The Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1850-1852, 1850-08-08
Handsome Compliment 10 our
Country.
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STATESMEN


trader aud reformcr, and the colleague
of Richard Golden, recently made a
speech in Manchester, Eag, in which he
ridiculed the fAvoriie doctrine of hercl- :
i,ary statesmen. in = vein tina, no one
could mis.understand. Our seli-made
men--our Washinston---our Franklin
and the American Senate, signalixed
by such minds as Webster, Clay and
Wright are all alluded 10 with respect
and love which all nations mus, feel,
and which sends thrill Of pride into
our countrymcn:
"Wc will take another case 10 show
thar, after all, ,bese hereditary states
men have no reason TO plume them |
selves. We sill go to snolhcr country,
In l775, England had very extensive
colonies on the other side Of the Allan.
tic. Ten years afterwards these were
colonies no longer, but stood forth to
the world as an independent and grow.
ing republic. Now would like TO know
where America got her statesmen from.
1t is quite clenr, ,ha, up 10 i775 people
in this country--I menn Lord North ard
the statcsmen Of that day---never sup
posed FOR moment that there was any
statesmen in the colonies Of America
but yet, some how or other, they found
statesmen. There was man named
George Washington. loud cheers.)--
Now George Washington was sort Of
neighbor Of ours. because his family en-
igrsted from Cheshire. In his own
country he would not have been n states
man--ihat is very certain. (flear, hear
and laugh,er.) Buff you will 60 down
through the whole list of American
Presidents, from George Washington
their first. to Zachary Taylor, their
present President, I should like to ask
whether, il you take the whole list Of
them, they do not equal in character,
in sagacity, in patriotism, and in having
acquired and deserved an enduring
fame, that Of any prime minister we
have had from Lord North TO Lord
John Russell. Hear, hear, and cheers,)
Well, in this country, it is thought ne
cessary to have very distinguished men
men Of great and high birth--ade.
quately to represent the British Nation
at foreign courts with about 10000
"a year. (Cheers and laugh,er.)
The Americans had an ambassador
once, named Franklin-and he is man
that will be thought Of long, even after
a great many English ambassadors have
been forgotten. (Chcers.) Lately, in
this country, we had Mr.. Bancroft, am.
bassado to the United .Stales--a man
qualified in every respect TO represent
the true worth and dignity Of the Re-
public to which he belongs. We'll,
want to know whether, il you trace all
the American abassadors from Franklin
10 Bancroft, are they not fit TO stand
side by side in the page of history with
the aristocratic ambassadors which this
country has sent out TO foreign courts
(Checrs.) But now ! will 90 10 iht
American Senate. 1t is considerer
ed low on this side Of the country
to 90 into detail on this matter. 1T i
not considered quite discreet, seeing
that we live under our glorious consti'
tuition. (IIear, hear0 Now the A
merican Senate answers in some res
poets to our house Of Lords that is, ]
is what is called the upper house it i
a representative assembly, and IT con
sists of two members from each Stat,
: in the Union. 1t consists now ! be
lieve of sixty members. Bear in min
: it is an elective assembly. IT dare OF
: pose the will of the house Of Represen
l. tatives; it exerts as great on infucnc
IS over the public opinion in America. a
e the House, and perhaps greater IL
z Auence. There can be no doubt tina
" the existence OF that Senate is one
the main causes of the consolidation I
the great American confederation, m
Of the wise and very just policy whic
y on the whole. the confederation has o|
served. Look at their house of re-
u resen,atiyes. Bills in that house al
} rot passed by one fourth Of its Inembe
&c they do not come down in their viii
. waislcoais at half past eleven o'cloc
y and vote they know no, how, and ca
u no, how, so they rlease the parlicul'
man whom they suppose to be the lea
e, er Of their party. There is infinitely
k. better attendance in the Americ'
a. House Of Representatives than there
as in the House Of Commons in this cou
I'd try, and an infinitely better and mo
n real attention 10 the interests and to q
on v ants OF the constituencies.
1t, "Now look; this Republic has ex
re- ted 20 years--people said i, would n
he aist 40 months. II has had in ih
an time about four years Of war. il h
'as TO national debt. (IIear, hear The
nat is just now some four or five N
~. lions Of existing deficiency, means
at paving Of which are about TO be pro-
on ded. They do not incur debt ~i,i.o
- taking steps to pay j, of again. L
ir. from l792 TO 1918, a period Of not mc
n than 23 years. under your glorious CT
m .,tu,ion with your hereditary House
Lords, with the Commons represenii
the Lords no, the people tcheers)
have added 10 our national debt me
i've than $50 millions pounds sterling.
re- (Shame, sbsme.) In America ,h