New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-14
THE ARIsTOcRACY OF ENGLAND

THE ARISTOcRACY OF ENGLAND.
1t is not surprising that an alien reared
on brown bread. and honored with hold.
ing open gate for a nobleman on horse
back, should regard his native country as
superior to any other. and should return
to it whenever he has accumulated money
enough in America to do so. We expect
of such people unlimited admiration of
| the wealth and splendor of the aristoc-
racy. and other institutions of royalty.
When, however. Americans. inspired by a
prejudice against some ephemeral admin
istration. or deluded by some transient
opportunity Of observing the galvanized
glories of European monarch or hier.
archy. habitually denounce their own
government as failure and the par
ticular administration which may have
defeated their party as corrupt,
We set it down to an unlettered
inability to appreciate the defects Of for.
eign systems or the merits Of their own
We say deliberately that no man who had
ever read Of the oppression and corruption
of other forms Of government would ever
desire to return to them. No man who
knows the fact that the United States has
derived her whole population Of forty
millions by emigration from foreign coun-
tries could expect their people to return
to forms of government which their an
cestors had crossed the ocean to escape.
England is now fighting "radicalism.'
What is the definition Of that word which
every established interest in England
holds in such dread? It is to enlarge the
rights Of the white people to equality. It
is to give suffrage and education to the
people and to relieve them from the obi
cations of law which make the white
laborer even more a slave than the South
ern negro ever was, because it taxes his
labor without even protection. or care in
infancy. age or infrmity. 1t is to COM
bine the nobility. gentry and reverend
clergy against pious friends Of the people
who come to repeat the services of Luther
and Wesley. against the opposition OF
bigotry and pride. which can learn noth-
ing.
The English papers give small speci-
men of the light in which that bulwark of
the church and crown, the standing army,
regard the people. Colonel Valentine |
Baker. Of the Queens Tenth Hussars,
availed himself of the privacy Of locked
car on an express train, to make an i'm
moral assault upon a young woman,
member Of an untitled but respectable
family. She resisted this offense even at
The risk Of losing her life in clinging to
he outside ofthe car, while the speed and
boise Of the train made her cries in
audible. The majesty of the British law,
which recognizes the rights Of the people.
!rrested this audacious scoundrel, and has
ent him before the tribunals to answer for
he wrong. Had he met with one whose
we for these uniformed hirelings prevent
d complaint OF compounded exposure.
he adventure of the car at high speed, the
'roken bell wire, the unconscious and
'erhaps unconscionable attendants on the
rain, would have made jocose story for
the Army and Navy Club" to which the
anciful Colonel Valentine Baker belonged.
In the large population Of the United
tates there are, without doubt, some who.
d their contempt for everything Repub-
can, consider standing army with a
fe tenure of commissions an admirable
and would pardon such pecca-
illoes as that Of which Colonel Valentine
'aker stands implicated, upon the ground
hat an aristocracy should be sustained in
IS supremacy over the common people.
Tho are honored by even vicious recog-
ition on the part of such noble order
S the officers Of her majesty's army.
We are proud to say, on behalf of the
.nglish people. that they have so dug
way the privilege by which the orders Of
ociety have been supported that they
opple. and with few more years of
merican example may cease to trouble
lie country. The peoples courts have I
ken cognizance Of Colonel Bakers Of
nse. and although his obsequious attor-
ey speaks of him as "a gentleman whom
honor" yet the bold testimony of the
'mmon people who witnessed the peril
the lady, with the brave protection ex-
nded her by substantial men of the mid
e class. encourage US to expect the trial =
I'd, in case of proven guilt. the summary
1nishment of Colonel Valentine Baker.
enth Hnssars, royal army Of England. c
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