Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-06-06
MONDAY MORNING. JUNE s, 1851.


generous as it is characteristic. Their orators
and their poets have We'd with each other, in re-
cordips the hOnOrs of our heroes and statesmen.
We are led to these observations by the perusa
Of speech delivered at late meeting In Belfast.
by MIR. EMERSON; from which we make the fol-
lowing extract:
Mr.. Emerson, being called on, spoke to the
following effect:
On occasions of this kind. when the preserva-
ton of their common liberties induces men
to assemble together for the interchange OF
ideas, and the strengthening of principles Of
action, il is usual to call to their recollection
those fundamental maxims of natural law which
form the basis of all human liberty and all ma
tlonal justice. Experience has taught US, that,
however monotonous the reiteration'Of these may
appear, it is still fraught with incalculable adj
vantages; and that, like the Bismlllah OF the Ma
hometans, the '.invOcauon OF heaven" with
which the Arab Prophet has commenced each
chapter Of the Koran, the names of ''Liberty'
and Justice shoulc be pcrpetually sounding
IN the ears Of freemen With these we are ac-
cus;omed to associate the memory Of men whose
energies have been devoted to the cause OF man.
kind, and whose lives have been each long apos-
tleship of philanthropy These are sentiments
which find an echo in every bosom; these are
names which require no labored panegyric to elicit
admiration. What eulogium, IN fact, could ex
alt the characterize a Washington: or what enco-
miums could add honor to his memory. who has
the freedom of hemisphere for his living cpl
taph, and one half the solid world his monument.
Loud cheers.) There is no occasion on
which the memory OF that great man can be so
appropriately introduced as at meeting like the
present; the grandest, the most practical reform
er the universe ever produced was George Wash
ineton. He found his countrg 1.-THE widest in the
wOrldl a mere servile province, at the mercy OF
a distant island; he left 1t the admiration of mo-
dern times, and the rival Of ancient freedom: he
found it unrepresonted, misgoverned and Op-
pressed; he left it senate constltltJiS9c a4BA
despotisn had Nddenied it the advantages of COM
merre, had demolished its factories as "nui-
sances,'' and forbade it the possession Of manu-
features, lest they should loosen its dependen-
cy on the mother country;" he left it in the en-
ioyment of all the traffic of the known world,
and with an export trade of g25, 0OO, 900 per
aunum. He found America in reality in state
Of paupersm, since ITS naughty mistress claimed
the right Of appropriating its property as she
pleased; he left il free, independent, uncontrol-
led, and in receipt of revenue equal to R1S,-
600, 900. --(Cheers.) When men will ask us
what we wish to accomplish by "Reform," let
US point to the achievements of Washington: let
us show them country free from that insidious
remnant Of the superstition of darker age, a
pampered Preiacy, and domineering Church
Establishment. Loud and continued appause.)
Let US show them men who scorn to intrust their
liberties to the guardianship of hereditary legis-
lators: who have cut of from their constitution
the incubus Of a $. second estate" and who can
protect their property without the assistance of
race of
,''Tenth ,ransmi.,ers Of foolish face"
Let Us point to people who spurn the idea of
impoverishing uine younger brothers to confer
name and an inheritance upon tenth. who can
boast no other presidency than the accident of
;iuctions OF blood, and who worship no aristo-
cracy save that Of virtue and talent. Loud
cheers.) Let US show them people, the pageant
of whose government costs about $4,000 year,
and let them contrast it with our own Civil List
Of upwards Of gl,O00, 900; a country whose mi
litary establishment in peace costs about $780,
600, while that of Great Britain exceeds S4.-
OOO, O0O!--a country whose efficient navy is
maintained for R7O0, 600 year, while the wood
en- walls of old England, no longer her superior,
are scarcely kept in repair for more than ten
tunes the amount.-(Cheers In fine, let us
show them a country, without national debt,
without sinking fund, and without a sinecure
list; country where the taxes Of the subject are
about So. per annum; aud If the inquirer be still
dissatisfied, let Us refer him to his corrupt houses
of Parliament-to his Custom Returns-and bis
Chancellor's Budget, and they will tell him. in
more explicit terms than we can. what we wish
to see accomplished by Reform Loud cheers
These are the achievements that consecrate the
name of Washington, and have won for him,
from grateful people, the proud title Of the
" NAN first in war. first in peace, and first in
the hearts Of his countrymen.'
sThe New York Evening Post of "Wednesday,
in noticing the rumor that Mr.. Buchanan of this
State, had received the Office Of the Russian Mis-
sion, says:
ave suspect there is about as much founda-
ton for this rumor, a. there was for the one so
confidently thrown before the public few days
since, that Mr.. Van Buren, would leave this |