The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-09-06
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Mr.. Golden ON Enslish and American
Elections.
At a complimentary banquet recently riyen
by the electors Of Rochdale to their distin.
guished representative In Parliament Rich.
ard Golden, that gentleman made the follow
ing remarks on the election system in GREAT
Britain and in this country:
Ihave no faith in the existing means and
won't lend myself to q delusion. or practice
those means any longer. What You warf he
sides such a plan as have spoken Of is for
your Parliament TO allow at least the experi-
speak Of the ballot as a cure for all evils or as
political measure mixed up with other ones.
tions of organic change. speak now of II
only as a means ofpreyenting to a large exten
moral instrument to check the growth ef that
rottenness which is sapping the foundation of
our electoral system. am by no means Ger.
tain, and say 1t in all frankness, that the hal.
lot would have very decisive effect in for.
warding any one particular party's H. terest at
the poll. / am not prepared to say that nv
views with regard to public questions wouId
De more represented in the ballot-box than
iney are now by open voting. / think yery
likely that the party-the political party that
most breads the ballot--wo,fld sometimes most
pront by II but tif5s l saY-any one who has
incurred as 10 the conduct OF elections in
~HIneflca, IN Switzerland in France in Spain
ana anywhere the ballot Is adopted and will
compare them with the tumult the violence
the bioodshed, the disgusting and hideous cor
Iupuoh we witness at our elections-I saw
nououy can doubt as u moral engine as a
means OF repressing these excesses. tho ballot
have [Cheers1 We e""
, VIII mention one illustrative fact which
/ xlxu
Understand, l am not going to quote America
as q country Where you should 60 for imita-
.,on IN everything regarding her political in
raa,,aat when are as unfit for US in some
IleSpects as ours would be untitled for them.
lCheers:l But this may say. i'm passing that
the White men of the United States have .
sneory OF government which they have laid
,nar IN ,neas institutions which, if the hu-
lnsh instrument be equal to the political ma
ehine, means to deal justly and fairly by every
man In their community But now coneny
myself to one fact that was given to me in INV
travels in America. Twas speaking 70 a ran ~,
tleman-whose letter NAV read for n i ~
but few Words-whose name fMr Randall, i.
known 10 some OF our statesmen here for 7
remember he gave evidence before a COMMITTEES
Oh Oh me me House OF commons. upon which sat,
Houses of Parliament, in order to furnish
information as to the rule of the Congress
of the United States. He is a man stand
ing hlgh, beth socially and politically
me, and, wishing that should have the full
benefit of the information under his own sig.
nature, he wrote me letter after left Phila-
deiphia: where the gentleman lives, land ]
shall take care to have it published, addressed
10 me at Washington. 1t contains these lines
have been for fifty years connected with
political and party movements in Phladel-
phia, and never knew n vote bought or Sold
lCEeers.l That is one of the largest cities in
America and contains one of the largest pop
ulatlon OF mechanics and workmen: for Phil
adelphia has changed its charac ter from being
] as 1t formerly was. a leading seaport and has
become almost entirely manufacturing city,
with 900 or 700u00 inhabitants. This gen.
tleman would not have told me. am sure
that elections in America are pure in every
respeet-that there is not very often grea,
deal OF manpuvring and party management
that there are not TO some degree personation
and double votes and the like-ha would moi
have told me that, without exception, all theil
elections are carried on peaceably and tran.
gully but he mentioned the fact that the bal.
lot presented such an obstacle TO bribery that
nobody cared to buy a vote and pay for il when
he did not know that be got value for ii in ex-
change. (Cheers.l Gentlemen, shall say nc
more of my experience in America at present
for, to confess the honest truth / was toe
kindly treated there; and l feel that I was re.
ceiyed SO kindly there from my connection
with great question Iofcosmopolitan interest
felt, in all humility, that / was greeted as
the representative of others who had the same
of that people, and if they presented them
selves there they would be received with the
same hospitality rs myself. But confess /
was so kindly treated IN America that feel /
am not an impartial witness in their cause
and that ought to say as little as possible on
that topic. lLaughter.] Now it is important
that we should see that the source of our elec-
toral system is pure, inasmuch as it is quite
evident that for veal or for woe public opin-
ion in this country, as manifested at the
polling booths, must become more and more
powerful in the government of this country,
and not merely in our own domestic govern
ment and this is question to which, at the
present moment, it is well to refer. 1t is
quite evident that public opinion is becoming
more and more potent in matters of foreign as
well as domestic policy"
THE LONDON TIMES AND NAPOLEON Ill
In the London Times Of August Is, we find
the following tardy but not unhandsome ac.
knowledgment that the Emperor of France
has some goodness
We have been among the sharpest critics
OF the Emperor's career, and we shall be sc
again, if the occasion arise We have neye,
trusted, and we would never trust, English
interests to his torbearance, for England should