The Port Folio Volume 8 - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 edition. Excerpt: ... FOR THE PORT FOLIO. An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain respecting' the United States of America. Part First, containing an historical outline of their merits and wrongs as colonies; and strictures upon the calumnies of British writers. By Robert Walsh, Jr. Quod quisqae fecit, patitur: autorem scelus Re petit, suaque premitnr cxemplo nocens. Senec.. Philadelphia. Mitchell, Ames, & White. 1819, $3. pp! Ivi &512. The following article has been furnished by a correspondent. This is an attempt to show, that the calumnies which have been published against this country, by British writers, orators, travellers, and reviewers, have not only been unfounded, but that Great Britain herself is far more liable than America, to imputations still more atrocious and degrading. And the positions are professedly, and indeed successfully made out, by that kind of evidence, to which the most partial admirer of Great Britain can find no reasonable objection. The work furnishes an example of the argumcntum ad hominem, urged with the most triumphant effect. Before we commence our review of this very interesting work, it may be worth while to discuss the questions, whether it be right, and whether it be expedient, to resort to this system of irritating retaliation in our own defence? Whether any measures of defence be justifiable, that fan the flame of national animosity, and tend to exasperate more than to convince? Whether revenge should enter as an ingredient into our means of repelling calumny, and convert allowable resistance into furious attack? We are well aware that these topics will be first insinuated and suggested, then stated, urged, and pressed by those among us, whose prejudices and predilections are rather British than American; and who...