Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-09-17

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Yet we are told that this power longer be exercised
without an amendment of Constitution. On the occasion
South Carolina which have already advered, II was saiu
tina, The tariff and internal improvements intimately
uected death blow which hoped the one
had received, will finally destroy the other concur III e
opinion thai intimately, indissoluuly united
Not connected together with fraudulent which has
been imputed bu, by their nature. by the tendency OF each TO
of rational prosperity
FRO De CONTINUED
Co5bett's Letter to Daniel O'ConneU, Esq.
IIIGuwoRrH, WILrs, 3Oth June, 1880.
SIR-Acccpt my thanks, together with those OF
thousands upon thousands of the good and sensible
part of the people of England for your letter OF the
It'll June, addressed the editor of the Waterford
newspaper, commencing to the irish people to get
gold instead of "worthess rags so called by Robin
son himself, when debating on the bill OF 1885,
When the proud and insolent oligarthy assall
you for having done your duty towards the people, 1t
is the duty of the people rally round you, and to
stand before you; aud this you will End the people OF
Eugland do by you, as long as you proceed in this
course.
What! you see your country brought to an sap
preaching to starvation;" you hear lazy officer con-
fess that that is it's state; you it's wealth drained
away this country; you las did at Bristol the
other day. droves and docks and herds without end,
end hundreds of ship-loads of corn and meat and
butter, you these Ginning into England, and,
while you see this, and those whose labour cre-
a;es this wealth and all these masses of food, IN a
approaching to starvation; and while you see
the anvlIS or downing street, new ana neaVy
dens forging for the backs of these your iserable
counrymen; hilc you all this. you, the rcpresen
tave of Irish county, to sit and hear schemes
cooy propounded for effeotually keeping the poor
Irish out Of England, lest, by coming hither. they
should get into their stomachs of the oats that
are left Of the food raised by themselves; you to
Sit aud to see and hear gil this you to hear them,
to hear your constituents, spoken of as it they
beasts Of burden you are, when they apply toE
the smallest proton of sustenance to them seized
and sent back to starvation, precisely the same
manner as criminals to the hulks; you to
see and hear all these things; you are to have the
thorough conviction, that nothing you do, vi ere
you are, in the way of persuasion, will have any eff
fact you to know that this horrible state of your
country has been produced and perPetuated by the
syst EN- of paper money; you arc to remember that the
birth of this system the death of Irish freedom
and happiness; you 10 remember that Protestant
ascendancy and the Bank and the debt atogeth
er in the same reign fatal TO freand you are to
know that your country can never again know free
dom tranquility, long as this system shall last,
and you to know that 1t rests wholly md solely
the 'worthless rags and SEEING hearing all these
things, you to sit and hold your tongue, speak
and be scoed at and you are not to write advice
your constituents lest you should incur tho displea
sure of those who tho uphoders of this sy tenn
because they profit by 1t!
And looking at the matter in a narrower point of
view what We you done beyond your boundcn duty?
you the effects of the panic IN Ireland gel,
and those Of that in England in I825. You SAW
hundreds of thousands Of industrious, and rtuous,
and frugal fathers and mothers berett, a moment,
of the of providing for children, to DE able TO
make provision for whom had been the hope OF their
laborious lives. You had seen that the breaking of
only one bank, Hampshire, had caused, 10 the
words OF the papers of that country, las much an
gush and lamentaion If there had been dead
corpse in every third house" You mad seen the
poor hard-working man, with body wasted to the
bone for the cake Of Keeping cot over his head,
stripped, a moment, of the ns of paying his
rent, and compelledto go to the poor house for shell
md IN Mt Ippfan ,rht1 fbnI
bankrupt devastator continued to Wnllow in luxury
You had seen all this; you had every to be-
eve that these desolang scenes must again occur in
Ireland, IT the extension of no paper money not
chocked and, having all this. and entertaining
this opinion to the future, you to hold your
tongue. lest your poor country should take warning
in time, and themselves by legally DEMANDING |
% ymeHts gold If you gave the warning were |
% be brow-beated, bulllcd and ALMOST mcnaced with
But, above oil these things. what have you heard
Ind seen III the parliament SELF and that very house
If ''Dobest assembly, wherein you were removed
or your conduct You had. IN that honse, heard il |
tated by the ministers is that the small puper mo
icy had bcen the C1use Of the pane, and the rui of
$685. Cd, that, long this paper lasted tkero was
safety for property, and no security for the peace
the country; 3D. that 1t absurd 10 SUPPOSE
nat paper, OF the same denomination with pold
'Ould cir uata Mt par with golds 4th, that such
aper could IN such a state, exist only by nero
haDce; 5h; that any little accidents might destroy
I'm hour 9Th, and that, therefore, no government
aving any regard for the safety of prvato property
r for the preservation of tho public peace, could
'eraie such paper money. All this You heard in
lat house; and you saw the Chancellor of the Ex-
1equeT come into the house. hold soine of the notes
his band, and heard him call them '',yorthless
gS" And then you the house pass an act to
Ut an end TO those injnries and dangers, IN Eng
nd, and TO leave Ireland still exposed to them all
10 you are 70 be revIled and menaccd, because {
,u endeayor by legal to guard your country c
hlle yet there IS tEae. against these perils. c
The facts mentioned by Dogherty, prove beyond
doubt the soundDess Of your advice to the people .
IreiaDd for, what do these facts prove? Wbv. C
'aS thoFo Is not gold in Ireland wherpwah 10 dis d