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"The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness 13 the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavotir to throw down all the barriers erected between men . by prejudice and one-sided views ; and , by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development ot our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cysmos .
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W E accuse tlie House of Commons of breach of trust . It has acknowledged its duty to the country , only to forfeit that duty . The session is within three weeks of the close , and Ministers succeed in staving off any attempt at interference with the course they are pursuing towards America . The House of Commons has at last been induced to move , but it Las been set aside with ease , and has practically pronounced
itself incapable of vindicating the public interests , of acting on behalf of the nation which it professes to represent . How stand the facts ? Ministers agreed to a plan for enlisting soldiers in North America ; they permitted Mr . Joseph Howe to go O" ' . t as their agent to the United States , they placed him in communication with Mr . Cbampton . Mr . Crampton and he employed Hertz , Strobel , and other persons , to induce men to leave the United States for the purpose of
enlisting at Halifax . The Neutrality Act of the United States forbids the enlistment of persons by foreign powers within the Union , or the " inducing ' of persons to leave the territory in order to enlist . Mr . Joseph Howe was authorized to proceed to the United States for the purpose of breaking the law ; Mr . Cbampton was instructed to assist him ; Mr . Howe and his agents did break the law . But our officials then tried to back out . In effect , Ministers declared to the
American Government , We did not intend to brenk the law , we only intended to evade it . We forgive you , cries the American Government , since on your word of honour you disclaim the intention of breaking the law ; but Mr . CaAwrTON and the Consuls under him have broken it , and therefore we shall kick them out . The English Government puts up with that treatment , but still bears a grudge against the American Government . Before the Ilowia expedition , Ministers were
warned that they were about to act illegally , and that the act would get us into hot Avater ; a lawyer of the Union , who was consulted , stated that the proceedings would be an infraction of the American statutes ; the Governor-General of Canada is said specially to have ¦ warned Mr . Ckampton of the effects of his conduct : Ministers , therefore , were deliberately misconducting themselves , getting us into difficulties witli the Union , incurring disgrace for themselves , and risking the friendship of the two countries , the immense commerce of the two ,
the property of citizens in both , the employment of our factory population ; but when the question was put to them in th «| gjilouse of Commons , the officials said , These matters are in progress , and it is against the rule to interrupt the Executive . Thus members were silenced . The affair is now in great part over ; we have the facts before us , we have ascertained that Ministers and their agents did worse than we supposed them to have done ; but now , when they are questioned , they say , Do not meddle with this subject , because it is purely retrospective , and the interest has past . This is the way the House of Commons is always bamboozled —no other word will fit the process .
But Ministers cannot desire to bamboozle the House of Commons half so much as the House of Commons desires to be bamboozled . Notwithstanding this plan of dodging dates , Mr . Moore , who has an old grudge against Lord Clarendon , resolved to have it out with him , and brought before the House of Commons a resolution censuring Ministers for their conduct in the enlistment business . Now there are a dozen men so called
Liberals , who arc extremely anxious to friendly relations with America . Ministers have told those persons that if they would keep quiet , and help to keep the House of Commons quiet , the Ministers were only anxious to avoid conflict with the United States . The baker ' s dozen of independent members have been talked over ; and on Monday night up rose Mr . William Brown and Mr . Ewart to beg off the debate .
The conduct of Ministers was correctly described by several of the speakers , but by none so correctly as Mr . Gladstone . They could not , he says , separate themselves from Mr . Cbampton . Mr . Gladstone , indeed , might have challenged them to produce their price / te communications with Mr . Crami > ton if they affected to separate themselves from that diplomate . For their private communications would in fact show the real character of the instructions sent out . Mr .
Gladstone , while characterizing the conduct of Ministers correctly , —while making them responsible for breaking the American law and becoming entangled in a partnership with Stkoijkl , the Russian spy , —declared he would not vote for the resolution , because it was " abstract , "—because , if carried , it ought to turn out the Government ; and ho was not prepared to find a Government in the place f The House of Commons declared , through the mouth of Mr . ( Jladstoni :, that this Government ia a bad Government which breaks
the laws of a valuable ally ; but the House of Commons , the grand , inquest of the nation , the agent for the people , equally avows by its vote that it cannot help itself , and that it is quite willing to go home for the holidays , leaving that bad Ministry in office , unchecked by any debates in Parliament . The House of Commons negatived Mr . Moore ' s motion by 274 to 80 ; and that is the meaning of the division .
The Government had had another success , as we explained last week . Mr . Dallas has placed himself at the mercy of the present Ministers . If they have broken the law of the . United States , they must have equally broken the spirit of the gentleman representing the United States ; and he must be a convenient instrument , by which they may either gain some advantage over the Union , or get up a little rupture with the Union . He , that committed Minister , is "
authorized , " as Lord Palmerston has stated this week , " negotiate on the Central American question . " Now a large portion of the public unquestionably desires that question , which is of no English importance , to be closed at once . We assert , and shall be prepared to prove it , that opportunities of closing have been presented . Those opportunities have been deliberately passed by . Let one peculiarity in the last official manifesto on the subject be noticed . The American Government propose to refer the questions of political
geography upon which it turns to scientific men , the men whose business it has been , irrespectively of the litigation , to ascertain how the real facts are , in point of geography , colonization , and history . Lord Clarendon replies that our Government agrees to refer the subject to " arbitration , implying that tho arbitrator must be some other power , not a scientific man to pronounce upon tho facts . Now the American Government has already said that no European Government would be in a position to pronounco a satisfactory judgment . While professing willingness to refer the
subject , therefore , Lord Clarendon only consents to refer it in i \ mannor which ho knows the Americans will refuse This is of a piece with al ) tho rest . Since the question can only be decided on the strength of facts , justice , and good > Qtt 3 e , there can l > u no disadvantage whatever fii bxingjng . the whole of the negotiation before the public * , 'Fhepe is a great disadvantage in their boing Becrot , ffinco n if our Ministers desire more to embroil the . mattcr , and not to close it secrecy will cjmlxl © thorn to
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Leader (1850-1860), July 5, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05071856/page/1/
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