Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-12-14

I Notwithstanding the ISLANDERS of English
tscubbters who have visited this country, the
government and people of Great Britain enter.
tain, we are persuaded the most friendly and
|aifectionate feelings toward sthe UnitedStates:
and yet these cockney travellers have done
more to engender bitter feelings on both sides
OF the water than was effected BY, all the open
quarrels and wars between the two nations.
Good sense and cordiality Of sentiment have at
length brought about a reconciliation which is
soho and We hope permanent. The day is
gone ny when scurvy libeller of this country
lish public. eife p . re
But thereis yet another description Of men,
nor precisely travellers of the Trollope school,
but equal to the worst of them in malior,itv.
who have taken fixed stations in the United
States, who view. with a jaundiced eve, every
thing that is dear to an American heart. eve.
ny thing that seems to conduce to the honor.
the prosperity, and tranquility of the country.
1t would not be safe for such men openly to
llbe! our institutions; nor would it be decent
Tor them, while fattening on the iberality Of the
american public, to express their hatred Of
me United States, OF to avow their violent
Iprepossesslons for every thing that is English
or at least not American. They hope to graft
1 ~ their amnesty In another way. Like Coop
er ofSouth Carolina, the father Qualification
they think they can then wound the people Of
this country by slyly fomcn,ing differences.
Pretesslng neutrality in local politics, they ne
yer fail to take part on the wrong side of a
question, the discussion Of which thew INN
CINE may set the whole country by the cars.
Modification, the slave questions the quarrel
in Tcxas--these are fruitful topics of discourse
with these gentry. They are not Jackson men,
nor Adams men---but they eagerly take up the
cucgels in the buried quarrel Of the nulifcrs,
and argue with violence that South Carolina
would have been Unsuitable in accedino from
the union. In England they would be lana.
tics In the cause of abolition here thew con-
ceivc that the agitation of the same topic NAV
exasperate the public feeling and be followed
by mischievions consequences, and they en-
deavor to persuade the planter that the only
mode OF preserving ispersona and property I'M
touched, is TO dissolve the union
The doctrine Of qualification never had par
tizans in Louisiana. That question had been
settled by the wisdom Of our rulers, and the
unquenchable patriotism and mutual forbear-
ance Of tho south and the north.---lt is not the
time nor the occasion TO recall these disputes
into life. The editor Of the Standard will find
himself mistaken il he supposes he can gain
the good will of any portion ofthis comn,lni-
ty by making tho attempt. What his senti-
mcnts are, we know not, and Gcd forbid we
should undertake to Judge Of his motives. But
we can tell him that the American people are
neither so Ignorant nor so cold-bloodcd as to
be laughed, or Knocked, orbullied into con-
temptuous disregard for the obligations impo-
sed upon them by the constitution. It is not
by blowing away tho ashes and rekindling the
ennbcrs Of this or that long forgotten dispute,
thatany man can make them cease TO bear in
mind the feelings. the recollections, and du-
ties by which theyare bound to This their COM
mon country, South and north, cast and west,
New England and Carolina, we are all Ame-
ricans, all respec' the same star-spangicd bar
ner which shines over and protects us, all are
ready to defend it from SCOTS, from insult, or
nnnn yinlnnce IN q ,ri.ra