The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-09-13
Our London Correspondence.

petvo0e6 all tntukeIs, anu uioet Vi tue WTtcIS
and takers upon the amazing phenomena of the
continent of Europe, as well as OF the Uaited
States The systematic effort to keep out the
light from the British people, the subject Of self
government, is less and less successful; and the
whole of this despousm is Keeling on Its base. So
called constitutional monarchy Fastening to its
end; and the distress and embarrassed state Of
Its defenders reminds one Of the condition Of
those two hundred unfortunate old cavaliers, in
bag, wig, and sword, who stayed up all night at
the TuiIeres to dyke out the popuace, bent
having LOUIS XVI. prisoner in their large embrace
next morning. The fresh energies of the people.
once aroused, are irresistible, and neither the
disheveled guardians OF royalty the last cen
fury, with their puny weapons, nor the panic
stricken defenders of the same imposture the
present, with their pens, can breast the rapidly ad-
vancing tide. The law of nature bids that tide to
rise-the law of God bids it swallow up, like
another Red Sea of destruction, the same unjust
and prosecuting hosts who have, in our day, hung
with board and blade on the perilous but vulgar
track of Pharoah. The people are now the chosen
of the Creator; the poor are Gods anOInted The
high and primitive right of selfgovernment has
become the aspiration Of the mass and the pre-
sumpuous sacrilege which dictates them to in
scribe "God and my right on the crown Of
England, Is Fastening to the ignominious end of
punishment, Or at least, to the disgrace of fall.
What insult and nonsense is it not, IN such an
enlightened age, for weak woman to parade
herself under that inscription of divine right,
through those realms where live and breathe onyto
toll and suffer 50 many degraded millions Of sIb-
jects, stricken with the curse of poverty Gown
below the estate Of the slave himselfl Aad, to
make il worse, the fasehood is painted upon an
efiigy, for the Queen of England is but puppet in
the hands of the real masters of the people. The
ogaTChy of mobiles are the absolute lords ut those
British heads and British hearts, whose hosts only
require the breaking of rhsir CHAINS TO emulate
the popular triumpbs of the Union and of France.
The mighty tread of the people of the two great
republics shakes the solid earth In these islands,
and the composed faces Of the grand and tidsd
wear the expression Of excitem ut and alarm.
The United States have started forward Vi
gorously upon the road Of prosperity, that it is not
possible for the arisocrats OF Eugit and To conceal
the march OF events; nor will the cherished expe-
lent OF the press (Which resorts, SO lar as you are
concerned, To babirual lving.) any longer avail. IL
is impossible to keep back, or to perver the lesson
which You are Tracking your oppressed and ex-
plotted brethren here, IN regard 10 the Interests
and duties OF nations There are many places all
over England, Ireland. and Scotland, where vou
may hear the echo of that noble phrase OF Jrfirr-
son, " obedience to tyraots Is resistance 10 Gods"
and even peasants are To be found, who the utlrd
despois Of their fields Withstand; and students,
whe have the courrgr TO think that Cromwell
gultless Of his counrys blood and to profit by his
example.
But the splendid phenomenon Of republic in
France is yet more startling than your avn ex:
ample, even added To the precrpt, " Go thou and
do lkewiee," which the Herald and other AmSri-
can papers propagate Ia their European edttions.
There the structure OF self goyeTnnrnt stands, IN
the plain sight Of the people of Eoel ind, upon rs
two feet of universal suffrage and universal eligi-
by TO Office Ii lifts lis lofty form up to the gaze
Of the remotrst and most wretched tenant of the
Coppsupbt cabin ar the Cornis h nine, and invites
him also to the work of freedom aud Independence.
Uostile is that phenomenon, OF course, 10 the ex-
ecrable admins trat,on OF the neighborng state,
and TO the British constitution but II has enly
words Of hope and encouragement TOR those
who are, by the evils OF government IN
which they have no part, crashed 20 The earth,
and, indeed, while Yet alive, hal-burird win
its weight and cruelty. This mute appeal TO
the people OF England las more than the emphasis
Of language, for Il springs from the heart and II
makes its way withoni Resistance, because Il ente 70
into the heart to which It is directed IL Is inn
possible 10 retain the British people IN their ablrct
subiection, as long as that injustice is combitted
by the reproofs of France and America; but II Is
from the former that comrs the nearest aud most
menacirg danger To the adverse system
The dilemma of the oligarchy " by these means
becoming daily more critical They feel u 10 the
quick But they not sleeping upon the mine
they are aware of their peril they attend, Ms mach
as possible, to proong lhrir authority; will mike
short work with the verihcation of both these
propositions and, having demonstrated them.
will ask the people of New York To inquire INTO
,sheir own duty, and to come up at once to the
height Of their power and of their responsibility
for their safe direction of that popular cause which
IL 50 rapidly giving them the lead OF Affairs at
home and abroad.
The privileged classes have their most sensitive
feelers in the daily and periodical press, principally
issued at London. Every article on general poll
tics, which appears in the former, might be c-n-
suited 10 detect the presence OF alarm Seltpressr-
walton breaks down, with It's great law, all coaven-
tons and despite the dictates OF pride, and The most
ygant discretion, the hirelines who write for them
sbetray the weakness within and the danger without
Their position Of antagonists to the plain rights
and interests OF Enghshmen Is hazardous, Tor the
proach, nor will its sentence be suspended nor nut
tigstcd. Look, for instance, into the Tins. any
morning, and you will discover all the symptoms
which just now are sort OF epderhic ague
amongst the cisatlantc fraternity Of editors. II
You take mp the qusrterlies, you wi find abund mi
evidence IN the most ouispoken fear- about the
duration OF the monarchy TINE allows IN, At
two extrpcts taken from the Qsrrfery tor July,
Cart. 81 "Mr. Bsche warned US of the IN 'cruisbli
influence whether for good or egl, OF France on
the dcstiniss of Europe in general, and especially
on England. and this sres, authority unn,a Is 90
beavers 10 awaken the English public to a liveliei
interest to the revolutionary principle which hs'
again been triumphant ~ France. and which W.
are convinced ~ n formidable progression sm.ngs
ourselves" so much for the beginning III the ar
ticle. We add only the concluding sentence, which
sums up, by an explicit admission that the mo
nsrchy II IN danger "On the whole, we regret Z,
cay that we have never concluded review of III,
state OF our own country, or VI EuroPr, with les'
of comfort for the present. less Of confidence "a
the future, or with greater perplexIty as to the
probable solution Of the complicated dlihcsltle'
that are gathering round the British monarchy y
II il evident enough that the arIsecracy, and ~
runners and editors, alive TO their danger; bn
they are necessarily Engaged in endeavors To NEE
H. Their words indicate their sense of the erisis
But their deeds speak louder than words Let u'
resort 10 these. We NAV learn much Of the con
dttion of an enemy from hts hosril,iirs Thes
thostilitier, from a wise foe, are founded on SOM
-crat is mot one of bold or omen attack. but Of sd
ldrees and conspiracy. He knows full we'll that i
he took the offensive against the Un,ted States 81
France either, he would unite them together, snt
make them instantly discover the truth that theI
are The xrea nnxxera Of the world A nd In dirrc