New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-19
DEMOCRACY IN LONDON.

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Square. When it was young and wickedly ygor-
Gus. the queer old women who create public opln-
ion in England alwayfdcnounced it as dangerous
and diSeputable; and it is only now when It's
vices have brought it to premature dotage, with
no yrility to improve its ortuitous conquests that
they have suddenly grown in love with its SIAM
mering speech and shattered corporation. Our
readers must pardon the incongruity OF The tgure'
for the sake of that eIpasculation which can only
thus be indicated. The London Times suffers IT.
self 10 be cheated by maioritics, as fortune-hunt
ers allow wealth to hide decay and iniirmily; ana
f.nccs that if the Democratic Parry were once
more dominant in Congress, our leuds would DC
in fair way Of adjustment. This Is an eminent
instance of forgetlulness and forgiveness. De-
mocracy has proved its political skill and pure SIN
glenass of purpose, by utterng bitter SANDERS and
bittcrer truths whenever its policy has clashcd WIN
that of England; by taking the lead IN every de-
haze in which that country has been severely
handled; by formal and perpetual Recommendations
of monarches aud aristOcracies; by avowing IL
self from lis Presidents down to its bob-ta ut the
polls, always and upon principle and unrelen'ingy
the enemy Of the British Empire. Nor has the
favor been unrcpaid. Wings and Tories IN the
Imperial Parliament, if they have united in noth-
inc else, have agreed that American Democracy
was but another name for license, aud the
synonym OF anarchy. Can any one doubt, when
Tire Times thus suddenly shifts its kcy-noie and
4. In L., % s,sl.a n
the popular party in America, that il cares for
nothing but n change in the Administration, aud
patronizes our opponents because they would be
least likely, if in oicc 20 negotiate lasting and
honorable peace II is strange that even the
most distant observers should 80 soon forget that
four years OF Democratic Administration, with
ltilo or no check upon policy which had ior iis
sole object tie conservation and the consolidation
Of slavery and It's m.nufest interests failed 10 pro-
piiate those cousPirato.s who mean TO mount mp
on southern passions and preiudices into perma-
ncut oligorcfy. II is TRANCE that fact 20 modern
in history as the ASSASSINATION Of the Democratic
Patty, by is Southern members should be forgot
ten. AIe tics, members likely to consider as yalu-
they likely now TO heed in the heat OF insurrec-
tou, voices 10 which, in the camncss and
socmnity Of high counsel, they turned an utterly
dcafeari We DO not question tie willingness OF
Northern Democrats % do whatever service the
leulal lords Of the South may prescribe, Us the
tenure OF old tugs 90 ihc treasury tcats. Bat how
ever willing the Seymour party may be TO be
bCrgh., the Rebels arc not yet desperate enough
ic ,ry them What, indeed, could a new Admin
j.. l.n Of ihe bad Buchanan variety Offer, which
could tempt these traitors back to loyalty Wh'i
with haiiy violence they rcp.tiiatcd their Consti-
iutona. obligations, the Shareholders gave up
legislative aud Iud.cHl power fr greater than that
Of the North but s,iil not great enough to satisfy
their most unreasonable app.hics. It was not
enough or them TO be- potent in practice, Int they
insisted upon being considered omu.poleut in
theory. We caEgnt aud surrendered their lugi-
tigcs; We gave them iu spite % prescription
lnirer chance IN the ness Territories than $50 re-
served tor oursely,s; aud wc hesitate not 10 shy,
that 10 ,hc moneut Of the Rebellion, ii we except
the pressure uson il by the progressive moral
sense of The world Slayehoding never was safer,
never mogc profitable 10 States where Il was by
law established. Within the limits Of the Consti-
tuition. upon the mos. liberia, construction, Slave
holders could ASK tor nothing moro than they al
ready possessed. II was no. brcause they were
d satisfied with existing securities that they r.
yolird; hut because they could no longer bear m,
moral dissent Of the conscientious and enlightened
North Nor of the North alone. by the violence
Of their demonstration. and BY the Inconvenience
10 which it inevitably subjected the commercial
world. they sought 10 set aside that indignant YER
diet which WA cycpw here making up against
them. They instituted an experiment rot only
upoa the morality through the material Interests,
OF tho rec states. bat upOn the integrity of Great
Britain. IAcy rcyo.tol not against the Federal
Government, but against thr Christianity Of thc
Nineteenth Century. Strong ia their monopoly OF
q single agricultural staple, they boasicl oi their
power 20 change tho religious convictions of great
empires, by sordid appeals and pecuniary telnpta-
toAs. The Northern States Of America were no,
to be delulcd into even quasi mdursemcnt OF
cruelty aud barharism even By old associations
and cherished traditions, aud still less by gross
,sil direct appeals TO the pocket But the man
owners were more fortunate abroad, where We
should have supposed the speculation would have
been more desperate. It is at this juncturc that
England inyokes the AID OF her old cnomics, The
American Democracy, and icnpts them 10 an ut-
ter abncgatou Of honor aud of honesty. II is now
IN sput OF pure se!dshness that she hints to
them, that by baicd breath and whispered hum