The Express.
London, England, 1856-11-05 00:00:00

and gave tilt is the liberties which it is their most
ncred duty to guard and develop at this day. The
Americans of the United States are kindred in blood
and aspirations with the English who seekimeg a
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constitutional ruler to their shores; ei Ith.y an
going through a not lea critical : ;ate/ is too.
November, 1836. Their !Mow 1 tales to mate
big footing good on the fourth., la the Preddential ilea
tin, and he is recogninft by the people on the fifth.
So their election and /*cognition days happen to fall
this year when, fei the first time since their founder's
days, the Milli% probably implicates their national
fate, aid must decide their liberty and pro-
gression. or their subjection and decline. Some
may believe the crisis not to be so decided,
and prophesy a long oscillation yet between
the worse and the better fate. Those persons would
have said the same in 1688; and with equal reason.
Vitut.tst wrs again and again on the point of re-
embarking, and leaving England and the STUARTS to
get on together some time longer, as well es they
could; end thus, the new President, if Fannon he
the men, will otten and for long believe the South
too strong and the majority of the people too apa-
thetic or timid for the achievement of constitutional

liberties; but in the later as in the earlier case, the
time is past for settling down again under the rale of
tyranny and profligacy at home, and degradation
abroad. Whoever may be at this hour announced as
President over that area on which the world's eyes
are fixed, a new period of American history
dates, for good or for evil, from this day. At
this moment, the telegraph, devoted for the
day to this Riegle purpose, is inscribing the saw
President's name at every terminus within many
thousand miles; and every mountain track and forest
trail, and mailrosd and prairie path, is trodden by the
bearers of the news to the remotest settlements. At
every woodiog station on the great rivers, in every
clearing on the Allegheny ridges—even in the slave
quarters of plentatiocs at the back of Louisiana, there
are gatherings of eager watchers for the news. It is
like all England asking about WlLmem and Jamas
—which is present and which is gone. We are as far
from pretending to assume what the result will he as
any man, Eeglish or foreign, was then. Some
thought freedom would come soonest through the
madams and crimes of James; others had
less than the popular faith in WILLIAM ;
and many believed him powerless to do mach
good, however excellent his dispositions. Colonel
FIRMOMT is the subject of like questionings; and we
cannot say with how much or little justice. It may
be that the extreme badness of the principle and tem-
per of the Cincinnati programme and party may
prove the hest agency for rousing the good MS of
the nation to a spirit worthy of the crisis; and, spin,
that a failure on FITMOMTI poet, through either his
character or circumstances, may do more harm than
Bucsettere with the whole South at his back
could parptrate; and therefore should there be no
discouragement if Faxmort is thrown out. But the
natural wish of the friends of °methadone' liberty
everywhere is, that he say be the Waium of the
new Anglcelhxon people who will no longer submit to
be miserable at home and disgraced abroad by a policy
and role which are the opprobrium of the age.
Whatever the American news of this day really le,
the day is one which will take a permanent plies in
the history of human liberties.
There is one other event which already renders the
fifth of November memorable in its own way—the
Battle of Inkerseun. It is significant of as sash as
a battle should be in comparison with other critical
incidents. It yields a permanent warning to the
world's conquerors that on the remotest Aside of awl
filet, British valour is found opposing its indomitable
front to aggression, when 01309 the chalk ring of
diplomacy is crossed. To those who remember the
French 'coming over the hill" at the moment of
extremity, it is sigwficent of the function which
French and English ought to fulfil in time
to come, occupying the same field, and
marching to one soother's aid whenever bar-
barism transgresses its boundaries, and pewee
too heavily upon the brave. Every event of this
day, and of each notable day, I. a foreshadowing
of some future analogous disclosure ; and so it will
continue to be with this fifth of November, if Its
remarkable events bemuse as numerous as the hours
of the day; for "the thing that bath beep, it is that
which shall ie; and that which is done is that
which shall be done; and there I. no new thing'
ender the am"