The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-25

York. where an that is necessary for the Democratic
managers to do IL TO draw their order for the ma
jorty which they require, and IL Is always honored
Take that and there Is not such misg0vcrned be-
cursed. and wronged community on earth. Even
there the people are beginning to rebel against that
despotism of thieves aud robbers Whether this
ia exaggerated or not you can see what we Demo
IA WESTERN DEMOCRAT
Against such arguments, how shall we
effectually contend? A minority, we need
converts to make majority. How shall the
Democracy persuade good men, hitherto their
opponents, but now agreeing with them upon
every issue of the future, to join the com
pany or the party of the thieves of the ring?
We may point to the widespread corruptions
of Washington; their old leaders point them,
as General, now Governor, John NJ Palmer
of Illinois, successfully pointed them-to
the concentrated corruptions Of the New York
city ring.
What answerp The answer of honest
Democrats corrupt ring must be de
stroyed The answer of patriotic Democrats
this fatal ring must be destroyed.
THE FIRST BRITISH PEER IN BANK
RUPTCY.
From the NJ Y. Herald.
''Bankrupts-to surrender at Basinghall
street Henry Pelham Alexander Pelham
Clinton, Duke of Newcastle, Carlton House
terrace and Clumber Park Nottinghamshire,
u
the above extract, taken from the columns of
the London Gazette by our special correspon-
dent in that city, is that his Grace the Duke
of Newcastle was declared q bankrupt and
made to surrender" to the law and to place
on the record the fact that he could not or
would not, pay his creditors, and how and
what amounts are due to them. He is al
lowed to the 10th day of March to do it-no
longer. The first British peer in bankruptcy
1t appears an unenviable distinction, but con-
stitutes really important event in English
history. Hitherto peer could not be legally
declared bankrupt. The order of aris-
tocracy stood firm on its privilege. British
law has now stepped in in its majesty, and
decided that his Grace of Newcastle may be
adjudicated a bankrupt, his barony, titles,
and SO forth, to the contrary notwith-
standing.
The event becomes thus of great import
ance, standing out, as it will, as prominent
landmark of the progress of the European
democracy towards complete triumph over
feudalism and the law of primogeniture.
When the great Norman William FLASHED his
conquering spears from his native vineyards
to Britain, William de Villa Tancredi served
as chamberlain in the royal train. From him,
as is claimed, car.e John de Clinton, baron
of the Parliament in the year 1899, and thence
his Grace the present Duke of Newcastle. 1t
| is an ancient and distinguished lineage, great
in wars, gallant in love and famous in legis-
lation and politics. Society, as at present
| constituted, will be more benefited, however,
| by the triumph of the London tipstaff over
the coronet to-day than ever were the peoples
hitherto by all the tits and jousts and sword
strokes and revels and routs of the fore
fathers of the Duke. The democracy of
England can wait patiently, but they always
! win in the end
| The Duke of Newcastle having obtained a
clean certificate of bankruptcy, no suspicion
attaching it will stand in new yet significant
position. He will, perhaps, be debarred from
the aristocratic clubs, and thus be made eligi-
BILE for membership in the Manchester Radi-
cal Reform Association. Here he can come
out as an Englishman-a peer among his
peers and take the lead. He would thus be
able to temper the violence of Broadhead and
the rest, advance the Democratic cohorts to
measures of salutary reform, become the
Louis Philippe egaIite of British revolution
ism, and SO perhaps distance the Prince Of
Wales in Presidential canvass for votes
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