Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-06-04
L.tisret Thomas Je6srson tO GOssrnOr Langdon.
MoNr1cEI1o. March s 1a1o

as well as recent recolleCtionS, very dear to
 my heart. For five and thirty years we have
 walked together through land of tribula-
 tions. Yet these have passed away, and So,
 l trust, will those of the present day. The
 toryism with which we struggled in ", diff
 fered but in name from the federalism of '99,
 with which we struggled also and the Angli- cism of 1908, against which we are now strug- ling, is but the same thing still in another
 form. It is a longing for King, and an Eng
 fish King rather than any other. This is the
 true source of their sorrows and wailngs.
 The fear that Buonaparte will come over
 to us and conquer us also is too chimerical to
 be genuine. Supposing him to have finished Spain and Portugal, he has yet England and
 Russia to subdue. The maxim of war was
 never sounder than in this case, not to leave
 an enemy in the rear; and especially where
 an insurrectionary flame is known to be under
 the embers, merely smothered, and ready to
 burst at every point. These two subdued, (and surely the Anglomen will not think the
 conquest of England alone short work) an-
 cient Greece and Macedonia, the cradle of
 Alexander, his prototype, and Constantino- pie, the seat of empire for the world, would glitter more in his eye than our bleak moun-
 tains and rugged forests. Egypt, too, and
 the golden apples of Mauritania, have for
 more than half century fixed the longing
 eyes of France; and with Syria, you know,
 he has an old affront to wipe out. Then come
 fPontus and Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and 1 Bithynia,' the fine countries on the Euphra-
 tes and Tigris, the Oxus and Indus, and all
 beyond the Hyphasis, which bounded the glo-
 ries of his Macedonian rival l; with the invi- tation of his new British subjects on the banks nt the Ganges, whom, after receiving under l his protection the mother country, he can not refuse to visit. When all this is done and settled, and nothing of the old world re- mains unsubdued, he may turn to the new one. But will he attack us first, from whom he will get but hard knocks and no money?-I Or will he first lay hold of the gold and silver of Mexico and Peru, and the diamonds of Brazile A rehu6licon Emperor, from his affection to republics, independent of motives of expedency, must grant to ours the Cy- clop's boon of being the last devoured. While | all this is doing, we are to suppose the chap ter of accidents read out, and that nothing can happen to cut short or to disturb his en- terprises.
 But the Anglomen, it seems, have found out a much safer dependence, than all these chances of death or disappointment That s,that we should first let England plunder us, as she has been doing for years, for fear Buo- naparte should do it ]; and then ally ourselves with her, and enter into the war. A conqur- CT whose career England could not arrest when aided by Russia, Austria, Prussia, Sweden, Spain and Portugal, she is now to destroy, with all these on his side, by the aid of the United States alone. This, indeed, is | making us mighty people. And what is to be our security, that when embarked for her in the war, she will not make separate peace, and leave us in the lurch Her good faith The faith of nation of merchants L. The Punica .fies of modern Carthage Of the friend and protectress of Copenhagen !- Of.a nation who never admitted chapter of mortality into her political code ! And is now boldly avowing, that whatever power can make hers, is hers of right. Money, and not morality is the principle of commerce and commercial nations. But, in addition to this, the nature of the English government forbids, of itself, reliance on her engagements and it is well known she has been the least faith ful to her alliances of any nation of Europe, since the period of her history wherein she has been distinguished for her commerce and corruption, that is to say, under the houses of Stuart and Brunswick. To Portugal alone she has steadily adhered, because, by her Methuin treaty she had made it colony, and one of the most valuable to her. It may be | asked, what, in the nature of her govern ment, units England for the observation of moral dutiese In the first place, her King is | a cypher his only function being to name the oligarchy which is to govern her. The parliament is, by corruption, the mere in strument of the will of the administration. - The real power and property of the govern ment is in the great aristocratcal families of the nation The nest of office being too small for them to cuddle into at once, the contest is | eternal, which shall crowd the other out. For this pun pose, they are divided into two par ties, the Ins and the Outs, so equal in weight that small matter turns the balance. To keep themselves in, when they are in, every stratagem must be practsed, every artifce used which may f1atter the pride, the pas sions or power of the nation. Justice, honor, faith, must yield to the necessity of keeping themselves in place. The question whether measure is moral, is never asked :; but whc- ther it will nourish the avarice of their mer- chants, or the piratical spirit of their navy, or produce any other, effect which may strengthen them in their places. As to en- agreements, however positive, entered into by the Ins, why, they were their enemies they did every thing which was wrong and to reverse every thing they did, must, there fore be right. This is the true character of the English government in practice, however different is its theory; and it presents the singular phenomenon of a nation, the individu- als of which are as faithful to their priv tte engagements and duties, as honorable, as wor- 1 thy, as those of any nation on earth, and whose government is yet the most unprinci- pied at this day known. In an absolute go- vernment there can be no such equiponderant parties. The despot is the government.-l His power suppressing all opposition, main tains his ministers firm in their places. What he has contracted, therefore, through them, he has the power to observe with good faith ;-| and he identifies his own honor and faith with that of his nation.
 When observed, however, that the King