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Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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The Baltimore American criticizes pro-British sentiments in Massachusetts newspapers, quoting the Quebeck Mercury and Boston Repository justifying the attack on the USS Chesapeake and dismissing U.S. neutral rights. It accuses Dr. Park of British influence and defends the need for a U.S. navy to protect rights.
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It is to be lamented that the chief town of Old Massachusetts should furnish writers for Britain: Writers who go hand in hand with such fellows as Berkeley and the tories of Canada. The Quebeck Mercury of a recent date contains a long article on the subject of the late attack on the Chesapeake: It justifies the outrage in every particular, and speaks in the most contemptuous terms of this country. Among other expressions it has the following:
"Powerful and elevated among nations, as Great-Britain at this day is, she would be wanting to herself did she passively submit to any wilfully injurious, and atrocious conduct, from a people who, to the thunders of her navy have only to oppose such impotent weapons as Proclamations, Resolves, wailings and clamors."
One would suppose that such insolence would hardly be imitated by any printer in the United States. The single consideration that the sentiment is entirely British, ought to prevent an American journalist from coinciding with it. But Great-Britain has her partizans in this country as well as elsewhere, and the following, from the Boston Repository, completely proves that a British subject in Quebec and an Anglo American at Boston are essentially the same kind of animal: and that if Dr. Park is not already a British hireling he is very willing to become one; for like the Quebec writer, he says--
"No nation possesses any perfect right without the power of enforcing it, and neutral rights are but a name without the power of giving them a reality. And to defend neutral rights by the force of clamor and argument against the interests of belligerents, is like opposing the hostilities of proclamations to the force of arms or their protection."
After reading these two extracts, it is believed that no man can really doubt about a British influence existing at Boston. If "neutral rights are but a name," as the Boston Repository asserts, why should government build a navy to protect them? We trust, however, although there are beings in this country grovelling enough in their mind to yield right to power, that there are honest citizens sufficient in the United States to give the government power to protect right.
Dr. Park thinks right is not to be supported by argument. All his calumnies against the present administration, and all his justificatory animadversions in favor of British outrage, go to show, however, that he believes wrong may be countenanced by abuse.
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Criticism of pro-British articles in the Boston Repository by Dr. Park justifying the attack on the Chesapeake and dismissing neutral rights, compared to similar sentiments in the Quebeck Mercury, highlighting British influence in Boston.