The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-12-02

I natc.nal Iavr ume.i, W are i, l., .riy,
expose our children On tue banks ,f rho
| liver. Our women have strong passions
and rs the sedenlary fife To which the l,,ys
| and the care of cur honour canfine tbe,,
n"uld not SUIT them very well, we ar ~
fall liheity TO bind up the feet of Our
| daughters IN ther infancy, so as to rend.-
| them useless when they arrive at an az.
at which they might abuse them. OR yr,a,
king Fo IN has defined liberty to be ord.r
| joined with poltrness, aud this in truth ia
: the great distinction of the Chinese. Wh,t
stranger is not stuck with admiratio,
when he trayerses the streets and mark.ts
of Canton and Pekin in the midst of >,
: immense crowd, arrangedin twn files, each
marching steadily along IN contrary dire.
/ THUS, without any noise or confusion ia
disturb their course. II, by chance. any
hair hfained fellow derange this heantify,
/ procession, the police mandarin, accomna.
nlcd by two executloners, is always at hand
to administer justice. Brought before thi.
anbdatory Judge, VIII" .qudts himselfdown
E III the street on Il cushion which Is carried
behind him, the delinquent is stripped IN
the waist, and receives on the shoulder,
go many half see. ,s Of blows Of the cham,
bOuc rs the Magistrate raises fingers durin,
the operation. The patient dresses him,
self again, bows 10 the chambouc .hearer.
kisses the mandarln's hand, and withdraws
All this passes on both sides with polite
ness and tranquility which cannot be too
much Admired
- Silence ! vile slave = exclaimed a
Mahratta, AS he brandished his assagay /,
is it for you, a people conquered by some
hordcs of Tartais, who can defend your
selves only by building mas5y walls, and
who are ruled by a hds,inadn--is it foryouto
raise your voices when liberty is The thence
They alone are free " no choose their own
leaders, who make their neighbors trembe.
who know no laws but those of nature.
strength and courage. Frccmeu are the
most daring pirates, and the best knights in
the world and such are the Mahrattas-
True, our Prishwa has the right of life and
death over the whole nation but that most
excellent Prince never uses il, and has al.
ways been content to hire ont ii part of his
subjects, AT the price of rupee per head.
to our friends the English, who pretend to
| b. still more free than we are
g Since this class of be ,ngs' cried tho
European Islander, with a smile of dis.
dain, has had the insolence TO name the
English people, when speaking Of our sti.
p' ndhlieS on the Persian Gulf will take
the trouble to show that not only there
no liberty except in the United Kingdom
but that there cannot be any elsewhere,
b"cause such is our sovereign " III and plea.
ure. No one will deny, suspect, that
mod. I'm freedom had its birth in our island,
aud that the title of majesty ofthe people,
gwen by Lord Chatham, is the result Of
our sovereignty, proclaimed by the voice
OF victory from one end of the world to
the other. If indeed we have left to our
chief the name of King, which was 80 of.
fedslve to the Romans, we have managed
to restrain his power by those laws ofwhich
he Is the first subject. We live under the
empire of the representative government
whose strength consists in the wise balance
OF the three powers which constitute il -
Il We eng J too Just pride on the FRI edom
we have conquered, to suffer any other ma
ton 70 participate in the blessing. Perhaps
there will be objected TO me facts which
J belle every day the rights of which we are
so proud. | shall be asked, what the liber.
~ of that country is, where two or three
families have made themselves masters of
the government, which concentles all the
Prcludlces and all the abuses Of aristocra-
| cy,--"here the sovereignty of the people
Is confined 10 the snrnsarha Ofthe hastings
where the citizen who is taking his walk
on the banks 1.-THE Thames, may be press.
ed by parcel of drunltcn sailors, and at
the orders OF subaItcrn agent of the Ad
miralty, put on board il vessel, which trans
ports hm to the other end of the world 10
the tune Of Rule Britannia = | shall be
asked what liberty is in a country where
the law Of haheas corpus does not prevent
man from being thrown into prison for a
debt of five shiIIings, at the first request of
a creditor 10 whom he may prove, when he
gets out, that he owes only three,-I shall,
perhaps, be asked thousand questions Of
this nature instead of answering them, |
shall say, that we Ensiishincn are free
; to knock out the brains of a ministerial
candidate, to box in the street with
peer OF the realm, to sell our wives at mar
ket, and to break the windows of the
hInS's coach when ne goes down to Par
lament.
" After this discourse from the represent
tatl'e ct the majesty of the British people
Thought myself called upon 10 say a few
words. / hope said |, raising my voice,
; that this gentleman will not be offended
when assert, that if liberty be 10 fact the
frmt OF the highest civilization, of the old
est rccoIlectiOns, and of the proudest glo~
~ That any nation ever yet attained, then
France ought TO he accounted its classic
sou. II was the spirit of liberty which pre-
SIDED there Thousand years ago, over tho
confederation of the Gaulish Republicans,
ana which consecra'ed the stone Of The oath.
around which their deputies assembled
twas liberty which presided oyer the meet