New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-19

monstrances appear, however, to have been Of
little avail, for this transportation Of criminaii
continued to comparatively recent date. The
British Government found itself, indeed, In
serious dilemma in IT'S as to the disposition
of its inconveuient accumulations Of thieves and
murderers. A relief was proposed, to effect
which Capt Cook was dispatched to discover
in Australasian seas the territories which re-
placed for England her old convict receptacles
of Virginia and the Carolinas. Our English
friends will find further trustworthy informa'
ton in the several acts of Parliament, 4th Geo.
/. and 9th Geo. l.; 18th Geo. ii. and 9TH
Geo. Ill
Their Criminal Records will also furnish, no doubt the
Of these expstred Chvsry and We propose that
y ANTICIPATE Ss the world MY how
prominent Rebels 10 against our Government are
| the lneel descendants OF transported conyics
1t ia obvious that these hundreds OF thou.
sands of felons ond outcasts who were thus
poured into the Atlantic slavehOlding States
must have had offspring, as minated by
Franklin, and that as at one time more
persons came into the colonies who were con-
vc,s than were not we are justified in the
assertion that large proportion Of the present
population are the descendants of felons. 1t
is furthermore worthy of remark that the
present is not the first time that our internal
quiet has been disturbed by British convicts
and their descendants. The outbreak which
occurred few years since at San Francisco
was largely melted by the misdeeds Of Austria
liam felons and ticket-oi-leave men; and it Is
notorious that scarcely an individual contributed
to the anarchy which led to the existence of
the Vigilance Committee who was Of American
birth or parentage. A
1t is not republican principle to visit the
sins Of the fathers upon the children. In the
Conhscation act, we have rcfrained from adopt
ing, even against treason, what ia termed the
" corruption of blood" But We have right.
in making ont case of comparative character,
to refer those nations VINO assume to sit In
judgment upon us, to those principles when
they themselves recognize and submit to, and
which they have cepsured us as backward aud
feeble for not hitherto employing. We have ii
right to remind them that Felony, Repudla-
ton, and Slavery have no place among the
hills Of New-Epgland the rich fields OF
New-York and Pennsylvania, on the banks oil
the Ohio or the broad prairies of the Free
West. We have a right to bid them renem'
Der our free schools, our noble charities, our
steadfast moral and religious fidelity, our me-
chancal Inventions, our uniform and un-
precedentcd prosperity, our immense COM
mcrcial marine, sometimes carrying bread
t. their own starving poor, sometimes
bringing home their abandoned ships from
the Arctic seas. Let our European cen
sors consider all these things, and then ASK
themselves how upright and honorable they
are in their sweeping dcnunciaiions OF great,
free, educated and intelligent people, whose
only crime consists in loving their country
and in u steadfast revolution TO prevent that
country from being shattered into fragments
by the unhallowed efforts of traitors aud
felons.