The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-01 00:00:00

ANGLO-AMERICANS' OF 7IIE FU7 LIRE.

Election addresses in England have brought out
many interesting observations regarding the Re-
publican institutions of the United States, and the
example they furnish, as England has chosen, it is
assumed, to cast her lot in the same course. Mr.
LOWE, whom many think the greatest orator in
Parliament, says, " Perhaps the best thing is to
look at America not as a warning to deter others,
but as an example to imitate ;" and continuing, he
added, " We have really thrown in our lot with
America as to the form of our institutions." He was
driving at the necessity of education, although he
commenced by alluding to the advisability of free-
ing the State from the entanglement of religion, and
curbing Democracy by such checks as that of the
Senate, a working Chamber, he considered it advis-
able for England to copy as closely as practicable in
the I-louse of Lords. It may be remembered that
Mr. LOWE brought upon himself much odium by
scornfully denouncing any measure tending to
throw political power into the hands of the unedu-
cated. Perhaps no man in Great Britain was more
abused, and once he narrowly escaped with his life.
" It will-be necessary," he said in Parliament (with
the sneer with which he knew so well how to point
the bitterness of his remark) " to teach our future
masters their letters." No man can accuse Mr.
LOWE of time-serving, of disguising or modifying
his opinions, although such a master of language,
for what he believes, whether popular or the re-
verse, he states in words no dullard can misunder-
stand, and often so pointed, that no hide can resist.
Mr. LOWE then means what he says, while nobody
can mistake what he means, and his late speech
amounts to little more than a commentary on his
own words—" We must teach our future masters
their letters." " To go on, however, as we are now,
making no efforts to dispel the ignorance which
exists among the masses, and at the same time
giving them, through the franchise, the control of
the destinies of this country, would be an exhibition
of rashness and folly which any intelligent Ame-
rican would treat with the most absolute scorn ;"
and he adds that, in this thickly-peopled country,
even English pride cannot suppose it would be safe
to place the power of the State in ignorant and un-
tutored hands, which the great Republic, with her
large territory and vast resources, is not able to do.
Mr. LowE's opinions have been very widely com-
mented on, and have excited much astonishment ;
yet a far more novel and striking announcement
was made by Mr. WALTER in his speech to the
electors of Berkshire. There are hundreds of Ame-
ricans who know nothing of Berks, who will recog-
nize at once the gentleman to whom we allude when
we say it is WALTER of the Times. There are
many reasons which give weight to his opinions re-
garding America. But a few mouths ago Mr.
WALTER was making a sort of triumphal tour
through the States. He was feted as are only lite-
rary men, and his connection with the Times was
a passport everywhere. Those whose object is mere
amusement might have quietly shut their eyes,
drunk in the pleasant flattery implied in a warm
and generous hospitality, and passed over America
seeing nothing but the smiling faces of the enter-
tainers. Mr. WALTEE, however, did not go to
America for mere amusement. As a British legis-
lator, far more still as one whose influence is para-
mount, in wielding that tremendous engine the
Times, it was necessary that lie should have a more
intimate knowledge of a country he has the sense
to see is now exercising, and will to a greater extent,
exercise an extraordinary influence on England.
While, then, Americans were doing their best to
amuse Mr. WALTER, and make his visit as agree-
able as possible, it is probable that he was nar-
rowly observing the whole working of their institu-
tions, and using the power his position gave to get
the better insight, and the more numerous stand-
points that, from every aspect, he might be enabled
to judge. He holds that as everybody in Great

Britain is now admitted to be entitled to the fran-
chise, and will yet have it, therefore all should be
educated as a security against political blunders.
Accordingly he declares that, if returned, he will
not rest till he has carried public education to every
hamlet in the kingdom, till poverty shall no longer
be held as a reason for ignorance and a justification
for neglect. But this is the opinion of every sen-
sible man, more especially those who have studied
America, and know how much Republican success
there is due to the enlightenment of the people, and
how nearly every folly and failure is directly trace-
able to their ignorance. What is remarkable in hie
address is what follows, which we quote from the
comments of the Windsor Express.:—
"Steam has opened to us not only every ocean, but nevi
every continent ; and a year or two hence there will come
from the Far West a cry, wide, and long, and loud, for
all the surplus hands we can possibly spare. No local ties,
no bonds of allegiance, will restrain the vast human cur-
rent flowing towards a land of inexhaustible fertility, oc-
cupied by people of our race and tongue, enjoying equal
laws and free institutions. .We must prepare them for the
migration, as a father prepares his children, in older to
start them in the world."

Now this is what we call a noble, generous, and
therefore a wise policy, and shows a man who has
been deeply impressed with what he saw in the
Republic, and earnestly desirous of avoiding a re-
petition of bygone errors. The first thought of the
superficial and ungenerous aye, perhaps of near',"
all men, would be why thus at a lavish outlay culti-
vate the minds of those you destine for citizens of
another country, now a rival, and who knows hog
soon to prove an enemy ? For the reasons that a
father prepares, his children—First, from a natural
affection which is early reciprocated by the kindly
nurtured child ; secondly, because it is wise
not only to• gain their affections, although
their career may lie in distant lands,' but
that they may succeed, as in that success
there is no return of the bad shilling, but
there is often the return of a sterling golden piece'
Our third reason is the essence of the subject as seen
from the national stand-point. Putting aside ha'
manity, duty, and the natural affections which
cement race and citizenship, we come to a broad
question of policy. What has made America hos'
tile to England—granting a large measure of hoe'
tility ? One word answers this question—the Irish.
Now what has enabled the Irish to produce such au
effect ? The United Kingdom poured into America
what ROEBUCK termed a " fecculent torrent!' of
Irish emigration ; draining the towns and over'
crowded rural districts of their poverty-stricken,
untaught, and ignorant peasantry, which, unaided
and forlorn, flowed to the broad open lands o',
America. They fled from a hopeless, despairing
prospect which they deeply felt, but could only
account for by the misgovernment of England, to
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country where they were confirmed in the beli;
that they were the involuntary exiles of a shatneill,
system of oppression, although had they understood
the commonest laws of political economy they would
have known that a modified emigration ought t 0
have been inaugurated an age before to relieve the
pressure of population on the means of proluntiedli
of, however green, still not a very productive Wl°
Had they been taught that America was their proper
field, the object to devote all energies to achieve the
possession of a farm, and that the first step they too
on American soil was that for which they should re-
turn their most fervent thanksto their CREATOR i the
they would have looked forward with hope--n°
back with regret —grateful for opportunities ne!
before offered to an indigent people, instead of olr;
dignant at being cast out of their hovels. The r
may be something peculiar in the Irish charante
which makes it war against progress and civilizs:
tion ; but we believe that wherever they are ,
sorbed by a greater number, no people more reacil
1p
adapt themselves to the circumstances, while if 3b
Aio
to congregate in masses they become clannish 0
most difficult to manage, developing all their vice
and but few of their good qualities. What Eng:,
land's Irish policy led to, was an almost simultalore
ous exodus of the Irish to America, and if
aide], nature must at that moment have been Imp
7.,
bued with the strongest spite against Britain,
for it was the menus best calculated to sow broad
cast throughout the States the hatred of Engis--a
It is just possible that this country was saved fl"!.1
a ruinous struggle by the outbreak of Civil
sot'
for who can tell what the fermenting of such a 03 t,
of malice might have produced without that outiree
It was a terrible experiment, and England has PA
hably been saved from the consequences 137
de to her, was, perhaps, a lucky chance. The
„iv('
perate efforts of the Fenians to involve the ii"ci
countries in, war failed, because Americans of
fought enough—had stored a sufficient recoru
glory, and in vacant seats, in desolated bolneebo
heavy burdens, were realizing disagreeably
but
results of strife. Not only did they fail' the
their failure has been consummated by ,„„0
treaty just completed between the Anle7its
Minister and the British Government on the rebid
of naturalized citizens and other subjects.
was, we dare my, a last great effort, for a rapid
change is in progress, and even while the Northod.o
South carried on their desolating war, Irei 3 to.
chance of making America her cat's-paw Sec
venge against England, was passing away 4ce
an exodus could not last ; the means of subsistlro,
became sufficient for the population, and etilltbio
tion rapidly dwindled till now, when a considelber
reflux has set in. Nor could the great Irish gar
„,s;
ing in America maintain the isolation for Y. 700
the tendency was to scatter, to lose old anad
up new objects and acquaintances, to marry' vier
rear American children. Therefore a double?, or
was at work to counteract the danger vlOll.OO of
doubtedly—from some unfavourable conjunct' eioo
the stars, as ZADKIEL would say—for the:ther
threatened England. Mr. WALTER foresees alluodas
exodus to America ; but this time it is an e.g
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of the English. He has witnessed what Irish lf 0,
Irises
ranee did for the Republic, how it enabled d
ing men to use it as a legalized means of r°bp'
and oppression in the Empire city, as a deo ,eO,
ga°tex
ing influence in Congress and the State Leg'
Weil
in the spread of a Church which in power Weil 00
no other, in an anti-Negro, anti-Chinese, 111 to
anti-English feeling—in the cohesion gigethea,
strikes and to secret organizations.
at:
could be more advisable than to send oforjeff
of carefully-prepared English emigration .robacJ
industry, intelligence, and liberty, of those lad,
with a kindly, generous sentiment to the father 400.?
coupled with allegiance to the country of ad°P;iog
The effect will be rapid and magical in ell! the
the former tone of American opinion. A A 'aol 04 f
nations will begin to resume the old bonds °o
Pg'"
e"'
and brotherhood. America will benefit by t"
class of emigrants she could receive, and Aof
by the kind feelings generated for the '0 they
Americans, who would rise to positions Wheristareet
could make their opinions felt, in the Legii3

in the press, and in the pulpit. f eati;
Although the importance of the diffasi°,-;„.(;00,01
cation is now generally acknowledged in 700 I):
few have seen, as Mr. WALTER sees, the WisAtizet);
carefully educating those destined to becorae o'
of another country, which is, indeed, a owl4o/0'
the most productive seed in the finest
American Times.

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GARNIEK -TREFUSIS -On the 28th ult., I" r '
Church, Knightsbridge, John Carpenter Gari3 I
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to the Hon. Mary Louisa Trefusis.
MASON-BELL -On the 24th ult., at Lee, IC°4"p#l;
Mason, of 2, Cripplegate-buildings, City, and ' 8010
terrace, Lee, to Eliza, only daughter of the htt°
Bell, of Bradford, Yorkshire.
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BRUCE-On the 28th tilt at• the Grosvenor 110t0 v
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via, Lieut.-Colonel Win. Bruce, 1i..11.
GIFFARD-On the 29th ult at Hershatn, Su rref' ,
~ ferburr
E. Carter Giffard, aged 58.
KENRICK -On the 29th ult., at Stone House' C6°
Miss Kenrick, aged 92. , .„,,el I-4°A
LucAs-On the 27th ult., at Eastbourne, 0u"
/ [Esq., M.A., aged 50.
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