The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-11-28

Jefferson appears in The American Cousin and The
Spectre bridegroom. Tomorrow, Thanksgiving
Day, there will be performance in the afternoon
for the accommodation of families.
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MIR. EDWARD EVERETT AND EARL GREY.
>, From the London Spectator
Ii any man is authorized to speak on the common
ground of English and American public opinion it
is Edward Everett, who is perfect master of the
history, constitution and craftsmanship of his own
country, and he has resided with US, and is es-
teemed as much on this side of the Atlantic as he
| is on the other The pamphlet before us shows that
he has still higher faculties for the task that he
has undertaken. He is able not only to enter into
a controversy with Lord Grey on equal terms in
regard to a knowledge of the subject but on very
superior terms in regard to the spirit in which be
the United States; Edward Everett speaks for the
United States and for England his Just aud dis
| eliminating mind truly regarding the two coun-
tries as having, in the essentials of their law and
their constitution, common history, common in
terests. and, may we not add, common future.
In the House of Lords, on the 10Th of April, Earl
| Grey, son of the reform bill Earl Grey, brought
forward series of accusations against the Ameri-
can Republic, all summed up in the imputation
| that the Republic and its sons have degenerated
| from the standards of the revolutionary age In
an oration delivered to celebrate the 4th of july
on the last anniversary, Mr.. Everett steps forward
to contravene the conclusion that the whole gener-
alton of statesmen who eighty four years ago re-
nounced the connexion with the British Crown
and gave to the Commonwealth the character
which it now bears, have passed away The last
| survivor of those who signed the Declaration of
Independence, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton died
| twenty-eight years ago, and few indeed who wit
messed the first Declaration survive.
In the interval has the Republic degenerated
| from the standard set up by Washington and JEFF
| ferson and Adams, or have those standards been
| maintained? Has the Commonwealth made the
progress which is due to it from its own sons? Mr.
Everett denies the degeneracy asserts the progress
hn ha hast
| facts He shows that even the severance from the
| British Crown was carried out more in better
| obedience to the law than the English Crown and
| Government rendered He quotes the avowal of
| Chatham, who "rejoiced that America had resisted
| because he was conscious that the colonies were
| fighting not only the battle of American but Eng
fish liberty" Within that short space of eighty
four vast tract of land, more extensive than
Europe, has been peopled; places that were deserts
when explored by the officers of Jefferson
the sites of great cities and of busy If
| here and there on the extreme borders of advanc
| ing settlements there have been tumultuOus out
! breaks upon the whole this immense conquest of
| the desert, this vast and rapid development of
| community, more gigantic than anything the
world has Witnessed has been effected with peace
and order equally unprecedented; and let say
| that along with that advance of settlement has
| been carried to the remotest corners of North
America all the essentials of English law and CON
| stitutional freedom.
America runs a race with Euglan in the naviga-
ton of the globe; she takes lead in the dscove-
ries of practical science and the improvements of
practical mechanism. To put it briefly, might
say that England and America combined are taking
position in the name of law, freedom and intel
| lectual progress, with such power and influence
| that they must impel corresponding progress in
| other parts of the globe where the English Ian
guage is spoken Mr.. Everett makes admis-
sion, which appears to us to be unfounded: sit is
true" he says, ''that we have no American Shaks-
speare, Milton, Bacon or Newton;" but if we have
rightly construed the history of the Anglo-Saxon
ciples of English law in accordance with Magma
Charta and the Bill of Rights, against George the
Third, no more cast off their allegiance to the gc-
Mus of Shakespeare, Bacon or Newton, than they
cast Off the language or the blood which makes
them one family with ours. On the contrary, what
they did was to extend the territory which
the genius of Shakespeare, Bacon and Newton
reigns, and those names belong as much to the
| American library as the names of Everett, Whea
! ton and Story belong to the English library.
No part of Mr.. Everett's Yndication is more
sound than that which points to the honest and i'm
partial administra ton of Justice the true test of
social and political system, and he proves that there
is not greater stability of the judicial Office in
America than in our country, nor greater fidelity
to the purity and independence of law in England
than in America. In seventy-one years there have
been but four chief justices in the United States;
in thirtythree years there have been nine appoint
ments of Lord Chancellor, and seven several diff
ferent individuals have filled the office, OF whom
| five now living. The Chief Justice of England
| is usually a member of the House of Lords. Lord
| Mansfield was engaged in embittered political
warfare with the Earl of Chatham.
Nevertheless. it must be admitted that the "elec-
| tive tenure" is blot upon the American system,
and divergence from the principles of the found
| ers of the Republic divergence which all we'll
wishers OF the United States would wish to cor
rected.
Mr.. JOSEPH JEFFERsoN.-We have attributed to
Mr.. Jefferson "true comic genius" but he deserves
a praise beyond this. There a simple
and manly gravity which struck deep to sym.
pathies, and promised a wider range than we had
deemed possible for him.
In Caleb Plummer he evinced genuine appreca.
ton of that subtle and ethereal principle, not to be
analysed, which we style "humOr," and, more
particularly, of that phase of it which, whether
found in the mixture of the comic in expression
with the pathetic in sentiment, the ludicrous il
exterior, with the sad in situation, upon the stage
as in real life takes hold of the human heart the
soonest and most strongly. What strange power
hath this humOr that while the smile is vet dan
cling in our eyes, we find the moisture yelling ove
their lids ? that while ticked with sens
of the ridiculous, we suddenly overtaken will
a perception of the mournful, as, often
In traversing a valley in a summer
even-tide, athwart the genial breeze comes unex-
pectedly a chilly breath, full as it were, of thu
dampness of the grave! Mr.. Jefferson made mas
terly of this indehnabe influence in the presen
tation of this part-and it told In it, too he evince
to admiration, his tact in identifying himself with
the physical, intellectual, and moral traits of thu
character he portrays for the nOnce We will onl,
refer, in this connection, to the curious skill which
invests his face with the dreamy, mi-abstracte
air, and look of the eyes, described by the novelist
In word, the performance of Caleb Plummer, a
e whole was an exquisite rendering of patheti
E conception. Again, in that of NelCman NoggS, tn
quaint, odd pathos of broken life was illustrated
e with wonderful touch.
e The scene in which the old oy-maker paints tn
toy horse, and with pardonable fasehood deude
his blind child; the scene in which the besotteC
clerk defes the demon of drink, and parts compa
ny for ever-recur to as choice specimens o
what painter would call the genre picture.-Th
Home Journal.
FERNANDO WOODS THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
The following proclamation, issued by Mayor W God
of New York, is, as readers will perceive, il
every particular characteristic of the
"MAYoR's OFFICE, New York, Now "a, 1860.
"Procldmdtion.-ln accordance with custom ant
the proclamation of the Governor of the State,
becomes my duty, Mayor, to recommend to tn
people ofthis city, the observance of Thursday, thu
Goth instant, as day of Thanksgiving and Pray
err
t "When in my Judgment the country, either in it
political, commercial or financial aspect presents NJ
features for which we should be thankful, ar
yet called upon by every consideration of selfpre
seryation to offer up to the Father of all merce
devout and fervent prayer, for His interpositio
5 and protection from the impending evils whic
threaten our Institutions and the national interest
| of the people.
: "Therefore, acknowledging our dependence O
B Almighty GOO, and deeply sensible of our ow
unworthiness, let the day set apart as Thanksgiy
g ing be observed by the people OF this city as on
: of humiliation and supplication-not emitting /
5 our prayers the expression of the hope that thOs
r who have, in violation of the Federal compact
i alphabetically and unwisely inflicted these inurie
upon US, may be the only sufferers by their ow
= wickedness and folly.
f. "[L. 81 Given under my hand and seal the da
q. and year aforesaid. FERNANDO WOOD, Mayor"
10 EMGRATToN TO HAYTL--A clergyman name
Holm, from Hayti, is now lecturng to the cOlore
10 population of Philadelphia, on the advantage
r which Hayti now offers to the colored race. II
gives glowing account of the prosperity of tn
Island and strongly urges the wisdom and prophet
d of the general emigration of colored persons to
= country where they would enjoy social and politics
:, equality MIR. II =, on Sunday night at the colore
70 Presb yterian Church, read invitation from tn
IS Secretary of State of the Government OF Hayt
entreating that class of persons to accept the pro
position therein set forth, which is that on the EN-
grafton of any cOlored resident of the United State
to the Island of Hayti, be she shall receive, uPo
a their arrival, six of land. For all those VIII
wish to emigrate, and have not the means neceSSar
to insure their comfort in the undertaking, Juno
lie would be provided from the national treasury
that Government, their passage being thus secure
y to them gratuitously, and temporary accommodi
d tions furnished without cost to them on their al
a. rival at their destination. Every facility would
afforded to those DESTROYS of accepting the tern
l. proposed, and for this purpose agencies will be e
g. tabished in all the cities of the Northern porto
~ of the Philadelphia Pennsyluanian.
ne A bill introduced into the Georgia House of d
90 legates for the call of Convention to reduce th
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