The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-01-28
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limited States is, on the whole, favoraby received
do not mean to say our quarter de Finances Is
oyerieoiced at the turn affairs have taken IN MISSES
sipp, but intelligent people of all classes sew =,
EXPRESSION Of the sober second thought oil the Anne
ricans guarantee of the continuation Oh .ho "o'ia'
institutions Of the United States "rhe Democratic
party reason our philosophers rs 'he rg"'mae par
~ in America It's the Democratic party which h'S'
resisted English oppresson It Is that party whlch sheu
lis blood in the Revolutionary war; and 1t is that party
which rather waged doubtful war, than submitted to
English Dictatorship either on land or on the high
seas The Democratic party, in fine, represents the
true interest of the Masses of the greatest number OF
Gods creatures" The reason why Democratic In
sttutions do not flourish in Europe is, because Europe
has feudal, manarchical foundation Inc people,
in making themselves free have TO destroy what mas
grown venerable in the minds OF men, what mas peen
sanctioned by usage in the course ola Thousand years
In this sense Michel Cheralier is right IN saying
"The whole advantage Of the United States over Iu,
rope consists in their having no history ne oh'eo
States were in their very origin, the asylum OF 'he
oppressed. The condition Of master and slave was
aver known until the introduction of tie negroes
forced upon them by the mercantile policy OF
Southern planters to the children Of Ethiopia re-
laon by the bye incomparably superior 10 any "hich
that race has ever been known to maintain IN contact
with other races or the different tribes oil It's own
The Americans therefore, never know what u Is 70
to obey without asking WHY The country oei's
large and the population small, every member VI
their little society cherished as such; all haa 70
contribute equally to its support-none 'oas ere"'%
from labor The latter point constitutes the true iou
daton of their liberal institutions the condto SINE
qua non of the republic, the true cause oil the virtue
of Americans and Of their uncommon prosperity.
1t is not only education and the diffusion o. us9ui
kno,cledge which guard nation against vice and cor
ruption The higher classes of Europe are certainly
not uneducaed, and yet they are far, very far from
being yirtuous; they are VIGOROUSLY more deeply
stepped in vice than the paupers without having the
plea of the latter, unavoidable necessity" for its ex-
cuse Labor active industry, are the only means Of
keeping individuals and nations from being contaml-
mated by the vices of civilization, not morbid sensl-
bty such as Jean jacques Rousseau preached to the
French people. You cannot have princes without
beggars vouptuaries without panders to their pas
sons One extreme is the necessary consequence oil
the other AT the present time it is not so much the
rank the title the honor done to a nobleman or
prince which rouse the worst passions OF the lower
classes-on the Continent of Europe people are not
50 much given to worship as in England where
the pageant is kept up to dazzle and coniound the
multitude-it is the exemption from labor for which
the higher classes are enyed for the deicoso @ M
ene the poor mans paradise. In America all this
different every one happily obliged to work and labor
=. .,.a 10 6nd ia adenuate reward. All this | am
aware furnishes the text of many complaints in the
large Atlantic cities, where is sometimes difficult to
find suitable "helps !" but every such complaint is a
fresh testimony of the universal prosperity of the peo-
pie at large The only persons in the United States
who ought TO complain, are the Finaneiers, whose
business it seems, is completely at stand, owing to
the irmness of President Tyler. They were the only
persons who were exempt from labor, the only ones,
therefore, who had the and the power to dc
mischief for it is an axiom in politics, that "a people
capable of being free just in proportion as it is con-
stantly occupied"
He is obliged to work at all prices because the demand
for is less than the supply and he must sell his labor
every day. or suffer hunger the necessary conse-
quence of his i'll success This not only shortens his
means of subsistence, but places him additionally at
the entire mercy Of his employer He and his family
are dependent, not on the public, as is the in
America but on the favor and good will ofndividuals
who have the power to select. This may be comfort
the higher classes but it constitutes the rremedi
able misery of the aborng classest makes them the
slaves and panders Of the wealthy and the prostitution
of soul and body is the ultimate consequence. The
immediate offspring of this unhappy condition of the
aborng classes of Europe is hatred Of the rich, and
49, - lata striLo
the eyes of the multitude. If one walks the Bole-
rdrdS the rue de la Pair the Rue Virienne and the
Paidis Royal and sees the appalling mass Of jewelry,
silks and fancy articles, which the taste and genius
of Partisan artisans dspOyst the gaze of the fancur,
and observes the grim visages of the poor, as they
pass by, and cast furve glance at those treasures,
with the sight Of which they constantly tantazed
is not apt to believe in the permanency of the
Dynastie Orleans In spite Of all that is said in its
favor one grand fact stands in bold relief perfectly
inexpicablc even to the stoutcst partisan Of Louis
Phppe,-the immense effort he is constantly
obliged to make to obtain bare majority
in the Chambers; with no more than two hun
dred thousand electors out of population of
thirty-ve millions France is complete oligarchy,
in which both electors and elected must possess Ger
tain very considerable amount of property Is it not
singular that under such circumstances, and with all
the professed tenderness of the king for the material
commercial and manufacturing interests of the peo-
pie, the democratic republican party should still
number among its cl lmpons nearly all the literary
and scientific notabtes of France, and among these
so many possessed of wealth. Admitting then, what
every knows that nearly all deprived of suffrage
opposed to the government and that scarcely half
of those who exercise that right are in its favor and
we have administration, the wish Of not quite an
hundred thousand people on, of number nearly twice
as large as the population Of the United States And
what means is not the government obliged to put in
reqstion to the good will of that nconsdera
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