TCItMS OF Tllfi AMKallCAX.''
II. B. MASSF.lt, Pt ntn.nr.Ms asd
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ROPRIKTORtf.
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'Tlin-e Is o (iml !"
11V Cltllll.nTIt: rlSIIMAN.
'Tin-re is no (!nd '." the sceptic scod'un; said
"Then? is no iiivit tliiit sWa s or earth or sky:'
IJcTIIOVP till' lllilt folds tin1 (llMllll.'l's lll'llll,
Tliiit (lod lnnv hurst upon his opiMlcd eye !
1$ there tin Cmt ? Von sturs above arrayed,
If In- look tln-vi". tl o bht-phemy denv ,
tVhilst his own features in mirror mid,
Helled tin- minne of 1i inity.
) there no Cio'l! Tln pnrpl ins st reanihts flow
The nir he breathes, the rr"l:ti't in" treads. 1)h
trie's.
Pi iirlit (lowers, crc.n fields, the winds tlmt round
him blow.
All speak of Cart all pin i that II decrees 1
i i.i i ,i i i
Have placuil them, where they mav His be nut 1
show: j
r.liml to thyself, behold Him, Ma. ill these.
I.ovr Ait C.'non-lii rt'lrtt. I
A srTivt:vrr. sronv.
We had n cousin hciuho! She's the '.lux- I
itiitd nmllif.i'1 tifti li.'ilfn fleno 1 il !tn rfinwinc n(,iv
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i viif 1.111; .r.i.i.i K'liiM'ii'i it ninii s iai nmrti.
1. . . . , 1 ( 1 1 1 L. : 1
ni'. 1. "I m . r. 1 j 1 rii en uiiMioisoi il 11 lll'T nerooien 01 i
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nil the novels that ever were or ever will be j
written, as Arnminda Malvina Fitz Allen was
superior to .Mrs. Jerry .';cal?. Her voice was
like the wild wnrh'inirs of an .T! l;a ri harp, ns
it lulls the zephjrs to tin ir s!unil vr her eyes,
iiik not lin.in tlir. slnrs Vim e:in't mriteli idem
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t ierf? ; niul tnn ciiihiiiict lit le rvinsv had Knr h n
way of half closing the brilliant orbs, veiling
their dangerous beams, mid then with n tudden i
" I
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that vmir vcrv heaVt incontinent1!- felt tin?
process of combust ion-her brow shaded by i
J.er auburn hair was like a Land's, breadth 0,-i
white cloud nnd the rid. lustre f a southern !
Funset her hands were fitted for nothing but
to sweep the burp's mellow chords, and to be
ki.-sed y a lover and iier feet oh, how we
adore n pretty loot Titania, Queen ol'Pairics,
would have given her most beautiful nut shell
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tar
ft i U f
chariot just to have seen that perfect fcatKre, j 'l""''''" w hich they may, without due rcfleC
we must call it. j tion' nnvc u(;Pn suffered to reach. I allude more
Well, we were in n terrible condition about ),:rlicnlarly to some letters lutely published of
that cousin sometimes w-e"d ca!J her 'cousin,' ; '"ri1 yb'nliam, written confiilentiiHy to his
it was so delightful to claim a relationship with I colleagues, while he was ncting under
fiich a perfect creature: nnd then we wouldn't i ,lie,n ns "vernor fleneral of British North A-
roll Iror cousin, fiir we laid a sort of a trap, that
if she asked, ns we h?jed ?h would, why we
used not th.it cousinly title, we had a very pret
ty speech niado tip to intimate that we desi
red, w hen niaiihood c.iuie to call her by a dear
er name.
But the provoking little mill': never seemed !
to notice w hether we voiismi it or iit.
She was older than we und her name Was
Kglantina.
One day we were walking In the garden
with the fair one, we determined to iliviih'e
the yet unbroken tale of allcction which fur- calculating people, nnd fight not for glory but
charged the heart. i lhinder" "such a set of braggadocios, tiiat their
We were inn beautiful walk, fringed with P'''C tiun mn.-t euljinit to the claims of their
gooscbeiry bii-hes, when, after the most np- i fxiravagint vanity and self-sufficiency" that
proved fashion ofrnmince, sinking gracefully ' ,,"'l e 's a,"t,nF a " goti..ral debasement
noon one knee, in biinrng words, we pouted I ,ll!lt u'c 'b" nun nt place are corrupt nnd Cor
forlh our story ol'eternal love. j mplers, and the ma-ses win bestow prefermeiil
Fglautina calmly listened. We thoiisht we ! if!"'"-'"""', prejudiced, di.-honest, nnd utterly im-
perceived'l kitnl tear dimming her radiant eye
we rose nnd stn.-U-hed out our nnn, ex
peeling of course that she would sink upon our
breast, ami murmur the gent'e confession of re
ciprocated attachment. Header, the did no
tucli thing.
She serenely turnrd, nnd pulling q handful of
prrrn goosberries, gravely asked
'Cousin John, what are tln-.-e!'
'(iiMberries, my darling Egluntino!' answer
cd cousin John.
'Eat thcni,' she replied, 'goii ttrrr'us must It
goad for tjnur comj-li.iiil'
Takino a I'ltorir.r.. Enrly on a very cold
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morning, travelling protne colter called at the
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house or a wag, mi l iruiiiired tf he wnntd) n
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ycurs 'tnhen from my door.'"
vs "One of our
The Sund.iv Mercnrv
poets' arrogates to himself the title ol the
Mo.jre of America. As fur as bis 'i.try' is
concerned, wc would be tho better satisfied to
find biia 'no mm .' "
Ueauty in the face of women, and folly in
their heirW, are two worms that fret life und
vuBle goods.
Wt:i.i.KRis.. Here's tho banister, but
where is the blairs," as the drunken fellow
naid when he felt his way around the bedstead
in the dark.
COMI.NDUIJMS.
Why is a cat on her hind legs like a water
fall 1 Because she is a rat erect (cataract)
Why is a poor man like a n-aniblrcss 1 Be
luiiso he makes shifts.
Why is that which never fails like a strong
k lot I Becaute it n a ccriamiy (.cerium tie.j
SHJNBIFMT AMERICAN.
AND SIIAMOKIN JOURNAL;
Absolute aeqnicscenco in the decisions of the majority, the vijr.l principk) of Rcpubfies, from which there is no appeal but to force, (he vit.il piimiple and inimodiato parent of dospntisin. Jerrm.).
Hy Dialer & lilscly.
AMEItkCAX l)KMOCItAL'Vi
IIV LORD DROI.'C.'IIAM.
It is impossible to close the page of history
w hich records the foiiiidntinn of the Great Ke
pnhlie, without Adverting to the singular change
that seems oflnte years lo have come over some
rrioinTs of liberty in this country, inclining them
against the popular institution which that sya-
i trin consecrates, nnd upoil wbich it Voo.scs.
Writers of ability, but scantily endowed with
candor, observers of moderate circumspection,
men laboring under the prejudices of European
society, anJ viewing t lie social system of '.he
Sov World through the itied.uni of habits atid
associations peculiar to that of the Old, have
brought back for our information a number of
detail, lir which they needed hardly to cross
tlle Atlantic, ntul have given up as discoveries
a relation of mailers necessarily twisting under
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a very popular government, and in a very new
j i i e- ? -j
community. i those travellers had pretty
generally tailed to make ninny converts 01110112
the fncriiis of free institutions, either in France
or in Ufgland, there woh tiave been little
harm done to the Cause of truth, and no great in-
I terrnnlion 'Tiveii to tin? friendk' relations utiieli
the hif'hefct lllterets of be.tli countries rcnuire
;tl.
sn.iiir,! no niaintained nnnroKen Deiween tiieni.
lint unhappily Sinne persons of a superior class
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tint iinhappiiv s.nne persons of a superior class
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appear, from party or from personal feelings, to
have, without due reflection on the mischief
they were deing, suffered their minds to be poi
s .ncd hy the sjine prejudices ; and, a single in
discretion having Mttrored their private letters,
writ'.en uiu'er the iiitliieure of jxH'Ii orepotes-
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i sums, to sec the liht, it becomes every one,
ivlm.r. ir..,,nral j .. :.i. .1
viio!iri.-? niiin IUU ??llil IJMIStrUI
"nc minviilnals . quc.siMiK to protest iiain.t
the individn
a Is f
the inference that such sentiments are shared
l'V 1,10 I,il,rril1 Par,-V in This becomes
'cc-ary, in cimtiuo.icc of the ten-
m m' wmc" nu,sl rvm-nyiwe con.inc? ot
some of tire states in the l-ninn towards their
public crediters has to prepare the way for the
reception of such unsound opinions opinions
which, if left to themselves, Would probably soon
sink into oblivion, how respectable soever the
rnerica letters, the publication of which 1ms.
to me, v. ho knew their writer, nnd respected his
generally sound principles, been a subject of
much regrtt, which he appear to have written
in n moment ol some irritation, but which would
do notions injury to thp good understanditi" thnt
''"I'Pfy llris cpu restored between the two un
tic ns, if tl.ey were supposed lo speak the sense
of those aiming us who ure most friendly to A
niericn. A great deal ofvagne nml trenetal aluiso may
be passed o' er, ns that the Americans are a
moral." I tear 1110 most if imt nil this railing
might be retorted upon n certain nation whoso
wars in Chitia have been warmly eulngifej hy
lird Sydenham in another letter, though be is
irrently scandalized that a!! the glory of his
friends is not likely to prevent their seals "slip-
f,in- rr,"u uml,'r """'l" ,la,io' '1'1!!Q fcne-
ral elections have ol late vents been fjiiiul a
scene of the 11104 hateful corruption, althoitijii
weshoul,'. be iriiillv of a most .Ti-nsi nnd 11 nun r.
I doii'ble exaggeration, were we on this account
lo stiguiati.,! the whole people as "utterly im
! morn!," in the terms rashly applied to his neigjt
' Isirs by the t'nuadiun Governmciil.
' Rot tlir tf-liiirt.rG utiinli li., !'..,... 1.1.,, ...I C ...
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hn.nncl which his reUtivcs have tli.Higbt j(
r. .,,,. e . ,. ,, ,
: rieht to publish, nre more specitio. "ThoGo-
veinment teems to me tho worst of tyrannies,
; tliHt ofthe in. it supported by tho most odious
! Pr,oVr:'c corrupt ion, . man wim si-.s
Ht P'w lrt nv.w nn opinion of his own ; In
I m" l)i,n,l,,r '"the lowest prejiiilicCS of the
! P00!'-? in thc:r parties ('he two great ones
which now divide the I'niDil, the IaicoI'ocos und
ihe Whigs) the only subject of the leading men
of either is to instil sjiiio wretchedly loW senti
ment into the people, and then explode it for
their own advantage. There is scarcely u
statesman of either w ho w ould i.ot adopt the
most violent or tho basest doctrine, however, if
he thought that be could work it to advantage
with the majority pecuiution and Jobbing are
the only objects ; delusion, and the basest flat
tery ofthe people, the means." "If," adds this
discreet statesman, "ibey drive us into war, tho
blackt in the south will 8oon settle all that
part ofthe Union; and in the north l feel sure
that we can lick them to their heart' content."
"A Republic could answer in former times in
countries weie thtro was nn people, ct few;
Sunbtiry, Xorlliiunbcrlainl Co,
Ihu bull? of the population Helots ntid slaves;
but where there is a people, nnd they have the
poVer, government is only possible by pander
ing to their worst passions, which muke the
country unbearable1 to a man of any education,
nnd the Central CiovcrSment itself a by-word a
monpst civilized nations. I hope (he conclude?
prihnps consistently enough) that wo may live
long enough to see this great bubble burst
and I do not believe that wc need be very long- . schemes of polity. I'ower must rest in some public meeting has nny moderate liberal puliti
lived fi.r that" (:H!) ' part of the con.inuniiy. Ktronage must im- tian ventt.rcd to hold of late yenrs 1 HaVcnot
I nm worry to be under the necessity of je-
rlaring thnt one is nt n loss whether most to
mat vel at the total want ot common reflection,
or the extraordinary want of common informa
tion, in this passage the production ofa man
in high office, addressed to a man still higher,
anil who presumes, without nny deliberation,
nnd with no knowledge of the Btihject, to pro
nounce so sweeping a censure upofl the whole
Inxlyofn great nation, all their statesmen, and
nil their institutions. It is fit the Atnerictns
should well understand that these nre the er
rors nnd this the rashness of the late Governor
General of Canada, nnd not khnred by the Libe
ral pnrty, or by nny but the inert ignorant nnd
the most prejudiced in this country.
First of all, Iird Sydenham is no authority
on the subject of the t'nited tntes, merely be
cause he was Governor of Canada, nnd never in
the Cnion nt all. Mad lie remained in London
he would have been as well qualified to judge
of thiiso States, ns his living nerthrtn fir two
years could make him; nay, a great deal bet
ter ; for li's residence in Canada, without giving
Inn one tittle more of information, bad the man
fesl tendency to fill his mind with Canadian
prejudices nnd these views seem lo gain n
still greater ascendant over him by the disputes
of a border nature, in w hich he was involved.
I sluuld, during the separation of England nnd
Scotland before the seventeenth century, never
have looked to the Warden of the West March
es for n candid account of the people on the
Scotch border when he lived nt Carlisle. But,
had the Wark n directed his hostile operations
from York or from Lincoln, I should have be
lieved him jutt ns iguo'.atit ns it be had lived in
Ixmdon, nnda very grcnt deal more prejudiced
'ext, let us observe how little the Governor
General had studied constitutions when ho as
sumes the oilice ol deciding on their compara
tive merits. It would not be easy to crowd
more manifest errors ir.loo'uc sentence than nre
InunJ in the few lines about ancient republics.
-Many things respecting those systems nre ob
pfurvly known, and are therefore the subject of
controversy; but no one ever affected to doubt
of the matters on which this s'rar.ge sentence
errs, and errs dogmatically. Sparta is of course
alluded toby the mention of Helots; but Spar
ta was not a republican, it was nn aristocratic
goVofnmmt. Then Athens, which was a re
public, so far from proving that such a govern
ment "could answer," is precisely the exanipl
ahvsys resorted lo ill order to prove w'n.it L.rd t:G u'n'tion would have tufficcd to satisfy any ; !"""t,v' this letter as a confession thnt Amer- '''r nssec-.-riTy can ue oerivea troni tnc success
Sydenhnm states to be the vice of the Auicii- ' considerate person that this charge is wholly ' f ;,n tosmen frame their conduct upon the ;il shedding of blood. Rut on the continent,
can Government us contrasted with the Gre-
cian, namely, the statesman "pandering to the rin n!,J tlie publicity with hi;-h
passioiuof the people." Yet, ibis notwitii- J cvcr-v ''P'''r,""fnt of Government is adiuiuitt. r
standing, can nny one say that Alliens, the ! cJ ,m'"3 P1'''"" iuipracticable. They
very scat ofthis wo'.-t ot vices, was by it "nude ! ,n,A BS well bo cbaree.l with "eompae.-ing
unbearable to a man nf any education.'" Docs ' Bl"' i""i-Ti"'i the deaih of the Kie.'" It b;
he conceive that any of us, even iu Canada, arc j ol1ollcc w Inch in su.-h a coiinlry can have
more refined, moro civilired, moro educated, j no CXl--,(-,,c- I5ut this manifest er.r iu'o
thi.il tho ornaments of Athenian sciely, the i V-1''c1' w ri,or ,ias ,: illi,n. 'Hl? it c!i..v; thw
very men who were fain to court tho people! j 'rength of bis preu-bcet pgmt tin- Am. ri
It is another error equally great to make it the i Ci,l"i, l,r ovt' b'' li"' weakm -a id Lis means of
peculiar characteristic of the modern republic,
and the feature that distinguishes ii from the nn-
cietil, that the "people really bn.l the power."
In Atheiif, If anywhere, they really hml the
llowef i We nre mil V lef IntnAmluiiirt.. i i...
etraints uii.ler which it was exercised, and I'veu
to iloiiot if any such existed in practice. Hut
assuredly the bulk ofthe powfr was in their
hands more than iu 6ny ether democracy, an-
cient or modern.
That in the American Government there ex-
ist great imperfections no man c m doubt ; one
uiii iiisJ the greatest has lately bevi! retec? eJ,
b 'cause the centra! p-!'.vtr of the I'edenicy is
now euableJ better to maintain ils rebiiious
; w.ili fi.reign staler iu cou-equence of the roi eiit
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lilllir.ieeflM'nf j il .n .-i.iikli.tili.'.ti'.l n. II.. I
U'-'1' ' u....,e..,.:sys. p . .... , ... ........ ... o. a una, eiecuo,, : . lnilljr B ai,.jili(.,d, ,MmW.x cf tha Great ClW
U'lii.finJ in practice sadly mu: its woiking. Of Luro.u than t umoral ashu-gtoi. ; and among , 'nlc arts to which our atle.ition is directed by ;V.leracy.
tl:ese, the tery worst, undoubtedly, is the en- j the women cf the highest breeding j ur day : ,.li;bt. ttiMM'M ate in the highest degree d s:re- Tbey.bowever, who nre the best frier of
tire change of public fdiictionaric.-, from the j uo one w-juU heitutc to mention Ji.ly Wei- diti.ble to all w ho use Iheiii.and uie incalculably both countries, must be the least willing to in
highest to the lowest, which follows every lesley. They who have never been in Ihe U- j lUll;';il tl1 lll0 ,Jtolli0 upiu .iV10, ,lly ure ,,ruc. 1 jM.S0 OI, t.;lht.r bide it) .i, e;ulations. The
change ot the President, converts all the moro j rlited Slates may surely be parJoued if they feel j tjsed. If they are, to a certain extent, insepn- Americans will, it is to bo hoped. '" tempf
considernble mehibcrs of the Commuhily into j unable to believe the notion entertained by o- j ruble from a very popular Government, their i ed to form such pernicious projects hy any no.
place hunters, and makes the whole interval, j theis who, like themselves and Lord Sydenham, ; miichii f Urms a serious deduction from the ! tion of a hostile feeling towards tUm preiail ng
between one election of chief magistrate and J have also never been there, but win would yet : merits ol that system. To retrain them with- ' in this country. They iniy be well assure,
another, a constant scene of canvass. The re- ! assume General Vv'asbit.gton and Lady Wei- ir, the narrowest possible limits is the boiiuden ; lint lur from regarding their gsvernn'iit as
movul of this and a few other imperfections
would make the Government of America as
faultless as a very popular system can never be.
That some and even considerable enls would
be left, evils inseparable from a Republic, be
cause growing out of the large share assigned
to the people in thu distribution of power, ran-
not be Joubttd. But it is no tiibcomy ol Lord
Saturday, lrc. ,io, tHIX
Sydelilmm's, that as long ns men are men pow- suliject His main nccusation ia the mob ty
cr and pre-eminence will be sought alter f and rannv, and tlie public men quailing before it.
that if the power of bestowing these is vested Noil.mlit n certain degree of this ev il is inee
in the people, the people will be courted by ! parable from every popnlur Government. Who
those who seek after tbm. in Ireland dares profess nny opinion hostile to
We are upon a practical, not a speculative, : the Romish hiernrchy throughout three of the
question ) nnd that Tjnesliun is rot nsto the nn-' provinces, or favourable to it in the fourth 1
possible attainment of theoretical perfection, ' Who in lSU wnssnfo in England if he prcduS
but nsto the comparative merits of dilleretit ined his dislike of the Reform Bill ? What
"lclll!,u,r "r 'i"""''y n? mi -m-in mat
have the power. Shall they be the people nt
large ? No, says Iird Sydenham ; for if the
peop.e arc to ci.ouse ti.cir .nui.sicrs, tl.ey who Wl.fw carorily excluded ! Wo may not e-oso
would fill ministcml pbrocs will debase them- fnV fls lh(l Americ.af.s in humoring the popular
selves by pandering to the people's prejudice. Crv of the hour when we address nur constitu
Hut what ifwc entrust this delicate oflicc to a pnI?i ,(,rnwe onr Government is less purely
court or a prince, for the pv.rposo of making the ,,,,, t,liin ,,,;,.,. ,)llt rnn nny ono (olbt
duty be more uprightly discharged, and exalt- ,llat ,1C tpM.c, of olir political chiefave,
im: unuiua 01 in..- cum.i.iics ,or mvor : ,.mieven tht?ir measures when in ofnee take
Are we so blinded by the evils cf popular can- t10 tincture of the inoltitodo to whom they are
vass ns to have all of a sudden lorgotten that : addressed, and whoso fuvor they are expected
other time-serving, that old specie of fawni rig. t conciliate ) If this bo denied, we may re
tlmt w.-recr form or flattery, which the friends to ,c informed what J.rd Sydenham pre-
of freedom and of purity used to charge upon cisely means when ad verting to the free trade
Uw psrasites of priwes-, the crew of Courtiers, mensnres respecting timber, sugar, nr.d, above
the minions who pander to the propensities, not all, com, in 111 he says, "It is nn immense
of the people, but the despot J Then shall jomt agreed to get a new flag under which to
po-.w and patronage be vested in a patrician 'fight. The people of England do not care tt
body, in a class of men whom "a man of edu-
cation might well find not 'unbearable !" The
class fawned upon would here no doubt In found
morn refined in its tastes, nnd must be propiti-
ated with mure dainty Mattery. Yet I ones-
tion if the fawning would be less pliant, if the
Senator would be less given to cringe, than
they who, instead of Crowding in the anteroom
ot the noble, after a more homely fashion take ted on it ns you doubtless will be, defeat Will 1 of much ci.1iinV.tion ns knowledge and ns virtue;
the hand of the peasant and Hit! mechanic. I beattsched with reputation, and will make you, ; advance; whereas nny system that excludes the)
greatly ibuht if io.-s filschdod will be found in os a p'irty in the country, tar stronger than j populnr voice must neciis lead to a thrnldorri.
the smoth speeches addressed to the select pa- you have been of lute" (p. !HV). Now it is to be aru' to abuses Which admit of no compensation
trician circle than in the boisterous hnrrnngues , observed that the prelerence here given lo the ; aii('. instead ol wearing out in time, only ga
delivered to win the plcbinn. One ground of Com Rill over the Irish Church Reform nnd the ther strength nnd acquire increased malignity
my doubt is the recollections which wo nil have 'other measures is not rested on the relative with every year that revolves,
of the scenes of endless intrigue ntid wide- merits', but solely on the relative popular ten- The worst of all the features in the Unioti
?prend corruption displayed by the aristocratic oVticy, of the different plans their capatnliti(. Ixird Sydenham hns no doubt passed entirely
courtsof modern Italy, to r-ny nothing ofancient fts "Hags to fight under ;" and the Corn-Law ver the disgiaccful prejudices ngninst nt
Home in her more patrician days, and another is preferred because it is a better parly Sbib- ST emancipation. it even these may yield
ground of my doubt is precisely this, that men boleth. No doubt I,ord Sydenham would have ! to circumstances and give place to riiore ru
are more pr-?ne to practice deception in secret right tourge that be had always maintained li'onal ns well ns more humane views or nations
Uian in public, nnd therefore more likely to use the free Irndo doctrine for its oWn sake ; but nl policy, provided a free government contin
un worthy nets in the closet, the appointed scene why will he not allow American statesmen nl- j ucs to bless America, nnd no catastrophe hnpi
of intrigue, than r?ti the hunings, from whence : w to prefer their several tenets for their own pens to destroy the Union. Jxml Sydenham
the grosser species cf intrigue, rtloasl, must ! sr.ke ! Suppose he hfld found n letter from Mr. indeed is thoughtless enough to view with a
tor ever be banished. ; Stevenson to a South Carolina friend maintain- ' kind of exultation the prospect of nero insur-
And hero is furnished a verv sirikino- proof
t- I I T I I I ' I I I I II 1 1
i "'pomie. 1 lie I'Mstenn; of such violent
. "'"'".vance, nnd it isn Mil'v.'ieut unsvu-r to much
! "' '"u -i:i"'r" vcctie.
I a to the s'udif g t-pic of Vu'grr n.r.uirr.',
, 'ct 'l be lltifly stated that there are many parts
i tlotil lit' frnnen n.t I-2., 1 1 in. I I. . il 1, :.l. .. .... ...1.1
! n"t bin1? ef resorting w re wo in ipiest of pit-
; terns ot polished mnneer.'. K'veu v.hil
i M'"ting Manchester, Lud Sydenham
w.'ubJ
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j liardly btiVe t iv-d the bulk of bis ci ii-tnuents as
' supeiiut in e'efnicf; ,? ?)ri,Oe (,f New Yorlt
j "ot an authority filly : high us himself on
j this ilelicute matter, M . .!. l.afr.yette-, w-'.-M
i l'ave ' rely t hid bmi f r uiiib i r itiug even
tho ii.aiineis i I t!,-; A-:ierii i.rS ; n::-.l if, aitir
' such mi authority, any liulher .h.'li. i;'.-o wi re
j rcunit: t
twoficiH ina' I u in-u'.on. il. S.r 11.
1.1:. TOO I 'f Ill-'il 1!eit In. In. I nelur e.it. 1-.. r ..
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I lesley to be thn only persons of fine manner
of entire c.irele!i(s villi which this political j t",uv,'rJr l':ll"i,s from being received by Con- daring to wage a war with England. Mispui
rcaeni'.er mado fiis observations upon Amenc9, KVl'rs was a fine flag to fight under," "otl'cring t Jed, fchort-sightcj man ! and ignorant, oh, pro
mid formed his opinions respecting her people. "n isitcliigible principle to contend for," end, ! fcitndcdly ignorant of the thirgs that belong to
lie pluiuly ntlirtns of nil statesmen i.uhe I'. tl,u"o1' defeated, would make the Virginian j the peace and happiness of either color in tlio
nitid Stales that their only obiecta an) pecu- ' "l,:,r,y stronger than it had of late beer,," how . new wot Id ! A negro revolt in cur islands
luliun n:id jobbing ;" ai:d their means of lieing liUli; woi'l'l it have availed to urge that Mr. j where the whites are ns a handful nmong tho;r
fiiabkd to peculate mid job are ''the basest t;",vf 11111 bad always held the same opinion! j sable brethern, might prove fiitnl to European
ll illery oflhe people." Now surely a very lit- 1,,iW 'riuinphuntly would ljrd Sydenham '; 'iiv. ul,t tlie African at least would besccure, aj
ever produced ui theVinou. I tlL. ju)y t,:)M. WIi0 mainisin the superior ndiaii- ; ttnirersal s'-i.tunenl in England is tin? hep.- tbar
It is, however, net avowedly on the score of . tage of a jiopuhir constitution. Them, ulnite it u.y h'uig continue h) Ci'lobit the proml spec
their uiiderbreeding liiat the Governor General I all other.', it behove not to lower the character taclo of popular fae.looi, und evin p;m 'ar
ics'i !iis d.siike of the Americans. (u the
j eo(rary, ),e ruther seems dispjsed to pus that
; u,u, 0f complaint lightly, tbouh it is plainly
, tucrngti at the bottom ul many Icdinjj upon the
Vol. i--.o. lilVliolo o, 11 o.
cv(1, the corn-lnw repealers been fain to raise
,ho pnpuiHr cry uf cPap treaj j assemblies col-1
K?0to-! by tickets, mid from which the multitude
tush for any of your Irish hobby-horses; and
they are not wih yon upon Church matters,
or grievances of that kind. Even your foreign
policy has not touched them the least, and I
' tlonht whether tw enty victories would give von
n borough or a county ; but you have now gi-
ven them nn intelligible principle ofi'ering prac-
ticnl benefits to contend for, nnd though defea-
l',at 0VAC proposition for 'preventing anti -
I O 1
!"'"' "! Fn':er.r.j ;o ttie tastes ami passions ot
the multitude ! And would it have Wen dee-
uied an answer to his inference if it had appear- ! man's hands, who but 'he bitterest enen y of
cd Uif.t the party prip'jsing this exttcir.e course ' the unhappy slaves could bear to contempbui
I.d never thought of U for ten years which they ! their Wretchedness in the attempt by viol-mce
hud passed in ollice, but merely brmtght it for- to shnko of! their chains ! Then Jgain he tvels
ward when all other means of obt lining infiu- -I'lite confident that the northern states must be
eiiLe had faded, nnd when their fortune amiw ; utterly defeated, and easily defeated, ns soon
the coustilueut bodieu cf the country were be
i'o!iiinr desperate !
Rut th'?.-e are poislhly extreicc cases. Are
tiieic no. .'.her instances, even in our own bet
ter rcg-.i! itcd toni, so much 13 disfigured
by popular excesithan the Americans , noin-
rtuuees of public men shaping their conduct
I) lrl ilieir soee'-t.i. Aei-onl in.F 1 1 . . . ll.u ik.oiI.i.
and feelings, of even the tastes ui.d caprice, of
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lie DLOiiie. en in r nrenern v or lor.-ii v ' iSnm.
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!' c.miiiion fairness towards tho Americans re -
quired some considerat ion of the tone taken iu t
oer own election addresses, ol the speeches
made on our own hustings and at our public
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I'loeimgs-, of the ditlerences between these and
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Itu? p.uliamei.lary srerches of the saute ndi-
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vi.!uil!; na? of the well-known difference be-
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tweeii the conduct of Parliament itself during
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its lir.t a:i. I its last session. but minister c-
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i i i.i in eu iu pii'iiosu u ii ii i is.l ini ii:u e? n
1 duty of all statesmen, but most especially is it
! i-f popular men, not to corrupt the people them-
j selves ; for it must never be forgotten that ihe.
flulttfv and the l'.i.-eho.xi which tint the at- 108.
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ingly. Cj"SIx!enn lines make squnre.
with their earliest breath, cannot with imptini
ty bo inspired by the people. .
After nil, in estimating the merits of nny
Government, wo trmst never 1osft sigl t of what
is the end of oil government the comfort snd
happiness of the people. It may safely be ad
mitted that if a scheme Could bo devised for
embodying a legislature of wise-, virtuous, nnd
enlightened men, with an executive council of
enpneity, integrity, firmness, removed from po
pular control, nnimated with the desire of fur
therinz the public good, nnd Consulting, in the
pursuit of it no will or nthority but tl.rir own
chastened judgment, a much purer and morU
nolde Government would be constituted than
nny that owes its origin to the public choice
and nets under the people's superintendence.
Hut unhappily, experience has proved that any
legislature, and any executive body, removed
from all control, soon forgets the object of its
creation; and instead of consulting the good of
the Community at large, confines all its exer
'tions to furthering its own individual interest.
So it must ever botntil we are blest with a,
descent of angels to undertake the management
of our concerns. Till then there is but one sc
'curity for the community a watchful superin
tendencc and an efficient control over its repre
centatives and rulers. The experiment mny bo
coarse and clumsy it mr.y be attended witli
evils Of a very serious kind ; it may give riso
to an unfortunate influence being exercised by
j classes of the people who arc neither very re
' UIp(l nor always very honest, nor even very
! well informed as to their own interests. Ne
! vcrtbcless, as human society is constituted, in
'''e choice of evils this is the least; it admits
of many compensations ; it gives the prospect
' rectioij ns a consequence of the United .Stales
" "ere inc imi.incrs o: me two co:ors are cven;y
! balanced, nnd nil tho arms are in the white
is they draw the sword against England. l'o--j
sibly : nnd yet this inference has net been Very
, logically diuwn by Lord Sydenham from the!
i history ofthe former American war. WheH
: tiie people of tiie colonies numbered less tn
, three millions, they defeatej llie best tro'"is of
i England, possessed as she was of all the itrong
I holds of the country, and sweeping the ocean!
VI it II her lli-elw lu.f.ir. Ih. i.i ml v..iiil.l . I,. .l
j a P.ig fotitiiig ujion tho seas. That twenty.'
j four millions, with entire possession of the hmih
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aim a inriiiiiiiiDie neei ut sea, snouii: oo over
whelmed by the Canadians and Nova Scotians,
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inttcb a mutter of course as the Governor ot
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; these petty settlenienU complucently assnrea
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' himself, may reasonably be doubted. Nrr, it
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' sre,,:s barely possible that some notion ShotiM
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creep into tlie minds of the Americans, as huv
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a war might lead 1 1 the very opposite result of
t anad i joining w ltd the United MatN, and lor-
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bubble," und trustin" lint it soon may burs', tho'
j ji'iwcr, CiMiibiued with o;det ut home, ami wo-
deration abroad in siuces.-ful refutation of all
; the old upimonn. that u republic wm. im(M.siblu
! in a lnt Urntuty uahu umucrous ptoplc.