The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-11-03

John Neal in his late address al Waterville
after alluding TO the productions of Fourth Of
July Orators. who " hammer away by the hour
together upon the stuffed image Of that lion,
wao stood in the way OF oar mighty iereiatheTs,"
gays
g But there are those who Justify allthis-
it keeps up the spirit of the nation. Oar
fathers did not think so. 1t keeps alive the
memory Of their wrongs. Our fathers new
or desired that memory so to be kept alive.
Why should we quarrel with the present
race of Englishmen-they are not the peo-
pie that wronged US. We are not even the
people that were wronged. In fact, the
people there had nothing to do with it,
they opposed it or stood alcJf. till they
were cheated and lied into it by weak
ministiy-side 10y side with their monarch /;
and the moment they knew the truth, they
drove the very ministry, by the help Of that
very monarcn, to a formal recognition OF
cur sovereignty. All, bat the people here
and the people there have descended on
the one side from the oppressor and on the
other from the oppressed-and therefore
VIC viii have it so; they shGll continue to
abuse each cthor. Were this a good aTgu-
meut, there would be no such thing upon
earth as one single hour of peace. War
would be universal and perpetual. No two
nations exist-no two individuals perhaps
whose ancestry at some remote period have
not held like relationship to each other.
All have been oppressed-all have been op-
pressors.
50 But instead of arguing or striving
against this unworthy employment of our
finest young men, year after year, and age
after age,I would beseech them to consider
the consequences. | wonld pray them to
Judge for themselves; or I would sit down
familiarly with them and tell them a story
fact which happened not long ago under
nv own eye. found boy that lived with
me-a very intelligent amiable boy-trying
to dro,cn frog. wanted to know why
and wherefore. Why, said he, stopping
and looking me up in the face like Fourth
of July Orator, about to play the devil with
the mother country, Why, don't you
know twas a toad that poisoned poor
Emma? All! have you found the same
toad Don't know, indeed sir, it looks like
the same. By this time the water had run
OF, and could see the creature at the bot
tom of the tub. Why, my dear boy, said l
this is frog, it isn't toad. Never mind,
sir can't help thinking of poor Emma.
And So because a toad poisoned poor Emma
tweVemonth ago, you are patriot enough
the very word to employ in such case-
patriot enough to catch a frog the drst OPP
portunity, and pump him 10 death for her
sake Yes sir. But the best part of the
whole affair remains to be told-tIe appli.
cation leave TO other cases. Emma was
lap-dog. One day she was made &c
worry poor toad by that very boy. No
long after, she begun to foam at the mouil
and show other symptoms Of madness, and
! shot her. OF course, it never could b.
known whether the toad poisoned the dog
or not--and if il had. the fault was charge.
able not to the load, but 10 the boy-and
yet, snch was the gallant spirit Of revenge
that stirred in this embryo orator that he
was willing to put another creature o
God to death for bearing a resemblance &c
one that long time before had only de-
Tended itself-yielding poison only wher
crushed in the very jaws of the enemy