Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1857-02-04
CoNTRAsT BETWEEN A MONARCHY AND A

/ CoNTRAsT BETWEEN A MONARCHY AND A
REPUBLIc.-The arrival of the Presidents
Message in London, has called forth the fol-
lowing observation from Democratic journ-
al, the Peoples Paper, edited by Ernest Jones.
The contrast between the English Monarchy
and the American Republic must strike with
force the most superficial readers: or
| y" Here we have an old monarchy with a
German Royal family, costing one million
pounds R annum-a national debt of 500
million pounds sterling, costing twenty-eight
millions f2 annum, and entailed by that Ger
man royal family through German wars, for
German interests; a hereditary landed aris-
tocracy, drawing rental of 100 millions year
ly, from the people; State Church, robbing
the same people Of eleven millions more eve-
ry year; poor rate equal to the revenue,
and pauper population equal to the inhab-
itants of some continental kingdoms-and
debt, royal extravagances, paupersm, poor
rates, taxation, and land rental, increasing con-
stantly. This is what we have here.
On the other side of the Atlantic, there is
a young republic, with native President,
whose salary is only $4,000 $a annum; a ma
tional debt of only f7,O00,000, which might
be paid off in one year, without the revenue
of the country feeling any material drain; /;
an income so large, that the Executive seeks
to reduce it by ten million dollars; no hered-
itary aristocracy drawing the life blood from
the peoples veins; no State Church "spoil-
ing" the people, as the Israeites were told
to spoil the Egyptians, we are informed, but
for less excusable motive; no paupers and no
poor rates worth mentioning; no foreign in
terests predominant in legislation; no war un-
dertaken for the interests of an alien descend
ed family; no decay, no decline, no threaten
ed ruin; but on the contrary, prosperity,
wealth, economy, happiness and contentment
That is what they have there.
"Why is this difference! Because in the
one country there is franchise restricted to
one-seventh of the population, one-half of
which seventh returns seven-tenths of the
representation combined with that useless,
mischevous, and ridiculous institution called
monarchy Because in the other there is
Universal Suffrage, and is republic That
is the difference between the two institutions,
as shown in their results. Could there be a
striking statement on the relative value of
the two?
President Pierce's last message, just given
to the world, presents picture of prosperity
aud good government-such as no other
country in the world can show.
"Take a case in point. Holland was once
republic; it is now monarchy. When it
was republic, it was rich, prosperous and
happy It's commerce filled the world-its
fleets swept the seas it had no debt; its treas
ury was filled to overtlowing, and its people
were the envy and admiration of the world.
1t became a monarchy, and its commerce de-
cayed; its fleets vanished; its prosperity dis
appeared; and it has sunk as low as once it
rose pre-eminent. Yon may say that the
rivalry of England produced those results
but, in the face of that rivalry, the United
States rose from small beginnings, under re-
public, while, under monarchy, Holland
sunk from consummated greatness"
A MASSACHUSETTS CHAPLAIN.-Some es-
innate can be formed of the character of the
present Massachusetts, Legislature by the sort
of man it has chosen for Chaplain. He is
the Rev. Daniel Foster, of whom an admir-
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