The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-02-06

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Pennsylvania. Get the democracy fuddled on
whiskey, get up another whiskey instruction,
keep up the peanut and parched corn rebellion
at Erie, and amid the smoke and the uproar
| Forney may be run into the Senate. In view,
therefore, of the probable election of Forney,
we call upon Congress to remove the mint to
| New York without delay. Pennsy lvanias,
| Forney is your man But don't forget ia
nelson, and don't forget the whiskey.
The Guelphs and the stunrts-An Historical
Parallel.
The Albert policy, as it is now termed in
England, has aroused such storm of indigna-
ton amongst all classes and parties through
out the country, that it is likely to lead to the
most serious consequences. In influencing the
| Queen to exercise pressure upon her cabinet
| to further the interests of the Russian Auto
crat, and in secretly carrying on intrigues
with the German powers to thwart the de-
| cared views and sentiments of the English
people, the Prince Consort has not only COM
mitted a treason against the State, but he has
compromised the interests, and perhaps the
safety, of the Crown. He must have read i'll
| the lessons of history, or he would have de-
duced a warning from the parallel furnished
| by the conduct and fate of the Stuarts.
| 1t was this leaning towards foreign in
| 1uences, more perhaps than their religious
| bias, that caused all the troubles and finally
| led to the expulsion of that unhappy family.
1t is an error to suppose that his attachment to
| lis faith was the principal cause of James
misfortunes, for ut one period he had no more
jealous defenders than the Protestant bishops.
No. it was the besetting sin aud tendency of
his family to create civil discords, and then call
| in foreign aid to repress them, that, manifested
more strongly than usual in him, engendered
distrust and dislike in the minds of his subjects
| and ultimately led to his election, or rather
| fight, from the kingdom. The bigotry of the
epoch was not as intense as at this distance of
time we might be disposed to conclude from
the closing events of James unfortunate reign.
1t should be recollected that the Reformation
itself was as much political and social as
religious revolution. 1t was not merely against
the ecclesiastical abuses of the Church of Rome
that the efforts of such men as Luther and Cal
vim were directed but against the despotism of
its system, which chained down the aspirations
Of the human mind, and rendered it the willing
instrument of political tyranny. In enamel
pating themselves from its trammels, England
and Scotland were. therefore, naturally at
tracted by community Of sympathes towards
those States of northern and western Germany,
which, like themselves, had succeeded in throw
ing off the Papal yoke. 1t was obvious that
the true interests of the English people lay in
the close and steady maintenance of those
friendly relations in order that they might pre-
sent counterpoise to the influence which the
Church of Rome still possessed in France, Aus
tria, Spain, and other parts of the Continent.
1t was by keeping this fact steadily in view
that Elizabeth secured the confidence and affec-
ton of her subjects and consolidated her power.
Unhappily, the accession of the Stuart IA
mily to the throne of England had the
effect of completely altering that policy,
for their family alliances, and intimate relations
with the court ofFrance, rendered them at all
times ready to subserve its political objects.
During their reigDs the English court might be
said to be the centre of French intrigues and
the peace of the kingdom was perpetually dis
turbed by French intermeddling. In short,
their whole policy seemed marked by an utter
contempt for, and hostility to, the political as
well as religious prejudices Of their people.
Hence the troubles and discords in which they
were always plunged-the tragical end Of one
monarch-the expulsion of another, and the
final exclusion from the throne and kingdom of
their whole race.
In inviting William of Orange to assume the
reins of government, the English people took
care to guard against the evils from which they
had suffered, by selecting monarch whose pre-
vious antecedents insured steady perse-
verance in that line Of policy which had rem
dered the reign Of Elizabeth so glorious and
satisfactory to the nation. Actuated By ma
tural resentment against the French king for
his interference in tbeir internal affairs they
granted enormous sums to William for the
prosecution Of the war against him. Under
Anne and the first and second George similar
line ofpolicy was pursued. The English nation,
animated by the spirit Of liberty, endeavorcd to
repel not only every thing like foreign inter-
ference, but to humble despotism in every part
of Europe
Up to this period we have seen the
Protestant powers of Germany linked closely
in sentiment and feeling with the Eng-
lish people, aud maintaining firm front to the
common enemy. We are now compelled to re-
verse the picture.
The rapid development of the resources of
Russia, under Peter the Great and the recep.
ton Of that country in the acknowledged cate
CORY Of European nations, exercised an import
ant influence on the external relations of the
Protestant Courts of Germany. They became
sensible OF the growth of power which would
eventually overshadow, and perhaps absorb
their own, and they felt it necessary to culti-
vate its good feeling, even at the expense of
their ancient political predictions. The eff.
feet of this course has been to loosen the ties
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