The freeman. (Fremont [Ohio]) 1849-1850, 1850-06-01
English and American statesmen.

made speeches in Manchester, England, in fa
vor of free trade and reform, in which they
secuted the idea of "hereditary Statesmen"
ave will take another case to show that af
ter all, these hereditary statesmen have no
great reason to plume themselves. We will
go to another country. In the year of 1875,
England had very extensive colonies on the
other side of the Atlantic. Ten years after
forwards these were colonies no longer, but
they stood forth before the world as an Inde-
pendent and growing Republic. Now, /
would like to know where America got her
statesmen from. tits quite clear that up to
1875 people in this country-1 mean Lord
North and the statesmen of that day-neverI
supposed for moment that there were any
statesmen in the colonies of America; but yet
somehow or other, they found statesmen.-I
There was man named George Washington.
loud cheers) Now George Washington was
a sort of a neighbor of ours because his fami-
" emigrated from Cheshire, in his own coun-
try he would not have been a statesman
that is very certain. Hear, hear and laugh
ter.) And ifyou will go down through the
whole list of American Presidents, from Geo.
Washington, their first to Zachary Taylor, their
present President, should not like to ask
whether, if you take the whole list of them,
they do not equal in character, in sagacity, in
patriotism, and in having acquired and deserv-
ed as enduring fame, as that of any prime min
lister we have had from Lord North to Lord
John Russell. Hear, hear and cheers. )-I
Well, in this country, it is thought necessary
to have very distinguished men-men of great
and high birth-adequately to represent the
British nation at foreign courts-with about
10000 year. (Cheers and laughter)
The Americans had an ambassador once,
named Franklin-and he is a man that will
be thought of long, even after great many
English ambassadors have been forgotten.-I
(Cheers) Lately, in this country, we had Mr.
Bancroft, ambassador from the United States
"a man who has written one of the most, per-
haps the most admirable history of his own
conntry-a man qualified in everv respect to
represent the true worth and dignity of .he
Republic to which be belongs. Wei, / want
to know whether, if you trace all the Ameri-
can ambassadors from Franklin to Bancroft,
they are not fit to stand side by side in the
page, of history with the aristocratic ambassa
doris which this country has sent out to for
eign courts? (Cheers) But now we will GO
to thr American Senate. 1t is considered low
on this side of the country to go into detail in
this matter. 1t is not considered quite dis
Greet seeing that we live under our glorious
Constitution. (Hear, hear. Now the Amer
lean Senate answers in some respects, but in a.
very slight degree indeed, to our House of
Lord ds;' that is, it is called "the upper house,"
it is a representative assembly, and it consists
of two members from every State in the Uni
on. It consists now, believe, of sixty mem
bers Bear in mind it is an elective Assembly.
1T dare oppose the will of the House of
Representatives; it exerts as as great an infu
enee over public opinion in America as the
House of Representatives, and perhaps a
greater inf1uenee.-There can be no doubt
that the existence ofthat Senate has been one
of the main causes of the consolidation Of the
great American confederation, and of the very
wise and just policy which. on the whole, that
confederation has observed-look at their
House of Representatives Bills in that house
are not passed by one-fourh of its members
they do not come down in their white waist
coats at half past IL O'Clock, and vote they
know not how and care not how, SO that they
follow the particular man whom they suppose
to be the leader of their party. There is an
infinitely better attendance in the American
House of Representatives than there is in the
House of Commons in this country, and an in
initely better and more real attention to the
interests and to the wants of the constituent
cies.
"Now, look; this republic has existed for 10
years-people said it would not exist 10
months. 1t has had in all that time, about 4
years of war. 1t has no national debt. (Hear,
hear.) There is just now some four or FIVE
millions of existing deficiency, means of pay
ing of which are about to be. provided. They
do not incur debt without taking steps to
pay it off again, But from 1892 to 1915, a
period of no more than % years, under your
glorious constitution, with your hereditary
House of Lords with the commons represent
ing the lords and not the people; (cheers) we
have added TO our national debt more than
In America they have few taxes compared
with what we have; they have not the inter
est of that enormous debt to pay; and have
not an enormous standing army and fleet to
scour every sea, and to bully and insult on
every coast-(Cheers.) They have an army
no greater than We pay for in Canada at this
moment; and therefore, they are free from
the interest of that debt, and free from the
vast amountof / or 8 millions, which we pay
annually for our peace ornaments. And
Oed[ III miHu, tnat altnouSn III America etShL
or ten millions per annum are not entrusted
to favored sect for the purpose Of instructing
the people in morality and religion-there is
no evidence to show that the people of the
United States of America are not at least as
moral and religious, and much better educated,
than the people of this country are. (Cheers)
And they have less pauperism, and less
crime than we have; and they have less of
that which is a standing disgrace to the con
stitution of England-they have less of insur
rection.
"No class of men in America ever met to-
gether, to denounce the government and the
constitution and to say that they are not fair
ly treated by the House of Representatives or
the Senate ofthe United States They feel
all of them feel-that they are as one before
the law; that their government and the law
are inst eoual and Maternal tn them sneak