The Democratic Whig. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1842-1843, 1843-05-25
LORD BROUGHAM ON AMERICA.

casion to pay the following high compliments
TO the American people. Lord BronRham is
decidedly one of the brightest stars of the pres
ent age, and to receive from him such enco-
minms on our institutions and wishes so warm
for their permanency and success is distinc-
ton so honorable to our country. that he must
be insensible to the stirring feelings of patriot
ism, who can read these sentiments without
emotion ed. Dem. Wing.
1t was said (said Lord Brougham)
that Lord Ashburton had at a public
meeting talked of Boston as the cradle
of liberty, and this was said to be
compromising act. But this was
after the negotiations were over-this
was ':the song of triumph" to use an
expression of his noble friend OPP
posite on former evening "a laugh
At this public meeting at Boston there.
was no business to be transacted, but
it was held for the purpose Of celebra-
ting the alliance re-made and the rec
oncilement re-efected between these
two great kindred nations. He mar
yelled to hear the wings object to any
such proceedings at public meeting,
but above all to hear wings, or a sort
of wings at least-(a laugh,) object to
anything that was said in favor Of the
cradle of liberty. He should have
thought the very language was 50 sweet
and dear 10 every friend of liberty that
it might reconcile them TO what might
otherwise have appeared breach Of
dignity and decorum. Now there was
one other authority, and it was the last
to which he wished to refer--that OF
our revered monarch George III. He
did not consider that he stopped from
his high degree, or that he adopted
trucking and unbecoming tone when
in his reception Of the first American
minister who represented his revoIted
subjects, and had therefore a most diff
ficuIt task to perform-who first rep
resented those revolted subjects at the
court of their sovereign, whose allegi-
ance they had shaken off, and whose
sovereign was known to have kept fast
hold of his American sovereignty on
til it was wrested from his royal grasp.
He took the opportunity Of giving a
most courteous reception, and of say
which was unnecessary, but need
less though 1t was.he thought fit to say
that although he was the last man in
his dominions that wished better to that
independence, and felt more anxious
for the prosperity Of the new world
this was after the whole of the military
proceedings had closed, as the speech
of Lord Ashburton had been made af-
ter the negotiations had elosed-(hear,
hear.) Ny lords (said the noble and
learned lord,] breathe the same pray
err which my late Sovereign expressed
upon that memorable occasion. I hope
and trust, TOR the sake of America first;
fol the sake of England next-for the
sake ofhumanity, humankind atlarge--
that the prosperity and happiness Of
that great people will be perpetuated
tor ever. My lords, cannon view with
indifference the magnificent empire
which Englishmen have erected in that
land and my heart glows when | re-
fleet that TO England is owing that
which America never scruples to con-
fess she owes to England-those laws,
those institutions bove all that spirit
Of liberty, of religious, as well as of civ
il liberty, which has made the Amer
ican republic the greatest democratic
nation that ever held existence upon
the face of this earth. Contemplated
in itself, there is enough to fill one with
admiration, with hope, with EMULATION;
but, in order to appreciate its merits,
and to carry those feelings to their ut
termdst, it is necessary that we COM
pare and contrast it with what has hap
pened elsewhere, in other parts of the
| new world, where all the gifts of ma
ture were not attended with the bles-
sings Of social existence. Look at
South America, look at the events
which have separated the Spanish col
onies from the parent state ; contem-
plate, for a moment, the rich album
dance Of natural blessings, of physical
resources, Of animal power, of all thai
can make people great. and prosper
Gus, and powerful-above all, the gifts
which ought to make them thankful to
peaceful and eoLtented with
one another their boundless expanse
Of space, diversified with every spe'
/ cies of soil which can pour into then
lap the produce of Industry, or seem
1.-THE air with perfumes, or enrich mar
by the wealth, the proverbial and un'
surpassed wealth ofthe minerals 1--we
~ diversity Of the most delicious cll
mates. varying from the temperate t
the torid everything in absolate per
Election, in abundance /; these, people
Of boundless capacity, numerous, va
rious in the II race, from the ipdustr,
of the negro TO the swiltness of The In
ldian, and the ability. the practised abil
nv, Of the European and her descen
dants !; all these rich treasures whic
Providence showered on them IN sue