The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-10-03
TO THE REPUBLICANS OF THE UNION,

Lord Mahon, in his History Of England, from the
peace of Utrecht TO that of AK La ChaPelle,' ex-
presses but the general sentiment Of the Tory
arisocracy, when he says il is by functions of dis
sembllng knaves and honest dupes that all revolu-
tions are effected" OF course descending knaves
and honest duIes' were the men who composed the
revoutonlsts of the United Colonies Of Anglo Anne
RIGA The work of such men could not have been a
good one, according TO the logic Of Lord Mahon and
his political coadJutors rather 1t would certainly
prove weak, inconsistent and bad" and such "as
will be destroyed" Noris this arisocracy deficient
In the caDdor necessary TO announce It's opinions ;
nor will it be deficient in the sagacity requisite TO
profit itself of every favorable opening to realize its
pTedc ions. We would call attention TO some Of
them they thick strewn in the Tory journals ;
and in taking few on this occasion from Blackwood
we are but furnishing specimens which may be gath
cred from any OF those oracles
1t is the practical condition of people at which
wise will look 10 estimating the character of its
People and the real value Of their institutions. OF
course this condition will be contemplated, not in
momentary or local. but general aspect of it. Let
US look at the condition Of the people of Britain and
compare it with our own
Slavery has been abolished now seven years in the
British domlnions, with the exception Of India
There have been but very few Of its actual
slence in the island of Great Britain for more than
hundred years past Granville Sharp tested the
principle whether personal slavery could exist in
England more than seventy years ago; and obtained
decision which annulled all such slavery within the
British lies. And yet we fpA one of the best in
a..
the London Quarterly, so lately September 1910,
complaining that there is great misery in England
Its picture of its moral and physical state strk
ing contrast TO really happy condition That jour
nal warmly expatiates this subject. Hear its
statement:
''Consider for moment how this curse has been
propagated How have the wretchtd thousands of
Birmingham and Manchester been eDgendered and
hudded up in these abodes OF misery and vice, by
reading instructed, snhgh ened and scientific body Of
manufacturers? How have those unhappy slaves 10
the avarce of these masters been enabled 10 do their
will By their own quickened lnte ligence and
acuteness Go into the factories, and ask how few
unable to read and wrlle--how few, at least,
among the parents-though these reading parents
may have sold their children to drudgery which
precudes them from attending schools !"
Again;
" 1t is, indeed, not by the genius Of Birmingham,
not by machines for repeating iturgles and articles
not by steam sermons, cast iron preachers, that
true religion is 10 be taught, and with the teaching
of true religion that the is to be removed from
the land. The FIST thing is 10 find that haze true
religion Without this all the laws that Parlia-
ment could enact or an army enforce will be dead
letter. IL is not IN the House Of Commobs-no, not
even in the conyocation Of Bishops, to remove the
evil 1t evil, universal, deep seated, deep. sink
ing, interviewer with our vItals, which must be ap-
preached with discerning eye, touched with almost
a woman's hand, watched daily and hourly in
every province IN every town, IN every parish almost
in every house. 10 every Of these, ii we could
place "a man that has religion we might expect
cure or rather the cure would be certain. Give US
a religious man to lead The world and there will be
true object for mans reverence fit centre for his
loye-round this will gather all the good, warm sf-
tctions OF the nation, with this viii come obedience
with obedielce unity, with unity strength and wis
dom, with wisdom selfre stralnt, with seli-resrant
all the other checks upon that inordinaie c,ipdiiy
uhioh hos made England manufacturing pandenoni-
,.s, and that houghiiess, htariiess ertraraganoe
ohioh has IN Ireland 10 be oroTtn by starring beg
CARS"
Surely in country so free from personal slavery,
if the absence Of the latter is to bring very happy
state Of society, it would appear their exposions
Of it,
Yet the evils Of democracy and the evils of per
sonal slavery alike fertile themes Of discussion
and defamation in The tory prints of Great Britain
At the same time they scof at the idea of univer-
sal or general suffrage, they affirm that they are
generally incapable of sef-government, and that
their interests will be better secured by those who
are the direct representatives of others than by d.
rect representatives Of their own. Hence demo.
crazy, which regards every freeman entitled to
share in he power cfeecting representative comes
in largely for their jeers and invectives As we do
not wish to be thanked for being tedious, shall
quote but a very small part of the evidence which
me might adduce from the ar.tocratcsl journals of
England. In Blackwood, for January, 1897, page
IL, we have an elaborate article, under the bead
democracy" In this article the author undertakes
to flip it by regular assault, and If his fps could
be effective the talitrum (or flip of the mid
die hnger) Of the Emperor Tiberus, which, il was
said could fracture boy skull-the head Of demo
cracy would certainly be fractured in many places
As specimen Of his Of the tali,rum we may
cite the following
''Mucb a we have written on democracy and its
effects past present, and to come during the last 81
years, we are conscious that we have not hitherto
gone to the bottom Of that subject. We could not
have done so till passing through the intermediate
stratum of political effects diyed to the depths
Of the human heart, and sought our own feelings
and the feelings of every with whom we lived in
society the remote but certain causes of the failure
OF the great political experiment which was going on
around u.s. and Of the corresponding failure Of all
similar attempts 10 all ages and nations of the world y
Again:
at this day six years ago, that, penetrated
with sense OF The ruinous principles of speculative
government which had sprung up with the triumph |
Of ,he Barbados, and threatened to overture even
the ancient fabric OF speculative freedom, which a
thousand years he'd erected in these lands, we began
the great conflict with democratic ambition"