The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-04-22
The Late EIss.9n la England.

sympalhss wsss 20 iIsnssly enIIslsd In 81
half of Fremont, Blad< RepubIidaeism ssd
FREEDOM" have j@ paassd ihrough he
ordeal OF an sIsstiod dthsmssIves. In. sllu.
ding to tbs even, il my mol be unirteres,ina
TO consider for a no1ent what en- English
election lie, and sbo.hHieipste in II. We
4 have had solTs 0Qsi,ies read to as|by shs
press Of that country on the blessings Of Free
dom and QUE lack of devotion 10 il, ahat,i
may be well 10 lock what sort Of an example
this "fee" and asfreedom-loving" England
holds up TO as. .of course, Englishmen have
no voteor voice in The election Of their Chief
Execaiie officers. The King or Queen, who
inherlts be crown, wields its preroga,ivss, be
he or SIP wise or foolish, virtuous or de.
bauched {nbecile or able ;--no,hing short OF
absolute Insanity can change the course Of
this inhetance. The people appear 10 be-
long to 10 re;gning family, possessing, to
be sure, Pertain reserved rights, Ssc.,) and the
power tdrule and govern them is transmitted
from onsgeneraiiou to another, precisely as
the title d landed estates or personal proper
iy. In ih selection of coordinate branch
OF the legislative power, they also have no
voice, and any new legislation or reform,
which iheyvuay demand, are therefore only
atlainable By ths consent Of body 10 the
selection IF w6e6fhey have no voice. and
which is sniissiy teyond their reach. As a
compensation for al this, however, the House
OF Commons is elective, and here some op.
portunity issfToided for the public sentiment
ofthe country to nuke iiself fel, in the ad.
ministraiion of public affairs. The appor
tlonment OF nembefs is so arbitrary and UNI
equal, that there is little justice in il, as Co.,
600 qualified voters ID one locality may have
no greater representation in Parliament than
300 voters in another quarter. But the ex-
clusiveness of The whole system is at once
glaringly shown by The fact that only little
more than half million, out of the entire
population, is allowed to vote a, all With
a population considerably greater than that
oil tho whole Gnited States, her number oi vo-
ters is but little more than that of Penns Viva.
MIA. English sympatbies were wrought up
10 The highest pitch, for the Fremont party,
which Just now seems rather more violently
exercised with tho terrible suffering of the
negroes in no, being considered cIlizens, than
with any other subleot--yet this same philan-
lhropic, freedom-lovi England refuses to
extend the right of citizenship to more than
a mere faction of her own white inhabitants.
who are of the same race, color and physi-
cal attributes as the proudest of her arisloc-
racy. f .- -
This is true type Of the negro phlan,hro-
py, whether displayed in England or Ameri.
ca. II acts on the same principle as those
heathen nations who deified inferior animals
and rendered them most reverent homage,
while millions of fellow beings Of their own
race, were left to pine in cruel bondage, and
remcrseless tyranny. So England, with the
execmve portion of her government entirely
beyondShs reach of ,he people, with enc
branch ofher legislature also high above
their heads, and with only 500, 900 of her in
habitants allowed to participate at all, and
that too, under peculiarly unfair and unjust
! circumstances, in the so-caied popular branch
OF her government, reads us long homlies
and wseps over our cruelty, because al.
thoughevery white male ofthe legal age can
exercise direct influence IN line choice ol
our snlers of every grade, we are not ready
10 extend The privileges Of citizenship to, and
recognise as our equals, some three or four
millions of different coioA an offensive
odor, peculiar characi erislics, and of an inie.
riof race. fgf s s
A noticeable feature in the laie elections
in England, is the lamentable fac, that the
mobiles, champions of freedom Great Britain
has, have been stricken down at the polls
Among OILERS les, eminent, Golden is one
of the viclifhs He is one of the few British
statesmen who have had the manliness and
courage to advocate the introduction into
Britain of some of the reforms which bad
been successfully inaugurated here, and to
attempt something really practicable and
substantial, for the benefit and freedom Of
the masses Of the British nation. Such an
offence could not be forgiven. He was re-.
al, not mock philanthropist. He studied
the welfare Of the people, not that Of few
selfish classes. He sought 10 initiate some
of the salutary examples which America ad
given, and among other misdemeanors, his
persistent efforts had rescued from imminen,
peril of starvation large bodies of his country.
men, at the hazard of diminishing the profits
of monoporzing lsndholders, and for all this,
free England has doomed him to defeat.
The British journals announce that Lord
Palmers,on sas achieved brilliant victory
in the Iats dfeSIions. The leading question a,
issue was his Chinese policy, and this has
been sustainsa. The true reason of the en-.
phaic endorsement of Lord Palmerslon BY
the British people on this question, is to be
found in their admiraiion of the aggressive
foreign policy, which characterizes him. The
accusations OF aggfessions which England
heaps ppon us are as hypocrilical as The nom.
lies on freedom she treats US to. The world
has never beheld nation more aggressive in
its spirit than England is. There is scarcely
a movemen! in The foreign policy of any ma.
ton on the earth that she does no. aim tc
influence, IL not to. control. She scans the
world from her little rock.ribbed isle, ant
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