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London, England, 1863-12-21 00:00:00

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LONDON, MON'DAY, DEC. 21, 1863.

While the general ipublic finds an object of in-
terest in following the vicissitudes of the American
armies, and specal acing upon the next move, or
counter move in t'a at perplexing struggle, the poli-
tician and the 'theorist discover an absorbing
source of contrzaplation in pondering over the
merits and d arnerits of the Republican form of
Government as evidenced by the result of the
American Union. A thoughtful writer, who
has meditated on the question, and whose
opinions, although from his national and natural
partialities they must be taken corn grano sales, are
worthy of consideration, has just furnished us with
his individual theories on the rise and fall of the
Model Republic. The so-called Model Republic,
as this -writer truly reminds us, has long
been the favourite example triumphantly
brought forward by the advocates of De-
al°"acY, to illustrate the practical advantages
of their favourite theory of Government. Whereas
now, at .the
present moment, their own words are
in the r"titia' of their opponents, and " Behold the
Model Republic e,
• is the derisive retort of the anti-
democrat. The present disastrous disturbances, how-
ever, with all their complicated evil consequences do
not, as the author at this work justly argues, affect
the principles of democracy
or afford an conclusive
y
evidence against the Republican form of
Administration, " becaa,n .
ntauces similar results ta a, th)usand in-
hav® signalised the career
of monarchies, and other Gov
crurnents.a Every
human institution is necessarily imperfect and
carries in its very conatitutioa the elements of
The principles, however,
its destruction.
which our hurnAn systems shouldby'
a
ac animated
if they are trap.", are like the souls whichgi'vevitality
to our bodie,a, undying and unaffected by 8.,13,
tem-
porary miatation of affairs. It is not to-day, or in
this coualtry, that there is any occasion to dwell
justice,
and those great principles of liberty, and
and the greatest good of the greatest number, which
alone can give life and longevity to any form of
rower, whether its name be republican or monarchi-
cal, elective or hereditary. We will hope, nay more,
we feel persuaded, that, when the dark tempest cloud
has cleared away and the temporary insanity
of civil discord has subsided, cur Anglo-
Saxon brethren on the other side of the Atlantic
will be true to their ancestors and their antece-
dents, and give to the world an illustration, not in
'name but in reality, of the beneficial influences
of liberty, and, above ail, of liberality !
It has always been an anomaly—a source of indig-
nant grief to the lovers of freedom, and of mali-
cious ridicule to their oppenent,—that spectacle
to which we have been so many years familiar of a
81" e-holding Republic. While the American retains
the scourge
in the look scrue one hued, no wonder that sceptics
vihm.
askacce at the banner of liberty
he SO ostentatiously flourishes in the other !
such
th emsel doubts, however, are far from suggest-
ing ves
to this writer on the model
it,
public. He is a Southerner, and consequently
slavery is innocuous in his sight. We may indulge
the aspiration, i~a±ion,revcrtheles® that in their day of com-
ing triumph and national ind.pmdere.-2 the fiira ma
fail from the eyes y
of his gallant countrymen.
cause of the disruption
The main of the Union
able work ,
ordng
as set forth in this very is
i

The Rise and Fall of the Model Republic,
Williams, late American Minister to Turkey; a-ilthcil'ar 3.
" The Sauth Vindicated." 1 Vol., P. 421. Beutley.