New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-07
BRITISH PROGRESS AND AMERICAN E1-
AMPLE,

BRITISH PROGRESS AND AMERICAN Ell
. AMPLE.
The recent Conservative gains in Ene
land show that country not prepared
advance as far or as rapidly as the Libers
or Radical element wishes. In thes
party terms may be seen the deferenc
which every representative government
obliged to pay to popular sentiment Tn
doctrines of James l. and of Jack Cad
have been in conflict for centuries. Th
advocates of divine right of the Kim
have been compelled to drop the obnoz
ious name of Tory, identified with tn
arrogant pretensions of king, lords anf
clergy, and adopt the unexceptionabl
term conservative"
Those who claim that the executive
should be periodically elected by the popu
lar vote of all who bear arms, think the ar
istocracy-and especially the landed arts
tocracy should be repealed, and thei
deer parks cut up into small farms, under
the plan of Joseph Arch, and our friend
Mr.. bennett, are not willing to take the
name Of Radical, SO they christen these
| just measures under the term ''Li beral,
to which no one except Tory can posi-
bly, object.
There has been no civil war in England
for two centuries We except. Of course. the
| succession wars. or rebellions in Scotland
in l715 and l7i5. The conflicts in Eng.
| land have been like our own, conducted
through the press and at the polls. but
the triumphs Of civil and religious liberty
have been very signal. and if this progress
continues, the government of England
will become like our own. representative
republican union. It requires little 20
effect this. If the English people secure
for themselves the rights Of suffrage and
of property. as the same rights have been
acquired by the colored people OF the
United States. they will very soon enforce
those amendments to the comm on and
national law known as the British consti.
tuition. A king chosen by the people
Bradlaugh claims that they have never
been chosen in any other way)--
freedom Of civil and religious
opinion the repeal of titles and tythes.
and Senate and House OF Commons in
which all the states Of the British en-
pire would be represented according to
some uniform simple. as based on
or compounded Of numbers
and taxation such is the obvious popu-
lar destiny of England. 1t is subject of
just pride 70 all who love the American
republic. that few subjects of England.
prosecuted for religious or political
opinion. or excluded from the possibility |
Of enacting the doctrines of Milton and
Hampden into law. went out into the viii. |
derness. Like the fugitive law-maker of
Israel. they have published code that
has been adopted by powerful and en-.
[ightened nations. The success of the |
experiment. in peace and war.
has enabled the European friends of free
dom to point to an example in daily OPP
Grafton in which the value Of principles
once denounced as radical" are demon.
,trated to be conservative"
We can not exactly define the difference
N principles between Gladstone and Dis
,aeli. but imagine it is about such as dis
,inguish the American Democrats and
= confined chiefly to the
opinion that each could draw the official
alary and perform the public duties Of a
political opponent better than the oppo-
lent himself
It is for the reason that the friends of
liberty everywhere have their gaze fixed
lpon the American scene. that our promi-
lent actors should be circumspect. Our
olored friends should remember that mil
ions of men in England are still debarred
uffrage and civil rights. and occupy the
political positions from which our colored
have been recently liber-
ted Every iniudicious measure Of
egislation in which such OF our fellow.
itizens may cooperate. even innocently
nd ignorantly. will be quoted to prove
hat class heretofore held in political
ondage in other countries can not be
afely liberated under the example Of our.
elves. Our colored fellow.citizens will
that the more people set free
nywhere, the more friends and protectors
re assured them. They will remember
ne powerful moral aid given to enamel.
alton by Wilberforce and GARRISON, or
y Mirabeau or Constant. and repay this ,
aid by proving that it was !
isely given and gratefully received. [,