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Bethibtjtion. France Is Tranquil, Societ...
tions of society" ? Burglary is the will of God ; massacre of unoffending , unresisting men and women is also the will of God ; and the fundamental conditions of society are , " Vote for me , or—pif , paf , puf ! " M . Montalembert decides for the President because he crushes the Socialists —and plays into the hands of the priests : two
incomparable services . His letter will not make people in England entertain more amiable feelings with regard to the Church ; and yet what is it but a frank avowal of the old Catholic sentiment , which is , " Glory be unto Rome ; glory unto those who bring her the loaves and fishes be they bought or stolen j glory unto the Devil himself if he will only give back to the Church her plenitude of dignity " !
The Divine Right of the Sabre is now the creed of France . The Church consecrates it . With the Sword in one hand and the Word in the other , what can Despotism fear ? Mr . Cobden , mellifluous peaco-prophet on the tripod of a cotton bale—Mr . Cobden the wise , and "so practical" man—will answer , —Puplic Opinion ! He will tell you , in his * ' practical" way , that the peace principle is invincible , and that the cotton bales are the best armaments of a nation . We have always held that Peace should be the aim of society ; but we reject the notion of its being the means to attain that aim at all times and in all places . " Public Opinion , " too , is a mighty influence where it exists ; but on the Continent it has no existence . If one thing is plain above all others in Continental affairs at this
moment , it is that the conditions of peace do not exist , and that Public Opinion is a fiction . If the Peace doctrines be listened to , there will be Retribution fall on England ere long . The lesson of the hour is not "disarmament" and pacific reliance on the magic of public opinion ; but national preparation !—War , if needful!—outflashing of the Sabre the safeguard of Public Opinion , as the guard-iron sweeps away obstacles from the path of the onrushing train I Who but "practical " men can think of Louis Napoleon banded with the Cossacks in Europe , and counsel undisciplined
England to " peace and nonintervention " ? The " Horrors of War " are not to be averted by our being horrified ; to extirpate war , you must extirpate the causes of war . The People of England ought to be drilled , and armed , and disciplined from childhood . The People of England must be so drilled and disciplined . If they are supine , a Continental blockade , far more rigorous and extensive than the old one , will follow the triumph of the Cossack ; and then England will have to carve outlets for her manufactures with that very Sabre which is now considered so " uncommercial "—the outlets not being attainable by Public Opinion !
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HELP PROM THE WEST ! Ideas spread rapidly . How brief the time since we invoked the presence of the " Star-Spangled Banner in Europe . " The tiling was laughed at as a chimera ! A few weeks pass , nndlo ! it is on everybody ' s lips , swiftly converted into "The Anglo-American Alliance . " Kossuth readily grasped it , eloquently uttered it , and made it the guest of every hearth .
Consul Croskey , Attache Lawranee , Ambassador Bulwer , Hobert Walker , and , lastly , the Times , have successively taken it rip , approved of it , and passed it on to thousands . In this short space of time the chimera bad become a reality . The British mind had accepted it . We were actually looking for help from the West , when the Presidential Message loured upon uh , and all was , for the moment , darkness again .
" Friendly relations with all , entangling alliances with none , " is the last ollicial expression of the American policy of non-intervention . "Millard Fillniore " signed the document containing that . sentence of death to the expectation that help from the West would arrive in good time to do battle ; in the cause of European liberty . " Millard Killmore , " signing liiw last Presidential Message , signed away , as far as he could , the liberties of Europe to the < lespot , K of Europe . At the moment when the foot of KoHHiith touched the free whores of , the
traiiKsithuftic Rq >_ blitvhi « ear was greeted by the chilling Hentence , * Friendly relations , with all , entangling alliances with none . " With { ill-n-with JNicholart ? with ' FruticiH Joseph ? with " , 'Ferdinand ? , with M . Bonaparte i -Nliy , wliy hot with tho Devil himself , if profit accrue ? While the M « fcnag « wuh buhig read in the Senate of Washington the troops . of ' . the * ' Pr ince-President " were ; in poNHeMion of Pai-in , jircparod lor the lnuNHacrdtu of the ; inl und 4 th «> f Dee ' emberv And when KoHsuth had hticomv tjie ifimutitof tho iiuihoritic « of JNdw . Yoiit ,. Mr « Kivdp ,
ambassador from the United States to the French Republic , had already shown that he was a true American by declining to attend the Presidential receptions at the Elysee . Fortunately for Europe , now menaced with the rule of the knout , the dictum of Millard Fillmore can , nay , most likely will , be modified next year ; and a new President will lay down this new doctrine—friendly relations and strict alliance with Peoples alone .
There is in the United States a rising feeling m behalf of European freedom , a strong sympathy , which will one day show itself in strong deeds , for Italian , Hungarian , and German nationality . " Why should not America intervene in Europe ? Why should not the Stars and Stripes float over the battle-fields of Europe , if battle-fields there must be ? The men of the Union are bound to Europe by ties of blood , language , institutions , and religion . They are descendants of the great
European races . They have only changed their place of abode . In the great strife for self-government , they have been victorious , and they have given a ready asylum to the vanquished who went bruised and bleeding from the lands of their ancestors . " These are the sentiments of the great democratic party in the United States ; and these sentiments , so honourable to its members , are strengthened by the conviction that it is their duty , as they are strong , to help , in the coming conflict , their weaker brethren here . The New York Herald
justly calls the Foreign Policy of the Union the " Question of the Day , " and the man most likely to have the suffrages of the democratic party for the Presidency , Judge Douglas , is quite prepared to base that policy on the doctrine that America has the right , as it is her duty , to intervene in Europe , and to throw her moral as well as physical weight in the scale of liberty . The triumph of the Democratic party will be the consummation of the Anglo-American alliance .
The actual cabinet of the United States is tainted by diplomacy , is disposed to favour the Northern despots , and therefore adheres to the non-intervention policy , because it is " respectable , " and diplomatic . Even the New York Herald agrees that the present party must be ousted before the democratic party in Europe can hope for help , and admits that the next presidential election will turn on foreign policy—that is , strangely enough , whether the people of the United States will help the Cossack , or the Republican cause !
Viewed from this point the decisive sentence from the Presidential Message separates the dead from the living idea of America . The past , respectable from its origin , flickers out with Fillmore ; the future , more generous and manful , flames up vividly In the front of the Democratic party , with Judge Douglas for their chief . Then Help from the West will be possibleimminent !
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" C O N C E It T , " T II K ON L T T 11 U E "PROTECTION . " Photkction is in a sad plight ; all sensible people insisting that it \ h " dead , " and refusing credence to its gallant army of living martyrs who vigorously assert that the cause they champion is still alive . Consequently , in the full belief that the thing expired in ' 4 ( 5 , nobody will discuss the question with the . said martyrs , who go up and down armed at all points and find no foe . It is doubtless very provoking , but really there is nothing to fight about ; the carcass of the ( Join Laws is not worth a broken lance . The subalterns of the old party , so strong in lHll , may set up the mummy and bustle : round about it as vainly as the priests of JJaal round the altar of their god . Our weekly baker ' s 1 > i 11 tells us plainly when we arc ; minded to inquire , that Protection , as embodied in the Corn Laws , did expire in ' 40 ; and that , in the shape of Corn Laws , it will never rise again . But Protection in not only dead—it is decomposing ; and the elements of which it was composed are taking other forms . What lonnn it may ultimately take we cannot precisely nay ; but the ineethvg of biNt week frirnislius hoiik : indication ' s . Mr ' . J 5 all , of tturwell , instead of crying- victory or dV ; ath , ' eiiey yicliory of wholesale emigttiliofi ; j , hul vj . Corn LayvH . or desertion , ' of ^ our country ,, Mi ; C ^ yKy , \| V <^ Hley , a Suff ex | nan , bl-Hcurdy hints at a revolt of tenaht-farmeiH , wldo are to take their own cause into their own h | ind $ . | jor < l JStanliope poMitH to Koinethilig li ( ce universal wuuiag ' e , an < l taj ^ n of " Kenubficaniym "uh prevailing ! , ainong , tlu > . iumuuN m inajiy coimtic . q .., Mr . Alexander Cumpbell , a dinciplo of Itobext . ihveiji .
these islands . We have constantly called the attention of the Country Party to this principle it was advocated by one of themselves , a gentlel man present at the meeting last week , Mr . George Pelsant Dawson . In the principle of concert we have again and again asserted , lies the germ , not only of success for a party , but of safety for the nation . The only " Protection " possible now , or just at any time , must be found in that principle which is the foundation of society , Concerted as opposed to isolated action , Association as opposed to efts-association ; and , we ask , what section of Englishmen have a fairer chance of reducing this principle to practice than those who own and oc «
vaguely shadows forth an insurrection ofTT ^ demanding fair wages and certain emplovrnpn ^' the name of Protection . Mr . CrSSTSSl disciple of Mr . 'Owen , demands X ' ri 2 & ther r " citizenship . " And only those Parliament persons who know the value of diplomacv E t ? Duke of Richmond , Lord Malmesburv and T a Berners , adhere to the old vague illusory crvf protection to British industry , meaning protection to British corn . Never were signs of disWni ™ tion more prevalent in any party pretending to £ one and indiviS 1 ble with a single aim and purnoi But the crowning indication of disruption is fi , nished by Mr . Paul Foskett , who denounces both free trade and competition , and lets fall the ma ^ word cooperation as expressive of a princi ple in tjh development of which lies the future welfare of
cupy the land ? Protection , meaning a duty on corn , is dead ; but the Protectionist party , the landowners , landtillers , and land-occupiers of England—these still exist . As a body their importance was not lessened by Corn-law Repeal t as a body they are still one of the great elements of British society ; as a body they may yet shape the course of British policy . But it must be as a body . Not , as under Corn-law rule , the landowners monopolising nearly all its transitory benefits , the tenant-farmer enjoying
very few , the agricultural labourer none . No : if the Protectionist party would again be a great active power in the State , it must adopt the principle of concert in employment and concert in distribution ; nay more , it must recognize the labourer ' s right to that " citizenship " which Lord Stanhope and Mr . Cramp demand ; it must raise the labourer from the sty to which he has been hitherto consigned by landowning- rule , and it must make of him , not an animal in the receipt of wages or poor-rates , but a man .
The Governmental Departments. I.—Thk Pit...
THE GOVERNMENTAL DEPARTMENTS . I . —Thk Pitivv Council . According to the original constitution of the British monarchy , as Mr . Hallam observes , the King had his Privy Council , composed of the great officers of state and of such others as he chose to summon to it , bound by an oath of fidelity and determine
secrecy , their duty being to discuss and all matters of weight relating to both internal and foreign policy . From this body , i ' aw in number originally but increased from tune to tune , tnc Sovereign selected his more confidential adviMiis , known as the " Cakinkt Council , " although it was not till the time of William 111 . that the distinction of the Cabinet from tho Pnvy Council , and the exclusion of the latter from the onlmaiy business of state , became an established thing-1 . tiih <; aiuni : t .
This , strictly speaking , i . s neither more noi l < -sthan a section of the Privy Council , charged vit the Executive Government , the members ol wi _ are called " Advisers of the Crown , " or " Mini * . ' » of the Crown , " and the chief of whom is caHU the " Premier , " or the " Prime Minister . ¦ fc competent to whoever is charged with the con ^ of the administration by the . Sovereign , to ]» ' - , „ ..,. „ ,,,. r «» t . « : i « lw > .. leases into the CalHiiei , •» sis he pleases into U » e k , u . uw » , - ¦ t
many persons self generally filling the office ; of First Lord ol Treasury , with which has sometimes bee that of Chancellor « f 1 . 1 «« ^ ' "" I "' " ' , , ,,, Warden of the Cimp . e Ports . There hav » * eases in which the Minister , exercising ""''' " ^ power as adviser of the Crown , has I 1 ( j , Vim * Lord of- tl >» Treasury or . , n < m J Prime Minister , " « * " tho . v **» . ot Lord -Mum Waft Secretary of Ht . » tf ' . * the time when Jh . gr military HuciWcrt ; ft 11 * W wM < _ * £ J il . c peace , of . tfM ' . >^ acl . Jeve I ; and . 1 U . ** whe ' n he , formed tho Government . » I 7 «<» . » ^ W ly . the * office of J , onl 1 ' nvy ^ \ Jl V , loW irallJuwt fh iti « . gwiWW . «¦ W . oabcr-that ,, M » V iW '
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 20, 1851, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20121851/page/12/
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