The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-04-06


rest of individuals and violations OF the
right of personal liberty. But 1t Is NOT
in its treatment of individual citizens
alone that the tendency of the admins
tration to the assumption of monarchicA
powers is plainly apparent Encroacif
ments upon the reserved rights OF tho
States have been almost as common az
outrages upon personal liberty during
the past four years. and gradually 2
scheme of Capitalization is being devet
oped which is designed to swallow up
the powers of the several State govern
ments and make the States themselves
bear to the Federar government rela-
ton somewhat similar to that which
counties bear to States. So manifest has
this tendency become that it is attract
ing the.attention of European politicians
who are already ipronohncing RepubiI-
can institutions failure and pointing
to the relapse of our government intp
something very like monarchy, for con-
firmation of their belief.
In a recent debate Oh American Al
fairs in the English parliament, Mr.. DIS
RAELI, the leader of the tory party in
England, commented upon the changing
form of our government in a manner
which showed that the change was pecu-
liarly gratifying to his high tory opin-
ions. He is close observer and reasons
skillfully. The following passage from
his speech is worthy of the careful at
tention and thought of American citi-
zens:
But. although these are my opinions
generally, cannot conceal from mysef
fSaf reru great changes hare taken place i,l
4meriod of late years, and these changes 4
hare reason to beliere arc not regarded ~
this House rih sufficient seriousness, mhite
in mn opiRiou they amount to no less than a
rerolTtion. l will ask honorable mem.
hers TO recall to themselves the state OF
North America when we met in this
House four years ago. That portion OIL
the world was then divided among what
we may call three great powers-first,
the United States of America; secondly,
Canada. and the settlements and Deepen
denotes belonging to our own sovereign;
and thirdly, Mexico, n country which
certainly did not possess much political
mower, but which i'll extent, resources,
Fertility of soil and mineral wealth, was
almost unequaled i'll the world. In every
one of these three divisions there have
been immense changes. In the United
States civil war has ragged for four
wears, and even if that war should ter
inmate, as the honorable member for
Bradford suggests, | cannot believe hat
ICE shall see the same society and form 81
oorerameat established, or eren, u the form
Be tho same certainly the spirit wiN be altered,
as existed before the GIRL rGr commenced -
(Hear, hear) We must rccollect that
even if the Federal government should
be triumphant, it will have to deal with
most perple1ing questions and with a
discontented population. | need not
dwell much upon the then state OF the
southern community but the slave pop
ulation will then be no longer slaves
there will be several millions of another
race emancipated and invested with all
the rights of freemen, and, so TAR as the
letter of the law is concerned, they VIII
be Oh equality with the Saxon race, with
whom they ca possibly have no sympa-
thy. We know from experience and
practice that there is difference between
those who are recently emancipated and
that will not call il II superior race,
because that might offend honorable
gentlemen opposite "a langh;) nor will l
call il an inferior race, but a race that
is not identical with the other. Moth
inc tends more to the discomfort
of a people than that they should be
in possession OF privileges aud rights
which practically are not recognized,
and which they do not enjoy These are
the elements of political discomfort, and
il is possible that when this war is over
the American government may have to
deal with great masses OF discontinued
population. To do this successfully you
must have a strong government. What
does that mean2 Why, you must have a
centralizing government; and the Amcri-
can government have found 1t necessary
to have recourse to the centralizing prin-
ciple during these events. The govern.
ment must have an army at its command
in order to maintain the order and unity
that il is bound to uphold. These are
the elements that cannot fail to produce
great difficulties in the United States,
even if they come triumphantly out Of
the struggle in which they are engaged.
But what is the position of The colonies
and dependencies of her majesty in that
countryl Four years ago, when this
struggle broke out. there was very little
in common between them. The tie that
bound them to this country was almost
one of formality; but what has been the
consequence of this great change in North
America - You have now a powerful fed
Grafton, with the element of nationality
strongly evinced in it; they count their
population by millions, and they are con.
scious that they have a district more fer
tile and an extent of territory equal -
the unappropriated reserves nfthe United
States These are the elements and prog
nostics of new influences that have
changed the character Of that country.
The operations of the "centralizing
principle" Of which Mr.. DIsgAEII speaks.
have long been noticed ;nid commented
upon here and repeatedly the people
have been warned that the form and
spirit of the government was undergo
ing change We are in the midst Of q