The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-03-13
THE EUROPEAN WORLD.

grounds ON which Johnny bases his excellent opin-
ion Of himself-He wants more for his church, the
best paid In the worid-Her professions Of State
philanthropy sincere than her church's
claim TO vital Christia nifty of her Indian
poIicy-But $4,000 English hold the one hundred
and fifty millions of Indians under her Govern
ment in subiection-The enormous salaries OF civil
functionaries there-The demoraIIzed condition OF
the British army In india likely 10 lead to reforms
New YORK, March 8, 1851.
To The Editor of the National Era:
By way of giving your readers something like
a just conception of the manner in which frontier
identity is preserved even as late as in 1851 in
Europe, | will mention that the frontier be-
tween Russia and Poland ceased TO exist from the
lst of January last, fold stylel and that the En-.
err, to the frontier of Germany, on the Prussian
side. Along the whole of that line military
custom guard is stationed already. This guard
is kept up with excessive vigilance. At q dis
lance Of every eighth of German mile there is a
military station, where guard Is kept always
under arms. At night watchfre burns at each
such station, and sentinels walk from one to the
other, meeting each other about midway. They
report to the officer at the station, and then re-
turn. Patrols of cavalry keep up q supervision
over the sentinels, the latter being well fogged
for permitting any one to cross the frontier on
their beat All persons failing to answer their
challenge are fired on. la late snow the guard
followed footprints just as hunters follow the
,racLo If n wild animal aud zach sant;nol oxroas
whose beat such tracks were found, received fifty
blows, if he had failed to give the alarm or to
fire on the intruder. All this Is done with the
view to prevent the access Of thought--knowl.
edge-among the subjects of the illustrious Mich
olas. Verify, ii costs money in these days to
shut out the progress of liberalism, il the expen-
sve precautions of the Car be fair exemplar
The hubbub against Cstholicity raging 40 vio-
lently in England for some months past as to
threaten seriously the repeal of the Catholic
emancipation act has fzzled out in unmeaning
declarations from Lord JoAu,Rs.--s., aud two or
three frivolous civil suits sgsinst eariinai Wise
man, in which his sdversaries appear evidently
bent on trading before the courts Of justice OF
the late unpopulsrity of the bull Of the Pope con
ferring upon him a spiritual title with loca
name. As yet, there is no telling whether tina
prejudice may not serve the place Of evidenc,
against my Lord Cardinal Archbishop TX
judge from the stubbornness with which vel
nigh all England has claimed for centurie,
that everything English is better than any
thing foreign, | shall not be surprised to fnd
Wiseman sadly harassed in the discharge Of thu
functions of his sacred office, by the finding o.
ignorant and sef-conceited subjects of the Queen
seated In jury boxes. He is the appontee of Q
foreign authority, which will probably prove suf
ficient with half the juries of the Kingdom to gel
verdict against him, in any case in which he may
be the defendant. You will recollect that fol-
thirty years the demagogues of the Kingdom in
and out of Notwithstanding parsons and
scoundrel pcliticians-had but to say mounseer'
to John Bull, to keep him leadable by the nose
into debt to the verge Of national bankruptcy
You must remember that to this day he glories
in his Saxon ancestry, as though they were q
breed of demigods under whose huge legs other
men crept and crawled to find dishonorable
graves, though history undenably proves that they
crouched like whipped spaniels at the feet Of q
handful Of. drunken Norman brutes That, in
fact, they were conquered quite as easily by the
Normans, as the aboriginees of this country by
our forefathers They will never learn, It sp-
pears, the lesson of the wise-to know them
selves
Why, within 80 years, to be radical in Eng
land, was to subject ones self to be hunted like
rat and all know that, in freeing themselves from
this liability, they acted on the suggestions Of re
gious fanaticism, rather than ct the demand OF
freedom or political wisdom. Even 30 late as last
month, q Jew dealer having been falsely accused
Of inducing youth to rob his employer, the
Kingdom became 80 oonvulsed over the event as
TO threaten, through quite q number Of newsps-
pers, to get up an agitation for the enactment OF
laws to take away oil political privileges enjoyed
by persons protesting the religion Of the mother
of our Saviour. Doe investigation proved the
accusation to have been maliciously and delib-
erately false. Yet all England continues to
shout, Down with the Jewsp This logged
sentiment of self-superiority il is, which makes
the growth Of sound liberalism 30 slow among
the British masses, and it's influence 30 slight on
the foreign policy Of the British Government.
can myself remember when, according TO what
one read in the English papers Of the day, the
terms absolute society" Polish serfs," "frog-
eating Frenchmen," "German mysticism" and
Frenchifcd notions,o were even more potent
than they are now, though their use by politi-
clans and the church does continue to sentence
the Kingdom to hungry bellies and crippled
trade. This, be II remembered, Is in the face Of
the fact that, for her population, England Is
cursed with more criminals paupers and infdels,
and has fewer persons in her limits who can read
and write, than in most Of the Continental
States
While England is thus governed by her really
time honored self-estimation, 1t is not wonderful
hat she should abuse the church Of Rome round
y for daring to strike blow at her church. BY
The bye, IL IL proposed to raise by voluntary sub
'cription, four millions sterling per annum for
he home clergy Of the church The demand IN
made to settle more curates, and to increase the
pay Of many OF those already settled. Even
hough essayed In the name Of the branch OF the
,hurch Of Esgland notoriously well nigh starved,
i 10 suprsmsly impudent
The aggregate paid To the clergy Of the church
Il Rome, with her charge Of 200 0OO,Ooo souls,
= not n much ~ the English hierarchy receives
nth its congregation OF 100000, oil told ! or
his revenue, the Protestant Archbishop Of Can