The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-10
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Mr. JAMES &. SoUTAALL, OF Charlottesville
well known TO the State at large n gentle
man of talents and requirements delivered
the last address before the Alumni of the
University, choosing for his subject that
which is indicated BY the above title. We
profess to have been not only much pleased,
bat greatly edited by the address, which We
have now before US in the form OF q pamphl
thirty nine pages long. The object is very
clearly stated by Mr.. SeUTHALL, in his reply
10 the request of the Society that ii might be
published. al wished, - he says in vivid
manner, TO expose the nakedness of some Of
those eras 10 which some minds are perpetu-
ally recurring; and j wished, by unmis-
taxable details, 10 present, side by side, the
physical and moral facts of this age, as com.
pared with those" In the pursuit of such an
object, Mr.. SoUTHALL was necessarily oom-
PEELED 10 enter upon the inquiry as TO the
amount OF good done 10 the world by demo-
cracy and aristocracy considered distinct
principles; and he has pretty clearly shown
that in the precise ratio that free principles
have advanced, the world has been approved
both morally and physically. He treats demo
cracy" not in It's party sense, but as smother
expression for political freedom.
When the French people, goaded 10 despera-
ton by the wrongs and tyranny of Il thousand
years, put down the noblesse and decapitated
the King and Queen, EDMUND BURKE ex-
claimed, in the British House of Commons,
1.-The days of chivalry are passed, and the glory
of Europe is gone forever" 1t is well for the
world that there was truth SIS well as poetry
In this exclamation. 1t is TO be hoped that
the days of chivalry are really passed, and
that such glory as they carried in their train
h,A
entirely passed, however, when, in the course
of a reign in England, (that OF HENRY VIII
1900 nalsfactors were hung, exclusive Of
those convicted of treason, or of differing with
the King in the construction of certain knotty
passages in the Bible while at the same time
$1,000 were in prison for capital crimes. Dur
ing this highly chivalrous period, distin-
guished by the grand pageant of the field of
the cloth Of gold, when BAYARD was still
alive, and FRANCIS, the embodiment OF royal
courtesy, was still on the throne, there were
not more than half q million of grewn-up
males in the whole kingdom of Great Britain;
that about one man in every ten was hung
The condition of the people was 10 the last de-
gree miserable. Their floors" says ERAS-
NUS, are commonly of clay, strewed with
ruehes. under which lie, unmolested, q collec-
ton OF beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle,
e1crements OF dogs, and everything that is
nauseous."
Their food was not only scanty, but of de-
sCription from which starvation itself would
IN these more practical days turn with Ioath-
ing. These were the real days of chivalry, the
days when high nobility were the very salt Of
The earth, when the peasant was little more in
the eyes of his m aster than beast of burthen
when the world seemed made for certain classes
of mankind, and when all below Il certain
grade were not considered coming within
that category. BY the beginning of the 18th
century, matters had somewhat improved
The fate of CHARLES l. had taught kings and
mobiles that they had joints in their necks,
and the expulsion of JAMES II who had SEEM
ed disposed to forget the lesson, had proved
favorable to the spread of liberal ideas Still
there was much to be done, before the England
OF 1890 could be converted into the England of
1900. Mr.. SoUTHALL has traced the progress
OF English improvement, social. political and
physical, in a mastery manner and has shown
that it has gone pori paSsu with the spread Of
liberal ideas. In other words, whatever of
good has been done in England, he proves
70 have been due to what he calls the spirit of
democracy. He then shows what the same
spirit of enlightened freedom has done for this
country, where the progress of society has
been rapid not only beyond all precedent, but
beyond all conception, far outstripping the
visions, even, OF the most ardent European
imagination.
We give On extract from this address, to
which we invite attention
Beautiful are the palaces of England her
green lawns ana her ancestral oaks touch the
Hnest sentiments OF the human heart like those
proud historic nsmes-thoso IVY crowned towers
me emnIems and All thronsIIg fancles OF his
bed race: their refined and elssant ways: their
nrbonEded leisure: their pictures: their books
The horns of Elhand family blowing
% hark. o hear how thin and clear,
o sweet and far from cliff and scar
The horns OF Elhand family blowing"
80 Ii this is beautiful: charmed circles, within
which We may suppose all that is lovely in human
a. But what is all this to me? =" Behind
nose mere o1 on mass OF hg
who haye no tune lor knowledge: VINO have no
sense OF the beautiful: whose aim is merely
Ips; unwashed bsgrmmed, void OF moral
oh beautiful is Bienheim and Kpowesls, Hall
but ~ tnsland's PARIS and beautiful gardens
pay ooo OOo taxes while that poor clowns
s7d yea pay tl0s0,GOO. Yes, the land tax is tn
ming; whlie paper, tea coffee, sugar tobacco are
'a Tax e. ~ 20 n 100 200 400 per cent
Il nv duchess OF Sutherland occupies Stafford
ancestral acres IN Scotland: and there she sheds
such that England 10 full % injustice. The divi
SION Oh propert, In EnglaI cannot be defendt q.
FoI one class 10 be receiving incomes of several
millions per annum-and the great MAS strug-
g!lns Tor the mere neeessarles of life-and those
necsssaries taxed until they have to be boug ht AT
c0ubie and treble their vaue-the Aristocracy
HeAnIme exemptIDg their splendid estates-can
tns lshmen defend this !!
The English Church is unjust: there IL hardly
greater enorInity under the sun.
bear r. great deal about Slavery and Bor-
sed-nofanism: In England immortality is con
sScfh.ed ~ statute upon the very affairs of The |
t naastan Chorch, and the very fabric of Religion
ss - feared upon the foundations Of delibe-
heoa h sp9 The 6ospei. commission IN one |
49, ana patent of nobility IN the other.-
srs ,as repIs,sHshsd BY Rector
rs. oi he eye Of needle'-upPn the philacte
,ns benefcs worth perhaps SO Coo % aseaI
~ shn Il sVettins mat they are moved thsreunto
- IN our country suppose that Mr.. Buchanan was
.. the Chureh land he might be great a
Soste az 6sorse lV,l that there were II co
kss' Que half Of which were worth from one
=" yItM thousand dollars per annum that
10y aaese Denehces were in the Gift OF the Pre-
g,nanJ. thu, ns so oi them dispensed upon political
- A.ft pu more were in the patronage OF
~ PIE nen.eiyes appointed BY the President
-, aas oapinet that 1000 more were in the eift of
b, the President Cabinet: 7od osh so homnalea
toaage SAY -of the Universities Of Vi,yr a,e pa
oi the various men of wealth throushoott ~
country, who disposed of them to theis xonness
sons. Iephess, and heedy relations :-tms is pre-
cseiy- changing names-the organization of the
bDgllcdn church.
But TINS !. not all those II OcO be oe6oes are in
the hands OF 90 Tectors or vicors- three thou
sand oi whom hold from two eight livlngs apiece;
Ahholsa piuralltes are positively prohibited By
More: Thirty FIVE hundred of these Iinsal de-
AcfhasHts OF the twelve apostles. are non-restdsnt
and tTenty~hys hundred perform no duty what
ever.
" certain class. belonging 10 the influential
iamilies. feeetys enormous incomes on the other
aanl T Correspondent of the London Guardian
~ one year applied 10 me the secretary of the