Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-02-17

rptnAY MORNING.. ........ FEN. ~ Ieo"
u.,,;.h LibcIs and A mcIicam EmdOrscrs.
ANY one who knows anything of h"-
tory. who has posted himself on the az
fairs of their own day and generation, IS
we'll aware that British accounts OF The
actions of Americans, sre very unrella-
bic authority. For tho last eighty years
since the days when George the lhifd
wa. wont to turn his back on Mr..
Adams and Mr.. Jefferson at his leyecs,
the journals of Great Britain and her
colonies, her leading magazines, such as
lakewood, the London Quarterly, etc,
have tcemed with the grosscst llbels and
caricaturcs on our nation. They seem
to have made it their especial business
for more than half century, to traduce
our national character, and hold us up
to the world in the blacklist possible
light. Everything that could undermine
our credit abroad was said and done by
them. No opportunity ofperverslon and
injustice towards the United States has
the British press ever with its sleeplcss
eye let pass by. Every where through
out the world, where the stars and
stripes have sailed, they have found the
red cross Of St. George tlanting, ever
ready to obstruct our Advancement
block our commerce, and bully and in
suit us. Down among the forests and
cochineal plantations Of lucatan or
Central America, in the East Indies
among the celcstials on the coast Of the
Pacific. wherever an American attempts
to gain foothold for the purposes Of
trade or commerce, the British Lion
raises his paw menacingly and growls.-
And yet uninterrupted England has ad
dci to her vast possessions India, and
with the bible in one hand and the
sword in the other has been for years
past gradually slicing of rich portions OF
the Burmese empire, aud killing off the
poor natives like flies, employing against
them the most scientific and terrible ell
gines of war.
We are led to these remarks by the
following paragraph, which We found
conspicuous in our neutrality-suspicious.
neighbor, the Gazette Of yesterday:
BuasINc TIE BlpIr--A recent dispatch Civ
ing news from abroad. said
Advices from Bogcta state that the Catholic
clergy had collec ed all the Bibles distributed
by the London Bible Society, and burned
them in the public square. The British Min
ster strongly protested against the proceeding
but Jones the American Minister, was present
countenancing the outrage. A full statement
If The affair has been sent to Washington.
Gen. Jones was formerly Democratic L. S.
Senator from Iowa. and was appointed Minis
ter to Bogota by Buchanan, for his trucking
subservianee We trust for the credit of the
people who once honored this man with high
office, and for the credit Of his country, that
there il some mistake in the above. II not we
hope Gen. Jones will never again show his
face among the people Of Iowa, nor be per
mitted to longer disgrace this country as an
official representative abroad.
The "recent dispatch" is evidently a
Geographic summary of the South
American new. brought to New York
sn the files Of the British colonial papers
published in the West Indies. Nc
doubt this infamous lie, which our
neighbor'trusts there is some mistaken,
originated with some intense anti-Amer
lean correspondent of the colonial jour
nails of the British West Indies, and
thus was brought to New York, ready
to be taken up and circulated over the
land by that party who are always
eager to believe British ISLANDERS level.
ed at their country The whole matter
is unquestionsbly a foul libel upon the
American representative at Bogota, Or
iginating with malace, ard propaga' ed
with credulity. The fact is the Demo
cratic party have always since the Rev.
olntion been the anti British party
in this country,the true american party,
while the opposition in our difficulties
and Misunderstanding with Great Brit
ain, have ever since the days of the
Hartford convention sided with and aid
cd the enemy, giving them sympathy
and comfort. OF course it is perfectly
natural that the opposition should be
ready to publish this foul libel upon a
distinguished Democrat like Gen. Jones,
and stigmatize our national character in
the person Of our representative. We
will venture to say that the whole of this
story has originated from malignant
jealousy OF Gen. Jones standing and in.
fiuenee at Bogota, and desire, shared
by our neighbor Of the Gazette TO ininre
one of Iowa's most gallant sons with hi.
fellow citizens.