Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1843-05-18
ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

VI ptSuoNiSt HNAbSN VIZ fNS0s,
which we give below from speech OF
Lord Brougham, delivered in the Houss
of Peers, on the 7th ult., on his motion Of
thanks to Lord Ashburton for negotiating
the Treaty OF Washington. We confess
our own unaffected qualification at such
sentiments from such source, and will
add our belief that the language at once
so friendly and so complimentary, at the
same time so glowingly expressed, would
hardly be as highly priced in this country
from any other source in England as from
the distinguished statesman from whom it
proceeds. Nat. Int.
[ExTRAcT.
Then il was said (said Lord Brougham)
that Lord Ashburton had, at a public
meeting, talked Of America us the cradle
Of liberty. Lord Campbell; Boston. -
Yes, and this was said TO be comproms.
ing act. But this was after the negota-
tons were over; this was 'ihe song Of tri-
umph," to use an expression of his noble
friend opposite on a former occasion. \
laugh. At this public meeting at Boston
there was no business to be transacted,
but it was held for the purpose OF cele-
brating the alliance re-made and the re-
concilement re-efected between these two
great kindred nations. He marveled to
hear the Wigs object 10 any such pro-
ceedngs at public meeting, but above
all, to hear Wings, or sort of Wings at
least, T laugh, object to any thing that
was in favor Of the cradle OF liberty
He should have thought the very Ian.
guaee was so sweet and dear TO every
friend of liberty, that it might reconcile
them to what might otherwise have ap.
peared a breach of dignity and decorum.
Now there was one other authority, and It
was the last 10 which he wished to refer
that Of our revered monarch George Ill.
lie did not consider that he stopped from
this high degree, CT that he adopted a
trucking and unbecoming tone, when,
in his reception of the first American
Minister who represented his revolted sub.
jects, and had therefore a most difficult
task TO perform-who first represented
those revolted subjects at the court OF
their sovereign, whose allegiance they had
shaken off, and whose sovereign was
known to have kept fast hold OF his A.
merican sovereignty until it was wrested
from his royal grasp-he took the oppor-
tunitv of giving a most courte GUS recep-
ton, and of saying-whIch was unneces.
sary, but needless though it was, he
thought ftto say-that although he was
the last man in his dominions that consent
ed to the independence of America, there
was no 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 Teen
made after the negotiations had closed
[ Hear, hear Ny lords. (said the noble
and learned lord) breathe the same
prayer which my late sovereign expressed
upon that memorable occasion. | hope
and trust, for the sake OF America first
for the sake oil England next-for the sake
of humanity, of mankind at large-;hat tie
prosperity and happiness of that great
people will be perpetuated forever. My
lords, cannot view with Indifference the
magnificent empire which EnglIshmen
have erected in that land; and my hear,
glows when reflect that to England is
owing that which America never scruples
TO confess she owes to England
laws. those nstitutlons--above all, that
spri: of liberty, of religious as well as OF
civil liberty, which has made the American
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 exultation; but in order 10 APP.
preclate its merits and to carry those fetl'
lnes to their uttermost, 1t is necessary
that we compare and contrast 1t with what
has happened elsewhere, in other parts Of
the new world, where oil the gifts Of
nnture were not attended with the bles
sings, Of social existence. Look al
South America: look at the events
which have separated the Spanish colo
MES from the parent State; contemplate
for moment the rich abundance o
natural blessings, of physical resources, o
animal power, of all that can make peo
pie great, and prosperous and powerful
above all, the gifts which ought to max,
them thankful to Heaven-peaceful ant
contented with one another; their boundes'
expanse of space diversified with every
species Of soil which can pour into thel
lap the produce OF industry or scent the
air with perfumes, or enrich man by the
wealth, the proverbia and unsurpassed
wealth Of their minerals; every diversity
Of the most delicious climates, varying
from the temperate to the torrid; every
:hing in absolute perfection, in abun
dance; these, people of boundless capa
city, numerous, various in their race, iron
the industry of the negro to The swirl
ness Of the Indian, and the ability, thu
praclised ability of the European aud he
descendants. All these rich treasures
which Providence showered on them II
such unmeasured abundance, had none
them suificed to prevent anarchy from be
ing enthroned there, had totally failed 7
secure the establishment OF even tn
scmbanc of steady, fixed, regular he
public. Blu, then turn your eye TO tn
contrast, and compare them with Mort
America, where You see men who, strug
Cling with hard climate; with, in man.
places, an ungratalul soil; their numbers
small m, frat incraas sine rnpidly. becOm