Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-23
From the New York Evening Post.
C0BDEN'S ELEVATION TO THE MIN
ISTRY.

Cobden's accession to the treasury bench, should
he accept the post rendered him, will constitute as
remarkable a revolution in English politics as any
thing which has happened since the passage of the
Reform bill, and il may be said that it is the fret
evidence which the Reform bill has given Of direct
palpable and undisguised influence Upon the gov
ernment of the country. .-a5
10 know what change it indicates one needs
to know how obnoxious Golden has made himself
throughout bis whole career to the territorial ars-
tocracy. and how thoroughly that aristocra.
oy had possessed the real power when he frsr
entered on public life. 1t is his political career
in short, far more than his social position, wBisi
makes his recent elevation extraordinary. There
is no country in which aristocrocy exists at oil
in which the lowliness Of birth or the absence of
fortune constitute less of barrier to O certsih
kind Of success than in England. A man WHO
makes his own way in the world certainly does
not stand half as good chance Of leading tbs
House Of Commons as If he begun life with an
earl for his father, and $4,000 for personal ef
penses; but that with patience, industry and talent
he may reach all bat the highest political places,
there are numerous instances: D'Israeli is one:
Macaulay is another, and the ranks Of tbs bat
furnish innumerable examples Of the same kind
But it is impossible to discover an instance in
which tho golden gates of tho temple were evef
opened TO an humble aspirer who had not learned
10 his upward journey to speak the language and
think the thoughts OF tht at whose side he wish
ed to sit. Old habits, old associations, old modes
Of looking at things, old ways of manipulating
public Questions have always had to be repIdiased
fully and frankly. D'Israeli began life by the
side of Joseph Hume. an uncompromising radicA,
but there he would have remained to this day il
he had not changed, bis tune, Macaulay, as lsae
as he dabbled in politics, an able and success,
full politician lie was the grandson OF Preshytsr-
ian minister, bu. be never Tpuia hAye Gttis.nned
much final distinction if he had not early acquired
the habit Of looking at the British constitution wiIh
the eye Of a peer Of the realm. certain amount
Of liberal talk is allowed to those sarssnsss. il
consideration of their unfortunate antecedents.-
Upon all serious and grave occasions they
have to blow tAeis Ifnshpet in q manner OF
which the great houses must approve. In short, /.
may be said that an al but entire adhesion to the
statss quo was condition krecedent to the entry
of any man of small beginnings upoh 4 career at
tended with Official honors. ~
| Golden is perhaps the srst exSeption to lie rule
Blu. be made Els debut in pntic life By fierce at
tacks upon what the landed Interest considered III
dearest right-,he right Of selling corn Q. its OSh
price to every one who needed bread. Unlike D.
Israeli, however, he discovered the secret Of bis
own power Each year Of, popularity only served
to sand his shafts closer to the mark 81 which they
we're first aimed, He wrote and spoke. aud les
tarsd; hesped facts on figures aud figures on facts
and never RELAXED determined, obstinate. teuorse.