The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-09-10

ana ueis S~n psof4sou and ven6lliy, made IEs go.
'ernmen morally contemplate. and thon tho Effects
Of these views are all charged upon US. We are ar
raigned as having come upon them in hery inya-
son. equally terrible by its nature and its sudden
ness. Did they take right view of us, they would
ut whatever other true charges they might bring
against US, accuse Of originating the French revo
luton. A spendlhrft court-a licentious priest
hood-and tyrannicai and dssolute nobty-origi-
mated that mighty overthrow. The Romans had ex
PEELED their kings before the American insurrectioD
occurred. Holland had done the same just
tie English channel. England herself had condemn
ed Charles the first TO the bl OK. Were there
collections of these things in Europe, could they
see nothing Ike such events but in America, more
than three thousand miles of, aud then at a distance
Of siI weeks sail Nevertheless the charge is
gravey entertained, and, no doubt, seriously beliey
ed. Take an instance from the London Quarter
y {" But if the extension, says that Review OF the
Democratic system in America was, and is an object
Of SO much anxiety to so many Of her statesmen,
wiih what terror should not strike US, upon whom ii
comesnot only with its natural and intrinsic evils,
but--with the additional aud ncalculabe danger of
being sudden iriuption, volcanic revolution, for
which we not merely unprepared, but untitled by
our manners our feelings, our principles, and even
prrjudces-by, in short all the inyeterate habits
Of long established and complicated system Of So
cial and political l,ie"
Now this is nearly altogether erroneous. 1t is not
the United States of North America that Great Br-
tain has To iear-eithet for her institutions her
finances. Changes may occur in them in the next
hundred years Of q serious character, but of
radical character likely to but from misgo
vernment, or from Russia and France, From kindred
people such we, with many interests in common,
Great Britain has little to fear and much to hope, II
she does her part in acting wisely towards us, not
with mean and suspicious Jealousy, but with mag
unanimous openness and real friendship If she strives
to grasp and arrest, while she urgently thwarts in
our own rightful add ion to our territory, she will
not, it is highly probable improve in good graces
But if she pursue the opposite course, she may find
US passively, if not actively sustaining her by our
commerce and good will, in time when the amb-
ton Of Russia and the desire of France for ships,
colonies, and commerce." may menace her with an
extensive loss of comm4rcal resources aud relative
power The ambition of Russia will not pause to
help itself either Europe Asia to the annexation
of very large part of Turkey, when she judges the
fitting moment to have arrived. Austria will be as
willing to partition she has always shown herself
France will not stop in Africa until all the territory
once called the granary Of Rome, shall have become
her dependency Speaking in reference to the African
war, and Louis Phppe's speech in favor of peace
Mr.. Walsh remarks in his last letter " Ii might have
been suggested that war with the Arabs of Algeria
or Morocco, however long, and at whatever cost Of
and treasure, was understood to be an excep-
tom He also rows the real state OF public feel
ing in France, in these pthy remarks :" If the Prince
de Joinve should contrive to capture or sink an
English ship of superior or equal force to his own,
he may mount the throne on his fathers demise. On
this side of the Channel at least there is entente
eordiae out of the royal and minis eral spheres."-
So much for tie spirit in which France regards
African xation which she very naturally thinks
may prove eminenty seryceable to her, the broad
of English annexation have to Great Britain
to make way for which emperors, nabobs, sirdars
and ameers have been dethroned and killed off or
peusioned into insgnihcance and subsection