The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1867-11-30


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insnce theF can aHosd y snkeMim oe4sen11e
at inc power OF hnsland nd Etanos ~
gfaceiuily accept the sympathy Of kuesia
ana ms iessef nes&hbof the Suit1n. Eoe|nn1
fr&aces with their Lesser satditaA ~ sa1isr
ned % watch and waiti hoping. md indeed
oei'ssings that our system o. esvsrnnsnt
cannot exlss . century. knssis would m
Their see the American systsm snccssd than
that IL snould degenerate into . monsrchy ;
for AuE3ca, a. q Fspuhlis IN lave ne gym
pathy with EurepeAn moparcLical instifn-
tons. nor y shs interested 10 renodsllinG
the map Of Europe, nor tbs dismsnbsrmni
VI any o. To &nfepsan sfafss. me heredi-
1ary psiiey 81 knssia . opposed 70 noEar-
'chies she believes In but two systens--AT'
istocracy and Dsmocracy-And whws he
former cannot succeed, she pssSers The latter,
hence her ffiepdship for The Rspublie d
Washinton. An alliances betwssa ell he
European powers, ~ against Ahssioa. b I
great improhabiiity--ahAost m impoMdbility
admitting the possibility Of such an ssent,
their own jealonsies, arising from .conGictine
interest, wonld net allow It to be permanent.
Il Ia clear, ihen,. that there 10 40 danger to
Be appsshendsd from the old or outside world.
II Is not 50 clear though, that there y moi
danger from within. While circumstances
allows n to bid defiance 70 shs world, w
have nursed power (msnsyl within our
selves, until the Asfsling. becoming strong,
throws OF iis swaddling clothes and thrsas.
ems its pressnitor ~ath destruction. With
in the rseubl;c "A has vxined atreneth and
powsr !. ana power once Obtained a moi
readily relinauishsd. Power is Of tws hind.
legitimate and illee,timste. In In sr,si.
cation TO government It il legitimate. wnar
"a is delegated. and illegitimate whsa n /,
assumed or usurped. An frs eoyernmsnt,
are invested with legitimate 10 YER. and MI
oonsolsd.taf or s.ntrazixed rovsrninents srs
founded "a ;lligidmats power |; therefore,
where the one vista there 10 khsrty, hsppi.
ness ane nrosPsEitys and whsss the eth.a
exists tnsre Is tyranny, oppression ana pow
srty, Il requires but little rejection 70 con-
vince the csndid mind that ilisgitimsts powss
IS rapidly gaining ths sscsndeacs iB this re
public. it pesvades through oil classes o.
society; We see i in our corporate c0nma'
mites, in our banking institutions, In our
state legislatures. and in cur congressional
halls Our leading journals IRE preparing
she public m,nd 10 accept il, and the leading
men af the state are infaaastsd with its dslu.
sions. Political parties am 10 szesptisr ID
they, sszaxdlsss Of the consequences, are benl
on the destruesioa ofssch eshAr.
There Ia in our mids. /. clAs.sf nen,xh,
call themselves . states whose A.ys h