The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-07-10

s,,,ure what would Lord dRKY regard as a
success
An Ensli.hman is estopped from saying that
,h..e mighty results are not due to the sys-
TEN under which they have been wrought
When the defects OF his own form of govern
ment are pointed out, he invariably repiies'
with that strong, practical good sense iof
which he is no led above all other men In Eu-
rope, I'VE do not contend that our govern
ment Is perfect. Nothing that ever was ue-
y,sed nv the wisdom OF man can be SO. We
merely saw that it Is the best that c0uio nA'
peen adopted under the circumstances
cu1es us fr.edo IN, and under II our Piosp.'
49, h.eo unbAunded. What more can DC ue
80 :. ,..,,t,,i,ns merely humani The
roof Of a governments excellence most as
-, .ax,s,s in the security which 1t af-
$50 ~ i,,s. liberty, properly, and the pur-
- =, industry such would be the Ian
.,,,cs of an EDglishman If taxed with the
.,,r,.comings OF ais own government, and
most assurediy his answer would be founded
IN truth. We ASK then, that our own institu-
lions be tried by Inc same rule, aud we hav.
no fears for tne result of the Invest ga tion.-
/ is tIue they may not be pei fect. IL Is true
mat uuder tnem, great abuses nave existed
But oeyauae uurlng Il tine OF madness, re-
suIung IL oln .n,, rage "a 81 yecuiation, IN Il new
State where lie Grade eieInen s OF u society
f,r,u,u OF persons thrown toseliier IRON ali
paris OK the World, Il Legislature was found
corrupt, aud many prIvate persons dis
honest shall we pronounce govern
nenL under which sucn miracles have
pa.u accom- piIsued taiiurei Such Loro
,1aEY prouounces it, as II there had never
been such u tniug lii England as the
Sou la Sea bubble; DIS II HUDSON, The Railway
king and the mem pers vi Doth Houses. whom
he bought and sold ike cattle Ill The market,
we're myths as IL Sir ROBERT WALPoLE die
not opeuly proclaim that every man had has
price; rs If the government OF the PELHAMs
WAS not a market . ert for all who had votes
or influence ~ sell; as II JUNiUs had never
written; as IL BURKE had never denounced
| Us if the gigantic corrup ION existing in Par
| lament had not been exposed By the impeach-
ment of Lord MELvILLEi as if the Duke OF
Wellington had not openly sold all ireland,
| under the close borough system; as if the triaa
| of the Duke Of York did not prove TO all Eng
land that offices in the army were sold upon
the most corrupt principles! Is not the folly
| of arguing from such premises to such con
| clusions palpabie to the common sense OF ali
mankind! If the corruption of remote
mas Jailed, what must be the condition of the
| English government, where corruptions, ex
ceediug in magnitude all others recorded il
| history, have been repeatedly exposed ! Is
the English government likewise failure
| Unques tionably it is, if Lord GREY be cor
rect. Not only does he cite, in proof of his
| position, the corruptions to which we hay.
alluded but he states a farther proof tina I
| (, nm ts la n cd wi from
the circumstance of the judges being elected
OF political grounds. Ifit were So, the method
of electing the judges might be changed with
out overthrowlng the whole system. In the
meantime, we do not recollect more than one
case in the whole Union, in which judge was
ever charged with giving corrupt decisions
But most assuredly Lord GREY forgets thai
the Lord Chancellor in England is Away.
appoint ted on strictly party grounds, that ali
the judges are partizans, that they have seats
in Parliament, that the greatest English judge
of the last century, Lord MANSFIELD, was
openly and VIGOROUSLY creature OF the
| Court that Lord Chancellor ELDoN held the
seals tor thirty years and gave them up only
when they were torn from his reluctant hands
by the party which overthrow that to which
he belonged. If Il government be failure be-
cause its judges are partizans, what is the gov
| ernment OF England. 1t has had nine Chan
cellors in thirty three years, whereas we have
had hut four Chief Justices since the adoption
| of the Constitution. 1t lies not in the mouth
OF an English peer to say the first word against
| political Judges. Let him recollect when Chief
| Justice OF Ireland declared that he would make
| the Irish people tame as d parcel OF cats, ana
| now he proceeded TO fulfill that terrible men
ace Let him recollect the hired spies, the
| bribed juries, the secret informers that render
| ed Ireland a fair picture of pandemonium
| throughout that awful period, when no mans
| lie was safe, and a verdict was sure to be OBJ
tanned against every man whom the govern
ment thought lit TO accuse. The blood of hum
dreds Of murdered Irishmen murdered by
| sribed juries, murdered by lying witnesses,
murdered by an obsequious judge-cry TO
! Heaven for vengeance, while peer in Parlia-
| ment OF family renowned of old for its lib
eral principles, can find nothing to repre-
| bend at home, but crosses the Atlantic for an
example OF a political Judiciary.
| Mo- the Government of the United States is
| not failure II is the most marvellous success
| of which history makes mention. 1t began
| the same year with the French revolution,
| and if any body wants to know what has hap
| ptued III Europe since then, let him consult
| ALISoN's History. In that time, we have had
| two foreign wars and leaving out the whlskey
| instruction, which caused no bloodshed, not
| a single rebellion. We have grown, we have
| fourished, we have waxed mighty, with a
| standing army whose maximum Is 900 men,
| While every nation III Europe has been the
| scene of revolt, and the ma ATOMS are kept down
at this moment by three millions OF bayonets
| Ii our Government be failure, what are
these governments