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III w ltSI VI tudt Soiioao -
then feIcsas the following fentence from
Judge Oh fe's Charge, !" Liberty does
s not conGa 10 the form Of government
!" in any country. A monarchy may
!" be Tree, and republic in Aayery"--
Ard he breaks out into this novel
and elegant expreifion, Here we behold
he cloveu foot " By fuch perform
ances as this the public mind is TO be pre-
pared for monarchy"
Encoantering The advocates OF de-
.nocracy our chief difficulty aries, not
frem their ilrength, but their weaknels,
not from what they write, out from what
they haye,no read in fhort, before they
can be cembated they require to be IN
ffrueed. Knowing little and writing
much, they write from the crude midget
tion ofYtheir own minds, and Of courie pro-
duce matter which cannot be iubjeesed to
any teR, becaute neither fcnuded in any
generally received principle, derived from
any acknowledged authority, fuPported
by any precedent nor recog zed BY any
Of thole hyperion petionages, whole wifdom
and virtue have conferred the Jigaity and
the force Of law upon their opirioas, end
obtained for fhem the general Concurrence
of mankind. Ii heir minds the hifories OF
Herodotus, Thucy or Ivy, of Hume,
RoberI.on, Ferguion or Gillies are of equal
authority with thofe renowned ones ofG,les
Gingerbread, Jack Hickathrift or Tom
Thumb, and the cunning tricks of Rey-
lard he + sxsfali as icGrnttlye as The wife
and fubtle difcuilions OF Locke or Mon
sefque. III the writer 0. the article al
luded TO, had laid in even ilender Gna-
ramtun Of hiforical knowledge before
he hazarded political difcoGions, he would
have found that Judge Chafe WIS right in
laying 1ilae !" liberty did not conGit IN the
farm OF government OF airy country" sc.
sc. Liberty has been found to fourth
under different forms Of government /,
has been alfo found to withcr in one coun.
try beneath the very falne form Of go
yernment under which il has thriyed in
another. Oh this abundant inttsnces may
be give from hiltory. Blu, it may be
taken as general rule, which. contrary,
TO all general rules, will admit Of no ex
ception, that the contribution OF the GO
vernn,ent Of any country in order tobe
good mue be adapted to the temper, OPT
nions, habits, manners ADD difppitions of
the people of that country 6nce fome
counties are as unfit for republic, as
enancipated negroes for the functions Of
civil life, OF favages for the obedience ne
ceiIary TO the fupGaence Of f,ciety. Il
mutt GOT only be adapted in theory to the
long received principles of the people
,hofs principles which, ito ute the words
of 100 neglected book grev0 qvit6 their.
gy0zvtb. ard frengtbsued q0ifb tbei,
frengtb but in point of practice ALTO 10
their habits, cutoms, manners and feel
ings-and here it is, where the immea
furable gulph lies between the found poll
tician and the empirical pretender; be-
tween the man Of genius, wiidom and
learning. trained TO the fcience OF the hu-
man heart, and the adoption OF laws to its
purpofes, and thc poor, fhabby, uphart
pfatiltr on the common place of porter
houie politics.
"7o TIE immfgIurabzs and ua/5eaka6ke
!" baqoer Of kbe Dsity. astbe Beng ycmf.
I" aife psytsaisu, aloue 6elengs the an
I" n;Jiiyacel qcbicb fees all tbIngs in tbeir
sT5f cage. WbA< to Il, 4oor, qyeaS,
/" Incapable moytaI there is no ,ale Of eon-
!" aal9 /o./afe as experience. =
Mr.. Charles Fox, whole opinions
when they were againi the French revo-
lutionary contribution, may faIely be ad-
mitted, has himfelf given evidence a.
gaina the prefumption Of Contribution
mongers. In the violent debate in the
houfe OF commons Of England, on the 9th
of May, 1891, he faid that he fufpetted
that the French contribution was none of
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