Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-09-23
1 Mr.. MAcaulrr's ELEVATION 70 THE PEERAon.-


the man, and which is fitting If not an adequate
return for life spent in the public service, and de-
voted to literary labors Of the most dgniied order
1t is much TO say that he is the most popular author
Of the day, but we have to say more. Witha style
tina, compels attention, with calm wisdom that
commands assent he has interpreted English histo-
ry to ourselves and to the world To US the history
which he has indited is worth q score Of charters
and CARLOAD Of laws; it s our Bill Of Rights and
our code OF political duties We know better what
We are, We know what our fathers fought for, we
can sympathize with the aspirations of wings, we
learn to respect the endesvors Of tories, we are less
of partixans and more of patriots To Europe that |
history ia worth all the constitutions that have yet
been devised. 1t has been translated into many Ian
guages and widely read over the continent. Who |
does not remember the appearance of these volumes
in that year of revolution when all the peoples OF
Europe we're maddening with fury about thrones
with profound gratitude that, amid the universal
wreck, Engishmen saw, as the historian described,
how in their country liberty came to be linked with
order, and contentment and fraternity were made
consistent with the inequalities of an aristocracy.-
If it was lesson which shall never forget, it
was lesson also which, we have little doubt, will
one day bear fruit in every kingdom in Europe ma
king sovereigns more wise, and making subjects
trembe for that crisis Swallowed forth by the hsto-
rian, in which it may be necessary 10 sacrifice
even liberty in order to civilization" In this
view if we except Lord Palmerston there is proba-
bly, not an Englishman living who has more power
fully influenced the destinies of Europe than Mr..
Macauly and, for his influence upon ourselves,
those who are fond Of quoting the hackneycd say
lug Of Fletcher of Saltoun would have. stronger
and ineligible if they would give the pre-.
ference the maker of laws to the writer of
ballads, but to the philosophic historian who leaves
his mark as papably as the great author whom her
Majesty is now about to honor
There can be no more welcome edition to the de-
bates of the upper House than the orations which,
we trust, Mr. Macauy will occasionally contribute
on the few great occasions by which the Lords eve
~ session vindcate their position. Although at
one time he took prominent part in the discus
sions Of the House of Commons his tone Of thought
and style of speaking quite suited to the
bustng representatives Of the people. 1t is in the
lower house that cabinets rise and fall; that public
moneys disposed Of that the chief business of
the people is transacted. The members thus
too strictly occupied with passing affairs, too intent
upon the result of division and the fall of party,
to much for philosophy or history, even if the
philosophy be adorned with all the eloquence Of
Burke, and the history be presented with all the
briancy Of Macauly.
But, while the Commons are all for the present,
the other hand prescription is the vital air Of the
Peerage, and in the House of Lords our phlosophic
historian will find an appropriate audience for that
stately coquence which carries with it so much
learning and so much wisdom. Especially at the
present moment must rejoice at his elevation, in
the hope that when we have crushed this Indian
mutiny, and the time comes to consider calmly the
future of our Eastern Empire, the views Of one who
has described in most glowing terms how England
became possessed of that glorious prize, and who,
in the preparation of Code of Indian Law, has
shown that he has most profoundly studied the
wants of the Hindoo will be expressed as he alone
Of living speakers can express them Not only on
our Indian difficulty, but on all questions of high
policy, there is not man in the country whose opn-
more gladly heard. A historian is a statesman on
his travels; and whi.o Nr. Macauly will still travel
from century to century and from country to coun.
try, we may expect now to have him sometimes at
home with US, giving his advice i'll the present need
AMERICANS ruling AMER1CA.-The Baltimore Re-
publican, paper which is gallanty fighting, single
handed and alone, against the egaized rufiahism of
Baltimore draws the following picture of the state
OF affairs i'll that city. The story is told evidently
more in SORROW than in anger it is the protest and
the prophecy of peaceful citizen who has the in
teress and Happiness of his nome and neighbors
deeply at heart, and who feels the degradation into
which that home is rapidly hurrying:
We nave in our midst regularly organized associ-
atoms, with constitutions and bylaws, which We
might fancy copied from those that controlled
the organization Of the Holy vehme." Among the
provisions Of these rules Of government is oath
binding them to defend and uphold each other
der all circumstances. and to resent injury and in
suit to the extent of the powers with which they
endowed. The laws Of their clubs are held su.
perior to all other laws. and the oaths more obiigu
tory than all other oaths
Our municipal officers, from Mayor down to lamp
lighter, our sheriff, prosecuting attorney and juries
are generally, no doubt, members of some Of these
clubs. They are least, all members of the sworn
order of Know Nothingsm, which is the prototype
of these clubs They are all bound by their COM
pact to assist each other-hat selfstyle respecta
BILE portion of these clubs being under equal obliga
ton to the verest rufian among them, those ruff
| fans are to each other.
| When we remember these facts we ask in all cam
dor, what opportunity have those opposed to this
order of receiving justice, when the antagonism is
between them and q member of the ordery But
| one answer can be returned-none whatever. Their
lives and property are wholly at the mercy OF ruff
| ans who feel secure from punishment because the
law and the Offices in the possession of their
1 sworn confederates! Can any one doubt at this
day that their dependence these confederates is
entirely stable, and founded upon reliable grounds?
We can hardly think SO, for the past is replee with
proof that they have always thus far received this
protection. 1t is apparently futile for to cite in
divdua instances to substantiate this assertion for
such instances are numerous, and so well known to
citizens that it is but waste Of time to present
them here. Instead of doing so we will ask to be
shown . single instance where member OF that
party-a Know Nothing-has been punished for
high crime in this city. We cannot recolect SIN
! gle case ...
And this, forsooth, is a sample of Americans
| ruling America" Better be the slave of horde of
South Sea cannbals than under the forms and in the
name of liberty to suffer the msrule of such gang
| of reprobates Retribution will come yet with the
sharp and authoritative logic of declining commerce,
decaying wharves, idle ships deserted warehouses
and the rretrievabe loss of the confidence and re-
| spect of the mercantile world.
Macs HEAD HoTEL-We continue to hear that
Nays Head Hotel keeps crowded, and that the pro-
prietors are exertng themselves to give satisfaction
to all. We are pleased to hear that Mays Head is
- Al - Co.. a.