Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1842-05-17
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THE TONE OF THE ENGLISH PRESS.

THE TONE OF THE ENGLISH PRESS.
The tories of England are nearly akin
to the tories of America. They both go |
for strong governments; for encouraging !
monopoies; for distinct orders of society;
and for out-bragging the world. Do the
poor starve! Do the rich become richer,
and the men of easy circumstances poorer.
Ii is all right. Like Mr.. Adams they con-
slider the Caucasian race the kings of the
world, and the r;chEaucasians the lords
of their race. Money with them is power
and sordid oppression a virtue.
We have been not little amused by an
article in the London Age, which is made
up of arrogance and ignorance in equal
parts.
The writer aludes 10 the last war be-
tween the United States and England. and
speaks ofthe splendid victories gained over
the former by the latter, when the latter
was attacked at great disadvantage, being
then at war with Napolean. When and
where were those victories gained? Not
certainly when the Guerrero bowed her
meteor flag to the Constitution. Not surely
when the Java; the Cyane and the Levant;
the Macedonian; the Peacock; the fleets on
lake Ere and Champain; the prizes of
the Essex; the Raindeer and the Avon;
the Frolic; the Boxer; and host Of others
filled with dead, and shattered to frag
ments, followed in the wake Of the naval
American heroes, or went down amid the
storm OF their ocean sepulchres. Nor
was it when Miller went up the bloody hill
side al Lundy's Lane; when Proctor ran
from the Americans at Maiden; when
Plattsburg was made the scene Of Ameri-
can glory; when North Point ebbed with
the groans of the invaders; when Stoning
! ton beat off a fleet; when New-Orleans
was defended by the bravest Of the brave.
Nor was it when American priva:eers beat
off British cruizers, and sailing up the
English Channel, declared the mistress Of
the sea to be in a blockaded state. But a
truce to this. The Age is ignorant of the
Americans, and Of their history. He has
heard that Jonathan can guess and calcu-
! late, but he does not seem TO be aware that
| Jonathan can conquer
If theirs is a war, and we do not believe
Lord Ashburton, with all his cooks, or
| Daniel Webster, with all his wants, can
| prevent ii; the editor Of the age may learn
one day, that the British Isles may be in
vaded; that the discarded and exled own
ers of many Of the landed estates Of Eng
land and Scotland may return TO claim
them; that France, on the one hand, and
Ireland on the other, open their beautiful
roadsteads to American fleets; and that
! another Paul Jones may take tea with the
! Countess Of Selkirk, and lay under con-
tribulon the town of Leith.
A war with England would embroil all
the nations of the world, and then that
power which has, like a leech, drained the
liGe's blood from weaker nations, would
find itself the "Ishmael Of the seas"
She would 60 down, bloody Lion as
she is, amid the charges Of cavalry from
all Lations, and her mobiles, corrupted and
degraded, would perish by the hands Of
her own starving people.
America, however, can conquer her
alone, if she has time. The energies Of
the people of the United States, if once d.
rected TO the destruction Of the mistress of
the world, would in seven years destroy
the very name Of England, and hang
shroud above her throne. We have no de-
sire to lap the warm blood of an enemy,
even if we were treated like pirates by
that enemy in the days Of Revolution, but
we will have peace or immediate battle.
The days Of the Plantagenets, the Pier
cys, and the Wilson's are over. Com
merce and manufactures has killed the ma
tive spirit Of the inhabitants Of the British
Isles, and over the doors Of ST. Stephens
and Westminster we NAV write ICHABoD;
for their glory has departed.