Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-04-01

editor, by an equal scale, and consider him.
self :" as much sinned against as sinning."
This will be manifest from very slight
analysis.
Mr.. Cobbett settled in Philadelphia, as he
avowed, with determination never to
relnquish his allegiance to the king.
He openly avowed his hostility to repub.
lican government.
He was the avowed supporter of a rcli-
gious hierarchy, or established church,
repugnant to the peace, happiness. and
liberties of every people
He ridicuied the American revolution, and
treated it as a rebellion.
He aspered every man who had been emi
nently instrumental in the revolution
who did not subsequently,, in some
shape. bend to the policy of England.
He c. 'ried his asp .srity To an extern. ne
yer before heard of, for he Comprised,
in his denunciation, the great patriarch
of the revolution. the venerable Frank
lin, and one OF the proudsst triu,nphs
of philosophy, in the vulgar sarcasm
agains. Old Lightning Rod
In short, his Whole course tended to de.
grade the principles ~ the American
! government and 20 eXtol that of Great
Britain.
Much more might be offered in corrobo.
ration of his course of operations on the
minds and IN lrals al the Americ IN people
nothing of this kind could be urged against
the successive editors of the Aurora, (for
! the grandson of FRANKLIN was as much abu
| sed az his suCctssor.)
Conduct such this was exactly suited
| TO the views of Mr.. Liston--it was in the
spirit of the English policy, which syste ma.
tically atIsea eJery thing which it wishes
| to subjusatc or destroy and the occasional
| intercourse which subssted between Mr.
| Goblet and MIR Listou, in Arch street. were
at least plausible grounds for believing tina.
something more than mere nationality Of
sentiment existed between them
| There WAS another point in which Mr.
! Goblet has acted in The genuine spirit of
q "trGc born Enslishman"-that was his
indiscriminate violence and participation in
| the persecution OF the emigrahts from Ire
! land. This feeling appears even in the ar.
| ticle which he Offers as an atnnement for
former wrongs. In noticing the mission of
his friend Richard North. to ireland, he
seems to infer justification by renewing the
so often exploded assertion that "Clonmel
| was Mr.. Dusne's birth place." The politi
cal influence of England in me United S,a5e
has never been in any point more manifest
| and obvious, than in the very general adop,
persecution and contume!y against the Irish,
and which is most conspicuous where the
people are least faithful To American honor;
the only crime of the Irish is their nistnr =
tune to have been subjected to British rule
ana oppression for six centuries and they
have suffered so many and such cruel
wrongs that 1t appears impossible that theg
should ever forgive or respect thylr opprcs
sors whenever the English agency find
ascendancy, the individual VINO is Irish
and not an ahject English-sy and
s.ave, is sure Of persecution this spirit
is carried even to where there is only sus .
piclon OF consanguinity or sympathy with
Irish sufferings. When Cobbett was the
great opponent" of the editor of the hu
rora, he sweit on this charge with such
unremttins industry, that
The lie SO often told-seemed trne.
! The foundation upon which Mr.. Cobhe..
erected his batteries in 1898 90 was his truly
english ground for so Inveterate is the
English feeling in this particu ar, shat the
right OF aggression is iEierenr in the En-
glisbman, while the true I,ishman is Coz
sidered as bound to be passive under iniu.
ries, and CRIMINAL if he only asserts the
dignity of human nature inflicted in his per
son hence, as nothing could be found phi.
Die IN the editor of the Aurora, it was NJ
cessary to furnish congenial motive e.
justify the wrongs Mr.. Goblet, thoug!l
he expiates the wrong, adheres 20 the mis-
representation upon which the wrong wa,
perpetrated and his friend, Mr. R. North.
travels all the way to the foot nf .Sec6hns
17aan, in the hope of discovering that there
was at least some foundation for the fake
hoods after they had been for cight proceed.
ing years in circu alton. u is the sentiment
ofprobity which every just man che ishes
which alone could render Ibis matter wor.
tiny OF notice; and it is only from regard u
the consistency which prooity dictates, tia;
IT'S deemed necessary to say any thing in
further contradiction Mr. North could NOT
nave been informed that Mr.. Duane was
born IN Cionmel, for he seger troi the sol.
OF that country till he was entering the 18Th
year OF his age; Mr.. North could not have
heard any thing of Mr.. Odane's father. WIN
never was in that town, asd who died in
tins country in 1765 !; aud If Mr. North
foUHd any of Mr., DIS relatives he must have
converted through the medium of an inter
prefer, sHce very few of them speak the
language OF their rulers; they being of the
oppressed race who have retained their rel !.
gion, their virtuous pride, their social vir-
tues, and their honor, amidst the horrors
and the intolerance of British rule. Mr.
Duane has always. aud always will hail
lrishmen ct worth and hoAor as his country
men II ne possesses any constancy of cha.