The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-09-15


him, because they elected him Obedience is
thus gwen to a principle--the principle of or
der 10 Is the same in Great Britain under
another form. The constituencies elect the
House OF Commons the House If Commons
decides who shall be minister. and the Crown
sanctions the object of their choice for the
royal veto is practically dead letter. Thus
the English also obey the principle of order
and even those who demand TO be admitted
into the constituencies by the extension of the
suffrage, seek that end peacefully through the
channels Of the Constitution. The bases then.
of both the Governments of the United States
and of Great Britain are democratic. and both
guaranty rational liberty through that spirit
Of conservative obedience which is equally re-
moved from servility or despotism-the willing
obedience, which is the sheet anchor of order.
Thus the people of the two countries are iden-
tilted, not only by race and blood, by CON-
mon language and common literature, but
by the recognition of a fundamental principle
OF social organization. Such people then, it
may be inferred, have common mission. which
they con only execute by an unbroken ALI
ance; and an international union between
Great Britain and America is as important 10
the welfare OF mankind at large, as is the Fed
eral Union among the several States TO the
permanency and grandeur of the trans-Atan-
tic Republic
We address these remarks in a conciliatory
spirit to those enthusiastic or turbulent politi-
clans on both sides of the Atlantic, who take
delight IN sowing the seeds of discord between
the two nations, and blowing the Goals of war
IL this be done from malignity, or from love
OF Dragging, 1t Is very contemplate or very
silly; If it be prompted from a real and ear
nest desire to come to actual blows let us con-
slider the consequences. No one, of course,
supposes that either nation could exterminate
the other, or that the result of the contest
would be to blot out both from the face of the
earth the worst that could happen would be
the infliction of mutual injury Let us then
suppose that success (f We may prostitute the
the term) we're equal on both sides that Amer
lea razed Liverpool and Manchester. to the
ground, and that England left New York and
Boston heap of smoking ashes. These gio-
nous ~ exploits being achieved both parties
would probably conclude an honorable peace.
having In so Christian a manner indicated the
pretensions of their respective flags Then
would come calm reflection We pass over the
returns of killed and wounded, and the list of
widows and orphans but look only to what
John Bull calls the pounds, shillings, and pence,
and Brother Jonathan, the almighty dollar.
The exhnguished cities would have to be re-
built but 1t is evident that the money ex-
pended for that purpose would have doubled
them in size, had war not occurred Need we
say that such conflict would throw back civ
illzatlon half century, at least and can the
two most eminent mercantile communities in
the world contemplate such a result without
horror? Cannibals made war on each other
that the victors might feed on the vanquished
early feudalism made war, to make slaves OF
the conquered; royalty and despotism have
made war from ambition and the lust of do
minon; but surely these are precedents that
the enlightened representatives of the Anglo
Saxon race should sternly repudiate for it is
their mission to WELD pen rather than q
sword, to enlighten the mind not to slay the
body, to spread the arts of peace on the wings
OF trade instead of ravaging the earth by fire
and steel
The world has passed through various pro-
gresslye or probationary epochs in its advances
to civliization-nomadio and pastoral, purely
agricultural, internal trade, foreign commerce,
manufacturing--andt the tendency of all has
been TO increase production and facilitate ex-
change; and for what end To add to hu-
man happiness, to link distant realms together,
to annihilatc the geographical boundaries Of
mountains, rivers and seas, too often made the
pretext, by worthless politicians, of establishing
the doctrine of natural enemies, and to bring
the whole family of man into the common
temple of universal brotherhood Then men
will love their neighbors as they love them
selves; the end Of our creation will be accom-
pshed here below, and commerce will have
spread Christianity over the habitable globe
ko.,
mitted to excel in art and science, and to whom
mercantile aptitude has been specially impart-
| ed; that aptitude characterizes the Anglo. Sax
on race, and the nature Of the gift they have
received indicates the nature OF their mission
Woe to those who interrupt or postpone it
execution. J. ID.
We have great satisfaction in announcing b
our subscribers that an article from the pen q
our distinguished correspondent, J. d., will ap
pear monthly in the National Era--his ain
being to demonstrate philosophcaly the advan
tages derivable by the world from cordial
union of the entire family Of the Anglo. Saxon
race. Ed Nat Eral
Mr.. FILLMoRE's ADMINISTRATION By q
Wing Wing party in New York seems
TO be Us irreconciably distracted as the Demo.
cratic party of that State. elimination and
recrimination between the opposing sections
bespeak an entire absence Of harmony among
them The Albany Evening Journal of the
5th instant gives it's opinion of what the Ma
ionni inteiiigeneer styles the "late wise and
honest Administration of President Fillmore -
I" In the death Of Gen. TAYLOR, his political
heir Mr.. Fillmore, succeeded to the estate, and
like the prodigal who succeeded Gen Harrison,
rioted away the inheritance. No spendthriit
ever wasted bis patrimony moro recklessly
than did Mr.. Fillmore scatter what had been
70 diligently gathered by the Wing party The
cormorants who claimed to be Fillmore s
friends went into scramble for spols
with as little regard for his character us for
the general welfare
SO rampant was tho dissipation, and so
rapid tho consumption, that before Mr.. Fill:
more was in power two years, Vermont was
the only State in the Union left to the Wing
party. They snatched and grabbed like beg.
gars at u feast Among them all, we doubt
whether he had an unselfsh friend Il is GER
tain that the one nearest to him was the most
rapacious Of oil. SO far, indeed did that
horse-lcech push matters, after Gripping the
Administration by elbowing himself into the
Cabinet, that Mr.. Fillmore WAS required To on
ter into the most dsreputable huckstering 10
obtain for him. liic-lcase Of judicial office "
The weight Of evidence docs not favor tho
Inteiligenes's view of the Silver Gray D Ad-
ministration.