Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1843-04-04

! gratifying to see the English papers some
| times do Justice 10 our institutions and dis
tinguished men.
The following Is an extract Of an arti-
Gle in the london Egening Sdr. After
ably repclling the unwarranted attacks Of
the Times, The Chronicle, and other Tory
| presses on our institutions, the Evening
Star saws: TN. Y Standard.
-" This war has hurst out since Lord
Ash6urton returned from America with
his finger in his mouth, and Boz well knew
how 10 minister to the bitter anti-American
preiudices which our privileged orders SO
deeply feel, but which they are rather
afraid openly to express, as they know
| that a war with America would, in all hu-
man probability, put an end forever to their
whole machinery of plumber and pecula-
| ton at home.
- But it might be instructive to inquire
on what evidence do these Threadneede
street philosophers pronounce the degeue-
racy of the Amerc people, and the Tall
ure Of their Republican Institutions? If
these sturdy republicans are such monsters
as the Times, Boz, &c. represent them,
and their Institutions a failure, what IN
! teliectual and physical signs of the facts do
they present Daring the present-year.
we have seen two remarkable instances of
| their great Intellectual superiority and mo-
! raj power, over the combined mind and
moral force Of Great Britain.
| " Their representative at the Court Of
St. Cloud, General Cass, By one effort Of
| his cGpaci0us intellect rent TO at0ms the
! QmnWpIe Treaty, which our statesmen
| spent months in cooking np in Downing
street. He scattered its broken fragments
TO the winds, at the very moment when
! we rancied that the commerce of the civil
! lized world was under the surveillance Of
| British Naval Officers. Our statesmen
| have had to pocket the Notifying defeat
| which they thus suffered from the superior
| intellect Of the American statesman WAC
| represented his country at the Court Of
| Franco,-This single fact is a sufficient
| refutat;on OF the vHpid Iibcls Of Boz, and
The stipendarits of. the money changers.
The CORRESPONDENCE between Lord
Ashburton aud Mr.. Webster at Washing
ton, is another signal evidence Of Ameri-
can superiority. There is none. even the
most preiudcrd. bl; must admit that the
! titled Representative of British royalty and
| Threadneodla street political economy, was
n pigmy in the hands OF a gigant, when he
! grappled with the American Secretary at
| Washington. Lord Palmerston had very
cavalieriy. and with rather insulting non
c5a7ance, declared that Grea: 3 ritain would
exercise the right of search, no matter TO
what nation the ship belonged; and when
! Lord Aberdeen came into office; he relte-
rated the same; now behold the disgrace
fuI position we have been placed in.
Mr.. Webster boldly tells Lord Ash
| burton what General Cdss told VI. Guzot,
| That the fmerjcan Government 2rouZd ne
rer to}ercfe tile exercise of such right on
HE part Great Britain, and Lord Aber-
deem now, in tie face of the threats of
General Cass and Mr. Webster, virtually
abandons the whole ground which he and
Lord Palmcrs.on assumed as an unques-
,ionabIc right. The French Minister. fol-
lowing up the powerful argument of Gen
era Cass. will soon put an end 10 the ex-
crcise Of the Right Of Search by Great
Britain already Lord Aberdeen has con-
coded the principle our statesmen are
in the dIsgraccuI position Of Sawney, latter
hoiag detected on his way to rob an or
chafal-'' going book agen.7 While Grea'
Britain has thus, in eight months, exhibited
two signal instances Of inte' !ectual INterj-
GRITTY and pusilanimiiy, these degenerate
AmerjcaRs have achieved over us two
mental triumphs, not inferior to their mem
orahle capture of Lord CORVALLIS a
Yorktown, sixty years ago, and the dcs
lruciion OF Lord Pakcnham and or army
before New Orleans, in 1915.
This is the evidence Of American de-
gnneracy which our money changers wal
over. The people accustomed to think anC
trace effects to causes, such evidence
would lead to the conclusion that Unver.
sal Suffrage, untaxed knowledge, and 're-
quent elections were producing in Ameri
ca. nation, which for intellect, enter
prize. arts and arms, end universal com
fort had never been equailed."