Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1852-09-01
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Froashe Correspondence 'of the OHIO Statesman

Frouashe Correspondence Of the OHIO Statesman
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ssas.;, ,soo. LoNp y. y. August 3, 1882.
In the recent so,cnlled elections, the To
ries have Succeeded. III The history 'afthi,
realm, no Ministry ever nftde such irreck.
less efforts to- sustuin itself, tusadheJpresen
one.z ii employed mea as revolving 10. the
senses of MI who place any value upon
official integrity. or olficinF honesty. Bul
DERBY cannet sustain himself long. He
will fall within one month Tier the regular
session commences. The people Of 6 Feat
Britain are anti.proteclioniss,. and their
voice viii prevail whenever the proposition
is made TO increase-w whether direct or in,
direct-the duty on breadstufs. ,'DIsraeli
will evade as long as lie can,s the making
Of such an issue, but.it will be forced upon
him, and what then? -p psrhaps another dis.
solution. This would present the British
political system to the world in a new wlfght,
and reformation or reyolotion will be inc,
viiable. have the abiding belief that the
irresponsible ministry systen will no longer
work tremendously. II will hive to be
abandoned, or annual elections will occur.
This would secure the extension ofthe frdn.
chise probably so far as to embrace uniyer>
sal suffrage. 5if9a ssl5sF e PSF s 90
81 had no respect for the administrator,
Of Lord John Russell. 1t was insincere.
1t was even cowardly. Itwas positively
mean in lis foreign policy. w hile Palmer
ston was encouraging the friends of Huns
gary to hope for intercession in behalf of
the struggling patriots, be was wiring .des.
patches to Lord Ponsonby, atsVienna,a tell
ing him that the dismemberments Of the
Austrian empire would SO weaken the
balance of powerain En- -ope,.as to be one
of the greatest calamities that could hap>s
pen. tothe United Kingdom! He suffe red
Metternich to remain at lBrigton, when it
was known. that he was conspiring against
the French Republic, while he instructed
Sir Stratford Canning to use, his influence
with the Sublime Porte, in order that 'good
neighborhoodn mig be preserved, 10 in-.
careerate the HUI Lgarians at Kutohial But
he lef, for his successor the performance Of
the most dastardly and unjust nets that ever
disgraced civilized ;nalien.d With all its
imperfec,ions, with all lis devotion TO the
absurd doctrine oflssrule by right divine,''' :.
it would, doubtless, have avoided such a
sdisreputa6les act as thai which, h,was commit
ted by, The Derby government at the For,s
eign Office, on the :24iht of May last |
a!iude losthe P PROTOCOL, signed through
instfunenlalitys Of Lord Malmes5urys by
the FIVE allied Powers, ostensiolyssfor. the
purpose Of restoring the King Of Prussia TO
certain rights which he denied in the. Cam
ton of Neufchatel, bu: in reality for dis.
solving OF the Swiss Union, Gas established
in 1913, and striking death blow AT Swiss
liberty. In this oisgraceful affair, England
openly aespaused the cause of. bayonet rul-
ing Powers against the cause Of right, and
has. thus severed the last link which bound
her to the .yoiaries Of freedom, rs the mos.
liberal Of monarcnies, The pretext for the
deed oe infamy, was the preservation Of tie
European law, Us established at Vienna,
.in4ISl5,s And a beautiful .pre,ext il is. - -
that law has been over and over again no.
toriously both..wilfully violated. and by the
conniyance Of all the parties toit. In the in.
stance Of France in 1880, in The instance
Of Belgium, in the instance Of Spain, in
the instance of Cracow, the treaty Of VIZ
emma has been perfectly obsolete Lord
Malmesbury, asks the representative Of
Louis Napoleon to the Downing street
conference, where the official existence Of
Louis, Napoleon is expressly provided
against by The treaty Of Vienna. That
instrument s,ipulates, that the supreme
power in France shall be forever excluded
from the Bonnparte family. But might,
in Lord Derby's view, is synonymous
with even handed justice. In fact ii lis the
law that now prevails in this hemisphere,
and the British Government through fear,
perhaps, but more probably from desire
10 make itself as despotic as the more pow
efful ones on the Continent, wishes to inn
part to it all the dignity at its disposal. Its
language in plain English is, France can
do as she pleuses, because she is powerful
-Switzerlard must do as we choose, bee |
cause she is feeble. This is its doctrine, |
as relates to political morality. Let Amer.
cans remember it, and profit by it. Let
those who foresaw dangerto our generous
old xmother,n from an absolutist alliance 70
strike her down, quiei their fears. Her
liberality will never expose her 10 danger,
uEtll tti0 FOlC0 Ot IHO - iS"AN I
through the ballot-boxes. While the "no- |
bility5and gentry''ruie, she will out Herod
Herod in repressing opinions which quuesys
tiops the right of seyereigps to int1ict cruel
punishment upon the MASSES. ,T--TT p 7
% ,Wihig asnnd Democrat alike believe,
among our countrymen on this side of the
water, that the election Of Pierce, and King
is certain, beyond doubt. The oecur>
renee is, ,assuredly o desirable one, in fact,
ON indispensable one for the DEVELOPMENT Of
American power san6 influence. The Bal.
tinaofe platform is but the,perfectien OF the
platform conceived, By the mighty mind OF
Jefferson, upon which hisFdiscptss, were
to stand side by side in all coming time.
ltis The honest endorsement OIL his glorious
system. which was 10 perpetnnly bind that |
union together, Under whose auspices tsrHE
wonLDs' would be aroosed, ''soms parts
sooner,e ssoihefsslater.'5'a' but finally ALB
slo burst the chains under which Ignorance
and superstition had, persuaded them 70 bind
and TO assume the dressings and
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