Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1844-02-02

whom l have had the good fortune TO be-
introduced, | have profTerod all the lospi,,l-
Ity in my power. But l cannot shut my
eyes to enormous dishonesty; nor, remem-
oering their former state can I restrain my
self from calling on them Though | copy
SATAN to spring up from the gulf Of infamy
IN which they are rolling
Awake, arise, or be forever fallen.'
~ am astonished that the honest states Of
America do not draw a Gordon Sanitaire
round their unpaying brethren, thai, the truly
mercantile New Workers and the thoroughly
honest people of Massachusetts, do not in
their European visits wear an uniform with
). s., or Solvent States, worked in gold let
tiers upon the coat, and receipts in full of alb
demands tamboured on their waistcoats, and
our own property figured on their pantaloons.
But the General seems shocked that I
should say the Americans cannot 90 TO war
without money: but what do | mean BY
war! Not Eruption into Canada-not tho
embodying Of militia in Oregon, but a long,
tedious maritime war of four or five years
duration. Is any man so foolish as to sup
pose that Rothschild has nothing to do with
such wars as these ? and that a bankrupt
state, without the power of borrowing a shil-
ling in the world, may not be crippled in
such a contest? We all know that tho
Americans can fight. Nobody doubts their
courage. | see now in my minds eve a
whole army on the plains of PENNSYLVANIA
in battle array, immense corps of insolvent
light infantry, regiments Of heavy horse deb
tors, bat,allions of regulators, brigades Of
bankrupts, with Vivrc sans payer, on MOURN
on their banners, and are alieno on their
their trumpets; all these desperate debtors
would fight to the death for their country,
and probably drive into the sea their inva-
ding creditors. OF their courage. I repeat
again, have no doubt. l wish l had the
same confidence in their wisdom. But
believe they will become intoxicated by the
tla,tery OF upprincipled orators; and instead
OF entering with us into a noble competition
in making calico (the grea, object for which
the Anglo Saxon race appears to have been
created they will waste their happiness and
their money (if they Can get any) in years of
silly, bloody, foolish, ard accused war. to
prove to the world that Perkins is a real fine
gentleman, and that the carronades of tho
Washington steamer will carry farther than
those Of the British Victoria, or the Rober,
Peel vessel of war.
sit may be very true that rich and edu.
Gated men in Pennsylvania wish 10 paw the
debt, and thai the real directors are tho
Dutch and German agriculiurist, who cam
not be made to understand the effect Of
character upon clover. All this NAV be
very true, but it is a domestic quarrel. Their
church wardcns Of reputation must make a
private rate of infamy for themsclves-we
have nothing to do with this rate. The real
quarrel is the Unpaid World versus Penn.
sylvania.
Sand now, dear Jonathan, let me beg Of
you to follow the advice of a real friend.
who will say to you what Wat Tyler had not
the virtue 10 say, and what all speakers in
the eleven recent PENNSYLVANIA elections
have cautiously abstained from saying, make
an effort; book up a, once and paw You
have no conception oftle obloguy and con-
tempt to which You are exposing yourself
all over Europe. Bull is naturally disposed
TO love yon: but no loves nobody who does
not pay him. His imaginary paradise is
some planet Of punc.ual payment, where
ready money prevails, and where debt and
discount are unknown. As for me, as soon
as | hear that the last ~flrlhing is paid to the
last creditor, | will appear on my knees at tho
bar OF the Pennsylvania Senate, in the plu-
meopicean robe Of American controversv.-
Each conscript Jonathan shall trickle over.
me a few drops OF tar, and help 10 decorate
me with those penal plumes in which the
vanquished reasoner of the Transatlantic
world does homage to the physical superiority
OF his opponents. And now, having eascd
my soul of its Indignation, and sold my stock
at 40 per cent. discount, | sulkily retired from
the subject, with a fixed intention of lending
no more money to free and enlightened re.
puhlics, but of employing my money hence.
forth in buying up Abyssinian bonds, and
purchasing into the Turkish Fours, or the
Tunis Three and a Half per cent. funds.
"SYDNEY SMITH,"