The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-09-01
Cheap Pnsris tissn.

In this goodly city Of ours there Is an album
dance Of cheap patriotism. Let IL but be known
that some 1000 miles of, people are becoming
restless under long continued wrong and OPP
preston, and forthwith our popularity seeking
politicians are brimful Of the most disinterested
Philanth ropy and sincere sympathy. They
will, at moments warning, congregate to-
gether and pass patriotic resolutions by the hat
full A few months since the DOMESTIC IssTI.
the satisfaction of our hunming-bird patriots;
court house sympathy meeting was therefore
convened, and the governme Of England
duly lectured in a series of resolutions, freely
spiced with patriotic ansthemas against tyran-
ny, oppression, kingcraft and all that sort Of
thing. .... .......u
Within the past few years we have had, in
this city Of Louisville, public meetings Of sym
patty with the Greeks, the French. the Poles,
the Irish, and the Dorr Government of Rhode
Island, all Of which were doubtless very proper,
and against which we have not a word to say.
We have attended many of these meetings, and
we do not recollect of hearing q word said
against interfering with "the domestic instifn-
tions" of an depressing or an oppressed people.
"Vestsd rights" were generally forgotten
"The rights Of property" had no peculiar sacred
ness or precedence over the "riehts Of persons. I"
Hosry headed precedent, If founded in wrong,
was bitterly denounced-the right and the true
eIOquently advocated. Men could then stand
up and give utteraace to those immortal senti
Dents of the Declaration Of Independence
In which il Is declared that call men are created
equal, and that they are endowed by their Gre
these are life, IdsrKrY AND THE rUEsuIT OF HAr.
rIsEas." Without any equivocating and con-
temptlble omments-commens which are a
disgrace to the living and a SANDER upon the
dead--sPeakers and listeners spoke and acted
generally as American freemen might be ex-
Pected to speak and act, and one would not
suppose that SLAVE could tread 'fAe glorious
sOitcf patriotic Kentucky" '''' 'i' 3
The secret Of all this spontan eous patriotism
lies on the surface. TT COSTS NOTHING
AND Is POPULAR. We can afford an abhr-
dance of eloquent denunciatior against all OPP
preston and wrong, provided II exists on snoth.
er continent and in another form than that
which prevails in our own land. Our skin deep
patriots can tread on the toes Of the Pope, knock
Gen. oudinot over the knuckles, curse the gov
eminent of England, and mathematics the Emf
peror efRussia, for all this can be done without
suffering either in their purses or their POPULAR
ity-lbut ask them TO ''loot at home" and to do
or say something that shall tend to destroy q
system Of slavery that rega rds MEN simply as
property, and which cannot be Sustained mo-
msnt without violation of the rnost sacred
rights of humanity, and all At once they are cas-
dumb a. oysters" They win tell you "thss
libsrsy IL very good thing sometimes and un-
der certain circumstances, but ''circumstances
Especially color alter cases" That the ssn.
timssts about personal equality promulgated IN
the Declaration Of Independence. IRE s'iytsI!
shszassisn." long MACS ssplsdsi By the l.vsn.