The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-09-17
DIR. NELL AT RED WING,
His Lecture on the Evolution of t
Democratic SDirif

His Lecture the Evolution of the
Democratic Spirit.
RED WING, MIMI, Special, Sept 49,
This evening, by request of citizens of Red
Wing, DR.. E. D. Neill, Of Manchester COL
lege began a course of lectures on the de-
velopment of the American government
and institutions. The Introductory lecture
was on the democratic Element OF the
English People,
He noticed that the only evidence OF Roman
occupation IN London was the fragment OF a
stone wall in one OF the old graveyards. When
the soldiers sailed away every Roman law, GUS
tom and Institution expired. In time tribes
cupied the is and and were known as the Eng
lsh. before whom the Britons retired to the
mountains ofWales; Their laws and instieu-
tons took TOOK; root and are the germs OF our liber-
ties: William, the Norman drove away the
English head men, and gave their lands to his
warrior baro1s, but he did not modest the COM
mon people, nor change their Language, and in
time the Norman element was absorbed, and
the descendants became more English than the
English themselves.
The conflict OF the English barons by which
they secured Magua Carta from King John was
Tor self-preservation but they buded better
than they kneW and unGonsciously prepared a
ceedlng century asserted the rights OF the people
through their representatives until James the
FIRST OF the house OF Stuart, was crowned. Ed
'ucated but not cultured, whimsical and dog
matte, ne began reactionary movement, as
serted the divine right OF kings and hereditary
snes Of Which called like forth E t5e rs
John Hampden, and led to the beheading OF
Charles. his on.and successor This violent act
cooled the ardor OF the more thoughtful, and re-
tarded the cause OF popular liberty. A military
despotlsm was -lnaugurated under Oliver Crom-
WELL followed by restoration of the old mon.
archy under Charles the Second. When James
the Second ran away from England, William OF
Orange, the grandson of the defender OF liberty
In the Netherlands, and by his mother grandson
OF the beheaded Charles, was invited to the
throne. He wa: the man for the place, and his
During his reign advances were made ior the
benefit OF the people.
First-The. Judiciary was elevated by appoint
ing judges learned in the law and for life
Second-Acts' OF partial Liberation in religion
We're passed.
Third new institution was created called
the cabinet. OR ministry
ished.
In the days'of the second Charles there were
only two small newspapers-the London Ca
zette, which contained meager news items but
no comments and the Observator, which gave
some comments but fewer items. When William
was on the throne the letters of the press were
broken: Newspapers OF weekly issue sprung
the London Post, the Old Postm asters and soon
after his death appeared the first daily called
the Daily Sourant. From this time the people
began to speak out. without fear OF fine or the
whip, and their voice to anxious statesmen
seemed the voice Of God, unit! now in the words
OF all American poet
Empires to-day are upside down.
The castle kneels before the town.
The monarch fears printers froWn.
brickbat's range"
The throne is now secondary to the house OF
commons Victoria only signs it's DEGREES. tits
not 1mprOba that ii a century the jeWeled
crown OF England may be venera BILE relic de-
posted IN a glass case in the British museum.