Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1849-07-19

HIsroRY.-Eyery crisis of revolution in Europe
has given birth to an eloquent champion of monarchy,
converted from the heresies of freedom In the first
French revolution, Burke was purchased by feudal
legitimacy, 10 rail down the rights of the people, and
disparage republics as Incompatible with property,
prolific 10 anarchy, and destructive to virtue. From
a tory, the service performed by Burke would have
been Intellectual. Defamation against popular rights
must come from lips accustomed to praise them, and
a " big was bought to paint the horrors of freedom.
In another crisis Walter Scott wrote down the fame
OF Napoleon, which rose higher from the pressure of
a pigmy finger on the colossal genius of modern
ages, and he received his reward in a title. And
now, in another crisis of revolutions in Europe, we
have the pen of Macaulay to champion "constitu-
tioGal monarchy" as the perfection of government,
in the very midst of n blaze of popular fires. redr.
cling to ashes throne after throne, or driving monarch
after monarch into exile or abdication, while her own
bowels are burning with the secret fires of a Chartist
rebellion, destined at no remote day to be a civil and
political revolution. How opportunc the glowing
history OF Macauley TO The urgent wants of conserya-
tive monarchy Bnrke's apostacy was not more
seasonable, though unquesuonably more effective.
Macauley comes in the very wliching hour of peril
to quench the kindling fires of discomfort, and con-
vince starving millions that England is too happy, her
people too prosperous, and her government too perfect
ever 10 be convulsed by another "great revolution"
Yet il will be found ON arduous task TO persuade Eng
lands hungry millions that they feed on abundance I;
tuub IneiE ~ Il COOWeOS, lnat e ITO ueOL
is a gossamer that q puff Of wind from the lip of ell
oquence can dissolve. But when had England a sgreat
revolution 7" Never. She has never yet seen what
a great revolution is. She has never yet achieved a
great civil and political revolution. A change Of dy-
nasty from a Catholic to a Protestant monarch. was
not a civil and political, but a sectarian revolutions
religious reform-ihe substitution of one bigotry for
another. A great revolution must restore the people
to the full enjoyment of civil freedom and political
justice, and any change that falls short of that, is an
abortion too Insignificant for national exuliatioD,
historical example. or popular applause for anything
short Of that only consolidates, tyranny, confirms
wrong, and cemenis oppression. England is yet to be-
hold the bonds of her people broken asunder by a great
civil and political revolution, having no affinity to
sectarian passions, but embracing the whole human
family as a unit of rights, knit together by common
interests in the great work of self-goyernment, under
the motto-'do your own thinking, make your own
laws, and guard your own rights"
But what right have Americans 10 interfere in the
destiny Of the English ~peoplel This question has
been asked. Without contending for the right, we
even relinquish, on this occnsion, the expedlency. to
stand upon the more tenable ground Of defending
American opinions from the taist Of monarchical in
fection. Macaulay is now in the hands of every
American reader, inoculating in their minds the views
of false doctrines in politics, in virtue Of Protestant
prepossessions in religion, when no American ought
to mix one With the other, whatever the hue and char
acter OF his sectarian opinions.--Pa. Ledgr.