The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-11-13
FAVE WE BEEN BOUGHT UP BY BRITAIN

nBdtain. with her powerful but insidious ,nnn-
ence always successful when purposeiy u're1'ou -
particular object determined upon re'e'sai " 80
government policy, and her tools and corho. .su
have obeyed the behest. We arc deieaisu' - a
Of fraud and falsehood has thrown US IN n"liinAi
minority, much to our disappointment and regts''
So saws the New Era OF this morning, in bewsiiing he
overthrow Of the Van Buren, administration. In the
very breath that the log cabins and hard cioer anu
Tippecanoe songs of the Wings are denounced as
disgusting humbug the Weposterous assertion = hane
that the recent political revolution IN this country mas
been effected, not BY the American people, oo' " oh-
tain -,
Let us look the proprcty OF this charge nomeh'
IL the moneyed arstocracy Of Britain lwho, by the
way, know as much Of the politics OF ,he onneo
States the people of the moon) were IesI{ aesnou
Of efecling a change in our government, "nal "ouu
be the cheapest and most obvious plan they couiu
adopt for the attainment Of such an end Is a mo-
torous fact that many of the parishes and poor
in England and Ireland annually disgorge upon oo'
| shores thousands of Improbable emigrants MANY
thousands Of better class but the tire needy
and for the most part uDeducated, come Of their own
/ accord Would not the foreign consPirators az
our liberties knowing the ease VITA when .he e,ec
tive franchise may be obtained here, naturally seec'
these people as their agents at the ballot boxes
Would they not engage them before they had quilted
their shores by present compensation ana promise y
more to be the instruments of carrying their designs
into effect
Now the fact will not be disputed that nearly nine
tenhs Of the foreigners among vote the administra
ton ticket and Il follows a necessary deduction
that British gold il employed at all, Is employed IN
buying up British born citizens and not NAIVE Anne,
ricans The administration men must either contend
that the former are to be bribed while the latter
are yenal and mercenary race, or they must admit
the Justice Of our position lnasmuch as the Amen
can is generally in less destitute condition than the
emiprant we think, phlosophcay speaking, that the
chances are in favor Of bribing the latter
With Difference TO the New Era, think that the
men whose ancestors bled in the Of freedom and
who have enjoyed all their lives long the chartered IL
berries Of our glorious Constitution, quite likely
to refuse to barter them for British gold those per
sons would he who have been born under British In.
sttutons, who have imbibed British prejudices and
who have lef behind them in Britain, ties of kindred
and of association which ought, under all changes, to
incline their hearts toward their native land
But what ridiculous aspersion upon the people 81
this young and mighty and affiuent republic II is tc
they have been brought up by of the lettering
debt ridden dynastics ofthe old world What idea
that the aIstocrats of England instead of relieving
their own starving mechanics and hungry laborers-
instead Of scattering their superauous farhings among
the otous radicals and Chartss who threatening
to cut their throats ould send TO this free and
bountfu land to buy up the doubtful votes of oul
thriving and well fed burghers And for what alas
it passes our philosophy 10 tell.
Away, then, with the wretched cant, the preposte.
lie the boated absurdity that Britain has elected
General Harrison President Of these United States
that Britain has reversed governmental policy.
| 1t ID dirty libel the American people-on the
American Constitution--on human nature itself;
libel, which none but idiots could credit and which
none but knaves and fools could have invented IN
| Y. Signal.