The Express.
London, England, 1856-09-09 00:00:00

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LONDON. TUESDAY.

WE have said enough in our comments on Ameri-
can affairs to show how highly we value the testimony
of aged men I. regard to the present crisis, and we
shall not, therefore, be charged with lack of defer-
sue to the hoary head when we offer a caution
against despairing of the Republic because Senator
Cos says its days are numbered. Those few words
seem to have made a profound impression in Es-
rope ; but we should have supposed that Mr. Cu.,
however dignified by years, had been too well re-
membered for infirmity of judgment, while residing
in Europe, to render his prophesies ellmo
tut in alarming the world. Ws NM Mk
advert to his warlike inclinsdne, he SIMS
of American difficulty, the shameless rani*
of his sapirations for his country, and the
universal expectation that he will be on the
tomultuary and aggressive side in all entrusting,
to comfort on readers with the hope that the republic
is not necessarily moribund because Mr. Con says It
is. It he had said that • decisive crisis has arrived,
an pointed out the issues between which men asset
choose, he would have been regarded as one of the
aegis sitting to the Capitol to save his country or
perish with it ; but, as it is, every schoolboy is the
Union can twit him with that ancient axiom of pa-
triotic duty—not to despair of the republic. There
are other men as old as he, and sore familiar with
the co lion of the old patriots, who use the dan•
ger as strongly as possible, and have ea maiming
belief that the republic will, in its federal sepselty,
cast out the vicious anomaly which has poisoned its
life, and revive to a nobler viper than its condition
have as yet permitted. Mr. QUINCE, whose rousing
letter to the young men of New England ought to
make itself felt at least sa far as Mr. Cue's dismal
foreboding, is eight years older than Mr. Cu., sad
has had better opportunities of knowing the minds of
the fathers of the republic. Mr. CABS is seventy-
four, and has spent much of his life among the
Indiana and in the study of Indian affairs; while the
rest, including hie European embanks, has been
pond in the thickest turmoil of Washington politics,
and the =nest sympathy with the aspirsats after
territorial aggrandisement. Mr. QOINCT Is eighty-
two, and his early converse was with the old Dana
of presidents and statesmen, whose aim was the
development of their country, and 'Oman of its
inhabitants, within a frontier already so wide as to
endanger the progress of civilisation. A moan of
Congress, a municipal judge and chief magistrate,
and then president of the leading Amok= univer-
sity, Mr. QUINCE has lived outside of the blinding
turmoil of the last quarter of a century, and now
brings to the crisis of the State a mind fresh from
the repose of retirement, sad rich in the political
traditions of the republic which the rising generation
of citizns must not be =owed to forget.
No good citizen supposes that a mere recourse to
those traditions (in the most practical sense) would
save the State. To fall back upon the primitive
scheme would be anis= except es a means of pro-
gress in assonance with the nods of the time. Time
has so altered the conditions as to prescribe the

alternative,—sither to retrograde Into the barbarism
of a condition prior to the feudal, or to apply the
republican principle so thoroughly as to got rid of
slavery, and make a new start with inatitutioas
undefiled, and with a constitution and laws which are
what they mum to be. The changes predated by
time are described by Mr. QUINCT as issuing in
this :—that in the Slave States 300,000 owner
live surrounded by 3,000,000 of Waves, neon-
airily occupied by the ocesideration bow to
preserve life and safety under each circumstances,
and impelled to do it by art and canning in obtaining
a political preponderance ; while is the Free States
24000,000 of free people dwell is incensing power
and prosperity, exempt from the constraint of any
embarrassing imitation. As the slaw are cunning
in self-defence, so their owners, living in their own
special bondage of fear, have mown to what they
call policy, and the rest of the world art or intrigue.
The time mast arrive when the free majority will re-
fuse to be controlled for the purposes of the apprebes.
sive minority; and it la the arrival of that Use which
onstitates the existing crisis. Bat the cosseqameee
of the careless or cowardly subjection of the malty to
the few remain, when the control is at length
checked; and Mr. QUINCY points out the imminent
danger which the republic will bare to straggiewith
for many a day to come from the introduction of
Louisiana into the Union without the leave of the
Free States being even asked.

Wusnincrroni farewell address to the people of the
United States was frog the first Galled his " legacy,"
and its Glasses were taken to heart as a political
gospel and weed. Oas claw of it ie, "Let there be
no change by essrption." Yet I. the presidential
term of Jure:mos the Lothians territory was
foisted into the Union by sus nsupation as the
part of the Beath—the constitalien making no pro-
vision for the admission of foreign territory sad pep-
kilos,. if/FLOOR'S tastiakey is on record that,
=leer "the constitution" was to "become bleak
paper," new powers must be obtained from the peo-
ple, and "an article added to the esestitetise," to
usable and justify the admission of each foreign ter-
ritory. However, the passage of the Louisiana
Admission Bill was effected by the arts which the
slaveholden well know bow to select and apply....
Threats, dos* and violence were at that day,. now,
modes approved by them to deter ma hen awaken-
ing the Free States to a ernes of duds danger. From

thi aosnatt that set was pond tkei saw that 1
the Frt. States were shorn of their strength."
80 says air. QUINCY ; and it is tree that