Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-12-28
LErrER rRoM REv. sYpNEY sM1TH-

Having been unwell Tor days past have had no
opportunity Of paying my respects General Duff Green
who Whatever be his other merits has certainly shown
himself Washington 10 defence Of his country The Gen
demands with beautiful simplicity, Whence tins morbid
hatred of America But this question, all affecting as it
is stolen from Plpays fables. - fox says Pilpay
caught by the leg IN trap the farm yaid uttered the
piercing cries of distress; forthwith all the birds Of the
yard gathered round him. and seemed delight in mis-
fortune; hens chucked geese Missed, ducks quacked and
chandelier with shn cockadoodes the air. Whence
said the fox stepping forward with infinite gravity whence
this morbid hatred OF the fox What have done Whom
have injured am overwhelmed with astJnlshmenl
these symptoms Of avcrsi0nOh, you old william, the pUu
try exclaimed, where ducklngs' where our
gOslingsl did YOU running Yesterday with
my mother IN your mouth dad you up all my r,u
lions last week. you ought 10 die the Of deahs-lu be
peckod into thousand pieces Now hence Gent Green
Games the morbid hatred OF America, YOU term IT..
"Hate America. have loved and houored America all
my bie; and IN the EdiaJurEh RrCis aud all opporuni-
Ties which my tunpey sphere OF action has afforded,
have ceased to praise and defend the United States;
and 10 every Amorcan 10 whom have had the good for
tune be introduced have ptOfeTed oil the hospitality
my power But cannot shut my eyes to enormous dis
honey nor remembering their former state, can restrun
myself from calling them though copy Satan,) spnng
up from the gulf Of niamy which ,hoy rolling
Awake arise BE- fallen
81 astonishod that the honest Of America do
draw Gordon Sanit1e round their unpayng brethren
that the truly mercantile New Workers and thoroughly
honest people Of Massachusetts do ia their European
uniform with s. SolreH States, worked
naods amboued their woi.teons aud orn proper.
" figured on their pantaloOns.
- But the general seems shocked that should say the
Americans cannot 20 without money but what do
mean by war; Not Eruption into CanadlnUi the cfn-
bOdying Of null TIA IN Oregon. bot long, tedious maritime
war Of four five years duration. Is any foolish
a. % suppose that RohscId has nothing do with such
wars ne these nnd that bankrupt sate without the pow.
Of borrowings shilling tie world may not be- crippled
in such u contest We all know thnt the Americans con
fight Nobody doubts their courage. ! see now in my
minds eve n whole army tho plains oi Pennsylvania
battle aay immense cOIps ui IusOont light infantry, f'nI.
Inonis Of heavy horse debor-, balOns Of epudatOr-
brigadrs Il bankrupt, with WIRE payer m0uf
desperate dcbor would fight Co the death tor their country,
aud probably drive into the their invading crcdifur-
~ tcH cOuuge, repeat HRaiu, have no doubt wish
had The confidence in their wisdom But believe
they will become intoxicated by the nioy Of uup Incl
pied orators and instead Of entering with o noble
competition n making calico the great object for which
the AnRoSax0n appears have been creaiedJ they
will their happiness and their money m they Rs
any yeafs Of silly, bloody foolish, and accursed war
prove ihc world that Perkins real fine gentleman uud
that the caronades of the Washington steamer will carry
farther han those Of the Brit her Victoria the R0Jeti
Fesi vesael-ofwaf.
of vey true hatrch and educated menin Pennsy
vana wish 10 psy the debt aud that the real ohcors
Duica and Gcrman agrculursts, who be inside q
rinderssnd ns effect of character upon clover All this
say be- yery uuo butt domestic quare Their church
warden OF reputation must make private o nianj
for hiamaevcs-we have nothing 30 do with this rute Tn,
real qHsre ihe Uupsd World versus the State Of Penn
syivunia.
and aow dear Jonathan lee me beg of you follow h'
a6,iec 81 real friend who viii suy you what Wat Iye
had not tho virtue 10 say and what oil speakers the eyea
rsesn PennsyVania rleconhsye cautiously absained from
sayar "nlske CREST effort book np ~ once and pay
Yes hsvs no concrpion II The obloquy and contempt q
Whch yOu snsssPosiag yourselves oil over Europe Bot