The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-11-01
SYMPTOMS or CRAVEN WEAKNESS.

statue of Cromwell from among those OF Br-
tish soyereigns in the new Parliament House,
has betrayed weakness and puslllanimity which
must bring down upon il the SCOTS and derislon
of the civilized world The adoption Of such
means 10 dim the fame of the bold spirits who
were endowed by nature with the ability 10 as
sert successfully the rights Of man, and TO ac-
eomplish great moral and political reforms, can
never secure the unworthy end in view for all
men OF sense, all lovers of liberty, will expati-
ate the more, for such sights, on the merltorous
actions of those whom the arstocrats attempt
to debase. The statue of BruIus was thus
treated on one occasion in Rome but the db-
sehce of the statue Of such an ilustrIous man,
from such a comparatively unworthy assemblage,
was a greater distinction and honor than could
otherwise have been conferred upon him.
But the unqualified hostility Of the British
Government to all innoyators in behalf of the
People, when in hostility to the established in
stiulions has ever been unequvocally mani
tested. Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, &c, who were
NATURES Republicans, have been represented as
ignorant and prohigate rufhans, and crimes OF
such an enormous magnitude have been I'M
puted TO them by hired historians and others,
as to attach TO their memory the execratlons and
adherence of all British subjects. All such
charges are maliciously false; for men who
would make the attempts they did for the bene-
fit of mankind, were acluated by far nobler and
purer motives than their calumnialors We
have been led TO these reflection, by reading
the following article
From The Philadelphia Public Ledger
| OLIVER CRoMwELL--The miserable ,pite of the
present British Government, in excluding the statue
| of Oliver Cromwell from the capitol, 5 subject
which concerns not the British nation only 1t con-
Germs the people of the United States every com
| munty composed of the Anglo Saxon race. The
people Of the United States have Official gouern-
mental concern with this affair They cannot,
through their government, rightfully complain of it
to the British government for every naticn has the
| sole right of managing its internal affairs. But
| while they have no political right over the subject,
they have, as people, moral right to address the
public opinion of the world upon it, to express freely
| their opinions about its moral right or wrong. We
are descended from the Engsh nation, were part
of till the Declaration OF independence and more
especially are we descended ION that very portion
Of the English nation who elevated Cromwell to the
sovereignty, and Of whose political opinions he was
| the representative The New England States espe-
| clay, from which have descended almost one. half
of the present native white population of the Union,
were founded by those very Purans and PreSbyte-
| ridrs and Republicans who co operated with Crom-
well in the rescue of English liberty. Therefore the
history of England TO the Declaration of lndepend-
ence, Is our history, and the history If Cromwell and
his generation is the history, far it goes of our
civil and religious liberty. Surely then have a
| right to speak III common with the British nation,
upon every thing appertaning to our common histo-
ry before our separation and to protest. before the
world against any attempts of the British Government
to detame those whose reputation Is part of
| Have any interest IN the fame of VIM Penn, or
John Robinson, or Carver, or Bradford or Peters or
Nane, or Standish, or airy others Of the great and
good men who laid in the wilderness the foundations
of this great republics Then have we likewise in
that of Plm, Of iiampden, of Milton Of Waller, of
Fairfax, of Harrison, of Bradshaw, of Cromwell, OF
all those master spirits who rescued English liberty
from the sword of the political and TIE rack and the
stake of the ecclesiastical tyrant and enabled it
grow and flourish in this land of its adoption till il
reflects back IFS light and its warmth upon the land
Its birth prosUation OF tyranny and The punrsn-
ment OF tyrant, is part of our legacy and if our
kindred on the other side of the ocean will not be
true TO heir trust in guarding it, let such nfdety
ever be imputed to us.
We have already referred to the decision of the
committee for ornamenting the British capitol, as
involving great historical absurdity fasifca-
ton of historical records, which supposes an exnc-
ton annihilation of the English nation for period
OF nine years. We have also referred to the sup
posed ground Of this exclusion, the alleged usurpa-
ton OF CROMWELL as sufficient reason for excluding
a numerous body of English kings and queens. As
an affair Of taste, it is quite as exceptionable as an
affair of historical fidelity for an affair of taste it
Is an insult TO every Engshman who acknow lodges the
right of the present royal family TO the throne or who
prefers limited 10 absolute monarchy. What would
have been the present condition of England had Chas
trumphed over the popular spirit? The common lac
would have been abolished, TO make room for the
GIRL dic OF Continental Europe code much less favor
able 10 popular rights The Protestant Church would
have been abolished, and the Catholic established IN
It's place, with power despotc, and as fercely aud
vindictyely exercised 1t ever has been in Spain
All representative legislation would have been abo.
shed, the Commons would have sunk to the cond-
ton of Austrian Subjects the nobility would have
become like that of France before the revolution Of
1859, mere APPENDICES of the court and the crown
would have been absolute the maker, expounder and
executor OF the laws. We shall be told that English
spirit would not'have borne this But English shirt
was the offspring Of English liberty and had ENGLISH
liberty been crushed, this spirit would have did
And who saved ~ Cromwell and his associates,
They rescued English liberty hey saved the EngIisb
constitution, and enabled TO reach the present day
improving as it came. We shall be told that Crom.
wells government was abolished, and the monarchy
restored IN the son Of this very tyrant Charles /
But uhat monarchy Not the absolute monarchy
which Charles attempted TO establish, and which
Cromwell and his associates promoted but that f,,
monarchy which Cromwell and his associates mr. Ger,
3D. by rescung the principles and charters and ins,i
tutons which it was founded The change from
the proectorate Of Cromwell TO the erotrn Of Charlie,
II, was merely change Of names for while the
royal family restored TO the throne the restora
ton upon those foundations Of freedom which the
rebels and geides and republicans had saved And
the very first fruits Of this restoration were the abo
liton Of the remaining icudal tenure,, and the en-
largement Of the Habea, Corpus victories which
could not have been gained without the previous VIC
tories Of Cromwell at Naseby and Dunbar And
what enabled the English people to triumph after.
wards over another iyran in the great revolution Of
1852 The freedom which had been rescued from
Charles by Cromwell and his associates And thus
# England be now free country and Protestant
country, every Protestant Englsh1an who values his
freedom, ought TO revere the name of Cromwell -
Whore lhcn IS biz good lasin IndnnnrAnunu - L.