The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-01-22

wherc every dip II recorded, when il started when
il arrived and when it went down, with its valuable
freight into the great bosom OF the deep and say Is
count OF the English House OF Lords and House Of
Commons and described the eloquence OF Brougham.
Disraei Golden, Sir Robert Peel, Joseph Hume, and
others Such, continued he. is the British Parlia-
ment Of the present day and think, notwithstsnd-
ing all the apparent reaction upon the continent,
that the people are steadily advancing however sin
lister appear the times believe, further that the
French have gained by their forty years revolutions
believe that Louis Napoleon himself is the bind
instrument Of progress and that he is destroying that
nest of asps which have bitten the bosom Of France
80 long-l mean the Legitmists and Oreanists; and,
when he ha, done his work, he must either 20 on
ward in the march Of progress or, in the language
Of Carlysle, be " squeched" Laughter) In
Germany, Hungary. Italy, and even Russia, the spirit
OF progress is advancing that Was the condition oil
country before. and at the time Of the Revolution!
Why its population scarcely large then as that
of the Empire State to-day, and all its wealth
not great "a that OF Massachusetts now is. need
not describe how we have taken the seas under our
protection, and how the wings Of our commerce sweep
all round the globe But not only have we advanced
materially but morally. Compare the bgotry pot-
Cal and religious intolerance of the time just after the
Revolution with the general liberation of to-day Why,
even IN federal times. many Old men well remember
that the people fought each other like dogs and re-
ligious differences div led families Surely there has
been little progress. Compare the sch0olhOuses
little while ago with those Of the present day. why
there isnOt child now in the city Of New York who
could not teach the teachers of that day Our fathers
il true looked upon earth in all its be2uty-the same
beautiful heaven bent over them-they felt the same
sweet influences Of the Peiades and the belt OF Orion
but could they resolve those distant nebuls into
clustering stars7 Could they have swept the whole
heavens with the eye of science, from the horizon
to the zenith and penetrated even beyond it,
and brought down systems Of words' This has
now been accomplished. Schoolboys now could
puzzle old Franklin: and ,Icnner, and Harvey, if
they could return to earth, would be astonished at
the progress made in their respective arts. The
Iectirerthe went to pass high eulogum upon the
Ericsson invention, which no contended would con-
fer inestimable blessings upon the age. The poor
slave said he, will breathe benson upon that dis
covery for it will take of his shackles, and the arm
of the laborer will have rest have stood concluded
he upon the soil of Old England, where no slave can
BREATHE have traverscd Germany, and Italy, and
France but no where did ! find so free and hap
Ply people as in my own noble native land; and
breathe the hope, in which know every man OF
every sect and party will join, that the time is at
hand when throughout all this beautiful land the sun
shall not rise upon the master or yet upon the slave
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