The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-10-23

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ON government and people. Not content with in
weighing France into coalition Of fleets and policy for
the Gulf Of Mexico thsy must brand an expedition Of
sympathiziDg republicans, made against the worst DEF
Potsm in the world, act Of piracy, and call the
parties pirates 1t Is to be hoped that Congress-
to sit will do this subject justice Englands
ample might be used against her but that srgu-
ment ct all There was invasion Of Cuba, aud homicide
in open battle but no piracy As for the victims Of
It is the first republican blood shed for long time to
the shout Of Long live the Queen ~ As for Nsrciso
cite and Kosciusko His glorious life consummated
bya death more glorious In rita adj ad
that they SHALL falsely explain the great prosperity of
the United States They deny that prosp srity
which the world calls superiority. Thanks to Full
Mccormick hobbs and Hoe They dare not attribute It
to the republican form Of government for that teaches
their creature governors their agentsthat they
can set or pull down the that their
welfare is the only object In short
the converse OF the whole monarchical system Is laid
down in the Declaration OF Independence The monarchs
Of Europe attribute prosperity to the religious char
ncter OF the people, 20 the remoteness of America
from Europe or to the ADelo-Saxon race, or to the
sparseness Of population and abundance land They
say that to some or all OF these indebted
for what we are On the contrary il Is TO Of these
but it is to democratic repubiicansm-to our sys-
TEN of government State and Federal ba,ed upon the
foundations of universal suffrage and universal eligibility
to office 1t had here either oligarchy England
constitutional NOR archy, in Sardinia despotxm
Russia Prussia and Austria we should still have
occupied the briny strip Of land which shirts the At
lar tic ocesn-we should have been feeble people We
she id have passed through the saue pulling infancy
centuries hence we might have bossted the same de-
crspitude. We should be Jealous overmuch If we
and elsewhere explained the difference of our Do
liticsl and social condition. 1t is not any expla-
nation at all to attribute our superiority to that
cause. 1t is equally untrue that the remoteness Of
Europe from America has anything to do with the
cessful working Of democratic Institutions The distance
has sbrupk to nothing, ard all Europe is here In the
nesh millions OF As to the ApalO- Saxon
race those apccrypha superiors among men, they are
only one single ingredient Of our population, which is
an American mixture of all the races descended from
Eve and Adam Nor will 1t do to attribute this pros
perity to abundance Of andfor there is Russia
OF fourth Of the world and the psriest specimen
Cove rnment in existence Autocrat ording 1t
bepghted horde Of slaves, and slaves of slaves The
1t comes from the Of the people without whose
presence caste will always corrupt and individuals
betrsy We have Infused int everything the 10
tegrity and wisdom Of the whole people, and have
thus excluded the predominance CT any section We
have located the action OF universal suffrage within
smell limits and we consult 1t eften about who sha
hold Office and whether the laws shall be continued
or new laws be made, and every poor mans child
Is eligible to the Presidency We have not consoli-
dated into few hands ut great capital government
many millions of people and inuite extent Of territory
but the Union presents confederation of sovereign
States beginning with thirteen and embracing
thirty one, under system which does impair tn.
independence OF any while IL Is capable Of indefinite
extension This two fold system Is the palla iium of
American liberty, the secret Of American greatness
The States suboivded generally into lits districts
controlled by universal vote and the confederation
simple sssembage of these States in such way to
insure equality OF rights and legislation within aud
undivided front without by Of federal govern
melt. IL is not only to correct about our
system that these explanations given, but is Is
to recommend the tsme system for the European
editce about to DO constructed on tbs ruins
Of the present. The democratic republican form
OF government, Is the only one, now by which any
thing stable can be made to succeed the impending
revolution Men called upon do the fight
ing and they will do IL n thousand times better they
CAlled to the ballot the
to choose and be chosen for Office When the separate
States are orgsnizcd on universal suffrage and on
the American model then the German confederation
can be constructed without any dificulty There IL
nothing TO do but to transplant federal system into
the heart OF Europe Germany has the dive ites
Of soil climate, Of tongue and race Of creed and
school, the United States She IL divided into several
natonaites ntsrsected by rivers nd bounded also by
and lakes and mountains She is well ada ptei
we for the system Of Of sovereign state
and universal suffrage. With such political system,
Germany would soon realize the social reforms and be-
come study and manual for other nations She would
be the strong and greatbut infinitely free, aui
enlishtened and happy Germany, which outlved the
Roman empire and has Contributed In the middle and
subsequent ages much to civilization The theory
applies to England Italy, Poland Portugal and Spain,
Russia Austria and Hungary. Few know how much,
but all admit that the foreign emigration has given much
to the success Of democratic institutions We deep
indebed TO the sturdy strangers who seek shores
They furnish 1000 souls day by emigration alone 20
numbers at the single port New York and the total
hux Is nearly half million year This IL invaluable
tide a people; but when consider that each brings
with him, an will have accumulated during his life
fund OF two hundred dollars have hundred mil
lions annually added TO stock Of wealth perhaps
much as one sixth the product Of land and labor
both and one hslf Of all annual experts The vast
pubic works which meet cur eye everywhere artificial
man outstrip- the wind and nulples his natural pow
tts Of ocOmotion aud transportation. for the most
part their trophies They have blessed the land with
tnsir abors and they have seated themselves that
share which belongs by honest acquisition TO themselves
and their descendant They add to the comforts aud
the arguments OF life. They dhcharge public and
private functions wen Their children ara competitors
fer the foremost places in the state and in society
Their soss graphic with all the professions and their
daughters the circles II usefulness and
most valuable and Indispensable population are the
Foreigners, especially the Irish and Germans Ana
then we must remember. or II not they should remind
us that by the diversity Of origin and habit
longer q Homogeneous but have become n mixed and
most peculiar people who from that circumstance alone
are bound TO duties OF more general and Responsible
character In the family Of nations than any nation
und'r heaven We what are II Is true by virtue
Of original and wonderful political institutions but also
by the processes Of emigration retirement and
turalization as much almost by oyr own increase
This Is a totally novel and grand and Triumphant exps
riment crowned with perfect The Union IL
more than confederation Of ipary states II Il Con-
gress of all nations In most liberal This is with
out example and rsquiTes tina; the old circle Of ma
homogeneous and alien 10 Europe Il would stu
be the duty Of over twenty millions OF republic TO
promote republicanism throughout the world by pre-
cept and example by aid and sympathy; but that duty
n made imperative, when, In addition to numbers
consider the mixed nature and origin Of people
dearest relsves have suffered from the lash and the
scaiold fer political offences. or pine whhn prison
walls, or ON prison bounds-now alas made cotef mi.
nous al over Europe with the frontiers. There Is .
permanent conspiracy Ct monsrchs against The people
Of Europe They marx state after State, city after
city, for destruction. They have destroyed Polsnd
Hungary Italy Germany and Hamburg Walls.
CHA kodsyis. They are in the act Of crushing
Lubec and Bremen. The Holy Alliance under the
Czsr, have declared themselves In perpetual session
At Warsaw and their sudscity has got TO suca pitch
that they propose 70 attack next spring the republics Of
Western Europe. France and Switzerland. The object
Of the attack Is not 20 much men institute Their
adviser and treasurer would rot like 10 diminish her
cusomers BY wholesale destruction Ct the humsn race
but England knows full well that her existence Is
at stake Nothing prolopg IL except the destruction
Of the principle OF republication In France, and upon
that destruction abe Is decided She lends money aud
gives counsel and courage TO all the external enemies Of
that great republic, while she Is fomenting within
the most osthscme and infamous conspirscy-her mi.
MISTER ts head England thinks 20 dig the grave Of
pubcsnsm In France and get OF from her speedy
obstruction by launching with her fee into
Intervention and possibly with the United States,
about Cuba She hopes much from the violence Of such
struggle IL England does not get rid Of France aud