Arkansas intelligencer., 1848-04-01
The HightantcfaIOFHmiieS.

Tor want OF better title, we may give the
above name TO those worthy gentlemen who are
rolling up the whites of their saintlike owes at
/ lhe "iCkedness of the world in general, and of
the United States in particular. The appeation
Is IN itself nonsense; and therefore the more ap-
Phca0le to the gentlemen lhemseyeS-for they
appear to have taken out patents for the use of
tortycant power of stiffness. The particular
cause which excltes the ire of these fellows lust
now, IS the hanging of set of deserters by Gen.
IwIggs-a strlnging up of some forty or fifty
rascals-EnglIsh, Irish, Germa n, and we are sor-
ry TO say, American traitors to the coors under
which they had enlisted. The writer's have been
horror-struck at this and think it would have
been better to have logged them to death-atter
the fashion Of the English army. They assert
that rope is not bad thing, per 81 but that il
ought TO have been applied differently. To kill q
by dangling him from a ropes end IS mur.
der; but 10 kill him by applying it to his hinder
end. is not murder at all.
We dare say that the dovil-whom these can't
ing rascals of English writers serve so faithfully
is very much delighted with the antics of his
servants, from the worn-out old buck, Lord Pal.
mersion, down TO that precious compound of can't
lying, and soit-soaP, Mr.. Jerro.d. Certainly the
picture which they necessarily couiure UP is
striking one. Look at Il, amateursl Behold tie
millions daily offered up by England-unclad un-
fed, unpltled, to the Mooch of gain. Behold the
wTetches trudgIng on, in one mOnotonous round of
degradation shrinking under the wbips of titbe.
collectors and tax-gatherers; crouchng nearly
double under the weight of i-requited labor :;
meagre from lack of food fighting in the poor
house for the privilege of deyouring ofaI and ex.
crement; dying in the streets, lanes, and Alleys
unpi:ied and unknown. See hordes of miserable
beings, to whom the comforts of religion are de-
MED and the existence of God unknown, tong
naked in the dark mines male and female pro-
mlscuously intermlngied, dragging loads on all
fours. like beasts, and lashed the while by their
tash-masters sIunted factory children, poisoned
by the peslientiaI air ia the cotton gods temple ;
beings III the form Of men STOPPING to lick the
dust before the rich and NOBLE or fixing with their
own hands the spurs on the heels of those who
ride them by the grace Of God. Look al the pre-
.aLes, riding over the poor mans fields, in very
wautouness robbiEg him of his last morsel, un-
der the Of Ienths and first-fruits. or steal
ing his pet lamb, his daughter, and turning her
oct TO live and die prostitute at idiotc nobles
draining the gold and substance of the mass 10 Ia
wish il foreign misiresses, or in foreign land.
Look at royalty, pupPet; nobility, a villain !;
clergy, hypOcrile and the people, slaves.
The background of all this IS no less worthy of
note. There you see Sikhs, driven the bayo
nets point in the river, vainIy mplorug mercy !;
the women murdered IN cold the infants inpaled
upon the swords of English officers. There you
have the Chinese, forced to poison themselves by
slaughter and rapiue there you behold the New
Zeacndcrs massacred by thousands; there you
contemplate a British army engaged in destroy
ing the state papers of an American Capitol
there you delight your eyes wuh all the incorrupt
biity of the British character, as shown in the
souI-markct Of English olectOa-and you can
amuse yourself by the quiet manner in which the
English government picks the pockets Of its own
subjects, by reduction of the interest on the Pu
bic debt. Amid these scenes of infamy-this
carnage, rapine, fraud, and horror-there runs
yeying and shrieking, nasty little cur. called
Douglass JerroId-who baTks, with penny-whis
tie noise, >. Bow, wow, wub fallen America
bow, WOW, wuh "
1t is well for America that she has a height to
fall from. 1t would be better for England if she
had not got to that depth, already, below which
there is 10 descent.-John Donkey.