ? What have I Jonf 7 Whom have I injured ? I am overwheimnd with astonishment at these symptoms of aversion.' 'Oh, you old viliitil),' the poultry excl aimed, 'where are our ducklings? where are our goling8 Did not I see you ruuning away yesterday with my mother in your mouth did not you eat up all my relations last week ? You ought to- die the worst ol deaths—to be pecked into a thousand pieces. Now hence Genral Green, comes the morbid hatred of America, as you term it. J Because lier conduct has been predatory—because she has ruined so many helpless childreii, so many miserable women, so many aged men—because she has disturbed the order of the world, and rifled those sacred treasures which human virtue had hoarded for human misery. Why is such hatred morbid? Why, is it not just, iiipviuble, inna'e? Why, is it not disgracelul to want it? Why, is it not honourable to feel if Hale America! I have loved and honoured America all my life and in the Edinburgh Reciaw, and at all oppor- tunities which my trumpery sphere of action has adorded, I have never ceased to praise and defend the United States; and to every American to whom I have had the good tortune to be introduced, I have proffered all the hospitality in my power. But I cannot shut my eyes to enormous dishonesty; nor, remembering their former state, can I restrain myself from calling on them (though I copy Satan) to spring up from the gulf of infamy in which they are rolling. Awake, arise, or I;e for ever lallen." I am astonished that the honest States of America do not draw a Cordon Sanitaire round their unpaying bretlirren, that the truly mercantile New Yorkers, and the thoroughly honest people of Massachussetts, do not in their European visits wear an uniform with S. S., or Solvent States," worked in gold letters upon the coat, and receipts in full of all demands tamboured on the waistcoats, and" our own nroDertv" figured on their naotaloons. But the General seems shocked that I should say the Americans cannot go to war without money but wbat do I mean by war? Not irruptions into Canada—not the embody- ing of militia in Oregon, but a long tedious maritime war of four or five years' duration. Is any lUan SII foolish as to suppose that Rothschild has nothing to do with such wars as these? and that a bankrupt State, without the power of borrowing a shilling in the world, may not be crippled in such a contest? We all know that the Americans can iighl. Nobody doubts their courage. I see now in my minds's eye a whole army on the plains of Pennsylvania in buttle array, immense corps of insolvent light infantry regiments of heavy horse debtors, battalions of repudiatois, brigades of bankrupts, with Vivre sans payer, ou mourir on their banners and cere alirno on their trumpets all these desperate debtors would fight to the death for their country, and probably drive into the sea their invalling creditors. Of their courage, I repeat again, I have nt) doubt. I wish I had the same confidence in their wisdom. But I believe they will become intoxicated by the flittei-y of unprincipled orators; and instead of entering with us into a noble competition in making calico (the great object for which the Anglo-Saxon race appears to have been created), they will waste their happiness and their money (if they can get any) in years of silly. bloody, foolish, and accursed war, to'prove to the world that Perkins is a real fine gentleman, and that the carronadesot the Washington steamer will carry farther than those of the Britisher Victoria, or the Robert Peel vessel of war. I am accused of applying the epithet repudiation to States which have not repudiated. Perhaps so but then these latter States have not paid. But what is the dillerence between II man who says, I don't owe you any thing, and will not pay you," and another who says,"Ittooweyouasum,"and who having admitted the debt, never pays it? seems in the first to he some slight colour of right, hut the second is hroad, blazing, refulgent, meridian fraud. It may be very truc. that rich and educated men in Penn- sylvania wish to pay the debt, and that the real objectors are the Dutch and German agriculturists, who cannot be made to understand the effect of character upon clover. All this may be very true, but it is a domestic quarrel. Their chtircti- I wardens of reputation must make a private rate of infamy for themselve-we have nothing to do with this rate. The real, epiarrej is the Unpaid World versus the State of Pennsylvania. And now, dear Jonathan, let me beg of you to follow the advice of a real friend, who will say to you what Wat Tyler bad not the virtue to say, aril what all speakers in the eleven receut Pennsylvanian elections have cautiously abstained from saying," make a great effort; book up at once and pay." liiu have no conception of the obloquy and contempt to which nil are exposing yourselves all over Europe. Bull is naturally disposed to love, you; but he loves nobody who does not pay him. His imaginary paradise is some planet ot punctual payment, where ready money prevails, and where debt and discount are unknown. As for me, as soon as I hear that tiie last farthing is paid to the last, creditor, I will appear on my knees at tiie bar of the Pennsylvanian Senate, in the piumeopicean robe of American controversy. Each conscript Jonathan shall trickle over me a few drops of tar, and help to decorate me with those penal plumes in which the vanquished reasonerot the Transatlantic world docs homage to the physical superiority ol his opponents. And nnw, having eased my soul of its indignation, and sold my stock at. 40 per cent. discount, I sulkily retire from the subject, with a fixed intention of lending no more money to free and enlightened republics, but of employing my money henceforth in huying up Abyssinian bonds and purchasing into the Turkish Fours, or the Tunis Tliree-and-'a-Halt per Cent, Funds. SYDNEY SMITH. DOMESTIC LIBRARIES" AT THE ROYAL PALACES,— Her Majesty, with that kmd regard which she has eivr manifested for the eomfort'and intellectual enjoyment of the rowal domestics, has just caused to be carried into effect a most. praiseworthy design, emanating entirely from herself and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, for the establishment of "domestic libraries" in the respective servants'-halls, both at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. Her Majesty has made a. donation of £ 100 for the purchase of books to commence with, and has also very liberally pre- sented a great variety of works of a useful and instructive character to the domestic libraries," both in town and at Windsor. Prince Albert has also presented £,30 for the same purpose.

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