Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1853-06-16
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precept, whether APPROPRIATE or not, will be re-
PEELED. Nd
From the fatherabf the present generation
of British people, We Americans have been ac-
customed to receive torrents of sarcastic ridi-
sule and abuse, and from their fathers, in our
colonial state and Infant Independence, not on
ly calumny, contuskeiy and abuse, but, most
murderous treatment as enemies-treatment
more cruel, malignaht and nefarious than was.
perhaps, ever prac{iced upon christian peo-
pie, in war, by and Aer people pretending to be
christian and claiming to be ranked amongst
civilized nations. &
Our fathers hasurvived the war which led
to the establishments Of our freedom and inde-
pendence, though greatly reducea-Sy--the san
| culinary character Uf that war, were sufficient
to beget sons cap&ble of living down and rising
superior to British contumely and abuse; and
most happy for both parties, the posterity Of
those who bestowed it, have grown both wiser
and of better t6pper towards those whom, as
their fathers coul4 mot subject to slavery, they
now have the disaernment to see their own in
terest in treatinGAs good customers and friends.
Graciously, and gratefully, will we accept
from them theshand of good fellowship if
stretched forth without supercilious airs. Past
injuries we most .fheerfully forgive and gladly
would We forgetthem but that is impossible;
the memory of fathers and other relations who
have persisted o$been ruined in their estates is
too fresh even Vow, and the pen of history is
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/ to our Observation-Disclosures and characters
tics which are calculated to make us ashamed
of the race to which we belong.
| However, We most heartily rejoice in the
abundant evidence of better state of feeling
existing between two nations which have the
greatest and qzost numerous reasons for Guilt
waiting the senkiments and promoting the recip-
rocal actionssAOf good neighborhood. And
while we would Danish forever all that in the
past which has disturbed our relations, We
cannot certainly be insensible to the indica-
tons which Fom time to time come to us
across the water, that class, at least, of Brit
ish subjects, afe still laboring under strong
| propensity totook away from their own hardly
mitigated dogfestic evils and abuses, and fiat
tering themselves with the pretence of philan-
thropy, attempting to point out to US imper-
fections and errors in the policy Of our govern
ment and iheztondition Of our people which
they would have us correct in their way and
time, while Wa cannot but be conscious that
they are entirely incompetent either to form a
correct Judgment of the relative bearing and
merits of the various circumstances of our
people and cehntry, or to choose and apply
practically, tHeremedics best adapted to i'm
prove our condition.
We should IIespect, in the remaining British
subjects a sympathy and concern for the thou
sands who have fed from their native land to
take refuge win us, but it is not for this class
that their earliest solicitation is manifested
They are awarA that these are taken better care
OF here than they were at home. But, with re-
gard to this and every class Of people who find
shelter under de wings Of our various govern
ments. We, tha people of the United States,
have the deepest interest. Every citizen is
daily admonishtd that all the earthly interests
he possesses ar6involved in the common stake
of his country and government; and while
show of foreign .counse. and sympathy is pa
ticntly endured. it is quite possible that the
competency of4Dreigners either to sympathize
or wisely to counsel us. will be doubted.
1t should be remembered that we have chris
ton statesmen and philanthropic patriots, who
although they haay not be exactly of British
or continental PATTERN are nevertheless such az
Providence has provided for our wants, and
brilliant as is the galaxy of British statesmen
presented MS inhistory, we are fully persuaded
that from the days Of George the Sd. and Lord
North to the present time, there has not been
Briton competent to appreciate the policy
which is required BY the great local interests
of the United States. They have had Chat
hams. to be sure whose masnanimous love of
justice and huipan liberty has placed them
eminently high In the esteem Of good men in
America, as welfas in England, but even then
could not have leeislated wisely for US. Prov
idence had not placed them on the stand. point
new and peculiar condition could be surveyed
and justly appreciated. The various shoals
and quick-sands To- which our political bark is
exposed, and the vast interest of human liberty
and happiness to the whole world, which are
involved in its safely, can only be adequately
and practically appreciated by Americans
Though Briton may entertain just views of
general principles, chose which he or any other
foreigner can be expected to obtain of our cir
cumstances and wants must necessarily be OBJ
lique and imperfect
But it is no just ground of reproach to the
statesmen of that tTuly great and noble nation,
from which we areproud to acknowledge our
descent, that they are not capable Of filing the
place OF American legislators without local ex-
perience and Misunderstanding circumstances
forbid it, and though in genius the people have
close affinity, their circumstances differ in so
many particulars that the shrewdest English
politician would be4puzzled to meet our local
wants. He would be lost in the broad field of
American interests land perplexed with the
peculiar character ct our voluntary social and
political institutions. We can duly respect
him when occupied With the legitimate affairs
of his own people, however poorly, by his own
showing, he succeeds in improving their condi-
ton; but when the spns or daughters of Eng.
land. whether in pubic or private station, un-
asked, assume the Office of advisers in regard
to managing our DOMESTIC affairs, though it be
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