The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-27

can affairs, and especially on American poll
Tics, are often ridiculous compound of
ignorance and prejudice. Anthony Trollope,
who can write good story, and disentangie
with philosophical olearness the complex
involvements of fashionable novel, has been
inspired with an ambition to instruct the
world in regard to the governmental affairs OF
this country. His first attempt was made in
1862, in his work on North America which
he began by praising the infamous
attack of his mother upon what he
terms the "social absurdities'' of this
country, and by promising that he would fol-
low up the genial task bequeathed from dam
to son, by explaining that those alleged absur-
dities were the ''natural result" of the 'politi-
cal arrangements of the United States. An
indication of the feelings with which he re-
garded this country when he visited it in
August, 1861, is given by his statement that
he Certainly did think that the Northern
States, if wise, would let the Southern States
go;'' and by his epitome of the views enter
tanned by his countrymen at that period, as
he understood them, viz.:-" These Western
cocks have crowed loudly we said; too
loudls for the comfort of those who
live after all at no such great distance from
them. 1t is well that their combs should be
clipped. Cocks who crow so loudly are
nuisance. 1t might hare gone so far that the
clipping scould become worb necessarily to be
done from aoithou. But 1t is ten times better
for all parties that it should be done from
within; and as the cocks are now clipping
their own combs, in Gods name let them do
it, and the whole world will be the quieter."
He confesses that this "was not a very noble
idea," but that 'it was natural enough" and
this is no doubt true of the arstocratic classes
of England and their toades. From a critic
thus blinded with hereditary hatred, jealousy
and prejudice, but little was to be
expected. With him the wish that the Union
would be destroyed, was father to the thought
and it is therefore not singular that he asserts
in the most positive manner that it cannot be
perpetuated, referring to this supposed fact,
in the true spirit of British selfshness, mainly
as guarantee for the loyalty of Canada He
thus announces our downfall:-"It is becoming
evident from the present circumstances of the
Union-if it had never been made evident
by history before-that different people with
different habits living at long distances from
each other, cannot we'll be brought together on
equal terms under one government. That
noble ambition of the Americans that all the
continent, north of the Isthmus, should be
united under one flag, has already been thrown
from it's saddle. The North and South are cir
tuaHy separated, and the day OU come in Vhich
the Vest also wiH Secede. AS population in
oreases and trades arise peculiar to those
different climates, the interests of the people
will differ, and a new secession will take place
beneficial alike to both parties" We reproduce
these extracts rather to show Mr.. Trollope's
animus and his folly than for any other
purpose. 1t is scarcely necessary to direct
attention to the signal failure of his predic-
tions. Not only has the South been recon-
quered and the West identified in feeling and
interest with the Atlantic States more thor
oughly than ever, but new acquisitions have
been made to the far northwest, and if "the
noble ambition to control the whole CONT
nent of North America remains ungratfed it
is only because the people feel that it is bet
ter and wiser to wait until the pears are fully
ripe than to snatch them prematurely from
the tree. The Fenians could give US Canada
any moment that we chose to bid them un-
loose their dogs of war, and Mexico can be
gobbled up whenever we are prepared to
digest her haciendas and silver mines.
Notwithstanding the amusing failure of Mr..
TrollOpe's first attempt to cast the horoscope
of America, his late visit to Washington as au
agent of the postal department of the British
Government has melted him to a second effort,
which was contributed to the Pail Mall Gazette,
and republshed in the TELEGRAPH few days
ago. 1t is perfectly natural that man who
thought the Government should have tamely
surrendered to the demands of the Rebels at
the outset, but who nevertheless, rejoiced in
the contest between the North and South be-
cause the combatants were being mutually
weakened, and who considered the success of
secession a mere question of time, should now
denounee the Congressional policy of recon
struction. With all his folly and mistakes,
tagOnism to the true interests of the Ame-
rican people. 1t is scarcely necessary to
analyze in detail his new series of misrepre-
sentations, absurdities, and predictions. He
reproduces in a condensed and distorted form
the ideas prevailing among the followers of
IA.ndrew Johnson, with whom he was natu-
rally thrown in contact by his official duties at
South by post, which is on its face an evident
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