Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1841-07-27

ONCE hours OF that day. The instruction
TO Mr.. Criltenden was delivered on the
18th Of March, which was Monday, and a
copy delivered to Mr.. Fox. This was
the answer to the demand and the threat
and thus the answer was given in two
days; for Sunday, as the lawyers call it, is
dies non, that is TO say, no day for busi-
ness; and it is hardly TO be presumed that
an A administration which seems TO be re-
tuning TO the Church and State times of
Queen Anne, had the Office Of the Depart
ment of State open, aud the clerks at
their desks on Sunday, instead Of being
in their pews at church, The answer,
then, was given in two days; and this IN
continent haste to comply with threat
contrasts wonderfully with the delay-the
forty days delay-berore the letter was
written which intended for home consump
tion ;and which, doubtless, was considered
as written in good time, If written in time
TO be shown to Congress at this extra ses-
sion.
Sir, hold it to have been derogatory 10
our national character to have given any
answer at all, much less the one that was
given, while a threat was hanging over
our heads. What must be the effect Of
yielding to demands under such circum-
stances6 Certainly Experimentation
al degradation, and an encouragement 10
Great Britain to continue her aggressive
ing US in the Northeast and the Northwest
she is searching our ships on coast ofAfri-
ca; she gives liberty to our slaves wreck
ed on her islands in their transit from one
Of our ports TO another; she nurtures in
London the societies which produced the
San Domingo insurrsction, and which are
preparing a similar insurrection for US,
and she is the mistress of subjects who
hold immense debts against our States,
and for the payment Of which the nation
al guarantee, or the public lands,are wan
ted. She has many points of aggressive
contact upon US, and what is the effect
of this tame submission-this abject sur
render of Mel cod, without word Of re-
dress for the affair of the Caroline, and
under public threat-what is the effect
of this but to encourage her to press us
and threaten us on every other point?-
1t must increase her arrogance, and en-
courage her encroachments, and induce
her to go on until submission TO further
outrage becomes impossble, and war re
suits from the cowardice which courage
would have prevented. On this head the
history of many nations is full of impress
| nd
of Great Britain. II Isl nation of brave
people; but they have sometimes had
ministers who were not brave, and whose
tmidity has ended in involving their coun'
try in all the calamities of war, after sub
iecting il to all the disgrace of pusllan-
imous submission 10 foreign insult. The
Administration of Sir Robert Walpole
long cowardIy, and corrupt-tyrannlcal a
home and cringing abToad-was sigma
instance of this, and, as a warnlngtO our
selves, will read passage from English
history to show his conduct; aud the con
sequences Of it. read from SmOllet,ant
from his account Of the Spanish depreda
tions, and insults upon English subjects
which were continued the whole term OF
Walpoles Administration, and ended il
; bringing on the universal War, which ra
ged throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and
America, and cost the English people Sc
much blood and treasure. The historian
says:
"The merchants of England loudly
complained of these outrages; the natioI
was fired with resentment, and cried TO
vengeance; but the Minister appeared
cold, phlegmatc, and timOrOus. III
knew that a war would involve him il
such difficulties as must of necessity en-
danger his Administration. The treasure
: which he now employed for domestic
3 purposes must in that case be expende'
t in military armaments; the wheels of tha
J.. machine on which he had raised his in
F.; fluence would no longer move; the OF
n position would of consequence gal
l. ground, and the imposition OF fresh take
necessary for the maintenance OF tn
g war, would flI up the measure OF poPu
. lar resentment against his person an
. ministry. Moved by these consideration
:. he industrously endeavored to AVOID
a rnDture. and TO obtain some sort OF sa'l'
: faction by dint of memorials and negot''
e tions, in which he betrayed his own tear
a to such a degree as animated the Spa
iards 10 presist in their depredaIions, al
encouraged the court Of Madrid to dsr
oard The remonslrances Of the Brllls
: Ambassador"
~ Such is the picture of Walpole's f'
d eigu policy; and how close is the copy '
h. are now presenting of it! Under
en- scourge Of Spanish outrage, he was co
ne phlegmatic, and timorous, and such IS !
"A. conduct of our Secretary under Brit
ny outrage. He wanted the public tressu
,te for party purposes, and neglected
ity public deiences. Our Ministry want
Ill, public lands and the public money
OK dOuceurs to the States, and leave