Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1843-12-07
(From the Baltimore American.
THE REV SYDNEY SMITH ON REPUDIATION.

THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH ON REPUDIATION
The Rev. SYDNEY SMITH, whose petition e
Congress on the subject of reputation excited
so much interest on both sides Of the Atlantic
from its tcrseness and point, has addressed q
letter 10 the London Morning Chronicle on
the same subject, which is distinguished by
the authors well-known characteristics Of
style. 1t may be of some service to repudia-
tors TO know what is thought and said of them
by suchsa man rs the Rev. Sydney Smith.
Among other things he says:
Il am no enemy to America. loved and
admired honest America when she respected
The law of pounds, shiings and pence; ard
thought the United States the most magnifi-.
cer7 picture of human happiness. meddlc
nos in these matters because ! hate frapd---be.-
cause | pity the misery j, has occssioned--g,
because mourn over the hatred it has excited
against free institutions.
Among the discussions 10 which the moral
lnbrcitles of this insolvent people have given
birth. they have arroga,ed TO themselves the
right OF sitting in judgment upon the. prop
eriy Of their creditors--of deciding who a
mong them is rich, and who poor, and who
are proper objects of compassionate payment:
but IN Tie name of Mercury, the great god of
thieves, did any man ever hear OF debtors al
eging the wealth of the lender as a reason
for eluding the payment of the loan Is the
Stock Exchange place for the tables of the
money blenders is it school for moralsts,
who may amerce the rich, exalt the poor, and
correct the inequalities of fortune -
''But the only good par, of this bad moral
ity is not acted upon. The rich are robbed,
Int al.
the dividends of Dives, and don't lick the
sores of Lazarus. They seize, with loud ac-
CARNATIONS, on the money bags of Jones,
Lloyd, Roihschild and Barring, but they do not
give back the piltance of the widow, and the
bread of tho child.--Those knaves of the set
ting sun may call me rich, for have twen-
,cth part of the income of The Archbishop OF
Canterbury but the curate of the next parish
IS wrctched soul, bruised by adversely and
the three hundred pounds for his children,
which it has taken his life to save, is, eaten
and druken by the mean men of Pennsylvania
by men who are always talking of the vir-
tue and honour Of the United States---by men
who soar above others in what they say. and
sink below all nations in what they do--whoi
after floating on the heaven of defamation,
fall down 10 feed on the oAal and garbage OF
the earth"
The following passages are as severe as
language could well make them-whether
mere mere severe than lust we leave the reader to
is quite time to have things called by their
right names-since under the euphonious
term, rcpudiatiOn, some may lose sight Of the
enormity Of an act Of swind!ng perpetrated
by Commonwealth. If additional hagrancy
can be added to dishonesty beyond its own
inherent turpi,ude, such aggravaton is exhib-:
tied when State, exercising the functions OF
legislation and of jurisprudence in the name
OF justice, and claiming to be one among the
civilized and christian communities of the
world, deliberately violates its faith, and by
lis voluntary act dcfles the fountain of its
own Justice at the source of legislation. But
we leave the English satirist TO speak
never meet a Penn
sylvanian AT Il London dinner without a dis
position To seize and divide him to alot his
beaver TO one sufferer and his coat to another
to appropriate his pocket handk erchief to
The orphan, ami 20 comfort the widow witli
his silver walcl!, Broadway rings. and the
London Guide, which he always carries in his.
pockets. How such man can set himself
down 10 all English table, without feeling that
he owes two or three pounds To every man hi
company, am at il loss to conceive he has
no more right to eat with honest men than i.
| leper has 10 eat with clean men If he has q
particle OF honour i'll his composition, he
should shut himself up, and say, 81 cannot
mingle with you, belong to degraded peo-
/ pie must hide myself am plunderer
/ from Pennsylvania
Figure to yourself Pennsylvania receiv;
} ing foreigners in his own country, walking
over the public works with them and showing
them LnIcenous Lake Swinding Swamp, Graz
ty Canal, and Rogues Railway and other
dishonest works. This swamp we gained
(says the patriotic borrower) by the rephdia-
ted loan of 1928. Our canal robbery was in
1880, we pockeied your good peoples money
for the railroad only last year' All this may
seem very smart 10 the Americans but if |
had the misfortune TO be born among such a
people, The Land Of my fathers should not re-
tain me a single moment after the act of repu..
dialion. would appeal from my fathers to
my forelathers. would !ly to Ncwgate for
greater purity of thought, and seek in the pri~
: sons of England for better rules OF life.''
The bEsT IoKE or THE SEAsoN.-Durinr the
recent Term Of the northampton Superior Court
VIo Sh0uld arrive nj lark ann he (,oupty ee,t a.,