Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1841-03-24

Good Laws won't require much TO aid them;
push the Common School principle, and that
always makes good laws and militia too; for it
creates common interest. Give your soldiers
"quarter sections" Of land in Canada, and put
them all on half pay, to aid them in clearing up
ground for year or two, and they will soon
become profitable citizens, instead Of paid SOL
ders. And then what consequences is it
to England's gloly or England's happiness
whether they choose to live under laws of their
own and pay their own taxes; so long as they
speak and pray in plain English, and extend
the blessings of human liberty and comfort; two
words that are only known to that tongue, and
can't be written or clearly understood by any
other. Swarms of the old Hive, who are ready
to cavil and dispute among themselves on minor
points, but in any great contest between liberty
and oppression, are always true to the main
chancesOuud lars, liberty, and good order.
This is the doctrine that should prevail at the
old Hue. II makes no odds in what quarter Of
the world these swarms may go, they are part
and parcel of the mother Stock, land any quar-
rel between them and their old Mother is scan
dal, and should be avoided if possble---for, as
they prosper, so you prosper---if they fall, you
mag falkland who can then tell what lingo
shall be lar. Foreigners may get uppermost all
the world over; and when that is the case, |,
for one, if living, would just as leave be in Ara
By as any where else; for one place is just as
unsafe as any other, when folks don't speak
plain English.
This doctrine, perhaps, won't suit some folks,
but the time is come to speak out truly and
frankly.-The AnglO-Saron family, wherever
located must be true to themselves, TO their laws,
their religion, and their notion of human liberty
-or foreigners may triumph. We should tell
all nations to keep the peace, or we will make
| them do so,-and if we walk in among 'em, it
is only to teach 'em English and steam pow
er, and by common schools and other improve
ments put aside human oppression.
| send you with this a copy of Gen. Harri-
sons Inaugural address to our folks, just before
he took the oath to administer, as President,
the laws of the United States
1t is considered here a considerable complete
document, In It's way-setting forth general
principles---and when Congress meets he will
give his notions more particularly on matters
that Congress is likely to act on.
! Times here at present in the money way are
not very good, owing to the fact that your coun-
try and our country both about the same time,
some five years ago, took a notion to limit the
power of their two respective paper money reg
ulators supposing it would make matters bet
ter-but the experiment proved otherwise. The
new Banks in both countries puff'd the bladder
till it burst and then want of confidence follow
ed---and very high prices fell to very low prices
land credit came down to hard cmrency---for
credit and confidence is pretty much like steam,
which can lift mighty piston rods and turn big
wheels, but when cold breath is thrown upon
it and it is condensed, its power is reduced to a
small quantity of cold water. But foreign ma
tions mustn't think because your country and
my country can't pay all debts, in gold and sill
yer on demand, that we areIpoor and can't pay
debts, or fight for rights You fought and hck'd
pretty much all creation Except us) with paper
money, and we can do that too on pinch, and
continue fighting and then ,oorking, till we bring
our paper money to the value of gold, just as
you did
If write you another letter, will tell you
the best and most economical way for you to
spend your money in this quarter of creation,---
but for the present, depend on it the ,OOrSt use
you can make of it is to spend it on troops in
Canada, or building war steamers on the Lakes,
or organizing niger regiments in the West In
dies. And if you don't think so now, you will
before you hear more from your obedent SER
want.
]. DOWNING.
-, r. p