The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-12-30

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'ssss 10 ext bat : have all ~ king
le.ns or kip1ly govsJ kunsnts. Reps,lius have
~ been = 5ortsnshes They have. Or the
ussst part. hose)y strut - into sxiste -. before
tItvhavs been overthrow. eonl<dersted
Rspab,ie Of the United States IL Row the oldest
Republic worthy Of the name, which has sue
cessfully existed for so long time. And how
long time IL IL, that we have been govern
ment' Not ssventy-fivs years. There are men
now living who fought in the War Of INDIE
psndesce. OF all lessons which mankind have
ever attempted to learn. the most difficult 10
that off free representative government-whst
il Is, in which freedom consists. We are the
only people, who have sver yet fairly began to
learn that lesson. England is called free gov
eminent, yea, even a popular government; and
there are politicians, do not mean statesmen,
who assert that the President Of the United
States has more power than the sovereign of the
British Empire. The government Of England
is the most anomalous government that ever
existed. While the liberty Of the subject Is al.
most equal to that Of the King or Queen, in in
dividusl freedom Of thought and action, yet so
Gar as the rights and interests Of the millions
Of the British people are concerned, the British
government does not differ in any essential par
ticular from that Of all other absolute govern
ments, which have preceded IL, or co-existed
with IL. 1t is government, perhaps, Of all 9th
ers of which we have any knowledge. the mosl
substantial and the most perfect in this-to Sc.
cure to favored few. the control and the gov.
eminent Of the many. What is called the
British Constitution, means this and no more
Hereditary rights in England are more sa
cred, and more to be respected, than natsrs
rights Loyalty, in England. means that tn.
multiudinious masses shall, with eontented anC
cheerful hearts look up TO the few hundreds o
the aristocracy. and FEEL, yes. that is the yer,
idea, that il is righ and for the good Of tn,
country. that these few hundred hereditar,
lords and gentlemen should possess and EMO,
Everything that wealth and privilege can secur
to mortal man, while they erist in poverty, il
Ignorance and in misery. Two Arch Bishops
and twenty-foar Bishops, we are told, receive Al
income yearly Of forty millions Of dollars
while ten millisns of their fsl ow- beings, II no
their fellow christians, do not know to-day
what they will have to stop the cravings of hun
ger with tomorrow.
The tory editor Of Biackwood's Magazine
who thinks all this Is right, and as IL should be
uses this strange expression He says that Eng
land was once called "Msrry England" an
then, himself, admits that the name must hav
Originated in ages of myth and fable, for that
'ohsn IL was ever applicable, nobody now knows
Such 10 the result Of one Of the efforts o
mankind to improve their condition, and to sc
lcure to themselves the advantages and blessing
of good government. And who made thi
effort Angio-Saxons. or Anglo Romans; tins
branch Of the white race which seems to stan
head and shoulders above every other branc
Of the human race in every noble attribute Z
man. The British government has now e1is,
ed so long, that many think that tits almost tim
for IT to begin to decline; and 30 much, (hor
much1) has been gained for freedom and Ii
rights Of man. Answer it. ys emancipation
lists; answer it, ye who desire to make an s1per
iment in these now United States for the goo.
az yau say, Of another. and an inferior race.
In my next, will discuss the question Of N
infsriori'y or equality Of the negro race.
MosKs.