The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1845-06-21
A Full Blast Of indignation

n EuEI ktIast OIL fn0iSthaAIun
The British press is engaged as much
rs ever in ils inlempe.ste aud vi1pera.
i've attacks upon the people and insiitu
ions of The United Sales. The ftm.
ness Of .Presidenl Polk and the unmi>.
skesble signs of determi nation on tn
.,art Of the people Of this country TO sus
ain The Presiden, maintaining our jus
ighis, excite The Ire Of the British edi'.
us, and they can scarcely find vent fo'
heir indignation. The Liverpool MAJ
If The l7th ull. copies two articles on
Oregon from the Washington Union
md The Constitution, which it denomi
,sles the mJu,h-pieces Of President
Po'k, and then INDUCES 10 the follow
lng burst Of indignation. The sugges.
non that The British Government SHOULD
compel The United States Goveromen
o pay the private debts of its cinzens
rs we'll ss The public debts Of the State,
quite amusing, aud shows how wei
nlormed the editor is upon the nature
md powers Of our Government. But
IS absurd as The proposition is, The ssser
ion that the revolution by which wi
became independent of the mother coun-
was "a premedila,ed' 'ac; of robbery, 'snd
our sympathy with France an sac, oil un.
pardonabIe vlllany,' is sill more ludi-
crous. Our revolution was indeed an
act OF robbery, for i, robbed The British
Government of the right 10 grind down
The people Of this cou ntry for The beue.
ft Of the pampered and titled aristocrs
cy OF Eogland. - Phiia. Ledger.
'Iotelligent men will say, "a war be.
tween ,Eoglana and America is out oil
The question: 'Why?' we ask. BE
csuse.' say they, 'thetwo countries have
nothing in dispute worth fighting for,
and particularly because the United
States have neither an army, feet nor
, dollar TO employ in game so unwise
md desperate Our answer 10 this is
hat bankrupt nations, communities
whose credit is tarnished, whose laws
md institutions are inssl1 brous all owe
he world, are always the readiesl to-
rush into a war. He who has nothing
lose has nothing 10 risk; and if a KICK
,an pay deb, or riff, compound for
! pecunsry default Of State, it is eas'-
for some people 10 resortto the for
ner than TO The only homes, remedy, oil
satisfying the just claims of their inidr
ed creditors. The Washington journal.
SITS, 10 whom we have alluded, have the
nodesiy 10 inculcate, what Indeed is no &
new doctrine, that republican tnstI'u.
ions have been appointed by d'vine|
Providence 10 redress the wrongs ol
ocracies, aud that in Hmericaa fepdb, ISL
,anism alone are TO be found The germs
md fruits OF truth, honor, Justice, free
dom. equality and the natural rights oI
man in the highest state of civlizalion.'|
This looks very we'll in words and up.|
IN paper. Blu, it has an ugly and for.l
bidding aspect, coming from the other
side Of the Atlantic. Amer ca, by Il
pervislon of justice and all forms oi re-
,ognsed law, is the plaintiff 10 the case
and Europe generally, and Engla d par,
icularIy, are The defendants. That isl
he republican mode of putting it. Bu'l
he proposition 10 in itself glsringly HI.
Throw Europe oul Of The seal.
when did England cheat, rob, swim
lie or defraud the United Stslesa Sh,
never did. The question, therefore.
like Lord Ross monster telescope, mus
be turned in different direction. And
we ask, when did the citizens Of tn,
United States cease 10 carry on asy STEM,
Of cheating, robb;ng and swindling a.
,si nsl this country? She boasts of heI
honor. Can she pay her just debts?
She brsgs OF her power! She canno'
make gun to arm her most formidable
'rigsle, the Princeton. The only ma
ionsl bank she ever possessed was
founded upon English capital; and, &C
cordng TO her usual practice and the
rules of her government, she swindled
aud robbed the English shareholders.
Ia short, and in plain terms, The whole
system of republicanism in the United
States is founded on robbery.
the revolution was a premeditsted
act Of robbery. The sympathy OF ,s
,esding revoluiionis,s with France wa,
an act Of 'urquestlonable' and unpardon
able villainy. These be hard words, bu
their truth is demonsti ated in every acl
OF that sense less and dishones, democrs-
Icy. There are, however, many sensi-
ole, men in Americs-men Of property
md influence who see that dishonesty