The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-05-09
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WEDNESDAY, MOREINa MAv q .San
Hew are we = he DESTROYED /.


hew are we - he DESTROYED:
From the Language OF Holy Writ. II is ii
Tered that the world il some day TO he d.
suoyed by fire. Philosophers, in moder
times, have INDUCED In innumerabls specuis
uons as to the mode in which the confiagru
uon - to Be effected. Some maintain that "
are TO Be- set on fire by the tail of comet
Otners rebut this notion by demonstra,in
that comets are watery computations. 1t IN
been maintained, we believe, that the at,ras
ton Of gravitatton is to be modified SO as /
make the cen,ripe,al power of the sun to
great for the centrifugal power OF the planet,
and thus we are to be drawn int the embrace
OF that monster laminary. This notion ba
become aatiq"ated, however, and of late /, h n
been eontehded mat the subterranean fires
eveiy"hereexisting, are TO break out an d wra
the e'ooe IN names All agree upon one thing
ana INA. Is, mat the earth is, somehow o
other, t. be destroyed by fire. To be- sure. tn,
hfei Is long time breaking out. But sensi
i've MINDS, nevertheless. look forward to ths
event with alarm
Our Republic, from the adoption of the Con.
sututon, has been the subject of almost as
much evil augury, on the part of European
politicians, as the fate of the world has been
that ii was TO be destroyed, the modns opsrandi
has never ceased be subject of anxious
enquiry. Englishmer, particularly, have been
exceedingly exercised upon this subject from
tho very beginning Of our natl onaI existence.
They predicted early death to a royernmen,
in which there were no kings, no lords no as
tablished church, no sys TEN of en- tail no Gina
cure offices, no rotten borouahs. no bribery =,
elections. absolute freedom OF the press aud
70 prosecutions for Seandalnu ,uay,o,,
The very cheapress of the Government wac
- them subject OF scandal. a chief exaen
tive with only five thousand pounds a wear
h ,f dozen secretaries with salaries mo-,
hcientiy large 10 Keep up nobleman's kenna,
a law against Stneehres,-how could sucb ,
government, more especially when at that
day i, did not spend more than five or six mil.
lions OF dollars annually, exist for any leng,b
OF time! Itmns' go 10 pieces, said honest John
BULL, and the sooner the better; SO during tie
early part OF the present century he set him.
sell earnestly TO work to hasten the catastro.
pae which he foresaw, and omitted nothinp
winch ne thought might tend to produce a dis
soIuuon OF the Union. Kindly in tended rs all
THESE efforts were or the part of Power
which, We are told, whenever they want ~
make profitable treaty with us loves ms ex
ceedingly, they all failed and have been suc
ceeded by none others 1T all more successful
The Union Will not be dissolved in spite of all
That JOHN BULL can do. Since he cannot
make us break up, he has determined. il seems
at least to brighten us. Baron MACAuLAY tells
Mr.. RANDALL that the evil day is certainlv TO |
come; not when the North claim the riph, to |
regulate our domestic concerns and send an |
army OF JOHN Browns among US. but when |
New England-that is, the United States-sha, |
have become as populous as old England. and |
the workmen begin to fight for bread FREpE |
RICK the Great, tolerably prac teal man in
his day said if he had province, which for any
cause, he wished to punish with more than
usual severity, he would make a philosopher
governor of it, PLATO's commonwealth is
hardly adapted 10 the present state of society.
LOCKE drew up a Constitution for Geor.
gia, the French philosophers manufacture.
I'D Constitutions by the gross; yet we do
not learn that any of them succeeded so well
as to impair the force of F. EpEgiCK's remark |
Baron MACAULAY himself, We believe, tried
MS hand upon Code for India, and produced .
4 most beautiful system of laws. Ii had but |
'ne slight defect. 1t was not adapted to the | {
OF any race Of mortals that ever ex- D..
sted Indeed, we are not disposed to think 9
literary men the best qualified class of the q
community TO exercise the functions of GOV !
rnment, or TO be formed into prac teal states. :
men. MARLBOROUGH, according to Lord CHEs. I
TERRIFIED, spelt badly, at the time he was c
rushing the power Of France with his sword L
mo directing the Councils CT England by his ! 8
nfluence. BoNAPARTE was not famou. for | h
'artlcularity in dotting his Us and crossing o
rs is JACKSON Wrote with a heroic defiance
OrfnDpranhv
he rules of grammar with scorn so unaf a
,cted as to approach sublmity Yet all these CT
len were rulers Of nations, and none the less o.
fective rulers for their deficiency in the e,a. Sc
lentary branches. man, we suspect. NAV til
~allow the British Museum witbout haco,, ic
e either great statesman or a very pro- to
und prophet. h,
II free government could be continued. pi
ithout ending in universal su rage il might
ossibly be very well. But the question is "
DIV Is that 10 be done! In England at any
tie, the tendency most assuredly is in that W
rection. Every step gained in popularizins
e basis of representation and lowering the ar
lalification of voters, is an advance IN Su
iversal suffrage. The bill now heforo 7
which led Lord GRsy aft
express his sentiments upon The state of AZ ou
RS in this country-lets in lUO, 600 new voters n
hat is to carry this progressive movement Ma
,kwards Who is to dis francbisa tho o,an the
e.dy having votes What is to pravs,, n
classes not yet admitted from keeniug rba n
ole country in hot water until thew tnro. n
ir way in The admission of ona o,..a ~
essariiy renders all those not yet admitted Es
re oiscohtehted than ever. The old Tories | AT
'ers'ooo TINS perfectly. They saw that if Gov
y Caro NAV a, all '' ~ ecut
gave way al all, they would finally be in ii
'Peiieo 10 aoahdon the whole ground GGcio
'reiore they resisted the first attempt to an
'Tge the franchise TO the verge of revolu- =
" ALLISON compares the Reform bill of ~
10 the French revolution in its incipient
es. In one particular he was right o., IL
as the first Of a series of measures DOOM | call ,
, end in universal suffrage-in that mode tain
kercising The franchise which MIR. MA.
lay so much admired, and which Baron as he
AuLAY so much condemned. The proba.
y, then, is, that long before we shall have
led the starving point in this country Is mo n"
over-density of population, the people of
t Britain will have reached the pont of ar u
ersal suffrage. To the attainment of that Of tn
Baron MAcAULAY contributed his full
b Tor be spent large portion of his life lei
ertions Tor reform. His admirers appear eIeu x
CARA MIN as man endowed with super. : =,
raj sagacity. We are not exactly of that II SC
VI out II seems strange that he did not II
'e inevitable tendency Of his own teach. M
:" '"at state OF universal suffrage which pale;
bitterly deprecated. When it shall have la
70 In England, then the classes likely IN tage Il
from want OF bread, will be the uoxsrn gu gu
asses, and there will according 20 ~ tam /
y, % no longer any sa faty e.. - Watral