The Democratic Whig. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1842-1843, 1843-05-25
I'm nROnGHAM On AMERIcA.

decidedly one Of the brightest stan ofths pres
ent age, and to receive from him such eno0-
miums on our institutions and wishes 60 warm
for their permanency and success il a distinc-
ton 90 honorable 70 our country, that be mu1i
be insensible to the stirring feelings Of patriot
ism, who can read these sentiments without
emotion ED. Dem. Wing.
Il was said (said Lord Brougham)
that Lord AshbuFton 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 bis noble friend OPP
posite on former evening a laugh.)
AT this public meeting at Boston there
was no business to be transacted, but
il was held for the purpose Of celebra-
ting the alliance re-made and the rec
oncilement reelected 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 leasi-(a laugh,) object to
anything that was said 10 favor Of the
cradle Of liberty. He should have
thought the very language was 50 sweet
and dear TO every friend Of liberty that
it might reconcile them 10 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 reler--that Of
our revered monarch George III. He
did not consider that he stopped from
his high degree, or that he adopted a
trucking and unbecoming tone when
in his reception Of the first American
minister who represented his revoIted
subjects, and bad therefore a most DIFF
6cult task TO perform-who first rep
resented those revolted subjects at the
court of their sovereign, whose allegi-
anee they had shaken off, and whose
sovereign was known TO have kept fast
bold Of his American sovereignty Dn-
til il was wrested from bis royal grasp,
He took the opportunity Of giving a
most courteous reception, and Of say
ing which was unnecessary but need
less though II was, he thought Sd 10 say
tuaI aluinugu nc Was tue-Iass nnu ~
bis dominions that wished better to tha
independence, and felt more anxiou;
for the prosperity Of the new world
this was after Ine whole Of tue military
proceedings had closed, as the speech
OF Lord Ashburton had been made at
Ter the negotiations had elosed-(hear
hear.) My lords (said the noble anc
learned lord,l | breathe the same pray
er which my late Sovereign expressed
upon that memorable occasion. Hope
and trust, for the sake Of America FIRST
fol the sake of England next-for The
sake ofhumanity, ofmankind at large
that the prosperity and happiness o
that great people will be perpetuated
for ever. My lords, cannotv view viii
indifference the magnificent empire
which Englishmen have erected in tina
land and my heart glows when | re
fleet that TO England is owing tina
which America never scruples 10 con
Tess she owes to England-those laws
those institutions b0ve all that spiri
Of liberty, ofreligious, as well as Ofciv
| il liberty, which has made the Amer
ican republic the greatest democrats
nation chat ever held existence upol
the face Of this earth. Contemplate,
10 itself, there is enough TO all one wit
admiration, with hope, with EMULATION
but, in order 10 appreciate its merits
and to carry those feelings to their vi
termdst, it is necessary that we com
pare and contrast il with what has hap
pened elsewhere, in other parts Of th
. new world, whars all the gifts Of M
ture we're not attended with the bles
sings Of social existence. Look Z
South America, look at the event
which have separated the Spanish col
onies from the parent state /; conIem
e plate, for a moment, the rich abu1
dance Of natural blessings, Of physics
resources, Of animal power, Of all thI
9 can make a people grea', and prosper
. Gus, and powerful-above all, the gili
which ought TO make them thankful I
heaven peaceful and eohlented wit
one another their boundless expans
Of space, diversified with every spG
eies Of soil which can pour into the
J, lap the produce Of Industry, or seer
7 the air with perfumes, or enrich ma
BY the wealth, the proverbial uud III
surpassed wealth ofthe minerals--ev'
~ diversity Of the most delicious cl
mates, varying from the temperate
the tOrid ; everything in absolate pc
lection, IN attendance /; these, poop
Of boundless capacity, numerous, Vi
rious in thei race, from the industl
Of the negro to the swiltness oflhe i
dian, aud the ability, the practsed abb
!. Ity, Of the European and her desce
dants 4; an desc rich treasures whit
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