Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-02-07
ms. From the London Times, Jan. 8.

Sir Henry Bulwer has Just established q consn;o,.
Gus title TO the post which he has been selected r. M
AT banquet crowded by enthusiastic New Englan.
ders assembled in celebration of their most lannon's
nversary-FoTefathers Day-he outshone even A
mencan eloquence upon American topics, and 60
piled his delighted audience with the tropes of rheo
and the brances Of metaphor. that he fairly carried
the field before him. Yet he had no easy ,asL
10 perform. Mr.. Webster had anticipated every fa
vore aPostrophe, and had led his counrymen throuob
the history of two hundred and thirty years to that
moment of pride with which the moety of a century
was closing But had Sir Henry warmed
in his discourse than he elaborated every familiar
point of transatlantic oratory, and, without dsParagng
his own allegiance, succeeded in satisfying every as.
plration of American pride In simple truth the two
speakers had straight and obvious course to rum
They could well afford 10 join hands in congratulations
and compliment. AT this marked period of history and
chronology there but civilized governments in
the world, the citizens of which could soemnze such
festival as that reported from New York and the
events OF the last two years have amply shown that
constitutional monarchy and constitutional republic
differ only IN political terms when contras!ed with mil
liary tyrannles or democratic experiments.
When NJ. Gulzot elucdated for the benefit of his
countrymen the principles of successful revolutions he
confined his illustrations 10 two examples that of En-
gland IN 1858. and in America in 1876 and be frank
~ confessed that forms of government signed little
long as the securities of good administration were sup
piled by the self denial forbearance and moderation of
the people concerned No governments can be either
or prosperous without SUBMISSION Oh lnQt-
vdua concei to the resolutions of the nations L.
gally declared There exists in the U. States, less
than under absolute monarchies. party discontinued
with the established order of affairs and the violence
OF political dissent has lately been carried 10 such
pitch as 10 elicit suggestions for the abrogation OF the
constitution itself But the great body of Americans
sound in their convictions and clear sighted in their
views T. ey have had their 10Th of April, lie
selves, and after short struggle and great deal of
noise, they declared in the theatrical riots that the
ha mr. in ell npI.
taton that the constitution should rule the country
But it was not the Declaration of independence or
the foundation of the Republic which the New Eng
landes met TO celebrate the occasion to which
refer. 1t was an anniversary more completely COM
handing the sympahes OF British Minister, and we'll
calculated TO unite in emotions of common pride the
Engshmen of the Old World and the New Two
hundred and thirty years ago, within few days OF the
time when the religious commissions of Germany were
inaugurated by the great battle of Prague, handful
of Pilgrim Fathers landed at Cape Cod from the May
flower" barque, after perilous and stormy voyage
across the Atlantic deep. On piece of rising ground
they built row of smal tenements, with common
store house between them Strong they in faith,
in hope and resolution but sraiiened their
means that when another batch of pilgrims arrived TO
share their fortunes the entertainment provided for the
romers consisted of single lobster and three fish,
and these no, caught, but purchased of the Indians
for in the whole colony there neither hook
net. The pilgrims held their own, and transmitted
their settlement to their progeny, but with tenure so
precarous that their bones buried without mark
sign, to preserve them from the dissertation of the
savages who might one day recover the ground
Such was the origin of New England-a glorious
topic II must needs be owned, for Unsuitable decla-
nation. These Al families now represented by g.
00O,0 900 souls From single port of that settlement
where neither hook net existed, there issue
annually 600 ships, manned by $4,000 seamen, to
capture the mighest monsters of the deep The capt.
tai OF the colony contains nearly 10000 inhabitants
within its walls; supports 16 daily and so weekly
nd , p,Alt
ploying 600 horses, irrespective of railways. each
OF which upon an average conveys 900 persons per
day. Such is the picture of modern Boston de-
llneated on the last anniversary of Pilgrims Day and
happy is for England and America when their repre-
senaiives unite in expatiatng ON these wonderful
statistics of awakening injuries and forgotten
echoes of Bunker's Hill
That the Americans TO their ancient stock the
qualities which enabled them to found and preserve
their system of Commonwealth, is a fact which they
may acknowledge without dispara cement of their in
trinsIc powers. They carried with them across the
ocean, not only the forms of good government, but the
principles of good citizenship They never built upon
political theories affected any change except upon
sound reasons and by sober They did not sub
stitute Republic for Monarchy in Difference to any
imaginary code OF rights antecedent recorded laws,
blu, when. in pursuance of settled convictions, they
had reluctantly renounced allegiance they made the
best PROVISIONS IN their power for administering the
Government themselves Little was changed beyond
the form of the Executive They devised no new re-
lalonS between man ana man, nor did they deem them
selves competent TO recas the frame OF civil society
They retained every Institution and practice which
could be accommodated TO Congress, instead of
King. Far from extemporsing laws, they preser-
we'd IN their reverence, the least desirable attr
butes of the DID, and have only just reformed their
system OF procedure when we, their older brethren,
contessIng like necessity, and acknowledging the
goodness of their example
These were the principles which preserved them
Amid a variety of temptations, apparently infinite
when viewed from this side of the Atlantic bu per-
haps less serious when more closely contemplated
they have always acknowledged that private opinions
must yield to the recorded will of society at large, and
that no community maintain political existence
where every citizen claims the right of promoting by
violence his own speculative conceits.
We believe Mr. Webster was substantially justified in
treating as already exploded the resent agitation for
the dissolution Of the Federal Union There is indeed
something so unprecedented in this enormous aggrega-
ton of States and Territories that ii is impossible to ar
rive any probable conclusion respecting the future
destinies OF America. The weights on the two sea-
bords are now immense that the Constitutional a-
brio must needs be exposed TO from its own
gravltaton alone. The thirteen States of the Union
have already become thEeeand thirty if not more for
they increase as we write. and there is space and
verge enough for converting the number into hundred
1t is beyond all human power to calculate the pros
pects of government TO which continent supplies
territory and another population What California is
TO America, America is to the whole world No
ample has ever yet been seen of such mighty and
inerminable confux of peoples, Ireland alone sup
plies yearly to this extraordinary State the population
of first class city San Francisco has increased
more in two years than Brghton in fifty. The treas
ure of the new territory have attracted Immigrants in
equal numbers from the two proverba extremes of the