The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-04-23
A Page of English History in the Ameri-
can Revolutionary War.
fTrom the New York Express.l
Prof. Morse and David Dudley Field


ESQ.,, the President of the Society for the
Diffusion of Political Knowledge which,
after some pleasing compliments to the
worldwide fame, and Immortal name of
4 Morse, he breaks off, into what we deem a
general denunciation of the diffusion of any
kind ofpolitical knowledge except Eoenins
Post knowledge or Tribune s'knowledge,'
or knowledge of the Wendell Phillips and
Garrison school. art .-rs.stg /,
1T is not so much the letter of the Con-
stitution which your Society has adopted :
says Mr.. Field, 'as the spirit in which twas
conceived; not SO much the purpose you
avow, as the occasion of the avowal: not so
much yourself as your associates and defenders
thot disturb aud alarm u.s. . sls cd.
Mr.. Morse's 'associates,' we think in
principle, character, history, position, prop
erty, will bear comparison with Mr.. Field.
Their record, upon the whole, we think bet
ter than his. especially pending the Peace
Congress. But adds g.5. s.. -..I sfl'8 fz /
Nothing could be more inopportune
than the formation of your Society at the
present moment ri ta,r g zsats
These were just the opinions of allthe old
Lord North-ites, prior to, and pending our
Revolution, from 1850 on to 1880. Indeed,
the spirit of the Republicans and Abolition
lists now, of the present day, is higher Tory
end more insolent and malignant than the
Lord North-ites, the Butterflies, the Lord
George Germaines, of our l776 Revolution.
We Wings of the present day are not to be
indulged as were the Wings in England in
Lord North's times, where the present Lord
North ties can help it. a
There existed 10 or out of the Parliament
of Great Britain, from 1850 to the end of
the American war, the Whig party, or an
opposition party, very plain spoken, which
the Tories then and there never dared
Suppress and in this oppcsitionparty were
names the most eminent in British elo-
quence or British history-such statesm en-,
such orators as the great Chatham, the won
derful Burke, and the eloquent.and brilliant
Fox. Let us BRIEFLY recall little of this
history, to see what the North-ites did Cor
did not, rather,) with such men, their
speeches, their discussions. their acts, &c,
when they were 'diffusing knowledge
In 1766 the great Wm. Pitt exclaimed in
the House of Commons: ffss
1T is true that in a good cause, on good
ground, the force of this country could crush
America to atoms, but on this ground, on
this Stamp Act, many here will think it
crying injustice, and am one who will lift
up nv hands against it. In such cause
your success would be hazardous-America,
if she fall, would fall like the strong man;
she would embrace the pillars of the State,
and pull doton the Constitution aoih her"
In 1868, we. the Wings of the Moth, in a
true constitutional cause, could crush the
South all out; but now our success, under
esidentpronouucing PROCLAIM ation Law, is,
indeed, hazardous; and, if we did not resist
snch proclaim ations or pronunciamentos, we
should phil down the fabric of North Amer
lean Liberty, also, with the Southern rebel
lion!
Rockingham, Conway and Edmund Burke
seconded Pitt in the movement for the re-
peal of the Stamp Act. Lord Camden help
ed in the House of Peers. These men, with
their eloquence, temporarily succeeded, aud
repealed the Stamp Act; but the violent
Tories, bent on the high exercise of power
and prerogative, then passed the 'Mutinv
Act which granted power to military off,
GERS to break into any house, by day or by
night, and that imposed troops, sent from
England, upon the Colonies. who were to
furnish them with quarters, beer, salt and
vinegar at the expense of the Colonies
Other acts followed, more provoking, with
an intense ignorance of all American affairs,
and the consequence was fresh evaporation.
The cry was then, as now,-'Crash, crush
the rebels out!
When, in 1776, the war broke out, tn
Duke of Richmond and the Earl of Conven
try inveighed against the employment Of
Hessians. The Earl of Conventry then told
the House of Lords: Conquest Cof us) was
impossible Lord Temple replied, as do
like men here:
Rebellion is encouraged by harangues in
Parliament
The Duke of Grafton proposed coucilia-
tory measures, but they were lost-91 to 81.
Fox then stood up as our friend.
The Earl of Chatham had never faltered
in being our friend. June, 1775, he humbly
begged His Majesty to withdraw his troops
from Boston. If it is not done-we quote:
Il will not say that the King is betrayed;
but will pronounce that the kingdom is
updone.'
Chatham was supported by Shelburne,
Camden, Rockingham an1 Richmond. But
Ministers beat down Chatham, and others,
by charging them with the sin of sowing
the seeds of division at home and abroad,
and represented him as an abettor of mall
contents His motion was negativ ed-66
to 18.
Chatham, however, was not discouraged,
but proposed other bills for the settlement
of peace in the Colonies. The Earl of
Dartmouth, then Secretary of State, and the
Earl of Sandwich bitterly opposed Chatham,
but Chatham temporarily beat them. But
not long after Lord North came into power,
and brought forth 'coercion.' Fox opposed
him, and was beaten, (309 against 1867
John Wilkes, the famous, then took part
against Lord North. He denied that al
proper resistance to wrong was revolution
or rebellion. Lord Cavendish tried to modi-
fy Lord North's 'coercion.' but in vain
Lord North triumphed, and that war then!
fearfully began, which ended with our in
dependence in 1888. Colonel Barre was
our friend, and spoke for u.s. Chatham, in
1711,- after Burgoyne's defeat, moved for an
immediate cessation of hostilities Qhe pro-