The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-07-07
GRAFTON OF HON. EDWARD EVERETT.
La Popular Government u Faiiure'-Ne-
ply 20 the Recent Charges Made IN t"o
British House of Lords.

OF the city and an immense concourse in tb City Han
Eighty four years ago this day the Anglo American ~
mics, acting by their delegates 10 the congress az -
delphia formally their allegiance 20 tue h-u
Crown and declared their independence. We are Assem-
bed fellow ctxens, TO Commemorate inc ahhINets'iy
that great day and the utterance OF that momsntous
declaration The penned its mighty sentences
and the tongue which, with an eoquence tat s"ep an
before it, sustained it on the hoor OF the congress,
from among the living the end Of half century on the
day almost at the same hour thirty years as
The last survivor Of the sgners closed his venero I
sn1eer six years later and of the generation
knced life take part in public affairs on the f"u
OF July, 1776 not one, probably survives 20 ~ ,ork
eighty fourth anniversary They are gone ou' ears
remains IL has grown interest with the te hns
beginning already To add to its Intrinsic inp.
and memorable eras, as IL hangs its ivy and plants u
mosses on solid structures of the pas', anu 9
come together 10 bear testimony to the tue deed
and the man We have shut up our Offices our ware
houses workshops, We nave escaped run wv oa'
OF business NAV / add from the dissenssons ut
party from all that occupies and all that divides US, to
celebrate JOIN in ceieorating tho birthday OF the
for This wear 1890 70 do our par, in fulfilling the
makable prediction OF that noble son OF Massachusetts,
John Adams-who in the language OF JEFFERSON Was he
Colossus Of Independence the pillar OF its support on tho
floor OF Congress" Although the Declaration was not
adopted by Congress till the Fourth July (Which has ac
oordiugiy become the day OF the anniversary the resou
tion which IL founded passed on the II instant
On the following day. accordingly John Adams IN letter
YESTERDAY the Created question decided that was
debated in America and greater perhaps never was
nor WIZ be decided among men: ,o. o,,sS stes
right ought be free and independent states
Unable to restrain the fu'luess OF his emotions, IN
another letter his wife, but OF the same datc-naturay
assuming that the day which the resolution was pass
ed would be the day hereafter COMMUNICATES bursts
out in this all but Inspired strain
The day passed the ~ Of July, lTI6 will be the most
memorable epoch the history OF America am apt to
believe il will be celebrated by succeeding genera
tons the great aInversary festival II ought 10 Do
COMMUNICATED the day Of deyerance by solemn acts
OF devotion God Almighty II ought 10 be soemnizei
with pomp and parade, Win shows games sports guns
bells, bonhres. and Nominations, from Que enu Oh
this continent the other from this time forward Tor
evermore You viii think me transported with entnusi,
asm, but am not am well aware OF the toll aud blood
and treasure that Will cost 30 maintain this declaration
and support and defend these states Yet, through all
the gloom the rays of ravhins light and glory
that the end more than worth All the pcans
that posterity will triumph in that days trans".oh
although We should rue (which trust IN Goa VIZ
shall not" . -. -.
place is 40 CONSIDERABLE the natsna experience which
has since accrued is d significant tue changes
In our condition at home relations a5roat are so
vast az TO make il and highly appropriate sub
ieet of inquiry sne recurrence of the anniversary
dence was declared have been fulfilled. His g the
eIoom wbiSn, In the language OF Adams, shrouded the
70 those rays Of light and glory which he pre-
rcteds Has " the END" as he fondy believed i, would
do, proved thus be more than worth all the
mcansY' Most ssnaily as far as he individually was
concerned. He lived himself to enjoy more than Ro
sign with his brother ENJOYS the treaty Of peace by
which Great Britain Acknowledged the indep' ndence OF
the first of the newly constituted repubio;
and aer having filled its second Office In conn.cti'n with
him who, whether in peace or in war; could never MI
place but the hrst-in Office in the hearts OF his
lived 10 succeed 10 the great Chief and
closed his honored the elective chief Magistrate
OF those United States whose independence he had done
so much establish with the additional felicity at
the last oseeng bis elevated to the same station
POPULAR GOVERNMENT A FAILURE?
But the life OF individual isbut span in the life Of
nation the fortunes OF individuals for good for ev
but dust in the balance compared with the growth
and prosperity or the decline and fall of that greatest
OF human personalities, Commonwealth. IL Is, there
fore, more nomentors inquiry, whether the great de-
sign Of Providence with reference to beloved coun
try, of which trace the indications in the recent dis
covory OF the continent the manner OF lis settlement by
the civilized OF the earth, the col ,nal struggles
the establishment Of independence the formation OF
st,uton republican government, and its administration
In peace andtwar for seventy years. say is Ear moro
important inquiry whether this great design Of Providence
is in course OF steady and progressive faldlmeni-
marked only by the fluctuations ssih march
OF human Affairs and authorizing well grounded hope Of
further developemeht in harmony With these suspicious
beginnnrs-or whether there Is reason on the other
hand TO- fear that short lived prosperity Is already
Gas msgivings at homo and dsparagemcnt abroad have
sometimes whisperrd) ON the wan-hat we have reach
cd that have passed the meridisn-and have to
look forward Of degeneracy and the closing
In OF rayless and hopeless night OF political decline
prNATE TIE uovsr LORDS
You justly shocked, fellow citizens al the bare
statement OF the lilo Dcned alternative, and yet the in
been advanced high places abroad In debate in
House OF Lords the 10Th Of April, question rea
tive 10 the extension Of the elective franchise England
the principle which certainly lies at the basis Of popular
government-thc example OF the tnited states Instead
generally been the case, with reference 10 popur
forms was referred 70 showing net the advantages
asserted or plainly ntima,ed by the person who took
the lead in the debate, (arl Grey whose family trail
tons might be expected To be strongly the side Of
popular right that the United states the Revo
Iuonsry period and by tbs undue extension Of the right
OF suffrage, our elections have become mocsery, our
Legislatures vena tainted with party spirit
laws "cobwebs which the rich and poor alike break
through and the country and the government In all its
branches given 10 corruption. violence and gene
raj disregard Of public morality. II these opinions
well founded, then certainly We labor under great delu
Sion In celebrating the National Anniversary Instead OF
joyous chimes and merry pcals responding to the
triumphant salvos viii ushered ths day Fourth
OF July ought rather 10 be commemorated by funeral
bells minute guns and dead marches aad We instead
ef assembling In this fcstI hal q congratulate each
other en- is happy return, should have bcca better
prayer. believe that shall not wander from tho line
OF remark appropriate 10 the occasion II ave You %
ioin in hasty inquiry, whether these charges and in
tim atoms well funded whether have thus dege
nersted FROM the standard q the Revolutionary age whe
Their the eauary checks Of system have been swept
away, and our experiment Of elective self government has
consequently become failure; whether, word, the
great dcsgu OF Providence In the discovery, settlement
political niepcndcnce and national growth of the United
States has been premauroly arrested by perversy
or whether, on the contrary, that design Is not-wiih
those vicssudes and drawbacks and human inarities
OF character and uncertainties Of fortune which
alike the individual and the sccislcs % mon,
the Old World and the New-in train o. salts sctory,
hopeful, nay, triumphant and glorious faiancni.
gNGIJsH cyrncsN Btp TASTE
And in the place viii say that, in my Judgment
great delicsoy ought 10 ~ vtssvv~i and much
practSed IN ieSe a. Communicative
sttusion Laws and ADMINISTRATIONS of frcr i,y staer
and especially the part % British and American sSs
In their the systems Of IN err two Coun
tries between which there more Intimate e0aacctoa
of national sympathy than between any tsO "er M
tons. must say that, a matter of tAsfc SIS 90
diency, these specific arrag aments of fore y -Aiy
country had better be lcn SO the pnbtv peS.i zlNss
FISHING to put any limit t0 free d. . g.
prescribe any expression ot the psiTN.t' 80 ~
ecncy with which the ciiiz.rs rsxtrv
are ant TO assert thu superiority 81 tn y -.Src
,vux thc~c OF all others, u appears 70 me 0s,o1t
-cisms the constitutions and laws Of foreign at Is,
SPoTted by direct personal alusigus a., NJ ol,cs on the
.srt a IN, Legislative - cf the cNccuuVc .
,-axv-ufx the part Of the latter ,ney "Sas -
- "a N .r,olsrahe II. they cannot DC a'sulrl
- ,l,o ,SIrf.yt 90 tho part Of the former tnerv
- r, cher objection H. this praciicc wond % SUI
.s~s.,,ot ia direct tendency IL 10 recrHnn Nl1h'
5000 ~ rccproca dspAragctnent on the part vi GU
- - members OF the legislatures OF trlendy St.cs
n, = nj. i'm that parliamentary warfare OF ths knl ins'
~ = ,bo Ai,arlty Of carrying the diplo