Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-02-11
Free and D.spotIs Governments.

The policy Of England is standing wonder No, o,,
TO h Augusta Comte, who reconcile il with no ,,.
OF tho human mind, theological or positive
and to whose theories it is indeed greyous stumbIn.
' auu iosk Of offence, but also to another cl.s
which troubles itself very little with abstract rcve,s q,
any khu-the Ministers aud Monarchs OF tho Absolu,,
overs OF tne Continent Judging from their experience
ana representative institutions how we re,
on rom Gay to ay In this free and
appears standing miracle The right of meeting in
W tou. 'ne immediate formation OF JGcobin clubs IA,
s svmoy CT an elective Parliament which sit for six
consecutive oaths without siuso aliusion to the puiIo
ne or p'oro sal OF redvision of property III
eyes OF oregn statesmen the embarrassing NJ
from its effect and aneccdent from i,s
CONSEQUENT tor once We may permit ourselves 10 return
tue compliment and, contemplating Europe from tho W..
age ground oil our insuar position to cxnrcss On 49,,
,ssnsu wonder how, under the institutions which they
possessthe governments Of our -
carried on from day to day. Either their bumsn n.,
must DC extremely different from our type or there is
virtue III hosoiutelsm repression, and coercion which has
h'herto escaped the kecnest bnass How do th.y Get
on from year to year without giving people the opportn,v
oil saying or writing what they think and evanorsn ,h
inc OF publicity those pecant humors which are ever
uSuoB me serene constitution OF tho body poly Ia (,
that the prohibition 10 speak or write extends seIs , ~
70 thought, and that the faculty thus dies ont Gr 80, ~
or taat all mat Is done is conceived in tho spiri,
OF such perfect wisdom, that the most censorous
Of mankind could fluid nothing to cavI at II c,vi he
III the absence OF any precise TO our oue,
uoh' we can only argue on such faint anaoges as our
own form ofSovernmen Affords and these would secn IN
show that in England, ut lcas l. any long intern;s "
Parliamentary deibera.on would be attended with tho
most la'a; and anarchia consequences II Is not Ave
mohths since Parliament rose, after session in which II
thoroughly exhausted itself and the public and CO.,
through more business than Parliament VIC bo;.so
got through before There hardly subject in the Who'll,
OF GU. social and political economy which escancd ,h
range OF It's alpevacing discussions On tho oo,b Of
August Parliament left tho nation 10 reasonable nr;s,
ana eontented state from any popular mania and NOT
prey W more al the average amoult Of humbup and d.
lusion For live months We have been living under sn
pension OF Parliamentary action. and il is curious 90
=; see inc mass o. aosurdity which has accumulated
voice OF this al-poS eiful organ of public on;n;on
can dsPel Against stupidity, Gays the poet the gods
themselves strive in vain and in this country there is 10
spite OF our education and progress but one ;,sn
ton which can rescue the popular mind from the
decisions and the most papable atsurdes and eho, In
sution Is the House OF Commons IN the eclipse of This
great uniusry the public has fallen into the most
state OF mental end moral darkness Nothing ia too &C.
for II TO believe, nothing too absurd Tor it to conclude
Iherc Is an outcry against Prince ALBERT for EXAMPLE
Hall the country ready believe that he ia eomhin
with his worst enemy TO betray his wife his children ,n6
the country with which, by so many ties he 4, ;n5so,
Oily connected that he prefers the banks Of the Neya TO
those OF the Thames and is ready barter Windsor o.
borne, and Bamora Tor snug estate at the back of ,h
Ural Mountains or in some fairy region few bnnd,J
miles north cast OF the Caspian Sea- The wise NAV smI
and the serious sigh this sad instance or tho
OF human FOLLY and gulibty sensible men NAV decla;n,
against in private, and journalists write ag,ns n
but there Is but one voice that can cscuy stiI ,hi
ridiculous eFmen-snd that b voice of the Hopse If
Commons. Wv 'o VI
Then there the Minister'S Many peopls know 70 .
ronbe how much Lord Aberdeen has received for sailing
Turkey to the Emperor OF Russia II has been for months
currently reported among people who ought TO
better mat Ministry chosen for other reason than be-
cause consists OF the best OF two pates has been
gniy OF the most degrading compance5 10 foreign and
barbarous Power has been kicked into one
and out OF another and last urged to resistance
only goaded TO act 10y the frantic instinct of esperae
cowadce. II Parliament not 10 meet the Jeusion
might advanced to Poiut which would lead people to call
for lord Malmesbury back again. to savo us from Lori
Aberdeen, Lord Pamerston, and Lord Clarendon bu,
sgan ,e same 'naple recipe for English political absur
des Is at hand. What should do If we had no Par
lament TO correct like these and hundred Other.
which will DO dpeled in the first month of the seion
ana now 90 they manage in Naples or in Austria where
they have no such means Of anquizing the public mind,
suppose Tor instance arepor shopd get that Aus
MA mas uenc or the carrsnt year Of ten millions; that
'he hng naples torturng political prisoners to death
anu sends persons required to perform quarantine 10 live
under the sane roof with his galley slaye How are these
poeh'es whose fariaments are reposiug In their ya
Qua prisons to lind means Of discussing the public mind
and pointing out to ndmng Europe the soyency of The
one or the humanity of the otherY
Another use OF Parliament quite apart from ia epsa-
atTe functions ia the extraordinary stimulus which the
approach OF ia meeting communicates to the operations
ct the official class. IL is the Of man. and with nil
respect be spoken especially OF man n Office To do
as little as may be, consistently with the retention OF TINT
blessed position IL IL were not for tho annual overhaul
ing which every department IL sure sooner or later TO
meet with ~ the course Of the Parliamentary session we
apprehehd the greater number Of pacemen woudsubsde
into state Of complete quietism What on earth Is to
make paccmen work when there Ia House Of Commons
to drag them into unwilling pubictyS The sense OF pub
tic duty CLOVIS much more warmly during the session Than
IN the Vhcion aud even there arc not wanting ndi.
cations OF that revival of virtue WHICH u
with the meeting Of Parliament II he had House of
Comnons to meet at Moscow, would the Emperor of Rus
STA ever have INDUCED himself in the luxury Of mate,
rial guarantee, or have held that guarantee with 20 eo
grasp that Ia in hourly danger Of being Wrcsled from
his handy Would there be the wide spread Cortup.
ton throughout every public department IN Russia If
Prince Paskiewiiac Obliged bring In tho nrny and
Prince Menschkof the naval estints Cussach Humes
aud Tartar WlamseS Let others wonder existence
OF free government for path mediate the
lees We understand how absolute can be car.
ried on without being either exploded by tho OPINIONS
-h.ch they t1c, OF siagnang Into putreac,on through
Their own Inherent lnertness aud corruption.
4 WARNING.
Delay not hrbo your mind sentence OF fools, Dbl