Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1831-02-09
.M,. Editor-I have been much inter-

by Mr.. Broughan to his constituents in
York shire, few weeks before his re-
cent elevation to the peerage.-The ex-
preston ofhis sentiments respecting war,
and the allusion made to our own Wash
ington, will no doubt prove generally in
teresting, and l send it for insertion in
your valuable paper. Z.
"I have securities for it, and | will
tell you what they are. First of all, the
noble Duke is not mad and frantic, like
the King of France; my next security is,
that we are bound over to keep the peace
in heavy recognizances-8OO millions is
the amount of our recognizances.-I
(Cheers.) have no fear that we shall
break them. j have also third sccurl-
ty, before me it stands unrolled in the
plainest colors. Three voices were rails
ed'in favor of the persecution OF 1920,
which was instituted to satisfy klng s.
caprice. ] do not think that there WI be-
a single voice that will dissent from the
proposition that | am now going to ad-
vance, that the minister, who on pretence
OF preserving social order-ior there al
ways must be pretence for going to-
war-or of protecting the establishment
of Church and State, as if they could be
better protected thanby the heartfelt con-
currence of free people-or OF shew-
ing pity for an august and fallen mon
arch, as some people may call him, but
whom | will take the liberty of calling
an enraged and frantic tyrant-or from
sympathy for the weakest government
which ever challenged the pity, or ex-
tortcd the contempt ofmankind-lndeed,
from sympathy to that ministry to arm
this country, | defy any man to do 1t.
No man, ! repeat, will dissent from this
proposition, that the minister who should
send, will not say one irgate, but a
single deal boat, or single instruction
to a single ambassador to interfere IN
their behall-and stop not to inquire
whether those we have already there
have done their duty to England, or have
BETRAYED their duty and disgraced their
country by taking part to the extent they
have done-would be doomed to the
loss, | will not say of what he ought to
lose. but to the certain and inevitable loss
of his character, and of what he would
peradventure value still more, OF his
place. (Cheers.) Don't let it be imagln-
ed that, when | say that England is
bound over in heavy recognizances, l
am either so faint-heared or so weak
headed as to hold that we, burdencd as
we are with debt, crippled as we are
Al ia taI
long war, and not refreshed with long
peace, groaning under many privatlons,
and with many abuses to correct; do not
imagine that | doubt for one moment
that we have not hearts and hands too
left, if any foreigners should dare to IN
wade us, to repel such insult, and to trl,
umph over them as our forefathers have
repeatedly triumphed over them before
But my principles-& know not wheth'
er they agree with yours-they may be
dcrided, they may be unlashlohable, bu
hope they are spreading far and wide
nv princi les arc summed up in one wore
which was often uttered by noble pat
riot of yours in the cruel war, through
the miseries and deiormities OF which
you obtained the great commonwealth
which you now enjoy: my principles arr
contained in the words in which tina
great man, cavalier though he was
7Lord Falkland), was used to expires
in secret, and which | now express II
public, peace, peace, peace, l abom
mate war as unchristian-l hold 1t tn
greatest of human crimes deem 1t t
include all others, violence, blood, rap
inc, fraud, every thing which can dc
form the character, alter the nature, an
debase the name of man. There Is onl
one case that can Justify it-there is or
" one occasion which makes it othe
than a crme-that is self-deience. VI
own delcncc-thc defence OF our coul
try--the defence of freedom, and notf
ING else-on no other terms IS war an
thing but n sin;-and l shall close the RI
marks which | have to make on this sui
ject, by reminding you of the illustr'o'
legacy which was bequcathd to his reli
tive and successor by a glorious patrl
of the new world, who, having been
oually eminent in the cabinet and II
field, was raised to supreme power by Il
unboueht voices of that country which !
had served, s. savcd--l can w ashingto
who, after having been lifted to tn
proud cmincncc, laid down the sccPt
which his country had given him, wh'
he found that he could not WELD 1t co
sistcntly with the liberty OF the count
which he had gained. lie bcqueath'
to his nephew, being childless himsc
the sword which he had carried durl
all the American war, 'and with II,
.aid shenr this Injunction ,-but II Is