The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1813-11-15
MONDAY, NOVE1NBER Is, 1878.
From, The .furora.
HE WOODEN WALLS OF ENG
LAND.
No. I

'hihS more strikingly demonstrative of the
weakness and wicjSedness ofthe British 60
vernment, than is displayed in the lac
speeches III the British house of Commons,
III Which lord CcChrane and the honorable
MI Croker were pitted against each other.
ouch are the general features of those dy
nasties who procrasiiaate their dismissal to
the tomb OF the Capulets by decisions on
their subjects.
The whole tenor Of this parliamentary
debate is deeply interesting at this moment
10 the people OF the states land each hub-
hSher Of afaher should cohyh in so much
as II tends 10 open their eyes and TO prove
to them that The lion growing in her den i S
not so terrible in combat as in idea.
Lord Gochrane, true Brilon, and an
experienced admiral decked with the no.
nors and trophies Of vaor in the cause OF
his county, rises indignant al the tispra.
ces which his once highly distinguished
hag has lately suffered Ill its contest with
America ; and anxious yet 10 save il if pos
| sibie from the degraded state which ,hrca.
tens 1t, opens his heart without gloss or de-
ception, TO the representatives of his king
| dom and the ministers of his king, and
| tel!s them in plain terms the causes, ex-
pcrime ntal!y known TO himself, which must
| naturally operate OH brave people to sub
| due their energies, and render their once
boosted invincibility on the ocean an easy
| conquest.
| nIhe opinion Of the most dcluded of our
| own countrymen, and even in the opinion
Of those .vfcked ones. who vet strain every
] nerve further 10 misicad them, one thing
must DC most strikingly evident, that lord
| Cochranc is an Englishman, bound 10 his
| country bv all those Ties which can Dossi
| bly, bind human natuIe-family, fric nds, IL
| ties, stars and ribbons, give him high
rank in society, and his station in parlia.
meat gives him rank both in the eve of
ms government end his monarch.
! 1 he exposition this noble lord gives is a
lair and true picture--no one should or
could know it better than himseIf-He was
bred In the navy, and has risen to honor
| and TO greatness by the services he per-
formed. II | ann not mistaken in the man,
his galahtry was formerly quoted, and
might make title history.
I One would naturally imagine that a ma
! 'ion jealous OF It's usurped rights and OBJ
snnate In Its wrongs, at the moment that
those rights as they term them, were i'm
danger Of being prostrated, would listen
| "Itn attention., and Is. the words of their ia
| 'oiltS poLt say 10 SuCh man.
Ii I'd a thousand ears, I'd hear thee d
Especially when that danger was made
manifest TO them, and the ways and means
pointed out 10 avert it, Ye, do we see her
| shut IN the very "portals Of her ears" to
the truth tina; is displayed in living charac-
lers, and make herself deaf even to the We
ry means OF her preservation.
| Nothlng, however, is more true, than
! that such has been and will Continue to he
the case, and that nations, like individuals.
when they strain that cord which ought to
be the cestus Of their morality, set asleep
their conscicnces and their wisdom at the
| same moment.
| Mr.. Croker's speech is the rantine. Of an
inflated man who determines to support a
bad cause and to stick TO il o the very last.
| lie hundreds of thousand of captives who
! yet uphold the once redoubtabIe wooden
walls OF Old England will no doubt make
an appropriate memorandum Of him IN their
log-books-and even the parliament of
Great britain will recollecl this gentleman
at future time with dismay.
| That their government was rotten, has
been known TO them for many years; but.
| that their wooden walls were rutiinp away.
1t appears they did not know. Yet when
the fact is exposed to them. and made as
giarlng as the sun at noon tav-such has
been the infatuation of this wicked and de-
ceitful administration, that thew deny the
truth that startles and appals them, and
even refuse an examination into the worm
holes which threaten The existence of their
very ramparts--'' So deep in sin they have
not time TO pray"
| SANS MURAILFS.