The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-05
WORCESTER:
WEDNESDAY. JAN. s. 1881.
CONTRAST IN RIJLERs

We have on file, which we intend shortly to
publish, splendid and beautifully composed ar
ticte on "the moral causes of revolutions, -
written in September last, previous TO the late
change in The British Ministry, by Sir James
Macintosh, one of the most able ind liberal
statesmen of the present day A portion of the
article Is devoted to n consideration of the diff.
ference in rulers, between the real Statesman
OF enlarged and comprehensive views, and un-
bending integrity, and the one who depends for
the success Of his schemes, on the arts of cum
ning and intrigue, and who makes all other Oh.
lects subservient to his own selfshness. The
contrast he has drawn, struck us with peculiar
force. Had il been written with express refer.
ence to the state of things in this country, il
could not have been more aptly done In the
following extract our readers will find well
drawn portrait Of tho "lttts nsagician," who,
as Secretary of State, now presides over the
destinies of this country, and directs the mo-
tons ofthe automaton, who is nominally at its
head, according to his own will
In almost all the Courts of Europe, tho nd.
men, not recommended by superiority of yir-
tue and intellect, but by the low articles of
cunning, and the base accomplishments of in
trigue Need we wonder, that with such ad-
visers, the rulers of the continent have SOW
ed the wind and shall reap the whrlwind ?"
Let us take the ablest of the class, Metternich
Does shat veteran Jesuit in policy know how,
like Themistocles, to make of small commu :.
nifty great and fourishing State, or is he bet
ter qualified to make the authority of a great
empire politically base and morally despicable !?
The whole course of his political career has
shown that, though dexterous politician he
is no statesman. The former is a person who
s dh t 4 aRse ats f. aSGsE
is preserved, with mind fertile in the resources
Of cunning, but destitute of wisdom His
ambition turns on the pirOt of self, and his for
tunes are exalted by the degradation of the
country. Unshacklod by principle, obdurate in
heart, and adrolt In assimilation. such min
lister regards honorable sentiment and political
integrity as the accomplishments of fools He
banishes every virtue from the range of his de-
basing influence, and considers successful
troachcry and deception as the criterion of po-
ltical talent and the contamination of able pol
icy Need any one who has read history Alright
and who has seen in the vicissitudcs of empires
the glorious ways of an eternal Providence, be
told that such Minister, while he imaginos he
is giving stability TO Visions power, is only SOW
ing tho seeds Of revolution?
The writer then proceeds TO delineate the
character of a real statesman, which, having
done, he says that the great Lord Chatham
was one of this stamp The following remarks
in relation to him would seem almost as if writ
ten for the express purpose oc furnishing con-
trast to our own aeity' Secretary.
Aloof from all petty intrigucs for po,ocr, he
coniided in the mastery of his own genius. In.
spircd with generous ardor to serve his coun.
try, he let the shafts of malice waste themselves
against reputation that was sure to BIO aveng-
ed by history,
He waged no paltry war upon the press-hc
trielded not The po'osr Of the State 10 crush the
freedom Of opinion-he stopped not from the
attitude Of bold uncompromising virtue to OK.