Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1840-11-19
WHOLE No $50,
The Signal, neutral print, holds tho
following language upon the contempti-
BILE nonsense about "Brilish Gold :"
Have we been bought mp by
EBritaine

Have we been b0Mgit mp by
Britain.
Britain, with her powerful but in
sidious influence, always successful when
purPosely directed to a particular object,
determined upon reversal OF our gov
ernment policy, and her tools aud cor
moranls here have obeyed the bchesi.
We are defeated The force of fraud
and lasehood has thrown us in nom,n-
al minority, much to our disappointment
and regret"
! So says the New Era Of this morning,
in bewallng the overthrow of the Van
Buren administration. In the very breath
that The log cabins aud hard cider and
JIppecanoe songs OF the Whies are de-
nounced as disgusting humbUg, the
preposterous assertion is made that the
recent political revolution IN tins country
has been effected, not by the American
people, bmby Britain!
Let US look at the propriety of this
charge II moment. IL the innneyed
arisiocracy Of Britain who. by the way,
United States as the people OF the moon
were really desirous of efiectlng
change in our government, what would
be the cheapest and most obvious plan
they could adopt for The attainment Of
such an end! 1t is a notorious fact, that
many OF the parishes and poor houses IN
England and Ireland annually dirgorgo
upon our shores thousands of unproila-
bic enIgrsnts. Many thousands OF
better class, but at the same time needy,
and Tor the most part, uncducated, COINS
Of their own accord. Would rot the
foreign conspraiors against our liber-
ties, knowing the ease with which the
elective franchise may be obtained here,
naturally select these people As their
agents at the ballot boxes? Would
they not engage them, before they had
quilted their shores, by present compen-
salon aud promise oi more, To he the
instruments OF carrying their designs into
effect?
Now the fact will not be disputed t'M
neatly nlne tenths OF The foreigners
among us vote the administration ticket,
that Brush gold, if employed at all, Is
employed IN buying up British born citl-
Zens and not native Americans. The
administration men must either contend
that the former are not 10 be bribed,
while the latter ale venaI and mefce-
nary race, or they must admit The justice
oi our position. 1nasInucb as the Amer
lean is generally in II less destitute con-
dl,ion than the emigrant, we think, PHI
los"ph,calIy speaking, that the chances
a,e III favor Of brlblng the latter.
With Difference 10 the New Era, we
think that the men whose ancestors bled
III the cause OF ire edom, aud who have
enjoyed all their lives long The chartered
lluelirs of our glorious Constitution, are
quite as likely TO refuse TO barter them
iur British gold as those persons would
be who have been under British instnu-
tons, who have iinbibed British preludI-
ces, and wac have left behind them ~
Britain, Ties of Kindred and OF associa-
u9n, which ought, under all changes, to
incline their hearts towards their native
Land.
But what IA ridiculous aspersion upon
the people oltbis young mighty and atRu-
cnt republic IT to is say they have been
bough, upby one of the ,ol,erlng debt
ridden dynas,i.s Of the old world! What
an idea! that Tho aristocras Of Eng gland /,
instead of receiving their own starving
! mechanics and hungry laborers-ins'ead
OF scattering their superfluous farthIngs
among the iiotols radicals and ChartIsls,
/ who are IL eaienIng to cut lnew ihroais,
- should send to thus freedom and beau
llfhI land to buy up The doubtful votes Of
our thriving and woil-led burghers!-
And for what? alas! 1t passes our phi
losophy 10 tell.
+. Away, then, with the wretched cant,
the preposIerous lie, the bloatcd absurdi-
ly, that Britain has elected Gen. Ha,ri-
son President OF these United States
that Britain has reversed our govern
ment policy" ii is Il duty libel on .he
American people-on the American
Constitutional Oh huunan nature itseli a
libel, which none but idios could credit,
aud which none but knavus aud fools
could have invented.