Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-02-01
BRITISH OPINIONS.
PROM rHE LONDON rrmrs or yAsuAnr 8.


FROM TIE LosDoS rIMIs or JAsuARrs.
Sir HEsRr BuLwER has just established q conspicuous
TILE TO the post which be has been selected f At BAN
que crowded by enthusiastic New Englande assembled in
celebration OF their most famous
Day-he ousshone American eoquence upon American
topics and SO piled his audencs with the opes Of
rhetoric and the bances Of metaphor that he fairly carried
the ed before him. Yet he had no easy task to perform
Mr. WEBSTER had anticipated every vore apostrophs, and
had led his counymen through the history Of hundred
and thirty years to that moment of pride with which the
moety Of century closing. But no sooner had Sir
Henry warmed in his discourse than he elaborated every ia
mar point Of transatlantic srato, and without dispsragng
bis allegiance succeeded in satisfying every aspiration Of
American pride. RE
In simple truth the two speakers had straight and obvi-
run. They could well afford join hands in
congratuaon and compliment. Al this marked period Of
history and chronology there but civilized Govern
ments in the world the citizens Of which could soemnze such
festival that reported from New York and the Of
the last two years have amply shown that constitutional
monarchy and constitutional republic disr only in political
terms when contrasted with military yannies democratic
experiments When NJ Guizot elucdated for the benefit of
his countrymen the principles Of successful revolutions he
confined his illustrations to two exampesha Of England in
1858 and America 10 l776-and he frankly confessed that
forms Of government sgnided little long the securities Of
good administration supplied by the selden orbsar-
ance, and moderation Of the people concerned No Govern
mens can be either durable prosperous without the sub
mission of individual concs to the resolutions of the nation
legally declared There exists in the United States no
than under absolute monarchies party with
the established order Of AFFAIRS and the violence Of political
dissent has lately been carried such pitch elicit sug-
gesons for the abrogaion Of the Constitution ITSELF But the
great body Of Americans sound in their convictions and
r-sghed in their They have had their tenth Of
April, like ourselves and after short struggle and great
deal Of nos they declared in the theatrical riots that the
gistacy should rule the mob and in the slavery agitation
that the Constitution should rule the country.
But the Declaration Of Independence or the
foundation of the Republic which the New Engandss
to celebrate the occasion to which refer II was
anniversary completely commanding the sympathes Of
British Minister and we'll calculated unite emotions
Of 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
nauguraed BY the great battle of Prague, handful Of Pill
grim Fathers landed Cape Cod from the g Mayaower
barque after Peous and stormy voyage across the Atlantic
Deep On piece of rising ground they built Of small
tenements, with sorehouse between them Strong
they in faith in hope, and resolution but ratened
their that when another batch oplgnms arrived
to share their fortunes, the entertainment provided for the
consisted Of single lobster and three fish, and
these caught purchased Of the Indians for in the
whole colony there neither hook net The pilgrims
held their own and transmitted their settlement their pro-
geny but with tenure precarous that their bones
buried without mark sign, to preserve them from the de-
secraon Of the savage who might day recover the
ground Such the origin Of New England-a glorious
topic it must needs be owned, for usifabe defamation
These Al families presented by 3,OOO,o souls.
From single port Of that settlement where neither hook nor
net existed there issue annually 900 ships manned by
10000 seamen, TO capture the mghies Of the
Deep The capital Of the colony contains nearly 1885, 900
Inhabitants within its walls supports Is daily and SO weekly
newspapers and maintains $50 public carriages employing
1900 horses rrespecvey Of Railways each Of which upon
average conveys 1000 passengers per day. Such is the
picture Of modern Boston deineaed the last Annver-
sary Of Pilgrims Day and happy it for England and Anne
when their representatives unite in expatiaing
these wonderful statistics instead of awakening the Injurious
and forgotten echoes of Bunkers Hill
That the Americans to their ancient stock the qualities
which enable them found and their system of COM
monweahs is fact which they may acknowledge without
disparagemen of their intrinsic powers. They carried with
them the only the forms Of good government
but the principles Of good citizenship They built upon
political theories affected any change except upon sound
reasons, and by sober They did not substitute re-
public for monarchy in Difference any imaginary code of
recorded laws but when pursuance of
settled convictions they had reluctantly renounced an allie
gance they made the best provisions in their power for ad
mnisterng the government themselves Little was changed
beyond the form Of the Executive They devised
aons between and man, did they deem themselves
competent secast the frame Of civil society They retained
every institution and practice which could be accommodated
to Congress instead Of King Far from extemporzng
laws they preserved in their reverence even the least
desirable attributes Of the DID, and have only just reform
cd their system Of procedure when we their elder BRETHREN
conessng like necessity, and acknowledging the good
ness Of their example,
These the principles which preserved them. Amid
variety Of temptations, apparently infinite when viewed from
this side Of the Atlantic but perhaps less serious when more
closely contemplated, they have always acknowledged that
private opinions must yield the recorded will of society at
arge and that community maintain political exist
where every citizen claims the right Of promoting by yo
lence his own speculative conceits.
We believe Mr.. Webster substantially justified in
treating already exploded the recent agitation for the sso-
luton Of the Federal Union There is indeed, something
unprecedented in this aggregation Of States and
Territories that is impossible to arrive any probable con-