The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-05 00:00:00

DOVv'NFAL OF THE REPEAL SYMPATHY IN

AMERICA

(From "Martin Chuzzlewit," by Boz.)

The General rose to read a letter to the Public Man,
which with his own hands he had written.

" Thus," said the General,
fellow-citizens, it runs:
" SIR,

` thus, my friends and

" ' I address you on behalf of the Watertoast Associa-
tion of United Sympathisers. It is founded, sir, in the
great republic of America! and now holds its breath,
and swells the blue veins in its forehead nigh to bursting,
as it watches, sir, with feverish intensity and sympathetic
ardour, your noble efforts in the cause of Freedom.' "

At the name of Freedom, and at every repetition of that
name, all the Sympathisers roared aloud; cheering with
nine times nine, and nine times over.

"' In Freedom's name, sir—holy Freedom—l address
you. In Freedom's name, I send herewith a contribution
to the funds of your Society. In Freedom's name, sir, I
advert with indignation and disgust to that accursed ani-
mal, with gore-stained whiskers, whose rampant cruelty
and fiery lust have ever been a scourge, a torment, to the
world. The naked visitors to Crusoe's Island, sir ; the
flying wives of Peter Wilkins ; the fruit-smeared children
of the tangled bush ; nay, even the men of large stature,
anciently bred in the mining districts of Cornwall ; alike
bear witness to its savage nature. Where, sir, are the
Cormorans, the Blunderbores, the Great Feefofums,
named in History ? All, all, exterminated by its destroy-
ing hand.
" ' I allude, sir, to the British Lion.

" ' Devoted, mind and body, heart and soul, to Free-
dom, sir—to Freedom, blessed solace to the snail upon
the cellar-door, the oyster in his pearly bed, the still
mite in his home of cheese, the very winkle of your coun-
try in his shelly lair—in her unsullied name, we offer you
our sympathy. Oh, sir, in this our cherished and our
happy land, her fires burn bright and clear and smoke-
less : once lighted up in yours, the lion shall be roasted
whole.

" I am, sir, in Freedom's name,
" ' Your affectionate friend and faithful Sympathiser,
" CYRUS CHOKE,
" General, U.S.M.' "
It happened that just as the General began to read this
letter, the railroad train arrived, bringing a new mail from
England ; and a packet had been handed in to the Secre-
tary, which, during its perusal and the frequent cheerings
in homage to freedom, he bad opened. Now, its contents
disturbed him very much, and the moment the General
sat down, he hurried to his side, and placed in his hand a
letter and several printed extracts from English news-
papers • to which, in a state of infinite excitement, he
called leis immediate attention.

The General, being greatly heated by his own composi-
tion, was in a fit state to receive any inflammable influ-
ence ; but he had no sooner possessed himself of the
contents of these documents, than a change came over
his face, involving such a huge amount of choler and
passiun, that the noisy concourse were silent in a mo-
ment, in_verywonder at the sight of him.

_
" My friends !" cried the General, rising ; " my friends
and fellow-citizens, we have been mistaken in this man."
" In what man ? " was the cry.
" In this," panted the General, holding up the letter
he had read aloud a few minutes before. " I find that he
has been, arid is, the advocate—consistent in it always too
—of Nigger emancipation !

If anything beneath the sky be real, those Sons of
Freedom would have pistolled, stabbed—in some way
slain—that man by coward hands and murderous violence,
if he had stood among them at that time. The most con-
fiding of their own countrymen would not have wagered
then—no, nor would they ever peril—one dunghill straw,
upon the life of any man in such a strait. They tore the
letter, cast the fragments in the air, trod down the pieces
as they fell ; and yelled, and groaned, and hissed, till they
could cry no longer.
" I shall move," said the General, when he could make
himself heard, " that the Watertoast Association of Uni-
ted Sympathisers be immediately dissolved ! "
Down with it ! Away with it ! Don't hear of it ! Burn
its records ! Pull the room down ! Blot it out of human
memory !

" But, my fel ! said the General,
the contributions.low-countrymen "We have funds. What is to be done
with the funds?"
It was hastily resolved that a piece of plate should be
presented to a certain constitutional Judge, who had laid
down from the Bench the noble principle, that it was•
lawful for any white mob to murder any black man; and
that another piece of plate, of similar value, should be
presented to a certain Patriot, who had declared from his
high place in the Legislature, that he and his friends
would hang, without trial, any Abolitionist who might
pay them a visit. For the surplus, it was agreed that it
should be devoted to aiding the enforcement of those free
and equal laws, which render it incalculably more critni_
nal and dangerous to teach a negro to read and write than
to roast him alive in a public city. These points adjusted,
the meeting broke up in great disorder : and there was an
end of the Watertoast Sympathy.

HERRING FISHERY. —On Friday last i •
elli
reached the Anstruther fishermen that the herringsntgence
had
- set in at the " Auld Haiks." They accordingly pro-
ceeded thither, and next. day returned, all having as many
some with as many as 90 crans.
with,
giving the substance of the as they could
x,...,igraphs of Hoffman's work" (De Motu A few o the swimol on Friday night, but as the
Opt. Med.—Bodily Exercise the best Medicine) : price was too high boats
retre cup theirwt herrings were sold
body requires not nourishment to the Frenchmen and cadgers, gaveh as high as
of what cannot be converted Ils. 6d. per cran for them. Saturday,gOn'o oweyer, the
,ily thrown off from the blood price fell to Bs., and latterly to 55., at which e they
,rding to Sanctorius, amounts were purchased by the curers. On Monday takethePrl
by all the other emunctories. not so heavy, the highest being about 40 crans, and on
principal way in which this Tuesday the greater past of the boats returned clean, the
herrings having left the Haiks.—Fife Journal.
tly, all the means that are
theCAUTI9N TO TRADESMEN.—Under the operation of
hould be employed ; and of
eify, nienwtLneroalcvietnetdalect alltii insolvents are required to spe_
•-efore the best, are bodily
-i depends on the cir- the name aamaye of every creditor. Should
it appear that the names,
'le seat of a number district court have determined to dismisrs itsheouilnistoteivde,ritltle
- petition for relief. It is also worthy of notice, that the
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certificate, being granted by the court to the insolvent, is
a complete bar to any debt previously contracted, although
such debt may not have been included in the schedule. It
is, therefore, most important for all traders to watch nar-
rowly every advertised insolvent, and search through his
schedule, to see if the debt in which the trader may be
interested is included. If omitted, the punishment, on
application to the court, is as above stated. The act re-
quires each advertisement to appear twice in the London
Gazette, and twice in some one local newspaper.

1 which

from the system

in order to which its circula-
promoted. This is accomplished by means
De eh;Pf ~se of which this is. Another is
the promotion of the appetite,

* On the Diseases of the

e Learned

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