Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-11-09
English PrejudIces.

hostility To England. But shutting our eyes VIII
not avert danger and prudent forecast may.
Money and credit are the snews of war and
if we have them, war may be avoided. Who will
arise to call us off from the party politics, which
sickcn the soul of the most hopeful patriot |
Whose trumpet shall 'rousc the clear spirit -
The following article is from the New York /
True Sun, paper which we always open with .
pleasure:
We not ce continually the tendency of the Eng
lish presses TO sneer at every thing American !
We can we'll understand that their long settled
no,i,us. 1--WE presume this word would not pass
unchalengcd) are by no means consonant with
ours. They are an old nation, are young
one. They have gone through thousand years
ofkings, queens and princes. They believe the
! people are everywhere fools, and born to be
/ ridden by hereditary masters. They rejoice TO
/ think they have iron bands around the nccks of
the poor, a splendid pageant of royalty TO tickle
the lovers of the marvellous, a national debt, to
make the wealthy uphold the system, on which
all their fortunes are staked, in perprtuity They
rejoice that they have a queen, and that princes
are born to them continually, and they despise
the nations who have not the Lords anointed'
TO rule over them.
This feeling pervades the nation. 1t is part
and parcel oris temperament, belief, and rcli-
gion The poor and the downtroddcn, stnng by
their misfortunes now and then utter their ma
odictions at the inequality of the human condl-
ton break forth into riots, are shot down
stink into the poor house, emgrate but tn"
midding and upper classes retain their fidelity
to kings lords. and commons, and feel the dead.
lest cnmity TO republican principles.
The unfortunate pccuuiary embarrassments of
some of our States have afforded them the high
est qualification and the greatest possible oppor-
; tunitv of grumblng. We will not now 90 into
the history of that iniquitous combination enter
ed into by British capitalists 10 destroy Amcrl-
car credit We will not now explain how tn"
government itself was alarmed at the tendency OF
capital t. flow to that point where the highest
, interest was to be obtained and feared it could
not much longer borrow at three or four per CT
while the Americans paid six and seven We
will not now demonstrate, we might, that the
- same government was willing to break down moi
: only the three VS. but to alarm the other bank
- ers and capitalists Of the realm, in order 10 re
tain its capital at home.
. l, is certain that the English capitalists len
: money to the construction of great public works
i which if completed, would in most instance
: have repaid principal and interest.
- In the midst of these operations. when the.
were selling us more goods in consequence thai
; they ever did before, and were stimulating, bot
by credit and capital, American industry to IT
highest pitch. they chose to assail the p,cuniar
responsibility of our country at the tuning point
leave their own security incomplete, fail INT
D. the trap sci for them by their own eternaly bee
= cinC and borrowing aristoCracy, and then tur
round and abuse our institutions. and our citlzer
| for being iaithless TO engagements which the
4 themselves encouraged at the outset and discr
4 ditcd in the moment of difficulty.
But this is not all. 1t was not the credit
the country IN its pccunary relations mcrel
which the English thus assaIled bat our nSti
tions themselves became the subject of their a
saults and rcpublcanism was, if possible, 10
secuted from the possibilities of truth. Eve
their well fed and well paid priests were Undue
! TO take sides against us because in the shot
= thus produced they lost some OF their world
! ccar-that which their Divine Master has 10
4 them is a snare to their souls and which th
we'll know can give them no place in heaven.
Sidney smith, the gay. the witty, the scntC
" tious reviewer, who could tell his poor paris
- ioncr ifhe ever condrscendcd to ackuowlcd
. any such, that the love of money was the root
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