The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-11-02
SYMPTOMS OF CRAVEN wEAkNEss.

has. betrayed weakness ana puSillanlmIty which
must bring down upon il the SCOTS aud derision
of the civilized world. The adoption of such
means TO dim the fame Of the bold spbits who
were endowed by nature with the ability to as
sert successfully the rights of man, and TO ac-
complish great moral and political reforms, can
never secure the unworthy end in view; for all
men OF sense, all lovers Of liberty, will expali-
ate the more, for such Sights, on the mertorious
actions of those whom the aristocrats attempt
to debase. The statue Of Brutus was thus
treated on one occasion in Rome but the ob-
sence Of the statue of such an ilustrious man.
from such comparatively unworthy assemblage,
was greater distinction and honor than could
otherwise have been conferred upon him.
But the unqualified hostility of the British
Government to all innovators in behalf Of the
People, when in hostility to the established in
situations, has ever been unequivocaIly mani
Tested. Wat Tyler Jack Cade, &C., who were
natures Republicans, have been represented as
ignorant and proAigate rufiians, and crimes of
such an enormous magnitude have been inn
puted to them by hired historians. and Others
as to attach TO their memory the execrations and
adherence Of all British subjects. All such
charges are maliciousIy false; for men who
would make the attempts they did for the bene-
fit Of mankind, were actaated by far nobler and
purer motives than their calumnialors. We
have been led 10 these reflection, by reading
the following article:
From the philadelphia Public Ledger
OLIVER CRoMwELL.-The miserable spite of the
present British Government, in excluding the statue
of Oliver Cromwell from the capitol, is a subject
which concerns not the British nation only. II con-
Germs the people OF the United States; every com-
munity composed of the Anglo Saxon race The
people of the United States have e6icial govern
mental concern with this affair They cannot,
through their government, IghtfuIiy complain of 1t
10 the British government for every nation has the
sole right Of managing its internal affairs. But
while they have DO political right the subject
they have, people, moral right to address the
public opinion Of the world upon it, to express freely
their opinions about its moral right wrong. We
are descended from the English nation were part
of it till the Declaration of Independence and more
especially we descended from that very portion
OF the English nation who elevated Cromwell 10 the
sovereignty, and Of whose political opinions he
the representative, The New England States espe- |
ciaIy, from which have descended almost onehalf
of the present native white population of the Union,
rianS and Republicans who co operated with Crom-
well in the rescue Of English liberty. Therefore tie
history of England, to the Declaration of Independ-
ence, is history, and the history # Cromwell and
his generation is the history far it goes of cur
civil and religious liberty Surely then we have
right TO speak in common with the British nation, |
upon every thing appertaining to common histo-
~ before separation, and 10 protest. before the
world, against any attempts ofthe British Government
o defame those whose reputation is part of our own.
Have any interest in the fame Of VIM Penn, or
John Robinson, Carver or Bradford, or Peters, or
Vane, Standish, ary others Of the great and
good men who laid in the wilderness the foundations
Of this great republic? Then have we likewise in
that of Ppm, Of Hampden of Milton, Of Waller, of
Fairfax, Of Harrison, of Bradshaw, Of Cromwell of
all those master spirits who rescued English liberty
from the sword of the political and TIE rack and the
stake of the ecclesiastical tyrsnt and enabled it TO
grow aud flourish in this land of its adoption till it
reflects back its light and its warmth upon the land Of
lis birth The fame of Cromwell, and Of his ASSOC
cates in the prostration Of tyranny and the punish
ment OF tyrant, is part Of legacy and if
kindred the other side of the ocean will not be
true to Htv trust in guarding it, let not such nfidety
ever be imputed to
We have already referred to the decision of the
committee for ornamenting the British capitol, as
involving great historical absurdity q falsifcs-
ton of historical records, which supposcs extinc-
ion, humiliation Of the English nation for period
IF nine years We have also referred to the sup
posed ground Of this exclusion, the alleged u.urpa-
ion Of Cromwell, a sufficient reason for excluding
numerous body Of English kings and queens. As
an affair OF taste, 1t IS quite as exceptioDable
affair Of historical fidelity for affair of TASTE it
insult TO every Englishman who acknowledges the
right Of the present royal family to the throne who
prefers limited TO absolute monarchy. What would
have been the present condition Of England bad Chas
trumphcd over the popular splrit' The is,o
would have been abolished, TO make room for the
ciri iss OF Continental Europe code much less favor
able to popular rights. The Protestant Church would
have been abolished and the Catholic established in
IFS place, with power as despotic and ercey and
exercised as II has been in Spain
All representative legislation would have been abo
ished, the Commons would have sunk TO The condi-
ton Of Austrian subjects, the nobility would have
become like that Of France before the revolution Of
1883, mere appendages of the court, and the crown
would have been absolute, the maker, expounder and
executor OF the laws We shall be told that English
spirit would not have borne this. But English spirit
was the offspring Of English liberty and had English
liberty been crushed, this spirit would have died.
And who saved it, Cromwell and his associates
They rescued English liberty they saved the English
and enabled it to reach the present day
as ii came. We shall be told that Crom
wells government abolished, and the monarchy
restored in the OF this very tyrant, Charles 4
But rhai monarchy Not the absolute monarchy
which Charles attempted TO establish, and which
Cromwell and his associates promoted but that fee
monarchy WHICH NromwcIl and hrs associates prsefr
ed, by rescung the principles and charters and nsl
tutons on which IT was founded. The change from
the profectora Of Cromwell to the of Charles
ii, was merely change Of names for while the
royal Jn iy was restored TO the throne, the restora
ton upon those foundations Of freedom which The
rebek and rgicides and republicans bad saved. And
the very first fruits of this restoration the sbo
tion of the remaining feudal tenures, and the en-
largcment OF the Habeas Corpus victories which
could not have been gained without the previous vic
tories of Cromwell at Nsseby and Dunbar And
what enabled the English people to triumph after
wards another rant, IN the great revolution Of
1882 The freedom which had been rescued from
Charles by Cromwell and his associates. And thus
If England be now a free country and Proesiont
country, every Protestant Engi,shnan who values bis
freedom, ought TO revere the name Of CROMWELL
Where thou IS hia good taste, independently Of his
gratitude, in toleraing this insult to the memory Of
his greet benefactor'
II this specimen Of poot malignity originated with
the present royal family, it will be stamped upon
them by all enlightened posteri,y seal OF their