The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-09-25

WHO, alier residing tte ABOVE evidence OF H.
Clay, can assert it a false alarm TO warn the
people 10 beware of British power -toYaich the
iairiguos Of England. and to never permit her To
" a foot ofso.l upon the Notti American con-
fnens more Than she now possesses. Surely
The brilliant orator, Henry Clay will not be char
eed with demagogaeism in this matter, and he
asserts that Great Britain sent missionaries TO
this country TO SOW treason in The minds of our
citizens; and ihatslic at one time possessed
so much power in tic United States as 10 secure
the repeal of a law BY Congress-which repeal
Vanished The honor Of our government! Is there
not now similar danger 10 be apprehended from
British tfickery and British gold?
BRITISH THREATS AGAINST THE T.
NITED STATES.
Great Britain has never forgot the American
people for the chastisemeni she received at their
hands during the days Of the Revolution and Of
the last war, IN addition to This feeling of ma
lignant haired, she views The United States as
her rival in and in power, and heuce
doubly desires cur pJosiaiion; and therefore her
opposition to the annexation of Texas, which
measure she knows full well would render us
i~mpregnable 10 her attacks,
Her public Journals ;cem with vile assaults
upon our Institutions, and threats Of extermiua.
ton.
Read, for example, he following extract from
The London Colonial Gazette, a leading paper
Of Great Britain. Hear what it says:
at IS disagreeable act-bul there is every
chance that It will fail TO the lot of this country
10 chastise the cock-a-hoop spirit Of %insolent dis
honesty which is gaining The ascendant in The
North American Union. 1t will cost us some
e~xertion and suffering; but the Americans are
forcing it upon us, and they have yet TO Learn
what Great Britain can do. The bunglcd bust
ness Of tic attempt 70 suppress their indepen
dence-the d~espitory flourish Of arms in 1872
have given them Il false estimate Of their owl
and British strength. They Will come to thoi
senses when the mouths Of the Hudson, Chesa
peake, and Mississippi are blockaded.''
There %>is-tEeIe is the old ~fayorite polio,
Of Great Britain, Blockade the Mississippi, ant
thus command the South and West! That
their policy, and how easy TO accomplish the oh
ject, if they had possession Of Texas.
Sat il the above is not sufficient 10 satisfy ey
cry one Of the kind of n~oighbors we would have
on OR Southern frontier, with England in pos
session Of Texas. let him read The following eX
tracts. taken from Frazor's Magazine, a worl
which Gen, Ga8S represents 10 be one OF Tx
mouth-piccos Of English nobility. Hear wha
The bloody British boldly and publicly proclaim
"A war with the United States woald be
blessing to mankind. We must have no protrac
ted war with that most s.ufulnation in the world
If assailed in The South, a vital par; is Instantly
and surely rcached-;he Union is dissolved. =
and the war is at an end. In one morning 10,
600 men free blacks of ,IalnaicaD might be raj
sed for the entranchisemcn of their brethren il
America. Such a force, supported by two bat
ialiops Of t,ngIishmon, with 10000 mushets
would establish tbom in Carolina, never to be
removed. Ipthrcc weeks from their appearance
THE ENTIRE SOUTH WOULD BE IN ONF
CONFEDERATION. We say this dlty is die
latod alike by policy, by self preservation, ant
by Philanthropy. We would secure our posses.
ions ia America, and DISSOLVE THEIR u
UNION"
Arc American citizens wiling to be SUR
ROUNDED by sach a fend;sh and blood thirsty
nation?