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is in her colonial career. Towards the world it
has been like that of neutrality-suspicious..
grasping, und crushing. But it must be ad
British usurpation. She planted the thirteen
American colonies, which have grown into the
thirty-one United States. These drew from
her, not all, as some suppose, but much OF that
spirit, aud many of those institutions which have
made us what we are. There is glory in this
true glory-such as no other nation, ancient or
modern, can boast. We do not heighten it by
conceit. nor will we diminish it by reeountng
the selfshness, the oppression, and the folly of
many acts on the part of Britain towards her
American colonies. The colonial relation is al
ways that of tyranny OH one side. and humilia-
ton on the other. The English rule here was
not worse, nay. not half so bad, as that of Spain
Portugal, and France, toward their several de
Tendencies. England was our mother; harsh.
perhaps, but yet she impaired to us the breath
of life; she gave us our bone, and blood, and
muscle, and the spirit enshrined within them.
lnEngland, beneath ''many Wondering heap"
our forefathers repose. Peace to their ashes!
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ants of a common parentage. But let it rest on
acknowledgement on fantasy or deception.
What, after all, must be our relations to
Great Britain? Surely those of interest-in-
terest only. Will she ever yield any thing to
blood, to consanguinily, or the kindred tie?
Her history answers in ten thousand mega
lives. Look al the spirit IN which she has
dotted the world with her colonies and military
posts, and which, indeed, is the key 10 her
success. Wherever Engshman goes, he
carries his nationality. Wherever an English
colonist plants himself, there must float the
British flag-wherever he would make home,
he insists upon English church, English
law, English roads, English houses and fire.
sides. He makes compromises. His loyalty
the master sentiment of his nation--never
sleeps. In Hudson's bay or Nootka sound,
on the Ganges along the Gambia, in India
or Observation-Disclosures he may be, on the land
OF on the wave, he loves England and Eng
land only; every where he sings God save the
King or Queen, which is nearly the same as
anathematising the rest of the world. Let
it not be supposed we speak unadvisedly
As many of our people are charmed with the
anthem of God Save the King, we give the
words To which il is allied The following is
the original song of l745. and which is still
zealously sung by every true Englishman
slight variation adapts it to the Queen
GOD SAVE THE KING
God save great George, our King
Long live our noble King;
God save the King,
Send him victorious,
Happy, and glorious,
Long TO reign over us;
God save the King.
Oh Lord God arise
Scatter his enemies
And make them fall;
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavsh tricks;
On him our hopes we fix;
o. save all
Thy choicest gifts in store
On George be pleased 10 pour
Long may he reign
May he defend our laws,
And ever give
To say, with heart and voice,
God cave the King!
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spirit he marches over the world, conquering
and TO conquer. Entering upon new coun-
try, he subdues or destroys the native inhab-
itants the forest bends beneath his sturdy
stroke; the very climate is changed at his bid
ding; he is never finally defeated; if he fail
to-day, he persists, next day and forever, until
he prevail.
Such is England, our mother; such, Britain,
our rival. Let us not lose in affection for the
one our perfect understanding of the other
Let us initiate, as to our own country, the
example Of our Saxon kindred Let us cher
ish a national sprit-a proud selfrespect and
self-reliance. IL England can build patriotism
upon crown, 50 can we on our star-set flag,
and that Union of which il is the symbol II
she has Magma Charta, which was made for
barons, with only a single stingy stipulation
for the masses and the million, we have
Declaration of Independence, giving equal
rights to every citizen Of the land. If Eng
land has produced a SHAgsPEARE-we have
given the world WASHINGTON If she has
her fields of victory, we have ours. IL the
sea has tales to tell of NELSON, 80 can it dis
course Of Hull, DECATUR, PORTER, and
BAHBRIDGE.
And one thing more: We have taught the
world lesson, il they choose to profit by it,,
which surpasses in importance all we have
done beside In the agitations OF Europe we
have seen the old fabrics of government thrown
down; but how to rebuild them has baffled the
wisest men OF the age. In the late trans
atlantic commissions, the statesmen and poll
ticians, cropping for some system to restore and
ensure social order, have reeled and staggered
like men amid the swellings of an earthquake.
Let us direct the attention Of the reader to Cali
forna Here a set of rude, fierce, undis-
ciplined men, from the four quarters of the
world. called together by savage thirst for
gold--with no other law than reviewers and
bowie knives in their belts-aloof from civil
zstlon and all the salutary restraints Of society
religion, and law-these men. consisting mainly
OF emigrants from the United States, suspend
| cd their and formed