The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1843-08-26
RATHER SHARP.

The humble petition of the Rev Sydney
otnlth, to the House of Congress at
Washington
| petition your honorable house to in
stltu!e some measures fer the restoration
OF American credit, and for the repayment;
OF debts incurred and repudiated by sew
eral OF the States. Your petitioner lent
to the State Of Pennsylvania a sum of
money, for the purpose of some public
Improvement. The amount, though
snail, Is to him important, and is saving
IRON life Income, made with difficulty
andpliva.ion.
Ii their refusal to pay from which a
very large number of English families
are sufering) had been the result of war,
produced by the unjust aggression of
powerll enemies; if it had arisen from
civil dl~,ord, if it had proceeded from an
lmprovidut application of means in the
first years Of selt-government; if it were
the act Of apoor State struggling against
'he nar2nntss Of nature-every friend Of
America would have been conlented to
wall Tor better times; but the flauG is
committed in he profound peace oGPenn-
syEanla, by the richest State in the u
nitn, after the wise investment of the
borrowed money in roads and canals of
Whch The regulators are every day reap
M tie advantage. 1t is an act of bad
IAN which Gall its circums tanccs consid-
IFd) has no parallel, and no excuse.
Nor is II only Tie loss Of proptrl>
wieh your petitioner laments: he la
mets still more that immense power
witch the bad faith Of America has Civ
en- to alislocratical opinions, and 10 the
eneles Of fee institutions in the old
wod' 1t is IN vain any longer 10 APP
peato history, and to point out tie
wrogs which the many have received
iron the few. The Americans, who
boa: to have improved ,i.c institutions
OF t.old world, have at least cqualed
It's cine. A great nation, after tramp
ling mder foot all earthly tyranny, has
oeen'ul!ty Of fraud as enormous as
ever sgraced the worst king Of the mos,
CegFasd nation Of Europe.
1t imost painful TO your petitioner to
see TN American citizens excite, WHEREBY
er theMay go, the recollection that they
belongo dishonest people who pride
licensees on having tricked and pilaged
Europe; and this mark is fixed. by their
neutrality-suspicious., on some Of the best
and moshonorabe men in the world,
whom csy Englishman has been eager
to see all proud to receive.
1t is a'bject of serious concern to
your pehoner that you are losing all
that powewhich the friends of freedom
rJo'ced tit you possessed, looking upon
you as therk of human happiness, and
the most sendld picture of justice and of
wisdom tn the world had yet SEEM
Little did Il friends Of America expected
it, and sad the spectacle, to see you re-
jected by eHy state in Europe, as a ma
lon with Won no contract Can be made
because nonwill be kept; unstable in
the very iodations of social life, def
cienl in the ements of good faith, men
who prefer y load of inlamy, how ever,
great, 10 anyressure of taxation, how
ever light
Nor is ii oy this gigantic bankruptcy
, Tor so many grees of longitude and lati-
5 Iude which y'r petitioner deplores, but
: ne is alarmed SO by that total want OF
shame with with these things have been
!, done, the Gallo Immortality with which
! Europe has beeplundered, that deafness
S OF the moral see which seems TO pre-
= clude all returno honesty, TO perpetua,e
n this new iniamhnd to threaten its ex-
0 tension over eve State of the Union.
To any man qeal philanthropy, who
receives pleasureom the improvements
of the world, thepudiation of the pub
= lie debts OF Amca, and the shameless
S manner IN which has been talked of and
- done, is the most elancholy event which
), has happened duIt the existence OF the
- present generation Your petitioner sill
:, cerely prays that tgreat and good men
" still existing amonEou may, by teaching
TO the urlied stateste deep disgrace they
have incurred In ttlwhole world,restoie
1t them TO moral heal, to that high posi-
IS lion they have lost,hd which, for the
q happiness OF mankln it is so important
q they should cver maain; for the United
e States are now work. out the creates,
d of all political probms, and upon that
tho at-pc IN ..,z