Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-03-25

nlehtS OF ClVli HoeFty are out little developed
there.
Let US now examine the picture Of the inter.
nal administration. 1t has something humila.
ting 10 the pretended administrative wisdom
OF Old Europe. Remark the severe and even
minute order in every branch Of the service,
those immense accounts which are rendered
SO full OF instructive details, those modest and
exact explanations, all that truly constitutional
system, so differen, from our arbitrary pro.
dlgallty, from our chimerical responsibility,
known only by name in our charters.
"All this" it will be replied "is very we'll for
commercial, an avaricious nation, which is
always occupied with figures" We are of
different taste. We do not know how to read
these columns of figures; we would have them
reported under some phrase; we prefer to be
nobly robbed" Ills very we'll for our skilful
financiers, who would find bur poor living in
America. But if we look at the real results of
this republican, mercantile, niggardly admins
tration, we are tempted Notwithstanding to adj
mire those immense roads, leading from Wash
ington to New Mexico; those mails, transport
ing at so little expense ana with so much ra-
pidity friendly or commercial letter across a
space wider than Europe; that circulation OF
more than FIVE hundred journals, scattering
useful opinions, and interesting intelligence,
great ideas Of policy and scientific information
even into the bosom Of solitudes that are but
just beginning to be cleared UP. Let US add
that so many advantages are not produced by a
central administration, which may be naughty
and imperious. We may add that the Ameri-
can, beside the pleasure Of paying scarcely any
thing TO the general government, enjoys the
noble right Of participating in the administra-
ton of his own state, country, town-of discus
sing freely and publicly every measure which
interests his family, his children, his property
that he has a right to give his children the
education he thinks most useful, TO worship
God according to his conscience, by pompous
ceremony or by simple prayers, without any
police interfering to inspect his devotions We
must admit that the American citizen possess
es little more civil liberty than our system Of
administration leave to US.
At Paris, we have great statesmen, who
raise the cry Repubhcanism, whenever any thing
is said Of free interference Of the governed, Of
cooperation with the wishes OF the people, of
public discussion, of real responsibility.
Monarchy exists in their view only in the
darkness of their cabinet bureaucratic 1t is
there that they traffic with royalty, that they
sell their prince, that they profane all monar-
chical doctrines, in associating them with their
intrigues and petty tyrannies. This is what
makes thrones unpopular.
We, who seek in all our discussions only the
means Of consolidating legitimacy and consti-
tutional monarchy, we repeat that true roya-
lists ought to study the civil instructions Of the
u. States, without prejudice and without en-.
thusiasm, in order to distinguish in them what
favours the gigantic progress of this republic
in the career Of domestic prosperity, "the true
end Of Legitimate governments"