Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-01-27

"ifteSS -ttat ttic>t COtOuleS Will nor Dc greatly
the gamers BY commercial intercourse in
which they will participate more largely than
aay body else-not having in themselves the ma
terial OF manufacture, grains. hreadstnffs on the
ono hand' while they have the timber, tho coal
aud the FISH IT you pleass on the other"
MIR lngersOll closed as follows:
1t has been said by the Chairman that we
speak one language. A tie can scarcely be more
extended than this by the social intercourse which
We happen 10 lave. by facilities ia the course of
busiuess-ay all who make us the same except |
the disiaure o. paee-by the frame of our gov
eFnmeHts, founded alike on constitutional free |
dom. one undivided people. trust in sentiment |
and heart we shall continue to the end of time,
aai whenever circumstances shall render it ne
eessary for one to come 10 the assistance aud re-
hei otthe oth,r, we have done in those iustan-
cas upon tde ocean at the savage banks of Congo
is have seen them illustrated where
ever occasion called them forth-sha see
them illustrated to the end of time-when
You. |. and all will rejoice In flesh, one
brotherhood. one friendship between Great
kritaiu aud the United States of America. Jap
plause.)
Tue chairman then to propose the sshealts
OF the Right Hon. tho Earl of Derby" a toast
which was received with immense applause. In
proposing the toast. the chairman alluded to the
transcendant oratory of the noble lord--to the
high offices he had held in England and also to
the tact, that Lord D srby had visited the United
States many years ago in order to make himself
acquainted with the people and with the govern.
msnt OF this country.
The EARL of DERBY in responding said
Gentlemen, perhaps may be permitted to
say a lew words upon the subject of that body
with which You have identified this evening,
the body of which have the honor of being an
unworthy member, to say few words upon
that i.,siy. which is, conceive, important aud
essential part sof the monarchica constitution of
this country, Aud | say it rather, because say
1t in the presence of honorable gentleman
with whom | am proud to acknowledge the friend
iy relations which snbsst between ourselves,
hope may say between countries, with
whose institutions that body would be highly in
,eogruous, aud in whose institutions accordingly
it Il IDS place.
And, yet, gentemen in that country, in that
great republican, that rising aud rapidly ncreas-
Jag empire may call it, But empire
without emperor hear)-in that growing
that immense republic, we find that the wisdom
and the foresight of the great and illustrous
founders of that constitution, land greater and
wiser men have seliom appeared upon the pub
lie stage of history found it incumbent, even
in the first flush of the triumph Of popular feel
Tag. 10 interpose some barrier between immediate
Legislation and the direct reflection of the popu-
lar will. True it is, they had not, and if they
had, it would have been wholly inconsistent with
their institutions an hereditary chamber but
they supplied in different manner, wisely
adapting it to their own institutions and system,
n barrier interposing between the direct repre-
sentative institution and the legislation of the
country, founded upon the elective principle wise
y adapted to their institutions founded, al
thong h upon the elective principle, yet with
different basis, and representing different class
81 interests; and it is singular enough that the
great countres-now may say, almost the
only homes and refuge of liberty throughout the
worl--these great countries under which, with
diversities of institutions and diversites of hab-
it's there exists at the same time great unior
nifty OF principle, and a great similarity and
Identity of laws of ianguage-that these two
great countries should have formed their coust-
buttons starting from precisely opposite points OF
view.
Ia this country the rights of the people md
the liberties of the people have been of slow and
tardy growth. We started from the other end
Of the scale, with almost unlimited monarchcal
power. aud aristocratic and fe,ldal power of
toundess extent. BY slow degrees the rights of
thu people. ms the enlightenment of the country
proceeded, have risen their way, and acquired
their due preponderHnee and they have attained in
this country that state in which will venture to
state that. not except the great Republic of the
United States, there is country in which a
hrser measure of rational liberty is enjoyed than
that of which have the honor of being native.
fAppIause.l We have reduced, in this country. |
the power of the crown and the power OF the no.
bIes to an amount which deprives the one and the
other of all offensive power of all offensive privi
iege. (hear) and leaves them only much infu- |
TO steady and balance the machine of the |
Constitution, and prevent the rapid and constant !
fluctuations that might arise from the uncheck- |
ed exercise OF the immediate popular will. ZAP
plause.)
Now starting from the other and opposite
point, let us look to the great example of the
tmblic of the United States. Injustice-I don't
i,sstate to the word--led to resistance; re-
sistsutce led to revolution; revolution le to the
fall enjoyment and full of the popular
principle and popular rights; and yet 10 the very
flush of triumph and success, when some
might have been pardoned in INDUCING a
spirit congenial to the feelings of tho country
and which had acquired so great triumph, the
fsr-seeing statesmen ofthat day foresaw it would
be necessary certain extent to check the
predominanee OF that purely popular influence.
AMI to iterpose--not, indeed, that they borrowed
from the mother country --hnt interpose some
check which, would tendas balance to the con-
stitution, and counterpose and equivalent to
the House of Lords in the mother country as far
as sHc1i equivalent counterpoise. a
Gentlemen, much, doubt, may be said against
the doctrine of hereditary succe ssion. aud more
especially hereditary legislation. Yet, let me
be permitted to observe in retere nee to a word or
two which fell from the President this occa-
sion. He has quoted one instance in which the
example OF the father is wholly lost on the
son; and some eight and twenty years
ago le1-a much youngersrnan-to visit |
that Republic which he has likened to an infant |
Hercules; my iuheriting his fathers de-
sire. has visited TINT matured Republie--there |
ssen the rapidity of the growth OF the insttu- |