Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-02-01
WHOLE NO. 1872.

| VIII pTouuce Increased SpOllaJlOn
| There is nothing to stop you. You
| Constitution is all sail and no anchor
| As said before, when a society ha
entered on this downward progress
either civilization or liberty must per
ish. Either some Caesar or Napoleon
will seize the reins of government
with strong hand, or your govern
ment will be as fearfully plunderet
and laid waste by barbarians in tn,
twentieth centary az the Roman En-
pire was in the fifth, with this differ
ence. That the Huns and Vandal
who have ravaged the Roman Empir,
came from without, and that YOU
| Huns and Vandals will have been en-
gendered within your own country By
your own institutions.
Thinking thus, of course | cannot
reckon Jefferson among the benetac
tors of mankind. Ireadily admit that
his intentions were good and his abili.
ties considerable. Odious stories have
been circulated about his private life
but do not know on what evidence
those stories rest, aud / think it prob.
able that they are false or monstrous-
y exaggerated. have no doubt that
| shall derive both pleasure aud infor-
nation from your account of him.
have the honor to be, dear sir,
your faithful servant,
T. B. MACAULEY.
III. S. RANDALL. Esq, ETC., etc,
HOLLY LODGE, KENNINGToD,
OCTOBER s, 1858.
SIR. = beg you to accept my
thanks for your volumes, which have
Just reached me, and which, as far as
can judge from the first hasty iu-
spection, will prove both interesting
and instructive.
Your book was preceded by q let.
ter, for which L have also to thank
you. In that letter you expressed
without the smallest discourtesy,
very decided dissent from some opin-
ions which | have long held firmly.
but which | should never have OBJ
traded on yon except at your owl
earnest request, and which | have
no wish to defend against your OBJ.
Jeotlons. If you can derive any com.
fort as to the future destiuies of your
country from your conviction that o
benevolent Creator will never suffer
more human beings to- be born than
can live in plenty it is q comfort OF
which | should be sorry to derive
you. By the same process of rea
soning one may arrive at many
very agreeable conclusions, such a.
that there is no cholera, no malaria,
no yellow fever, no negro slavery, in
tho world. U"for tunotuiy fe- nae,
perhaps, | learned from Lord Bacon
method of investigating truth dia-
y8dTipplEr qGaoni2aitJAU f.rop lbftb Jw! Which
ly aware of the immense progress
which your country has made and is
making in population and wealth. |
know that the laborer with you has
larger wages, abundant food, and the
means OF giving some education to
his children. But | see no reason for
attributing those things to the policy
OF etferson. | see no reason to be-
lieve that your progress would have
been less rapid, that your laboring
people would have been worse fed or
taught or clothed, if your govern
ment had been conducted on the
principles of Washington and Ham
ilton. Nay, you will, | am sure. ac-
knowledge that the progress which
you are now making is only con-
tinuation of the progress which you
have been making ever since the
middle of the seventeenth century,
and that the blessings which you
now enjoy were enjoyed by your
torefathers who were loyal subjects
of the kings of England. The con-
trast between the laborer of New
York and the laborer of Europe is
not stronger now than it was when
New York was governed by noble
men and gentlemen commissioned
under the English great seal, And
there are at this moment dependen-
cies of the English crown ia which
all the phenomena which you attrib-
ute to purely democratic institutions
may be seen in the highest perfec-
ton. The colony of Victoria, in Aus
trslia, was planted only twenty
years ago. The population is now,I
suppose, near a million. The revenue
is enormous, near five millions sterl.
ing, and raised without any murmur-
ing. The wages of the laborer are
higher than hey are even with
you. hmm nse sums are ex-
pended on education. And this is a
province gOVeTHcu Wy UIIO d~i~S-.- I
an hereditary sovereign. 1t therefore
seems to me quite clear that the facts
which you site to prove the excellen-
cy of purely democratic institutions,
bat to causes which operated In
America long before your Declaration
of independence, and which are still
operating in many parts OF the British
Empire. You will perceive, therefore,
that l do not propose, as you thought
to sacrifice the interests of the present
generation to those of remote genera
tons. 1t would, indeed, be absurd in
nation to part with its institutions
to which it is indebted for immense
prosperity from an apprehension that
after the lapse of century, those in
stitutions may be found to produce
mischief. But / do not admit that the
prosperity which your government
enjoys arises from those parts of yonr
polity which may be called, in an es'
pecial manner, Jeffersonian. Those
parts of your polity already produce
bad effects, and will, unless | an
greatly mistaken, produce fatal effects
| if they shall last till North Americ'
has two hundred inhabitants to tht
square mile.
With repeated thanks for your ia
vor, l have the honor TO be, sir, your
faithful servant,
MACAULEY.
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