The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-06-19
WASHINGTON D. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 10. 1856

the distinguished position he took up in the
late Conferences at Paris. On the whole, / can
not doubt that the liberal sentiment of the Uni
ted Kingdom is, at this moment, profoundly
grateful to the Wings, for the part they have
played since the Hamilton Seymour converse
| tions. l have full faith that the ultimate YER
dict of public opinion will be, that the present
Cabinet, in opposing the Cars designs, added
chapter to their party history, which will
compare not unfavorably with that which tells
of the Revolution of 1858, and the struggles BY
which it was subsequently consolidated and es-
tablished with that which tells of their opposi.
ton to the American war, and to the French
war of 1898; and with that which details their
brilliant efforts in behalf of progress and re-
form at home, and constitutional principles
abroad, during that long period of peace which
elapsed between 1915 and 1854.
L therefore conclude that it is too soon to
declare that the reign of the British aristocra.
cy is quite over and if anything has been cal
culated to suppress public Indignation against
that small portion of their body who declared
| themselves Philo-Czarian from the first, it has
| been the knowledge on the part of the British
people that they need not go far to find the
| spectacle of a Democracy with Russian SYM
pathies much stronger, much more overt. and
much more inexcusable. : 1 agree with every
| respondent, who dates from Norway. That
correspondent, speaking of Europe generally,
bears evidence to the disgust excited among
| the Liberals of every European nation by the
| frigid neutrality with Russian leanings mani
tested by some of the revolutionary leaders in
Europe, and the far more positive sentiments,
| amounting even to enthusiasm, which have
/ characterized the American Democracy.
can corroborate your correspondents asser-
tons as especially true of the the British Isles.
Were every person as candid as your Scsc.nd,
navlan friend, and as you permit me to be, they
would declare aloud, that if Despotism has
been the chief sufferer by the events of the last
three years, extreme Democracy has earned
the next largest share of dscredit. feel only
too acutely the points Of the bright new weapon
which the Wings and Moderate Reformers Of
Britain have by them for future use against the
Universal Suffrage men and the pure Demo
Gratis OF that part of the world.
vi the two old charges against the American
| Democracy-ts love of Slavery and It's love OF
Manifest Destiny-the first was getting rusty
and stale, and the second was always rather
blunt The newborn love of Czarism will be
far the most effectual javelin to hurl agains
the hydra-headed monster, Democracy. 1t will
rankle in the gizzards of the Universal Suffrage
men for many year to come. / wish them
joy of it,
| If the advent of the Democratic Millennium
seems yet far off, let not he friends of Human
Progress in America despond. Pure legiti
mate Absolutism and pure Aristccracy were
never SO cowed and SO dispirited as at present
The LIBERALS of Europe, the Constitutional
lists proper, were never more confident, more
aroused, more sympathetic, more conscious Of
their mission. In l84S, it seemed for mo-
ment that the near future belonged to the Re-
publicans of Europe, to the party of pure De
mocracy. This was deceiving phenomenon
In 1856, it is very plain that the friends oil
progress must place their main reliance upon
| the party that fills the space that lies bet,cee,
| the Red Mountain of Jacobinism and the White
Mountain Of Legitimacy. Yours, &C.,
pIYNoTrTu