Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-03-14

} the head of the army; but Lord Butte il
effect is. / mean that every prefermen
given by the crown will be found still Il
be obtained by his enormous influence
the Scottish faction. The nation is still il
the same deplorable state, while he gov
erns, and can make the tools of hi
power pursue the same odious measures
Such retreat, as he intends, can only
mean the personal indemnity, which,
hope, guilt will never find from an in
jured nation. The negotiations of tht
late inglorious peace and the excis,
will haunt him wherever he goes, and the
terrors of the just resentment which ht
must be sure to meet from brave an in
suited people, and which must finally
crush him, will be forever before his eyes
'In vain will such minister, or the fou
dregs Of his power, the tools of corruption
and despotism, preach up in the speech
that spirit of concord, and that obedience
to the laws which is essential to good or
der They have sent the spirit of dis
cord through the land, and l will pro
phecy that it will never be extinguished
but by the extinction of their power. Ii
the spirit of concord to 60 hand in hand
with the peace and excise, through this
nation? Is it expected between an in
solent excisemap, and peer, gen.
tleman, freeholder or farmer, whose
! private houses are now made
liable to be entered and searched at
pleasure? Worcestershire, Hereford
shire, and in general all the cider coun-
ties, are not surely the several counties
which are alluded to in the speech. The
spirit of concord hath not gone forth
among them, but the spirit of liberty has,
and noble opposition has been gwen to
the wicked instruments of oppression. A
nation as sensible as the English will see
that a spirit of concord when they
are oppressed, means tame submission
to injury, and that spirit of liberty
ought then to arise, and | am sure ever
will, in proportion to the weight of the
grievance they feel. Every legal attempt
of a contrary tendency to the spirit of
concord will be deemed a justifable re-
sistance, warranted by the spirit of the
English Constitution.
"a despotic minister will always endea-
vor to dazzle his Prince with high-hown
ideas of the prerogative and honor of the
crown, which the minister will make a
parade of firmly maintaining. / wish as
much as any man in the kingdom to see
the honor of the crown maintained in q
manner truly becoming royalty. lament
to see it sunk even to prostitution. What
shame was it to see the security of this
country, in point of military force, COM
pllmented away, contrary to the opinion
of royalty itself, and sacrificed to the pre-
judices and to the ignorance of a
set of people, the most unfit,
from every consideration, to be con-
suited on a matter relative to the
security of the honse of Hanoverp
wish to see the honor of the crown re-
ligiously asserted with regard to our
allies, and the dignity of it scrupulously
maintained with regard to foreign
princes. Is it possible such an indignity
can have happened, such sacrifice of
the honor of the crown of England, as
that minister should have already
kissed his majesty's hand, on being APP
pointed to the most insolent and migrate
full court in the world, w!thouta a previous
assurance of that reciprocal nomination
which the meanest court in Europe
would insist upon, before she proceeded
to an act otherwise so derogatory to her
honor? But ElectoralP olicy has ever
been obsequious to the court of Vienna.
and forgets the insolence with the Count
Colloredo left England Upon a prin-
ciple of dignity and economy, Lord Stor-
mont, Scottish peer of the loyal house
of Murray, kissed his majesty's hand, 1
think, on Wednesday, in the Easter
week; but this ignominous act has not
yet disgraced the nation in the London
Gazette. The ministry are not ashamed
OF doing this thing in private; they are
only afraid of the publication. Was it
tender regard for the honor of the
late King, or of his present majesty, that
invited to court Lord George Sackville, IN
these first days Of peace, to share in the
general satisfaction which all good
courtiers received in the indignity offered
to Lord Ligonier, on the advancement
of-? Was it to show princely graft
tude to the eminent services of the ac-
complished general of the house of
Brunswick, who has had so great share
in rescuing Europe from the yoke of
France; and whose nephew we hope
soon to see made happy in the possession
of the most amiahle princess in the
world? Or is meant to assert the honor
of the crown only against the united
wishes of loyal and affectionate people,
founded in happy experience of the
talents, ability, integrity, and virtue of
those, who have had the glory of re-
deeming their country from bondage and
ruin, in order to support, by every art of
corruption and Intimidation, weak, dis |
Jolnted, incapable set Of will not call |
them anything but mlinisters-by whom |
the FdcOrite still meditates to rule this |
kingdom with rod of iron?
The Stuart line has ever been intoxi- /
Gated with the slavish doctrines of the
absolute, Independent, unlimited power of
the crown. Some of that line were so
weakly advised, as to endeavor to reduce
them into practice: but English the ma
ton was too spirited to suffer the least en-
croachment on the ancient liberties of
this kingdom. "The king of England is
only the first magistrate of this country;
but is invested by the law with the whole
executive power. He is, however. re-
sponsible to his people for the due exc
cution of the royal functions, in the
choice of ministers, etc, equal with the
neanest of his subjects in his particular
1uty. y" The personal character of our pres
INT amiable sovereign makes us easv and
happy that so great power is lodged
n such hands but the Favoriet has given
90 just cause for him to escape the gem
raj odium. The prerogatirc of the. crown
s to exert the constitutional powers en-
rusted to it in way not of blind favor
'r partiality, but of wisdom and judg-
nent. This is the spirit of our constitu-
ion. The people too have their preroga-
iUe, and hope the fine words of Dray-
len will be engraven on our hearts:
Freedom is the English subjects preroga-
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