Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-08-30
From the Ulster { Belfast Recorder.
AMERICA.

An American vessel arrived yesterday
In the harbor of Belfast, laden with fax
seed, ashes, &c. The heartfelt joy which
beamed on every countenance throughout
our streets, on learning this first arrival Of
their old American friends, can be easily
conceived by those who will consider that
the dearest and most aAectionate connec-
tons which bind humanity together, exist
between the people of the north of Ireland
and the independent and victorious peO-
pie of America. There is scarcelya ca
bin in our province which cannot claim a
relative in the land of civil and religious
freedom. No wonder, therefore, that the
North should have been overcast with
gloom when that war commenced, whose
progress was marked by the desperate re-
solution of trying an experiment on Anne
rican DISQUALIFICATION the conquest
of American liberty was as much the OBJ
iect of England as the assertion OF the right
of searcll-when the last refuge to which
the human mind had fled from the c0nfe-
deracy of kings, was threatened by their
triumphant and irresistible arms-no won
der that every heart aroundus should have
sunk, and that the North should have look
ed forward with trembling anxiety to the
result of the conflict. The experiment
has been tried, and the world can now
Judge and decide--how people determin-
cd 60 be FREE can maintain their free
dom As for our part, we look on the
triumphs of Americans the triumphs of CT
vii and religious liberty in every portion
of the globe. The most extreme corner
feels, with electric force, the impulse
which the spirit of America created. To
the example of America was Ireland in
debted for the freedom Of trade and con-
stitution-to the example of America was
France indebted for the overthrow of that
system which made twenty-five millions
Of human beings contemplate in the eyes
of the surrounding nations--to the exam
pie of America, perhaps, may France be
now indebted for the establishment Of
those broad and comprehensive principles
of public policy shich characterize her
councils at present, which even subdue
the mind OF Napoleon to proper sense of
that respect that the first magistrate should
ever entertain for the peOpie-may we not
60 farther, and say, that the example
which America has lately given to the
world of what a free people can achieve,
may be sautary and saving example to
the people of England to persevere in their
efforts to promote that reform, which will
render struggle of violence as unneces-
sary as it would be painful. From this
splendid theatre, where the human mind
ranges free and uncontrolled--wl ere Lii
berty is the remedy for Licentiousness-
where popular feeling is never dreaded,
because it is never Opposed-where the
citizen, however, humble, is seen examin-
ing the pretensions of the statesman and
public officer, to the confidence of the peo-
pie. From such country, what powerful
lessons may be drawn and exhibited to the
crowned heads Of Europe, Of the wicked,
ness of unlimited power, the folly of name
without substance, and the inevitable evils
which must flow from naughty and inso-
lent contempt of the rights Of humanity
Peace is restored-American Freedom is
for second time riumphant---tley Will
be bold men who will make third expert
ment In Liverpool the American YES
sells we're received with the cheerings of
thousaHds---is Belfast LESS ALIVE to the
sentiment Of Freedom, than the old adj
Vocates Of the Slave Trade Belfast
should illuminate houses should be
the pictures of cur hearts. The people
should, in this instance, exercise their
high prerngeive, and a general illumina-
ton should be insisted upon