The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1824-09-30
wI1N1zNGToN, DEE. SEPT. so, 1921.

Europe, and to dictate and domineer overthe |
whole world and then we are to creep into
our shells and draw in our horns; one mo-
ment resemble Don Quixote, and the next
playing the part of Sancho Panaa And why |
note All these are topics, are cues used III
the game of politics, are colours III the chan
geabic coat of party; are dilemmas in casuls- |
try are prctcxts in diplomacy ; and Mr.. Can
ming has them all at his fingers ends. What
is there then to proven his using any OF them
as he plcases9 Nothing in the world but
feeling or principle and as Mr.. Canning is |
not withheld by these from running his heed |
less career, the application of his ingenuity
and eloquence in all such cases is perfectly
arbitrary, "quitc ohtional," as Mr.. Liston
expresses it. A wise man would have some
settled opinion, good man would wish wcil
to some cause, a modest man would be afraid
to act without feeling sure of his ground, or
to show an utter disregard ofright or wrong.
Mr.. Canning has the iuckleSs ambition to
| play off the tricks of 4 political rope-danccr,
/ and he chooses to do it on the nerves OF hui
manity He has called out for war during
thirty years without ccasing, like impor-
tunatc Guinea fowls, one note day and night"
| he has made the House and the country ring
with his vain Glamour, and now for the first
time he is silent, "quite chop fallen Like
Bo$tom in the play, y" he aggravates hisvoice
like sucking-dovc - "he roars You al
'twcrc any nightingale" !" After the failure
OF Buonapartc's Russian expedition, Mr.. Can
ming exclaimed cXultingly, and with daring
enthusiasm that seemed to come from the
heart, that she rejoiced that barbarism had
been the first to resist invasion, since it show
cd that the love of national independence was
it,ta Sll-
pcrior even to the love, of liberty" This
Plea served its turn at the time, and we
heard 70 more cfitlast year when the French
invaded Spain. In the war to restore Fer
dinand, Mr.. Canning echoed with lungs Of
brass the roar of "the universal Spanish ma
ton" and the words Liberty and Humanity
hung like music on his tongue but when the
feeble Monarch was restored, and trod upon
the nccks of those who had restored, him,
, and threw down the mock-scaffold OF the
Constitution that had raised him once more
to the throne, we heard no more OF "the
universal Spanish nation" of Liberty and
Humanity. When the speeches of Mr. Can
ming and the Manfestos of his friends had
raised the power of France to gigantic
: height, that hung like a precpice over our
heads, we were to go on, and fight out the
battle of liberty and independence, though
"Wc buried ourselves unQer the ruiiS ol tlie
civilized world" Whena monstrous claim
: that threatens the liberty and existence o.
! the cigilizcd world is openly set up and acted
upon, and a word from Mr.. Canning would
, arrest its progress in the direction in which
: it is moving with obscene, ghastly, blood
f stained strides, lie courtcously and will
! great condescension reminds his hearers o.
4 "thc inimitablc satire of Cetvanis,' that
i there is provcrbal expression borrowed
I. from it, and that the cpithct Qu'rotic woud
t be emncntly applicable to the conduct o.
, Great Britain if She interfcrcd in the affairs
c of the continent at the present juncture. Ant
y vet there are persons who persist in bellev'
i ING that Mr. Canning is any thing more thar
d a pivot Oh whose oily hinges state policy turns
c easily at this moment, unheard, unseen, ant
s that he has views and feelings of his own tha
+ are pledge for his intcgrity.-lf all thl
Is were fckcness. forgctfulncss, accident, folly
, s it would be well or would not much signify
~ we should stand chance OF sometimes oelns
:, right, sometimes wrong; or 1t the ostensibl'
y " motives were the real ones, they would bal
:, ancc one another. At one time we should bt
l giving lift to liberty, at another we should
!. be advancing our own interests: now W.
= we should be generous to others, theT
!. should be Just to ourselves, but always WI
J. should be doing something or other lit to b
done and to be named, one acting up to on
or other of Mr.. Canning's fine pleas of l'cli
gion, morality, or social order. Is that TIL
casea Nothing was said for twenty year
about the restoration of the Bourbons as TIL
object of the war. Who doubts it now
rlis cause scukcd behind the throne, ant
e was not let out in any of Mr.. Canning
d speeches The clovcn foot was concealed b.
IL so much Haunting oratory, by so many dit
W icrcnt facings and picbald patch-work liver
is les, of ruinous policy or pertidious principle
G as not to be suspected. This is what make
2. such persons as Mr.. Canning dangerous
r.. Clever men are the tools with which ba'
: men work. The march to soph'stry IS de
n vous the march of power is one. Its means
if its tools, its prctexts are various, and Dor
ID rowed like the hues Of the camelon from an
is object that happens to be at hand: It's 90
10 ect5 is ever the same, and deadly as the scr
S, pcnt's fang. 1t moves on to its end wit
J. crested majesty, erect, silent, with eye
,e sunk and fixed, undivcrtcd by fear, unabas''
:. ed bv shame, and puny orators and patrit
ID mountebanks play tricks before it to anus
the crowd, till it crushes the world in II
st monstrous folds. There is one word abot
Dr. which nothing has been said all this while
G: accounting for Mr. Canning's versatility {
n mind and vast resources i'll reasoning-it
OF the word, Legitimacy. 1t is the key wit
cs which YOU "pluck out the heart Of his my
N stcry 1t is the touchstone by which all n