Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1846-05-04
TaE NsTrTUrroN-srArE RIGHTS.
"Thc Model Republic. 4"

"words TO coniure WITH" moving masses OF men
TO action with talismanic power. lnnumerable
instances might he cited, in which terms origi-
nally of degradation and reproach have become
the watch-word and war.cry of revolutionary
hosts, and have been inscribed with pride upon
their victorious bannersthus returning to plague
the inventors" Is it not possible, at least, that
the words at the head of this article, which the
April number Of Backwood's Magazine sarcastic
cally adopts the running title of long disqui-
sition upon American manners, the design of
which is ofcourse to depreciate our national cha.
racter and to cast odium upon our institutions,
may, at no distant day. be adopted by the oppres--
ed and down-trodden people, even of Great Bri-
tain, as the prelude 10 the overthrow OF her arth.
cial and corrupt political system, and to the cor
rcction Of those monstrous abuses in Church and
State, which even her most partial eulogsts do not
hesitate TO acknowledge and deplore May it
not happen, that, in despite of all the defects of
our own system, either inherent or which have
been engrafted upon it by departure from the
just and wise principles upon which it is found.
ed, the toiling millions of Europe, suffering not
only the deprivation of political rights, but Of
physical comforts, to an extent undreamed of on
this side of the Atlantic, while the favored few,
born TO a higher destiny, not only monopolize all
public distinctions, but revel in luxury and splen
dor, unknowing or unnoticing the restitution and
Indebtedness which surround them on every side
may it not indeed come to pass that they will
take up the words in earnest, which the organ of
the British torres has thrown out in derision. and
demand the reorganization Of the British Govern.
ment upon the great principles of "cqual rights"
which constitutes the foundaton-stone Of .''ruE
MODEL REPUBLIC?" Indeed, is not a revolution
roD in progress in Great Britain Not a revo-
luton Of force, we admit but a revolution of
opinion, by which radical changes are in progress
and changes still more radical are ultimately TO
ens.e, in the very constitution and frame work Of
her institutions affecting ultimately her social not
less powerfully than her political system! To
what cause is this strong and resistess tendency
of opinion TO be mainly ascribed! Certainly TO
the light which has been thrown upon the subject
of human rights, by the brilliant example f"the
Model Repubc"-a light, which as it shall be
widely dffused, will unveil still more extern
sively and clearly the monstrous abuses under
which the hereditary bondsmen of Europe have
so long despairingy grOaned, and excite them to
renewed and in the end successful efforts, to throw
oil The yoke oil the oppresSor
The recent debate in Congress on the existing
relations between the United States and Great
Britain, has furnished Blackwood with the text
upon which it descants with such JUNCTION touching
the defects of American institutions, and the vices
of American statesmen. Some of the speeches
which il cites, in confederation of its opinions
we confess far from being models either of
sense temper taste. But is it fair to select the
most Objectionable portions of the worst speeches
Of the most violent men in Congress, as specimens
of American craftsmanship From the debates
of the British Parliame II examples not less coarse
and vulgar might be selected, in which an Amer-
can commentator might find text not less apt for
his purposes, if il were fair thus to deduce from
occasional exhibitions of bad taste and temper in
ferences preudicial to the character of a nation.
and TO the influence Of its institutions in forming
and modifying that character.
Blackwood's Magazine, however, is not singu.
lar in its efforts to dePreciae institutions and
10 defame our reputation. The London Times.
not unfrequenty Of late, INDUCES in these ribald
assaults. One Of its bitterest articles, in which,
after characterlzlng the speech of Ex-Presdent
Adams "the rawlings Of a moon-struck mad
man." it proceeds to comment in terms of great
severity upon the proceedings Of our Government.
which it says is ''too feeble to restrain bad impuI
SEES" has drawn forth brief and eloquent reply
from an American citizen, which the Times, with
unwonted candor and courtesy, publishes in its
own columns. And it was chiefly for the purpose
Of introducing that pungent article to our readers
that we have been led into these remarks upon
the vituperaiiye and sneering dsqusition of the
coadlutOr of the Times in the congenial work Of
national defamation. If the English papers will
continue to open their columns to such manly
indications of "the Model Republic" as that
which we subloin from the London Times the
period will be rapidly accelerated when it will in
truth be regarded, even IN England, as model of
which its trainers need not he ashamed, and after
which British patriots will be proud to fashion
their own system
To tie Editors Of tie 7Tmss: Sir-Among other
for thinking Government 800 feeble o. restrain
bad impulses, and population e1cabe 10 be con-
scious consequences" moOnstruck madman's" speech
and the manner m which II listened IN the United
States House Of Representatives, with you to rank
hmonR he foremost Without stopping 10 inquire vhetb
er b. bis much learning that has mede him MAD " # Mr.
Quincy Adams be really mad Or learning even H his wits
be dscofJered, he pIsoyses TO degree seldom snp,Isd
in Europe Amencal add without utsring a suspiei,p
thai the sppeifueute reared such crazy ounda ION
AIIT"A'uf hat
occaspn, the general government Washington has az
hbted iceboGe.s and wherein has population betray
Cd on rrcabIity which 10 regardless Of consequences
Since We came into being. which was but a. Yesterday
in the hrt1ry II nations, u be- said without boast
tht'c 10 not quarter o the globe that will bear win,ss
The strength and energy Of Executive in II. fore
relations. Were We the first refine ibute ~ the
Agcuue. wbiIe Europe laying its black mai n his
feet1 Did a. low lead declaring and making the
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but perhaps the feeble nature Of Government deye
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n1iq1el most pufent0us nsuucction in Pennsylvania
nod That Goo, while its pIweis in their infancy with
out shecdrg ns1ge drop blopd1 Did not in lie foil
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fpfnoy and hna has not recently. scorn Of domes.
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against ~ the voices from English graves throughout the