The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1826-05-24


: joy by the common terms of regard anH
J sympathy; if we feel and signify higi
qualification that, throughout this whok
Continent. men are now likely TO be
blessed by free and popular institutions
and if, in the utteIing of these senti-
ments, we happen TO speak of sister Re-
} publ'cs, OF the great American family
OF nations, or of the political System
and forms of government Of this hemis-
phere, then indeed, ii seems, we deal in
senseiess jaTgon, or Impose on The judy
ment and feelings of the community by
cabalistic words Sir, what is meant
by this Is il intended that the people
OF the United States ought 10 be totally
neIghhors Is no change, in the lights
in which we are to view them, TO be
wrought by their having thrown of
foreign dominion, established indepen-
dence, and Instituted on our very borders,
republican governments, essentially after
our own example.
Sir. do not wish TO oyer-rate;I do
not cver-rate the progress of these new
States in the great work of establishing
u we'll secured popular liberty. J know
that to be a great attainment, and !
know that they are but pupils in The
school. Bur, thank God, they are in the
school They are called 10 meet Diff
ficulties, such as neither we nor our IA
Tiers encountered. For these we ought
TO make large allowances. What have
we ever known like the colonial vassal-
age Of these States When did we, or
our ancestors feel, like them, the weight
of a political despotlsn that presses
men to the earth, or of that religious
intolerance which would shut up heaV-
Ell 10 all bot the bigotted? Sir, we
sprung from another stock. We belong
10 another race. We have known moth
ing, we have felt nothing, of the polit-
zeal despotism of Spain, nor Of the hea.
OF her fires of intolerance. No ration
al man expects that the south can run
The same rapid career as the north; Or
that an insurgent province OF Spain is in
| The same condition as The Eng ish col
onies, when they first asserted their in
dependence. There is, doubtless, much
more TO be done 10 the first than in the
last case. But ON that account the hon
or of the attempt is not less and if all
| difficulties shall he IN the time sur
mounted, il will be greater. The work
may be more arduous-it is not less no.
BILE, because there may be more OF lg-
norance 10 enlighten; more Of bigotry TO
subdue; more of prejudice 10 eradi-
cate. If it be weakness to feel a.
strong interest in the success OF these
great revolutions, confess myself gull
~ of that weakness. Ii ii be weak TO
| feel that ! am an American, 20 thlok. that
receu. events have not only opened new
modes of intercourse, but have created
also new grounds of regard and sympa-
tby between ourselves and our neigh
bors; if it be weak 10 feel that the
south, in her present state, is some
what more emphatlcally part OF Amer
lea, than when she lay obscure, OPP
pressed, and unknown, under the grind
ing bondage of a foreign power II 1t
be weak TO rejoice, whenever, in any
corner OF the earth, human beings are
able to get up from beneath oppression,
to erect themselves, and to ENJOY the
proper happiness of their intelligent
nature if this be weak, it IS weak
ness from which claim no exemption.
A day of solemn reiribution now VS.
its the once proud monarch OF SPAN.
The prediction is fulfilled. The spirit
of Montezuma and of the lncas might
now we'll say.
" Art thou, too, fallea, Iberia? Do we see
The robber and the murderer weak as we ):
Thou! that hast wasted earth and dar'd de-
: spise
, Alike the wrath and mercy of the skies
, Thy pomp is in the grave; thy glory laiu
Low in the pit thine avarice hast made" "a
n MIR CHAIRMAN IL will detaiu you on
Nv with one more refection'on this sub
, iect. We cannot be so hlind-we can
DOT so shut up our senses, and smother
+ our faculties, as not 10 see, that, IN the
progress and establishment of South
American liberty, our own example has
been among the most stimulating caus'
es. That great light-a light which
can never be hid--the light of our own
glorious revolution, has shone on the
path of South-American Patriots, from
/ The beginning of their course. 10 their
emergencies they have looked to ouI
experience--in their political instltu
, lions they have followed our models
, in their deliberations they have invoked
the presiding spirit Of our own liberty
They haye looked steadily, in every
adversely, to the great Northern light
In the hour of bloody conflict, they
have remembered the fields which
/, have been consecrated by the blood o