Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-04-02


We had not long set up for ourselves, be,
fore the war between France and England
commenced The blood of the first had hard
" dried up from your fields, and the STRIPES
of lie last had hardly cured up on your p ,IS
and vet YOU took sides with the la',ef- HIS
YOU did before you could plead the HORRORS Oh
the Revolution as an apology lot your uiiiia-
tural preference. Indeed those hoIfoIs were
the results of instructed zeal IN really COCA
cause like your burning Gown Calnonc
Churches TO advance the cause OF Religion
France was your ally, England was your
enemy. The first, struggled for the people;
the last struggled for kings. The one, light
ed the torch of freedom at your own affairs :;
the other, at the same affairs, mingled your
blood with your sacrifices. The one was
reformer the other was an intermelder. And
yet you took sides with the latter! | could
not follow you, and here we split again In
that contest both trampled upon our rights,
but it was for the last 10 seize our children q
make them lift the sword against their 0ene-
factors. Orr children, did | say? Not ours
but uours. Not one did loose by this daring
assumption: but YOU lost many. For this
and MANY other insults and wrongs, we de-
clared war against Britain. And where were
Won now? There were your own sons real
IL Sc hondsmen" in the hands of s. man-steal-
ers:" and there was your property contlScated
bv their masters" You, of course, warmly
espouscd the war which was declared to pun
ish these outrages; did you not? Not you {:
YOU opposed it, YOU denounced it, and you IN
terposed every barrier to its success that you
possibly could With one eye upon Bunker's
Hill, and the other upon Yorktown, you laud-
ed GEORGE the Third, and illuminated MADI-
SON; and when YOU found that all your efforts
to arrest the war proved abortive, you sent
one portion of your children TO plot a disso!u-
ton of the Union, and another to your water
falls to supplant your beloved friend in man
ufactures.
The war ended, we next find YOU making
your conges to that much abused government,
and humblv soliciting a little protection for
those generous sons of yours, who had mag
unanimously slept forward, in the time of dis
tress, to supply the country with clothing
You told us that if the government which you
had so kindly befiended, would only fling its
protecting arms about them for few years
YOU would release it from further obligation
throw yourself, like other people, upon your
own resources, and make a wonderful return
for the boon extended to them. 1t was grant,
ed {; and surely, after what had transpired, i
you could stoop to ask it, they who granted
it may be excused on the score of heroism, il
not Of Justice and policy. The favor granted
YOU returned to your abuse-the soar that ra%
crashed, to her eraHoUing an the mire.
The time expired, you again appeared be-
| fore the Deputies, not to verify your former
promises, but to ask for little ircredse of pro
lection. This time you told many inconsis
tent stories; but as they were matters of course
little was thought of them; and you were
again favored. In a few years you were back
again, supported by sisty COMFY and siste
Rhody, who had got sip of the pap upor
which you fattened so Justify, and who hat
become as ravenous of it as yourself. Here
was now exhibited to the world sublime
moral spectacle-the le-leaders of the Hart
ford Convention, at the City of Washington
not ''to take measures to protect their cltl
zens from forcibe draughts, conscrptons
and impressments," $50 our military requisi
tons were called,) but modestly to reques
the American family to tax themselves for TIT
third time with increased severity, IN orde
that this darling Triplet might do a money
making business.
But must conclude this long letter
thought, when commenced it, that it would
within less space, contain all that | had IL
say; but find that it will not, and to do you ant
myself Justice, | must address you again. Il
the mean time, let me say to your children
who have opposed your strange and way
ward course, that SO far from attaching blam
to them, look upon them as among the no
best, if not the very noblestspirits of the land
To stick 10 their country and to principle, amlds
the influences which surround them, argue
a moral character and moral frmness whic
deserves the highest praise, and, of course
better parentage.
Your injured sister,
, GEORGIA.
P. S. If can find vehicle in Sister Mary
! family, which is not already chartered by po
iticians, | shall avail myself of it for thi
communication, because from her position
both local and moral, she is most likely
deal justly by us both.
IowA.-The Legislature OF Iowa has adjou1
: ned without electing judges of the suprem
z court, or senators of the United Srates.