The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-09-26
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/. sYpssY SMITH in 1g4s, wtsn Pennsyl.
ayiyauia (ana some other states refused 10
provide III The pay nssss 81 her debts, adj
Creased an humble petition "to the
House OF GosgresssM Washington r. from
which we give the following singing OK.
tracts s,s FrsF cJ
ct petitson yoas hoaorabie House to in.
xtituter sopefneasures for the restoration OF
A merican. credit and .forr the. REPAYMENT OF
debts Incurred and repndIated by seVeral OF
the States Your petitioner, lent to tue state
az PENNSYLVANIA sum, OF money Tor IL Inc
'nlfr,1ose BE some public improV Inc
amount. though small, is to him important,
and Il a sagipg from. q life iGcome maze
with dificnfty and priyation.
Tne fraud is committed -; - after
'the wise investment OF the borrowed money
In roads and canals, OF which the kepu'
diators are every day reaping the adVan,
taee. II "a an act OF bad. faith which, at
its circumstances considered, has no paral'
lei and no excuse. Nor is it only the loss
OF property your petitioner laments. he
Inments still more that Immense power
Which Itbe bad faith OF America has given
to aristocraticaI opinions. and to the enemies
~ free institutions in the Old World. IL
il vain any longer TO appeal to history ano
TO. POINT out the wrongs, which the man
have received from the few. The Amerl'
cans, who boast 10 have improved tue lnsti.
.ti,tious OF the Old World, have at least
'eouslled its crimes. A great nation, after
trembling under foot all earthly tyranny,
has bgen guilty Of a fraud-of a fraud as
enormous as ever disgraced the worst King
of the most degraded nation OF Europe.
It is most painful to your petitioner. to see
that American citizens excite. Wherever
they may go the recollection that they De-
long to a dishonest people, who prize them
selves on having tricked and piliaged Eu'
rope, and this mark is fixed by their falth,
less Legislatures on some OF the best and
most honorable men in the world, WnoH
every Englishman has been eager to see
and proud to receive. ...,.
,. at is. subject OF serious concern &c
your petitioner that you are losing all thai
power which the friends OF freedom re-
ioiced that You possessed, looking upon
YOU as the ark Of human happiness ana tne
most splendid picture Of Justice and OF WIS:
dom that the world had yet seen. Little dlo
the friends Of America expect it, and SAD
is the spectacle to see you rejected by every
State in Europe as a nation with whom nc
contract can be made, because none VIII DC
kept-unstable'i in the very foundations OF
social life, deficient in the elements OF gooo
faith, men aoho prefer any load Of antamy
h0tosrer great; to any pressure or taAation'
however light.
Nor is it only this gigantic bankruptcy
for 80 many degrees OF longitude and atl'
;oh 6nnI0TpS.
he is alarmed also by the total want OF
shame with which these things have been
done; the calIous immortality with which
Europe has bt en- plundered, that deafness
Of the moral sense which seems to preclude
all return to honesty, to perpetuate Ids
new lnfamy, and to threaten It's extension
over every State In the Union.
ITO any man of real philanthropy who
receives pleasure from the improvements
OF the world, the Reputation Of the public
debts OF America and the shameless man.
ner in which it has been talked OF and done,
is the most melancholy event which has
happened during the existence OF the pres
emit generations. Your petitioner sincerely
pravs that the great and good men still eX-
listing among you may, By teaching to the
United States the deep disgrace they bave
incurred in the whole world, restore them
TO moral health, to that high position they
have lost, and which for the happiness OF
mankind it is so important they should ever
maintain, for the Uaited States are now
working out the greatest OF political pro-
bIems, aud upon that confederacy the eyes
of thinking men are intensely fixed, to see
how far the mass OF mankind can be trust
ed with the management OF their own al.
fairs and the establishment OF their own
happiness" .'~ 81.
The author OF the above petition said that
he 8. had been abused in the grossest mail
ner by many OF the American papers"
Hence, to the editor of the Morning Chroni'
Gle (Loudon) he thus writes:
'"You did me The favor, some weeks
since, to insert in your valuable journal a
petition OF mine to the American Congress
for the repayment OF loan made by me, in
COMMON with many other unwiSe people, to
the State OF Pennsylvania. After
some weeks reflection see no reason to al
ter my opinions or retract my expressions.
What then saidwas not wild defamation,
but measured truth. / repeat again that
no conduct was ever more prOflgate than
that Of the State OF Pennsylvania. History
cannot pattern it, and let no deluded being
imagine that they will ever repay single
farthing their people have tasted OF the
dangerous. luxury OF dishonesty, and they
will never be brought back to the homely
rule OF right. The money transactions Of
the Americans are become by-word among
the nations of Europe. In every grammar
school of the Old World ad GraecoS Cdtend-
as is translated the American dividends. l
am no enemy to America. loved and bon
ored honest America when she respected
the laws of pounds, Shillings, aud pence,
and thought the United States the most
II agniticent picture OF human happiness.
NEEDLE now in these matters because L nate
fraud-because pity the misery it has oc-
mourn over the natred
it has excited against free institutions.
"Amons the discussions to which the
moral lubricities OF this insolyent people
have given birth, they have arrogated 10
themselves the right of sitting in Judgment
upon the property Of their creditors [6todted
deciding who among them
is rich and who poor, and who are proper
objects OF compassionate payment; brt in
the name of Mercury. the great god OF
thieves, did any man ever hear OF debtors
alleging the wealth Of the lender as areason
for eluding the payment Of the loan: Is
the Stock Exchange place for the tables OF
the money-lepders, or is it school Of NOR
alists, who may amerce the rich, exalt the
poor, and correct the inequalities OF for.
tune? But the only good part OF
this bad morality is not acted upon. The
rich are robbed, but the poor are not paid.
They growl against the dividends of Dives
and don't lick the sores OF Lazarus. They
seize with loud accamations upon the
moneY-bags Of Jones, LLOYD. Rothschild,