North American. [volume] (Swanton, Vt.) 1839-1841, 1839-05-01


her. The day Of England's palmy prid
( and power has begun senslblIty TO return
again. The world is no longer, as in for
mer wears, dependant on that pfoclgiou
steam power Of manufacturing indusir.
and skill which she was aoe, by the star
early given her by the moral advantages
her liberal institutions, aud the long gene
raj wars which devastated the rest OF Flu
rope. 10 concentrate within her narrow
rock bound limits.-Her monopoly is be
ginning 10 be broken up, and Eng land ls'nt
longer the common workshop OF the world
The other nations are now manufacturing
for themselves. The modern deyelope
ment and diffusion oc science, and of The
principles of political economy, has vastly
curtaiIed, and is daily diminishing, hel
advantages over the other nations; while
the heavy clogs and disadvantages which
a fearful accumuIatons of misgovernmen,
has gathered around her, are beginning to
make themselves sensibly felt, in the open
competition TO which the general peace
that has so long prevailed subjects her.
In the progress Of manufactures in other
nations, the mine is rapidly advancing ami
spreading, that is sappng the foundations
Of that siupendous but hollow pyramid Of
greatness and wealth. And as for the ar
tifciaI stimulus Of paper money, which has
so long sustained her in her magnificent
career of power and splendor, she has al
ready used it TO the utmost; and from its
nature, when once strained and exhaust
ed, as il has been in this instance, il can
never be available again. She has alrea-
DIV borrowed about four thousand millions
of dollars OF posterity. on paper credit, and
not only can she borrow no more, but an
awful murmur is beginning TO rise from
the vast and dark depths of her oppressed
questioning the rightfuness and
awfuness of that debt already contracted,
Or rather imposed, and impeaching 1t as
vi;aled by fraud-the worst OF
'raud against nation. Men are already
beginning to tremble and quake at the bod
ng sound which is slowly spreading and
swelling upward, till it is destined TO break
orth in thunders OF the righteous wrath OF
he people, and TO consummate sublime
lct which shall forever remain memora-
lie example to nations and their rulers.
Thus situated, can any one suppose such
thing possible as a declaration of war on
he part Of England against the United
States? Suppose the case, that, in the con-
est between the government and the NAL
ontents in the Canadas, we had followed |
he precedent recently set by England her.
elf in the case Of Spain, and frequently
N former occasions; and, without taking |
nj &C INF Ial1 thn
iona resources and national arms-with |
ither party, had folded our arms, declaring
hostile to The genius OF our institutions TO
lteriere with the freedom Of the citizen,
nj h~d nllo-sad both parties tn collect and
rganIZe recruits and means within our
,rritories ad H6stum, and to go and fight
ut their own battles on their own soil as
icy best might, could England have pro-
ounced just cause war? She, at least.
anly could not; and an attack on her
art would have been war Of aggression.
nd for what object? To maintain at the F.;
'lnt Of the bayonet an expensive, inglori- i;
IS, and really mutually disaGvantageous.
lonlal dominion over an unwilling peo- {
2. Would an English Government,
und over as it is Gin Canning's well
own saying) in eight hundred millions Of L
unds to keep the peace, dare to venture r
on such war; And if they should, =
,sld the English people, the Radca I
lhons-a'ded in this instance by the COIN S
ent interest Of the moneyed commercial e
the manufacturing influence, a ~
ment tolerate the idea? To both uues- v
ms we can have no hesitation in return r
an equally unequvocal negative. And .
recover, it is manifest that the very act "
ud be the instant signal for the emanci- ia
ION OF the Canadas, and probably all her -,
nth American colonies-the preserya- ~
Of which is supposed as the very OBJ w