A Letter on The Genius and Dispositions of The French Government, Including A View of the Taxation of The French Empire. Addressed to a Friend, by an American recently returned from Europe.

A Letter on The Genius and Dispositions of The French Government, Including A View of the Taxation of The French Empire. Addressed to a Friend, by an American recently returned from Europe.

Author: Walsh, Robert (1784 – February 7, 1859)

From Wiki: Robert Walsh, Jr. (1784 – February 7, 1859) was an American publicist and diplomat. His "An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain respecting the United States of America" (1819) was an important contribution to the political literature of the era. In the "Appeal," Walsh defended the United States from British critics who denounced the continuation and expansion of slavery in the United States. In formulating his response to British critics, Walsh relied on information gather from former president James Madison. In his letters to Walsh, Madison denounced slavery, overplayed Southern whites' efforts to rein in slavery's growth, and downplayed Southern whites' actions that led to slavery's rapid growth and expansion in the South. Like many other Southern whites, Walsh blamed Great Britain for establishing slavery in the United States. But the Missouri Crisis dramatically changed Walsh's opinions on slavery in the United States and Southern white slaveholders. Later that year, Walsh published his widely read pamphlet "Free Remarks on the Spirit of the Federal Constitution, the Practice of the Federal Government, and the Obligations of the Union, Respecting the Exclusion of Slavery from the Territories and New States" (Philadelphia, 1819). In "Free Remarks," Walsh called for a complete prohibition on slavery's expansion in the United States, expecting that such an action would force Southern states to begin adopting gradual abolition policies. In 1821 he founded the Philadelphia National Gazette, a newspaper run by William Henry Fry that was devoted to politics, science, letters, and the fine arts. Walsh edited the Gazette until 1836. Lord Jeffrey said of his Letters on the Genius and Disposition of the French Government: "We must learn to love the Americans when they send us such books as this" (Edinburgh Review, 1853, 799). He published two volumes of essays, entitled Didactics, in 1836.

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