The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-02-25

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fren& that II would ~ much DesteF ~ go ~
er TO allude 70 the United ntstes. -
Why, In that letter. which have Juss
written by the kmp0ec " @es french, o0es ~
not refer n sinGnlqr manner to Ebe assssslon
that the laboring population o. En&iand--sllic
misunderstanding popuiation of Engiand--sH 80. y =
co0dtsioa Of greater eom30st shaA were - men-
ufactnring population Of FraRcef ANA NJ 80
dp that, and y y0u can reaA = Fltn ~
sec that there was magnAnimity IL thaf, n ~
position, ask, are We not allowed 70 look across
The brc1d Atlantic to speak 70 cur own sstends
and relstires, those q CIR own blood, and q our
own ancestry--are we not allowed 20 look oyer
there, and If i be possible, to gather some grams
Of wisdom-for there are grains OF wisdom even.
there 70 mako use e. among OuESeives tCheefA
Nov, Just in one sentence, LET IL be understood
that this Is no question Whatsoever between mo-
narcliy and republicanism IL Is ! question Of
policy-mostly of foreign policy, and question
az the existence Of rcat control over the expen-
ditnfe Of the public funds hy those Who c0ntfi-
butte those funds. Now, IN the United States
you have the English nation westward; you are
and tho eamc laws--t0 = certain extent-much
consolidated, and much simpEfed, and much i'm
proved, ~ Lord John Rnssnll said at the Social
Science Meeting at Liverpool. 4 am Obliged TO
srieel some very high authority on that point
We'll. they have ~ We know, the same language,
Which they say they speak in more pure man
ner than we do ourselves-il laughter and We
know they have the same literature. for, be-
heve, every author Of eminence in England finds
two readers in America to ono in England. That
being the case, think it : fair TO make . little
comparison between the English nation that has
gone abroad and the English nation that stays
at home. Hear *ptF'tt
3 III you will take the oldest man in Manchester
now, and imagine him to be q little child, and
see his little hand in the hand of the oldest man
that was in Manchester when he was q child,
those two lives win carry you back to period
when there was no national debt in England,
when the whole revenue of the government did
not exceed two million sterling per annum. Now,
let that sink into your mind for moment. We
will let the first life Drop and it brings ,is down
from 1858, the time to which have referred, to
l7Go, the time Of the accession Of George iii. In
this period no man doubts--if he does doubt he
can only do Il from excessive ignorance man
can doubt that the governments Of England was a
government of the great aristocratics families,
round the wearer Of the crown. In 1850 the
taxes hid fisen from millions 10 upwards Of is
millions, and the national debt had become debt
OF one hundred and forty millions, and all for
policy which leaves nothing to England that
know Of but the reputation of the Duke Of MARI
boro, and / believe, to use very homels phrase,
that would be a very bad thing for our working
population to put knife and fork into [Cheers
Now Immediately after the accession Of George
TIT. began that system Of attempting to do what
we do to six millions of men now England,
that is. to tax. the Englishmen who lived in
America without giving them any representa-
ton, and the Engiishiner in America resisted II.
Whether the time will come when the English
men here will be no longer content to pay taxes
and have no representation, must be left for the
decision Of future day; but about that time be.
& n the troubles with America, and very shortly
after that there was the establishment Of a new
government in America. Now, want you 10
look at the course Of thosetwo governments since
that period. They are the same people. having
The same language, the same ideas. the Same
everything, but there is this difference, that here
VIC have the happiness to be governed by great
families, whose blood goes how far back nobody
knows, and nobody knows how thick great dcaI
of it has become FLauahterl Now, hi the
1 United States they have not been 10 governed
They were governed by Nv ashington, BY Adams
| Nv Jefferson, by Madison, and by Muproe: and
some or these were advised. connselled and ~.
sisted by that Immortal printers boy whose name
| will endure forever TCheers1 Well now phat
has taken Mace during that hundred vearss ~
/ started 4 hundred years aoo NTH dabt IN ri n
ooo COO. now We have added e6.f, 900 m,l ~ II
besides having srent - the sars ,;y,a 80 49,
OF four times a. much which has heen raised 1,
taxes and not raised III loans ana tbarefore doc.
| NOT annear IN ,he shane of !, deht an 800.
have r;sen n that time from 10 millions !, u !
half "a u, millions and that 10 nd tba,, a. IN.
d,y.
nnr English nations u,est ~ III atIant;c i. =
st; M leht notb;np that ra,n;res II NJ
ahont Whatever il i co,,ld III Nil ~, 80.
whan ,bov cbosa ~ Inv Il ar. mi tha;. $3.50
ACCORDING Il Mrs R,ehana,,s ~ nd
IL u hanI looL III II dr;nr iii III, n,s,,th .;,
amount th;s ST snesL Tof the;r ,.sara, -, !,
errnnant-,c 81 n;il;o,, dn,,ar. 10 IA,
half i The cost az the most of;cr far ia ~,
o,ioe rhnlers n,,,ch ,,orr extensive serv;ca mi,
oirs does and il not i snnrce III revenpn m
eonrse know several naoula viii say shore M
ali those state eoyernment.'-and tiIey nre very
| extensiye-san adding I'M taxes IL tLosa IL III
central government make rs much n orlrss-
I Well, none Of the States maintain an army OF
navy. and there are very few persops in any N
/ them who get a salary Of elonD i wear. and
believe the whole Of the taxes Of the State GOV
ernlnen,s ef the United States added together
would not amount to more than the amount paid
for poor rates in the United Kingdom, Now.
/ bear in mind, there is the same population and