AMERICAN DEBT.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 112, 27 April 1844, Page 31

AMERICAN DEBT.

-"• *jJ J^iPr? l^ ot t&c Morning Chronicle. ! *isirrr^4y%T'.e^A.U|nwell for some day $ past, to feenetr^l^ff; Green, who- (whatever be his other njeriiß)!,liaß ceVtjainly npt shown himself a Washington ,'iti 1 defence of his country. The General deoxan^s I ,' \^th a beautiful ■.mmpptfy-V " 'Whence -This HATJREii or America?" But' thjis question, all-affecting as it IW is stolen' from'Pilpay's fables' :-V* .A fox* says Pilpay, " caught by tEe'leg in a tra^ pear the farm-yard, tittered the' most piercing 'cries of distress : forthwith all the birds of the yard gathered roiind, him, and seemed to, delitht in his misfortune; hens chuckled, geese' hissed, duck'fr Quacked, and chanticleer with' «hrill cockaddodlefe rent thfew.' '• * Whettce/ 'said the fox, stepping 1 forward with' infinite' gravity, ' vjh&ic'e tMs'morbid hatred \f the fob? , What have II 11I 1 done ? - Whom haVie I injured? 1 "I'aini overwhelmed with astonishment at these symptoms of aversion/ "Oh, you' old villain/ the poultry ;exclaimed,/. where ;are our ducklings? where are our goslings? Did I not see you running away yesterday, with , my mother in your mouth? did not you x eat up all 1 my relations: last week? Yod'bugKt to dfetfie/wirst of deaths^-to be pecked into a thousand pieoesi*>" Now hence, jGeaaeral' Gieenv- comes thi niorlid hatrtd . of Am^ricai ; as ' you term i^« , iPpcaupe her conduct, has been pre(3atorj; because; she has ruined ad many helpless children, miserable ivbmeii, so many aged rnenj.ijecause she has jdißtnrbed : the 1 ordei 1 of the world, and irifled those, saoted treasures which humaii virtue had' hoarded for hwnan misery.., Why is .such, hatred, morbid ? , Why. is it not jn^, /inevitable, irinate ( ? -why, j.9 y. not disgraceful to waVfit? Why, is it not honourable to feel it?' 1 Haie Amtrica ! ! ! I Kavelbved antfnbiiotired America all my life; and in 'the Edinburgh Re,vkw, and at .all opportunities' which my trumpery, sphere of actiqn has (afl^dedj.l.bave never ceased tto praise and defend the United .Slates; and to 'every American to whom Thave bad the good fortun^ to be introduced, I have; prbtfei'ed 4iß ! the 'hospitality in my^poVer. "But X cannot shut Tny eyes ■■ to enormous dishonesty % ' »or,i remembering their former state, can I Hestraih ,mjßelf from calling on them (though, l. .copy Satan) to .spring «p from the gulf pf, infamy, in which they 1 are rolling-4- ' " "" '" ■' ' ' ; 'Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen. :r( - yd Jf

I am astonished that tbe^hdnesi/ states 3>f •America dp not. draw a 'cordon sanittture round their unpaying brethren, that, the truly-mercan-tile New Yorkers and the thoroughly .honest pebple of. Massachusetts do notj in their European visits, wear an uniform- with' S. '$£'* <Jr Solvent States, Worked in golden 'letters -Upon -their. coats, and Receipts. in full of kli defnands tamboured, on r their, jwaißteofcts, and, Qwi'fivm $r'merty figure^ on fyejr, pantaloons* „ ,„■ , ,- „ „ But the' General seemed shocked. that } should Bay the ' Amerlcaris 1 cannot go to war" without tribney. • But what' fldfl'mean'by w^H Not irruptions into Canada — not -the 1 * embodying of militia; in); Oregon—but! a: long, tedious,iri)ari.time war of -four or five years' duratjpnv n jß any man so "fpolish as to suppose that Eoihschild has fabuung to' do with such wars as theise i ? and that' a bankrupt state; without the power of borrowing a shilling in tlie world, 1 may not be jorjppled ift auch a. contest?. We all: know. that the Americans can, fight; ,, Nobody doubts. their courage.. x I, see now, in my mind's eye a^whqle army oh the plains of Pennsylvania in tattle irttiy^immetise^ corps of ' insolvent light. iriffintry, regiments »f heavy horse debtors, Battalions of repudiators, brigades of bankrupts, .with Vivre sans payer, ou maurir,< on their banners, and Qre alieno, on their. trumpets; .JJH "these desperate debtors would fight to the death for their and probably drive info the sea their invading creditors. Of their courage, I tepeatagain, I have no -doubt. I wish I 'had the . same i confidence' in' their wisdom. < But I believe they, will become intoxicated by the flattery of unprincipled orators; and, instead of entering with us into a noble competition, in making ' calico (the 'great object. for which .tpe Anglo-Saxon race appears to have been created), they will waste their happiness and their money (if they icani get any) in gears' of silly/ bloody, foolish; and accursed w&r/to prove to the World that Perkins is a real fine gentleman;' 'arid 1 4fc*st the carronades of 'the Washington; steamer^n caft-y farther than those of theßritisheV Victoria orthe'Robrirt'Peelves'Betofwar., . ,; :n j;V ct Tarn accused of applyifag.the epithet I*'jr^p^1 *' jr^p^ diation" 'to state* which have not irepij^diajte^. Perhaps so; but th'en' these latter states 'h^ave ■not paid. But what is the djufferencejVe^wie^n a. man who cays " I don't oweyoUjjajiythjng, and will n6t, pay you,?' and another, #wy» Jsfiy? '^1 do oy^'.you a sum," s and who, haying^d» 'übitted, the ,'debt, nwer pay* jt,? Th** : e, ,»p«mf in the first to be some slight colour. of-Jfight, but the.Becond-i8 brpad, blaiuag, refulgent, .meridian fraud. tl _ t ,;.'„ . . ' •„ ,.-, ,• ' „. , It may be very true .that. rich and; educated men in Pennsylvania wish., ti pay the debt, and thatthp real objectors ate the Dutch and German agriculturists, who jcannot - ( be made to understand tfo§ eflfect'of .charaqter uppndofer. .All. this JnaV/bs very .true, but it is a domestic quavreL Tttfiy churchwardens : of, reputatioo must make ta. private rate of infamy,forithemjßelv6BTrf»re haVe.LnothJr^ to do with thki«t«. The real duanteLis-the Unpaid World ort^tt^ti^j (State of F«nß«yl?*kiisu • ■■ ' >''• ''■ ( - :i c • ' ' . And now-, etear Jonathan; 'let me he* ' oiybb to follow the sdvice of » teal fpkU^vij^i <m. say to you what Wat Tyler hatf not, tt4<i (^i«ui to say; <md what all speakers in thee^renjre^ cent Pennsylvinun elecqons ba.ve (^^ously abstained frdm s^ng, Kai« « great itffarij S6ok . up, tit once aid pay, ' v You. havs/nA coa* ception of the bbloquy,and'cpatemp^ijtp,irhich you are' exposing younelres* all orer Europe.

Bull ie i naturally .disposed to, you; but he loves nobody Who floe's" not nwu His imaginary paradise is sorae planet of jpfonc|uajl payment; Wheirfe ready 'money preyarirJ mA where; debt and discount are unknown. ' as, n>r me, -as \ 'Mas WaK.tHaßne iaat pffimgjig paM^ t$ the'bar.pf the P^onsylvan^n |S£i^te, in the W«meomc]lin'rQbe" of American "cdnttoversy,. dtops, o\ ' W, 'ancf . «tp" nte^ wjtili .those pejial plumes in whicft $Vxfin,q;ajtßh<s reasoner. of the "^rafas^tlanVic wosa ctoep £emage . J i^e, p ( hyßic^iippnority of Jtiis^ntypjje^jte..;^ ! ■ „ 41^;^^, 'haying ; ea^d jinyi sjml pf.i^'hidigr i natftn^jand, sjffiLiiiy stacks Mty. pej ceitf . •^untrJ^VuKlf^ 1 ?^! 1 ! 1 " 1 ? V»«.fi»PJpcfeMfit> a ;^ed r in^Bii^oft.flf .JUai^ing, no .nwe moftty^p jf^e^gnd enlightened xepubljcs^^uji-^^inpjioy 1 my.^one'v. ben'cefqirl& ii^ buying up Abjjasinian f the T^^sh JFaufa,: G^irt;, funds.' ,' -"tray* •^■■';' < -» i.. -...' V. '"r9W».NW-9«««fP'.-" I