American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-10-10

VINO Originateu the WOrlu rdH' AAS F~-O
who figures most conspicuously from the weight
of his position in getting it up, athough NOT
technically, is virtually royal parsonage Ills
technical position is that of prince; In erect
his position, in some things, must oe royal
And he appears to understand pretty clearly
the metes and bounds within which he can
efficiently move, where it would be perilous to
throw himself athwart the way of the ministry,
and where he may with safety encounter their
repugnance. The persons with whom he con-
suits are, doubtless, earnestly attached to roy
atty, and believe that monarchy is the greatest
good in government that can bless the human
race but they may be so far liberal as to re-
as that of Great Britain. Indeed this is the
beau ideal of excellence in human government
in the Judgment of the majority of the monarch
lists of Great Britain. Many Of the tories are
as downright aristocrats as Metternich OF
Schwartzenburg, or the present impious and
peridious emperor of Austria. They are your
physical-force men, by way of eminence. The
Caligulas, and Neros, and Tiberiases, are far
preferable in their view to a democracy of any
sort.
However amiable Prince Albert may be, it
would be according him transcendant merit to
suppose without transcendant evidence that he
believed any country of the globe to be capable
Of successful competition with Great Britain,
even in the utilitarian arts. Englishmen Of the
higher class are so accustomed to regard them
selves as superior in every thing relating to man
ufactures, commerce, naval science, and art
generally, to all other nations, that they GER
tainly did not look to the Worlds Fair as scene
on which any equal, much less any superior,
should appear in any Of these respects And in
general, it is evident from the well-known facts
attending the entrance of the Americans on the
arena-the exultation ut our anticipated de-
feat, and the GOODNESS and silence of the French
journals-that none Of them had admitted to
their own minds the probability Of American
success against the austere and complacent En-
glishman, s'stuck DER with titles and hung round
with strings Or the polished and bowling
Frenchman full of recollections of Napoleon
victories and oblivions of his defeats-or the
proud Spaniard who remembers only that he
expelled the Moors from Spain, but was, with
numerous physical advantages to keep his
ground, himself expelled from North and South
America generally.
But when the Americans in this great mental
and mechanical strife peTe not beaten--when
Great Britain, justly famous for her agricultu-
raj improvements and long used to the cultiva-
ton of grain, and particularly wheat, produced
nothing in the first Of all arts to equal the Vir-
ginia reaping machine-when Russia and
France, those military powers that have dis
turbed all the continent Of Europe and part of
that of Asia with their wars, brought forward
for exhibition nothing in military weapons COM
parable to the revolvers of Samuel Colt, of
revulsion of feeling and opin-
ion must have ensued among all the rejecting
individuals OF those countries, which an ANA
teur of human passions might feel curiosity
to examine. When the yacht America so far
excelled the numerous yacht squadrons of Eng
land, some misgiving of British superiority in
the art Of ship-building, or of navigation, or of
both, must have crossed the minds even of
English nobility and continental patricians. To
this description Of persons, we cannot be far
from the truth in saying that, on this occasion,
the words of Homer, portraying the emotions
of the suitors when the Ithican Chief drew the
bow and threaded all the mazes Of the ring,
were almost universally applicable:
"A general horror ran through all tho race:
for most useful as we believe the great Ex-
1ibition 10 have been in the diffusion of truth
md the correction of prejudices, we are ut the
urthest possible remove from believing with his
Mr.. Abbott Lawrence, that call that
nations require to be friends with each other is
intercourse" We would say with him most
cordially, "let us maintain peace and good will
amongst each other, for we believe it is the
interest of all to maintain peace !" but the pas
sions of men assuredy for the most part have
been and still are predominant over an enlight-
med view of their interest. II is no mans real
interest to commit o crime, but how many do
We see who yisaa 10 temptation, lie, steal, de-
raud, are iie, revengeful, extravagant, &C.,
when On enlightened view of their interest must
alphabetically teach them that they are acting in
to its dictates. There is no Sc
curity TO honest men but to believe all possible
evil of evil men, and to act with promptitude,
decision, and energy in that behalf" The prin-
ciples Of mercy and of Kindness indeed must be
exhibited toward the gailty, but social wicked
ness must be opposed by physical force if we
would preserve the good order of society. And
what cannot be done by nation within its own
jurisdiction, cannot be accomplished by it in its
relations 1t requires power to
stand erect in the presence of power.
We have gained respect by the exhibition.
All intellectual men must see the false estimate
that calumnious monarchical journals, teeming
with falsehoods and misrepresentation, have
caused to be put upon our mechanical and mem
tai position. Good and wise men from different