The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-08-13
Shall England rule America!


tion as it was during our revolutionary struggle
1t was TO determine this question that our patri-
otic fathers left their homes and all the endear-
ments ofprivate life, took each his rife, and KNAPP
sack, and met the well-trained bands of naughty,
insolent England in the field and on the ocean
Is there an American citizen who is unacquainted
with the thrilling scenes Of that eventlul period2
They are written on history's broadcast, widest
page, and arc engfayen on the tabaure of eve
ry patriotic heart, throughout the length and
breadth of the land. There in marshal array
stood England's proud legons, gorgeously capar
5soned, with helmets gittering in the sunbeams
But that great amy like the cohorts of Senne-
scherib, little dreampt ofthe disasters and desruc-
tion that awaited them.
''Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green
Thathost with their banners at sunset were seen;
Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown
That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.e
For the angel OF death spread his wings on the blast
And breathed inthe face of the foe as he pass'd."
Yes, and the same Power Supreme smiled as an
angel upon the cause of liberty, and the tyrant
power of England was stricken low, and her
Hessian troops, and her hired soldery, who had
before won laurels at Trafalgar and Waterloo,
lay weltering in tEeir blood while piercing shreks
and groans of agony, arose from the wounded
and the dying. Justice and Right triumphed
over Fraud and Wrong England lost the fair
est and loveliest land the sun e'er sione upon
the brightest star in the coronet was gone for
ever
England could not rule America during our
Revolutionary struggle, and shhU she rule Amer
lea noW? That is the question for every patriot
to answer It is too apparent that our ancient
enemy is still determined, if possible, to retain
power ont this continent, Who that has watched
her movements for the last few years, can come
to any other conclusion? She has had her eve
set upon Texas, and did everything in her pow
er to prevent the reunion of that country TO this
and her last desperate effort, by secretly sending
out Commodore Elliot 10 negotiate of Texan in
dependence, has only covered her and her sneak
ing ambassador with shame, gnominy and con-
tempt.
England is now endeavoring 10 lay the lions
paw upon Oregon, and British statesmen (quo-
ling the language of President Polk) declare in
Parliament that the English title to Oregon is
"clear and unquesonable.n England's claim
to Oregon is the pirates caim-she does not,
and never did, own single square foot of that
valuable and lovely domain, by either law or
equity. There are federal tory spirits in this
country, who take the English side of the Ore
gon question, Gas they do in every other) and ap
pear extremely anxious that the land pirates oyer
the water should have houses at our very doors.
But the spirit of Americas Democracy will ne.
yer submit 10 such an outrage-we shall main
tain our title to Oregon, and insist upon it, even
TO the 54th deg. of north latitude. ENGLAND
shall not rule America! Let the sentiment
burst from every lip--let it spring from every
heartfelt it echo along the shores of the ST.
Lawrence, roverberate along the Atlantic coast
let the warm-hearted, chivalric sons of the
South catch up the words and sound them along
the Rio delsNore 10 the Rocky Mountains, and
then let the iron-nerved emgrant seize upon the
patriotic words, and shout them with senlorian
voice, until they reach the Pacific coast, and
there die amidst the bosterous waves of the GREAT
ocean-EagIand shall not rule America!