The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1841-12-28
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! this brutal tra be Fand whose subjects, IN uect vo'
| lafion of those spulations are with the knowieose
| of their own Governments, largely engaged III 'ne
slave trade, would do TO terminate this ia'a'
obstacle to African civilization than another vo,ume
of acts of Parliament "If" said the Duke OF wei
lneton in oppos rg tee act we have SO frequently TO-
ierred 10, the Government had taken the more many
course ofdeclaring they would 60 to war WIN ,h"Gs s
powers who had refused or negeceuto pe'ioiu'
treaties with this country, there could De no uoup
that by return of post they wouldleaIn that hey nau
ell, cled the object viii noble lords opposite neu -
view !; and elecilng that obJ,ct' we may ~
England would get rid uf all such disagieeapie sun
Jtcs as the right Of search
| So that YOU may consider this question slsposed OIL
for the present
The Chronicle, the organ Of the late admlnistra-
on ia an article in reply to the Times, thus speaks OF
the proposition to prosecute Mr.. OConneil Tor .he
reasonable publication of letter from one Of MS
American Correspondents,
The Times favors us with the substance of letter
! from Albany, the reading Of which by Mr. OSohneil
| Is said to constitute treason 30 lar we agree WIN
the Times that IT the sub lance o the ieuet "tr'
reasonable and Mr. O'Connel promulgated It, ne
would he responsible for the treason mt bu' th'
letter which is given contains not one word oil whal
any man of common sense can imagine 10 be treason,
| or sedon, any thing worse than rhouohoh-
| tade. The account gwen OF lis pupilca'loh ny he
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new .paper which is called his organ 50 that whenthe
! Ttmes gels the government Of Ireland into ITS hands
Mr.. OConnell Is 10 be prosecuted Tor hiSh treason,
because newspaper which he Is SAID to influence
! publishes nonsensca letter from the United States
But this letter is to promote another OF tue DARING
objects of the Times-naney, an American war
| Such letters, we are told, must inevitably Involve
the British Government in precisely the same icul-
ties with the United States as recently occurred IN tue
| case of the Caroline and NJ Lo5 That Amer can
-. hall f,I,p Ia Il
1 being cGecually restrained by their federal govern
meni is not TO be endured How is The federal gov
eminent of the United States 10 prevent IT'S subjects
| from writing violent letters to Ireland Wecan con
ceive only means namely, censorship oil private
| eitcrs-a device Which no human folly had ever pre-
| viously conceived II We insist on the federal gov
eminent exercising such restraint over lis suoJ'cts
that government will certainly have nm equal right 10
call ours TO prevent ITS subjects Wnhg ietlefs on
| any question the moong of which It may choose Ia
regard as subyersye of its institutions and internal
order. 1t American Is 10 write letters expressive
| OF sympathy with the Irish Repealers, our abolition
lists to encourage their fellow laborers IN
Ilnerica by heir correspondence our fine gentlemen
must give over filling their letersio /" Wing cores
| pondents in the U ned States with drnuncatlons 9'
| Republican institutlons and our newspapers NUS
not be allowed to insert the charming lucublauons, IN
which their correspondents suggest lille plans otarm-
| ing negroes and organizing Indians to faNaSe ana
| murder our allies in the United States.
There Is DllternesSoi leellng mahHesteu w soihc
Of the newspaper paragraphs, which, as far as can
Judge, is felt BY but few people in this country and
it will do great injustice to the British public 10 sup
pose that these violent denunciations Of -Anericapp
are fair opponents Of public sentiment.
Ienclose you an extract from the Liverpool Chro-
nice, in reply to one of these malevolent articles,
from which YOU will see that if we abused by one
party we are defended by the other
From The Lirerpooi Chronicle.
THE MAIL AND THE AMERICANS.
What monsrosities have been practsed under the
sacred of Religion 1t has been held to Justify
the most neiarious designs the blacklist injustice the
direst cruelty the most sweeping butchery Avail.
ing themselves Of the habual respect with which all
good regard religion in the abstract, Kings have
found it a convenient cloak for monsrous tyranny,
statesmen for huge rascay, and soldiers have desc
lated countries by fire and sword under the preext of
extending its influence In our own days every " ho-
ss than thou y knaye with ,ssh .n eo S s
essentials of religion hope by outrageous :. bether-
ing in its behalf, to pass muster amongst the unco'
righteous and feather their nests the weak and the
credulous. This is essentially the age of cant Its
distinguishing, its most disgusting feature, is that
words rather than deeds, noisy and impuden vapour-
ing about superior personal piety rather than pure
and rreproachable private conduct, are held as ex-
ceent substitutes for vital Christianity
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of humbug can be carried. We might safely leave
the eccentrcites in which contemporary delights
to work their own cure--the bane and antdote to 20
/ together for, with flowing and graceful STYLE Of
composition, almost the perfection of newspaper
writing, he habituay INDUCES in a greater amount
of positive absuIlity, elaborated fstian and mali
/ cious inyective than-a bold word the most rabid
Tory writer of the day His writings too are tnged
with ierocity of disposition almost demoniac and a
cant about religion absolutely nauseo,Is The recent
IarttI nv tha ~ "a
Franklin, has enabled him to display perfection the
attributes to which we aude Mr. M'Neile it APP
pears, has been too liberal for him, Franklin. ac-
cording to the Mails estimate of that great mans
character, was an old, presumptuous and heartless
dcist !" his moral and political principles had their
origin in craftiness and Discrimination in arrogance
pride, fraud and perjury" As to his great discovery
in electricity, it piracy he borrowed the idea
from German book lent him BY a tailor ., His in
dustry was vice, it sprung from greedy and ava
rlcous love of money" These are hard words and
foul charges, my masters not the less hard and foul
for being, beyond mere gasconade, unsupported by a
title of proof or attempt at proof against charac-
ter whom men of all creeds, conditions and countries
! have consplred to eulogse But Washington the
greatest name in American annals one of the great
est as he was unqucstionaby one of the most single
minded men that lived, fares no better His
censor says, :" the love of democratica institutions
has made angels OF common rutfans, propagated an
admiration for imporS and cheats if the, had been
apostles, and placed laures on the brows of men who
should hare been hung y Washington was G a cheat
ahpocrite and an inpoaer." His memory ought tc
be held in eXecraon by every true lover of freedom
But the climax refers to his presidential successors
Some OF whom sod their o'rn children, others, ol
the sake of gain made cinder wenchcS and chm-coDer
! cftteir oicn offspring &c. &c"
Now, the INST question which every reader will ma
turally ask himself on reading this connection OF Stu
pid and malicious trash is, what object the wicl
have in vomiting forth such ridiculous scurriltv ant
blackguardlsm against men who regarded Ivy then
countTymen with feelings of the deepest reverence
and by men of all parties with respect if not with ad
mraton Why, his object in thus slandering III,
greatest and most dlsnteres,cd benedcors of monknt
is, iorsooth, to rvcreligon Most persons will ina
CINE that a writer boiling over with such religion.
zeal, exempying in his own erson its excessive pu
rty and truth might effect his object quite as well by
endeavolng TO encourage generous sym athv he