The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-10-29

ENGLISH ARIsroCRATIC OPINIONS ON THE FORTH
| COMING PRESIDENTIAL ELEcTIoN.-It is not always
the most pleasant thing IN the world to tell people
what their neighbors say of them Nothing, how
ever, is more common. Information of this kind
always travels expedltiously, making few hats by
the way. Those who would make it properly
available, should bear IN mind not to play the part
of the Doctors boy, who poisoned bosom friend
with the very excellent weight he gave him. With
these remarks, will now be placed before the me-
rican citizen what the mouth-piece of The aristo
crazy and the 'genteel poverty" of England say
OF them, in connection with the forthcoming cleo.
ton of President.
The first sweeping assertion that meets the eyes
of the readers of the Times, is tn At, of the "seven
| millions of voters, scarcely one knows his own
principles No expression of pity follows This
declaration of the ignorant condition of a people
who have studded every hamlet with an endowed
school. The severity of the remark Is not miti-
gated by any remembrance of the ignorance occa-
sonally displayed at home. few weeks ago, a.
woman appeared as a witness before Mr.. Justice
Creswell, who was perfectly illiterate she knew
nothing of the Lords prayer, had never heard of
Jesus Christ, she had no knowledge of the months,
but knew that the event of which she was called
TO bear testimony occurred certain number of
days before Newton races The same week pro-
duced before the same Judge, very type of the
above. The unsuccessful barnster" of the
Times then goes on in the same bombastcal strain,
and asserts that the Americans are a "facuon
without faith" This must have been inserted
for sounds sake. II is, as Dickens says on such
matters, "rather drumming" Again, he begins
to descant, that all this factlous ignorance will pro-
duce sad work just now; swat little, !" he says,
in the words OF the Snowman, d" and there will be
seen what there will be SEEN" What, pray! Pre-
pare for majestic and awful anticipation. "The
States are the raw fuel of political strife, which
it only requires spark to kindle." The reader
is impored to suppress his Smiles whilst he Is Sc
rlously informed that the editor of the Times with
the aid of his friends of the Morning Chronicle,
Herald Globe, and Stdndard, are busf.. engaged
with a blazing torch each hand, trying to set
every country In flames, whose people and prlnci-
pies are not to the taste of their masters. If,
therefore, the Americans have any difficulty in
blowing their "spark" into a conhagratlon, he of
the Times will be most happy, on the shortest nc
hce, to poke one or both his torches, and those of
his friends, into transatlantic combustbes to ac-
complish so desirable purpose. Next, he
seems 10 fancy Amtrlce somewhat uanger-
Gus neighbor, and his fears are not lessened
by the breadth of salt water that intervenes be-
tween him and his dreaded confagration. In
his alarm, he asks "what security can there be
in such people.g?' lie evidently fears that his
master will be brought to account for all this run
ning about with torches, as they are dangerous
things to trliie with. He may, however, be ac-
tualed by love Of posthumous fame, like he who
set the temple on fire in ancient times. The set
ting the States and its pine forests in flames,
would, indeed, be a grand flare up and feather
IN his cap. He next begins to assume tone of
a very offensive nature. II mplicates the millions
IN America, IN the probable choice OF a President,
who may be an ''unprincipled adventurer, who
will plunge il in war" Iii highly osgraceful and
insulting TO any people thus to speak, OF their
probable choice, which is enough to more
than irritation, if his expectations are realized;
and thus TO speak, too, of the head of power
that not half, but the whole, sovereigns of Eu-
rope, may envy, for the security and dignity of
has position, and the happiness OF the people he
rules over. The last assertion Is Responding
ole, having for Its purpert that the advent of