The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-12-27


Of the people are enough to give the alarm, and
tt oToughly TO discuss public that the
country may require reforms No. The House Of
Commons 10 bear garden, where there IL no chance
for any Of the people to be properly heard The
young and the sntiqusted gentry wake up the very
instant such man rises, and cough him down; but
one Of themselves even the very worst Of them,
Sir Charles Wood, for instance may hum and
haw by Shrewsbury .; long as he sees nt "a
bearing, 1t Ia mohstrous favor not to be abused be-
yopd the hour. Mountebanks, like Sibthorp, and
only You may think that Cobdsns success with free
trade that the privilege Of discussion is Of great
value In the Commons. But answer no again. That
question became . bone OF contention between the
wbig and tory gentry. Lord John Russell-a
Bedford-Tade the argument, to which the House
and the nobility lisensd and when the said nobility
to understand that free trade in would not
irjurs them at all, the whg branch followed their
leader, Lord John, and carried the proposition It
suited Sir Robert Peel to give the credit OF his con-
version to q oommoner Richard Golden, rather than
to q noble and rival Lord John Russell.
he Gods truth Is, that there Is such thing a.
discussion OF anything tolerated by the law or the
custom Of England, when 1t can do any good rab-
bic OF weekly papers talk freely and ignorsntiy it's
true but the does not fear them because
the daily press is efectuay all Its own, and for
weekly papers doing anything Whatever for re-
form. you know that to be nse; until the pepu
lar leaders are able to seine the infinite rges Of
the daily press and throttle the liars and traitors to
liberty while the lie is in their very throats printing
Ia vslueless. The culpris any body the trouble
OF refutipg them at the end If the week. by systs
matte Standardization from day to day. They are
question: and from the members Of the editorial star
contradictions hsbtunly appear from different pens
in parallel columns. The only Influential portion Of
the pretthe daies are all engaged in praising
or less and d. Tending system which could stand
one hour, II the people were enlightened.
land are loyal they are SO from sheer ignorance and
Is soon that is dispeed they will overturn the oil
garchy without delay. 1t is probably the mission Of
France to infuse that real vitality into British
constitution which belongs only to republic ansm, by
force Of example, and necessary, by force of arms
Indeed, pha ntbropists called upon rejoice
over nothing 70 much as the entire Of the
French republic on that account. 1t Is longer
the fear of change which perplexesn the British
narcby; it is the fear of France And not all the vslor
vgor, wisdom, and pride, and wealth Of all the Nov.
bIays DevereS, and Piantage nets can postpone the
appointed the inevitab bic hour, which hastens for
ward the dial the doom of the most fearful
Of public crime and misery in human annals.
But l need not denounce for | have heretofore
spread out the Indictment In the Herald against this
aboninabe government, and have spoken TO 1t by
chapter and by section, and upon authorities which
are undeniable have only now repeated some Of the
charges gen orally because It necessary sustain
my assertion Of the superiority Of the American
press to the London press In respect to the staple
Of politics 1t Is obvious, that under such system
OF things the rights Of man and the duties Of govern
msnt, and even the first principles Of laws and
stitutons, cannot be understood It 10 only when It
s the interest Of the rulers that the truth could be
tolerated, which 10 never and 1t is only free dis
curson that could be made acceptable and there Is
free discussion Every word say the judges, late
% lat month"; which creates dsaHecton. is sedition.
h How can the pres know anything OF 90 anything
utterly enslsved? And these nghted creatures talk
Of slavery in America when British slavery is the sla
very Of the whole white to the number Of thirty
millions, by execrabe minority Of thousands, and
upon the heartless terms Of being subsised only while
In perfect health and maturity and then starved to
Great God Of infinite and eternal justice how long
Oh how long, shall every Britain every Irhmsn feel
the ehsSnsl hous vas in order that pocr.y
snexf1fyncnd essse 10 provo sthe wrath Of Heaven
good time and ways Of Pro,id. ace, this wsrss than
Venetian olgarehy and to restore to ordinary rights
chinese state Of society to which political insttu
tons alone have reduced the Saxon in the British
islands.
this holy Her French columns . vast i'm.
provemsnt in respect to European politics. But her
subsection Of the steam engine to double and triple
work "a far higher achievement She 10 placed there
by in front Of the press OF the world the she
succ' eds In her grand design of furnishing literal
ports II the speeches the pc ople in
Congress- that will prove antidote in Europe to the
similar energies by which France Germany, and
England have been poisoned by the Times reports Of
the srstocrstic debates in Parliament In the report
Ing department alone has the London press had
periorty; and that is finally removed, hope by
the unrivsled American enterprise Of the Herald
great intellectual and moral responsibility rests
upon your paper and yourself You must have foreign
corresponden who derstand systems and events
NaTrators will not do for the Herald 1t requires
sopers, think philosophers on should forthwith
issue your orders to London, that England to be
explained to your readers to Paris that France was
to be d.fe nded and eulogzed and every where that
America was to be indicated and ecomms nded.
Now you are told from London, by the paragraph
forgatberers that the great is the death do
tpRB OF Lord George Bentnck while the Chartst trials
discussed in three lines from Paris the details Of
ries about the critical state OF the republic MI W.
ira, except CONNER ts from the quarter French
funds and cred 1t is not thus the Herald should strike
her blows in the battle of eystems; filing the
plains and mountains Of the continent with shocks
md tmoke, and fire.
rat down however, to do justice to great crimi-
al tn do atfa, llu
postible Some time sgo there tory gathering at
York where the American Minister figured absurdi-
ment. He had his reward in your columns AS the
dteae s catching till the doctor prescribes for it,
had Mr. Coleman following suit in the same sickly
strain. | cent you report Of his also-a very
dete,tsble exhibition Now, however, we have most
unexpected victim Of the eontsgon-the French Mi
mister. NJ. Beaumont At the Lord Mayors dinner at
Guildba on the 9th inst 500 of the ar.tocracy pre-
sent several monkey poles were set up rs usual for
foreign ministers The Frenchmsn had to mount on
account OF the sudden indispositonn Of the Ameri
can Minister, which seems to have been regretted.
" England was the land OF liberty and hospitality for
for Frenchmsn.n "a noble country like Eng
land, in order to be admired and blessed, wanted
only to be known" Let us, my lords, enjoy" &c.
sc Are such niaisries let of after dinner or
b. fore, Is this vino reritGs, the kind Of truth
which Of wine, Is it delibeIate falsehood
But matter. The must be deficient in either
case and is unfit for hts office altogether 1t is sad
enough to zee the America Ms and Frenchmen who
are travelling for information and pleasure only, be-
ty Of the wealthy classes to whom they in Eng
land but IL lie little less than treason for ministers
to endorse the vhited sepuchre' with freedoms
sacred and awful appreciation. The Frenchmen in
the United States should at once ask the home 60
verbment to recall agent who is already sunk in
the mire Of vile subservienee to the worst enemy of
France in theory and in fact, openly and secretly,
by volition and upon compulsion IL makes 1t worse
that NJ. Beaumont should have been in the Uni.
ted States, and should have published our praises
and committed himself to the condemn nation of
the British olsaIchy But he fell before the shake
ha tall NJ fha hara cff ntaftn Ia l. vAt
only overrpe, but he Is retten Let him be forthwith
laid on the shelf as one dead, and substituted by .
friend Of republicanism, who can understand his own
portion and the faults Of antagonist He repre-
septs republic. "Nst man in the whole S00,n in
the language Of the Times, had the least sympathy
with, any belief In that form ofgovernment !"
the Lord Mayor uucivl as gratuitously
to insult IT, by reference implying his distrust
and contempt. Not toast was thought Of for the
people, or their rights not sentiment was de-
iiver.d honorable to the paramount claims OF white
emancipation and popular power The bedizened