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THU MoNARcHlCAL AT WAR WITH THE fEfuh
LICAN PRINCIPLE


From literary periodical
THU MoNARCHlCAL AT WAR WITH III. REfuB
LICAN PRINCIPLE.
BY JAMES W, SIMMONS.
The Spartan practice eff exposing 10 public view
the frantic gambols Of drunken helot, as furnish
ing the best homily temperance-the Bosom " hicE
the Dutch, at the era Of their naval ascendency
caused stream from the topmsst OF their ships, ~
token Of that ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS not more IN the
spirit of emphatic admon0on, than are those writ
ten records Of British hostility to the Anglo-A mer-
ican race, TO which, at this crisis in the affairs OF
the two governments we woald iev,e attention, for
she purpose of exhibiting tins impressive FACT, that
though there he at this moment no war OF actual
force waeng between the two countries, yet that the
war of opinions eveled at the very foundation Of
our political structure, is now steadily going on IN
England; and that nothing wthholds her from ere
eying occasions, and eagerly embracing them, Of
carrying out, if possible, those opinions at the point
of the bayonet, but the immediatedr ofimpafine
the resources of those at home, to whom she pays
the interest of her enormous public debt, by means
of their own money, flched from them in the shape
of equally enormous taxes. The attempt which
she so recently made, and Extensively persevered in
to induce Texas to maintain her position as sepa
rate government, if viewed as an isolated fact,
might not present itself in lis true light to the peo
pie of the United States; but when taken in con
neXion not only with prior efforts, on her part, OF
object, but with her avowed purpose OF invading
the institution of slavery, wherever II exists; and
that lofty disdain for the "greasy republicans" OF
the New World, which she loses no opportunity to
record-viewed, we repeat, in this connexion, and
we are at once led to perceive, that the monarchica
at war with the republican principle, is no fiction,
but very grave fact which, in the event of actual
hostites between the respective advocates of those
principles, it may well behoove us to have an eye
TO. In order the more fully to enforce this fact,
which is surely not of character to be disregarded
IT viii become necessary, in the course of the fol-
lowing remarks, to inspect the archives, literary
and parliamentary, Of this "Philip OF the seasi
for we shall there find evidences the most conclusive
of the fact in question. In short, the idea enter
eaiHed in Europe, and doubtless originating with
Great Britain, Of establishing "balance ofpower"
this continent, the efforts strenuously made by the
government of the latter to defeat the annexation OF
Texas; and the very decided stand it has taken in
regard to its alleged claim to Oregon--these facts,
together with the calumnies unsparingly heaped
upon the United Sates their institutions, their
ais, and their manners, by British authors and ora
tors, render it but too manifest that England has
forgiven them the sin--to the language OF
one of her reviews "setting up for themselves
and, in doing so, of demonstrating to the world the
capacity of the people for sef-government This il
is that constitutes the lone fatal remembrance"
which embitiers even to this hour, the minds OF
those who still do to England's skiing and
lawn-the one act of daring and disloyal innova-
ton upon the established order Of things which, by
tearing with bloody hand the veil from that divinity
which hedges in" throne, awakened the fears and
incurred the lasting enmity of the ''purple lyrants
who sit there in the borrowed majesty Of Him
whose vicegerents upon earth they have proclaimed
themselves to be- That the political dissenters OF
the last century should have discovered another at
mosphere more congenia than that which envelopes
n court and another system of government more adj
mirabe their eyes, than that propped by the Co.
rnthian columns of privileged order OF nobles and
the ghostly pillars of a moneyed hierarchy, was to
incur for themselves and their posterity the unmiti.
gated odum and oboquy of those whom such dis
coveries had scandalized. But the greatest was
behind;n and the full of England rage and
hatred was in for that stage in the progress
of the infant people of the New World, at which,
by u noble concentration of their energies, they
were enabled to stay her march upon the waves,
and "broke the charm Of her naval invincibility."
From the effects Of this hatred the part of Great
Britain, (who would do well to substitute the Ten
Commandments in lieu of her thirty-nine articles, ~
not even our friends are permitted to escape.
Looking, short time since, into one of the num-
bers of I.itte's Museum, we were attracted by the
rltle Of one Of the arcles-"Pri Life of Lafay-
ette''--from Fraser's London Magazine. Need we
tell readers that it ID sneering, dsparaging,
and most contemptuons notice of one who derived
from the friendship Of Washington a passport to
universal esteem, which none but an enemy to that
liberty Of which they were the apostles and champ
Whatever may have been the merits of Lafayettes
political career in his own hemisphere, his early and
disinterested devotion TO country at time when
the knife, welded by no weak or lenent hand, was
aimed at the throat of her infant freedom merits,
and mast always continue to receive, the unfeign-
ed gratitude and fervent veneration of the de-
scendants Of those by whose side he battled for
cause which his virtues had conspired
10 make his own, however a foreign hirong, or
hater Of our institutions may vanly seek to suiy
or depress his fame. Speaking of Lafayette's re-
cepon in this country, on the occasion OF his last
visit to it, the writer in the London magazine re-
marks. "He was nothing but stalking-horse for
greasy republicans, who were delighted to parade
gentleman in their ranks" These GREASY republic
cans" were the President and SENATE OF the United
States and House Of Representatives; the governors
and legislative bodies Of the several States; MEM
bers of the different learned societies and profess
sons; in short, the combined intelligence and pa,ri
otism OF our country. which, however greasy" is
at least not indebted for its JUNCTION to the hands of
a kings minister or minion; and if pleased always
by the presence of gentleman, gives proof that it
knows how to appreciate good manners, and to
distinguish between well-brcd man and an impu-
dent scribbler Having thus exhausted the phials
her wrath upon the heads of those who, in
turn, Commended the ingredients Of her poisoned
chalice to her own lips" she has, within few
years past, been furnished, In the birth of
publican state in the west, (Texas,) with new
source of apprehension, and new occasion for
"feeding fat the ancient grudge" she bears us; and
we find her, accordingly, busily engaged in at
tempts at falsifyng the character and career, as
traced upon and identified with that new region of
the descendants of those who, upon the heights Of
dorchester, erected monument TO Anglo -Ameri-
can valor, as enduring as their hills The insru-
ment chosen for the purpose of carrying out so far
as such an instrument may do, this scheme of mis-
representation and traducon, has proved itself emf
nenry worthy of the hands that WELD it, and of the
hud WA deslpnru In accOmDlIsh The london
Quarterly Review, which, from its commencement
down to the present hour, is known to have been
the faithful exponent of the views and sentiments Of
the high tory party in England is the masked bat
terry from behind which, under pretence of covering
the British possessions in North America, deliber
ate attack has been made upon those free princi-
PIES which, The people Of Texas carried with them
from the land Of Washington and Hancock; to
which they were indebted for their prompt resist
ance 70 the attempted tyranny Of nation Of slaves;
and which handful Of resolute Texans, so gallant
ly and successfully indicated upon the plans of
San Jncinio In one If the numbers Of the journal