The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-03-14

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more nearly than others, and 70 obtain ample informs
on as TO the in which this has been conducted
aud do not hesitate express the opinion that without
entire change Of system substitution Of youth and
ergy for age and decrepadeuness plan be hit
BY which merit shall be the only criterion in the hng
up Of civil and military ofces-without in fact complete
abandonment Of the claims wealth. family and Of in
In favor Of that higher nobility which the hand Of God
has impressed the forehead Of every Of taent
vain for continue the present contest and better
cep any conditions however der aiding however ham
iang since degradation and humiliation suffered the
hands Of the enemy exceed those which servt
and have inflicted, and about inic upon
ourselves"
The reader will observe that the points urged
by the Union and the Times and by the latter none
the forciby IT would SEEM because Lord Egn speech
had been greatly Wanted by number Of the British jour
nails II is such system this-a system boldly
posed by the London Tmesthat Lord Egin holds up be-
the people of Great Britain superior TO the Union
and institutions OF the United States The diseased de
cayng Anticipated fabric of the English arisocraey which
the London Times shakes its centre is the alteration of
this titled courter The frequent changes In the govern
ing classes his loyal SOUL and EFFORTS from him
burst Of triumph when he points to the system ia the
American republic where cabinet changes are, happily
rarely necessary in themselves vitality important to
great truths when they necessary But the Times strikes
at the root of the evil away the shroud from the
skeleton of arstocracy that at last sares
and alarms all liberal minds by its of life and Of
utility The Times laughs changes of cabinets scorns
the spangled few who cast down "pebean talent" and
declares that rotation of ofcehoIding lords is not
formation Of creed The withdrawal Of set of
BILE ministers only originates new procession OF the
same class, clad in the same wardrobe, marshalled
by the same empty baubles, surrounded by the
same trappings Of royalty, and following in The
same beaten and dusty track This is the language
of that powerful journal which close its eyes to
wrongs and inequalities that demand immediate atten-
ton At last tell the governing classes that
there Is people IN the United Kingdom and that talent and
worth integrity and craftsmanship the gifts Of God
and not the exclusive virtues of painted Borrow
ing the language of King Henry " the Times may well
declare of the ess arstocracy and fading royalty Of
Great Britain
''No! thou proud dream
It's not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball.
The sword, the mace, the imperial
The -tissued robe Of gold and pearl,
The fnrced title running fore the King,
The throne be sits on, the tide of pomp
That beats upon the hi I'll shore Of this world;
No, not all these thrice gorgeous ceremony,
No, not all these
will longer deceive enlightened men, conscious of their
rights and rcsolute in maintaining them
1t viii be noticed that while Lord Elgn points to the
United States as government less free and liberal than
as an example to be shunned-the
Times though in terms, indicates that that govern
constitutes the model It's very objections to the
British system many eulogie upon its American
posite While EIgin boasts of frequent changes in the
British cabinet the Times demands that the from
heh the executive taken shall be rideneds Egin con-
the elevation of batch of mobiles healthy
Improvement upon the American practicable Times
demands that "he system Of excluding plebeian talent
from office shall hereafter be discontinued, and that
in the army, at the desk and in the council those
men shall be called to the public service who are
best able the public Egins panacea for all the
evils of the British bodypolitc is the nobititythat of
the Times is the people Not only, therefore, is Lord Ell
gins assault upon the United States used by the Times 10
overthrow him and vndicate but the example Of the Uni
States thrust into his teeth the only corrective for
the present condition of British and British
society The change which the Times contempates Is
thorough and from the foundation II radical uproot
ing of the whole system Of the English arisocmcy and
looks finally elective executive and perfect system
of popular represen tation.
Rarely have statesman confident in assuming
and asserting false and pernicous doctrine Never have
arrogance and hardhood powerfully rebuked
The English people be put of with the phantom Of
reform They cannot be satisfied by the rotation Of
titled ministers They be satisfied with the gilt
tering pageant of extrayagant court Want sits by
the palace door, and will have work and bread starvation
broods in the dark alleys; and nation Of enlightened
men find themselves much excluded from the workings
English they from the mysteries
China 1t may for Lord Elgin assa the Pres
dent the United States and his cabinet ministers graft
m the existing jealousy Of the British nobility of the Uni
ted States but when the Of Great Britain that
that President from the bosom Of the peope-that
he achieved his fotunethat he had been repeatedly
elevated by his eow-ctzens high and responsible
onsthat bis advisers like himself have all the
course when they that under such President and
such cabinet there no privileged class no chartered
nobility hidden abuses that have esered for years in
secrecy no exravagant expenditures army filed with
titled f,vorii.S. hut on the contrary wjse frugal and