Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-03-23

merat0n ministry Of England, bad suffered an
ignomInlons defeat In the popular branch Of the
British larlamsns, and as Il consequence. had
been superseded by hew administration, Il
iook Us oil someWhn, by surprise knowing a.
We did, that bat few months ago the people of
England had returned heavy Palmerston mn.
jotity to the House Of Commons, in yindicauon
ofthe stand which that minister had taken upon
the Chinese question Ia investigating tic
cause Of the sudden overthrow, We found that
in The inioxicniion Of power, resulting from bis
late triumph, Palmerstons ambition had 80 far
oerleapt Itself asto have dared a blow at ono
OF the ancient traditions Of people proverhi.
ally jealous Of any cneroachrnents upon their
Ancestoral nsages. The people Of Great Britain
have lee non Sfriph, as il is called, that ror.
bids the cGimdItion Of political refugee, from
other countries. The sympathies Of the people
Of England, and It Is their great glory, have
ever boen enicntly disposed Io those, who, when
crashed by the iron heel of Continental tyran
dy, struck blow in return. And when the
blow, by accident or treachery, missed its aim,
the author Of 1t has found refuge on the shores
Of England And Il was because Lord Pal
mersIon sought to open way to the grasp Of
French despotism on soil thus consecrated
that the great hear, Of England, in one indig.
hant pulsation, dashed him, so long its idol,
from his enshrinement So that now, from
being but yesterday the Power behind the
Throne" there is "none so poor us to do him
reverence
On this side Of the sea- a scene Is in course Of
denouetnentto to-day, which VIC need scarcely say
is no fat fetched parallel to the event above re.
called. 1t is believed now that the doom, Of the
present administration isas certainly impending
in the American House Of Commons, Ms was
that OF the English Premier, before the British
Commons were ordered to ',liyide" Just as
was the English SO the American ministry is
upon its trial for an attempt upon the popular
liberties.
Some people think, no doubt, for power al.
ways did have and always will have lis apollo
gis,s--that the result in both cnscs is altogether
dSproportoned to the cause There were
great many people once before in Great Britain,
who apolosiscd for the Star Chamber demands
Of King Charles, just as there were plenty
among our cOlonistS who cxhorted ac1uicscncc
In the cXacIions Of King George But the peo.
pie triumPhed in those struggles just as they
have now, and the historian points ont the is.
sues upon which those monarchs "staked and
lost, as having contained in them gerrnina de
struclve to popular liberty. It was thought to
DO very little matter, by great many respcc.
table people, that one ruler should be so vic.
lently opposed because he asked for little extra
ship money &c, and that another should be
resisted because he taxed writing paper and tea.
But, said the glorious John Hampden, in the
former case, thc Illegal exaction of one shilling
justiiCs an appeal to arms" and insignificant as
was that sum, our patriotic colonsts reduced ii
still farther until their motto was mot one pen.
NY" So the English people have just again in
substance said-and so their own transplanted
kindred hero are about to say. 1t is principle
in both cases and il matters not how apparently
insignificant that principle may be-nrovided,
only, there Is principle In CanOnical law,
"he who oiVeuds in one point Of the law sguilty
Of all y and what is true in the discipline Of
Grace iSjust nS true in the discipline Of State.
There is no such thing as separating principle
in ethics or politics 1t must stand or fall as
part Of an indvisible cntiscty.
But is the adoption of the LecomptOn Consti.
tuition the much ado about nothing" which
some people profess to believer Buta few short
months ago the present administration came
into power at the head ola working majority
in both houses Of Congress- To-day it has but
mCaere majority in the upper house andin the
lower one is reduced to wavering minority,
Yet some quite prOtOntiOus people affirm that
all this comes of nOusht Solomon said that
"ths curse cAuseess shall not come and we
presume that even strict constructonists would
allow thata party overthrow is party curse
But aside from inspired proverbs, is it reason.
able suppOsiIion thAtthe halr-yes, the three.
I0urths Of the people Of this land, can be con.
vulsed withindignAnt excitement without cause!
stan every day matter to see party losing
one after another its chieNains, declaring, too,
each one OF them, as hVwashes his hands, that
demOraliziag infection has set in at the Eoun.
tain head. Such sight has been witnessed by
the American people within a few months past.
They have seen tho author Of the Kansas Ne.
braska bill declaring that the essence of his
bill, which was an untrammcled elective fran.
chtsc, had been CmNsculated by this same LIE,
compton Constitution, They have seen Cover.