Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1837-12-02
NO. 81.

moment a colony OF dependency Of Great Dsi.
tain. This was the grand rorcommitted BY
the Tories when they made war upon Amssi-
ca In 1914. They had sent over secret ..
gent. q man named John Henry, for the pur-
pose Of embarrassing the Government Of tho
United States, and il possible, Of effecsinga
breaking up of the Union. The President
communicated this fact to Congress, and il
was one Of those things for which the Amsri-
cans never have, and never will forgive US.
That Captain Henry,--for the spy was esp
tain,---found the cities all inclined towards
England; whilst the country people were for
war, because their relations had been i'm.
pressed on the high seas, by the British, ons
Of American vessels, and logged because they
refused I'd fight against their own coantryD
the paper-money people, and all the CONNER
cial interests in connexion with England in
the cities, preached up submission, deprecated
war, accused the President, Madison, with Sic
ding with France, and formed a couUenfion, at
the suggestion Of Captain Henry, with tho
Eastern States, under the auspices Of Sir Jas.
Henry Craig, Governor Of Canada! for the
purpose Of splitting up the States, or compell-
ing the President 70 dessist from war; hut the
country people prevailed, and war was decla-
red. These cities, in fact, had been plotting
Nor years to counterfeit the Federal Govern
ment in every step against the acts Of English
Ministry. All these great cities are places
chiefly of external commerce. The merchants
are connected with merchants and mannfac-
thrers of England by ties Of interest The
commerce Of America is more than half Of it
carried on to and from England. The Eng
lish are the creditors Of those in America; and
vsry frequently an apparently great merchant
there is little more than an agentin carrying
on trade. and apparently owning ships for the
benefit Of the English merchant, who 10 the
real owner of the money and of the ships. In
fact, the great merchants Of such towns as N:
York look upon England as their country
much more than they do America. How much
light does this view of the case throw upon
the recent conduct of the bankers, &c. in the
America cities! They would, in fact, sacri-
flee all Americas at any time to propitiate Eng
laud. There was remarkable instance Of
this during the last war, which was underta-
ken for the express purpose of annihilating tho
American navy, and in which our Tories fail
ed, to the great amusement of the Courts Of
Petersburgh and Vienna.
On the 18th of September, 1911, Admiral
Cochrane, commanding forty sail Of slips, in-
Guiding sixteen bomb vessels, smiled up the
river l'atapSco, against the city OF baItlmore.
He landed General Ross at North Point,
few miles from the city, with eight thousand
veteran soldiers, from Spain, and marines.
The merchants, paper money men, and others,
wished to capitulate, as Alexandra had done,
and bring off the invaders, but the farmers all
around the country kept pouring in for it's de-
fence. Some Of them came mora than one
hundred and fifty miles from the back parts,
upon their own horses, without provisions,
without clothes, except that upon their backs,
without any thing, except their swords and
trusty rifles. Thus fortified, the people Of tho
city rallied, and were ashamed Of the vile in
tentions of the merchants and bankers. Capt.
Ross was shot at the very onset by . LITTLE
BOY, who fred of rife at him from out Of .
| pine scrub; and the Americans having got to-
ge,ber from every farm about the country, In
three days the forty sail and the eight thous-
and veteran soldiers, minus Captain Ross and
"a few score more, sneaked off from Baltimore
and out Of the Patapsco. These are fscts
which ought TO be known here, but whether
they are Or not, they are we'll known In Anne
Irica.