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concealed. that we are disgraccd nation
the love of money has prostrated our public
measures-the spirit of commercial ava.
rice has shed its malignant, supplying We.
nom upon our coanCils--A golden calf
mas stood up among us, and we have bowed
down before the idol.---We must arouse
from our prostration. Every friend of his
Country must be up! A foreign storm, un..
like any thing that we have weathered since
the revolutions, is lowering over us and our
consciousness of the danger is stll further
heightened by the imbecility which has
MARKED our own Congress in steering the
national barquc.
N'nen we traverse the course which was
taken during the Embargo-and since,
We feel sentiment of loathng to which no
description can do Justice. "These 7vere the
times that tried mems souls"--But these
men iiihched They abandoned the helm
81 state to the clamors of an unprncipied
Junfo--they flinched and We were dis
Sraced. lhat was measure which ought
never to have been repealed without the
substitution of something more energetic
g decisive-we ought rather to have flown TO
war--and marched up to the cannon's
mouth. But no! the Embargo was rescind-
eo oy the imbecility of Congress, and the
same lmbec,lity has continued the infatua
ton. hey shrnnk at frst--and they have
oeen shrinking ever since. We have fallen
IKE the angels from Heaven and we
nave gone ON falling, like Lucifer, osborn
OF MS glory with accumulated velocity.
INTO mat deeper abyss" from which we
should have originally shrunk with instinct
Nehorror' Aud where are we now? Our
seamen are in chains; our commercial
rights are ravished by British lust old in
suits are unexpiated; and new aegressions
are perpetrated by the blind rapacity of
England. In France. our property is Sc
clustered, and perhaps swept off for ever.
lnese are no times for adulation or for
temporising. Let PGans be suag in honor
Oh the men who deserve them. Let the
OIL or hattery be poured on the heads of the
weak by the hand of the vicious. The trnth
must be spoken. Our disease must be known.
Detore the remedy can be administered.
Onr national character is tarnished-we are
disgraced in the eyes of Europe. And what
is worse, these very representatives to whom
Tue people had committed the majesty of the
nation, have furnished it. The people mus,
arise in the mightiness of their elective
franchise-cS dismiss these unworthy repre-
sentatives from their confidence. Those
must be struck OFF, who have shrunk from
their duty and such as have pursued the
SooaIy path OF the national Independence.
must be encouraged to go on.
Our manufactures are progressing the
restrictions OH our exterior commerce are de-
Veioping our internal resources. These fur
nlsh Us with one source of consolation and
nope. They should be prompted and encou.
ragged, But the arm of the government to-
wards foreign nations must be re-sinewed.
The dismission of Jackson was a strong &
meritorious measure. The minister ySbo
dares toinsnlt our government, is no minis
ter Tor US. This step would have made
most serious impression upon the Court Of
St. 1ames's but all its fruits were bjjehted
by federal opposition. Mr. Jackson obtained
adherents, and we have lost our redress.
But Mr.. Madison owes another measure to
the nation & this should be among the first
steps taken in the career of re generation
don.
If there is to be no British diplomatic
i Iif IN this country, higher than
nary concerns of the two countries, our own
minister should be immediately withdra WIN
from u. Britain. Minister against Minis
ter; Charge d Afiaires against Charge d..
AfaIres are at least fair equations. Mr..
Lyman as our Charge d'Affaires, is lust as
good man as the Charge d'A flares Morier
or as Phineas Bond, the refugee
Plis is one of these cases, which ni,ht
De settled on Its own merits only. Vet some
reasons might be found in the violated
pledge of the British Secretary to send
succe ssor of rank and talcnts.'' Oilers
Will find fresh inducements in the on.
position which they have made towards bav
ing any ministers az all resident st FOREIGN
courts.-Sone may even urge this step on
the ground OF their objection to the actual
resident minister.
On this last head, we must make n few
remarks. Mr.. Pinkney has, on some occa-
sions at least, acted well. His letters To the
government in September 1909. breathe the
viVacity Of youthful feeling, and the enthu
siasm OF an American Patriot He cIings
to the Embargo, as the shield of our rights
ne tells US with sort of prophetic spirit.
now we should be placed, if we were then
TO take nc oS--how all the appendices
and the calculations" of Great Britain would
hwart our prosperity--thas it would be
" endless to enumerate in detail, the evils
winch would cling 10 us in this new career
OF vassalage and meanness; and tedious IN
pursue cur back ward course TO the e7-f;ar-
Hor CT that very trade TO which we had sa.
crifced every thing eise.o
These tniEgs are well--the thanks which
they have deserved, would not have been
cancelled by the idle vanity of a Lattl 70
shine at Court in Diamonds or in LACE
those diamonds, perhaps, which might have
oeen hired for the night. But we are obli-
geu to feel a more serious sort of disappro
baton, when we pore over his wire drawn
and diluted letter to my Lord--in which
with species of supplicatory style he an
pears % ask what we had right to demand
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