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990 THE LEADER. [Saturday,
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990 The Leader. [Saturday,
990 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —De . Abnold .
England, France, And America. If Any One...
ENGLAND , FRANCE , AND AMERICA . If any one of the many statesmen amongst our readers about the country will take the map of the World , and fasten his eyes upon certain conspicuous points of it , he will see the centres from which great movements are going forward . In the extreme west and in the extreme east there is the reciprocal movement of the United States and China . The United States settling the shores of the American continent , and
receiving into those new settlements an immense draft of Chinese . In China itself , on the other hand , while the English have established a fortified power on the island of Hongkong , the Americans have established very friendly relations with the natives . By favour of these friendly relations , the Americans are pushing their commerce greatly a-head of ours , and are , in fact , preparing that species of intimate alliance between peoples which may have the very greatest consequences in the future . That America and China are to be allied by the closest ties
is scarcely a prophecy so much as a calculation , and it is far from impossible that those ties may be of an official nature . England is gradually extending her boundaries in India , increasing her population in the colonies of Australia , South Africa , and North America ; but not , it is to be feared , proportionately increasing her political hold \ ipon the allegiance of these colonies , especially in North America . On the borders of Canada the election agitators of the American "Whig party aro raising an anti-British feeling , very detrimental to the prospects of a continued connexion between Great Britain and her
colonies in that quarter . Those movements are of old standing ; if comparatively recent in their developments , the causes belong to yesterday , and not to this day . Much the same may be said with regard to the American movement southward , within the bounds of the continent . Cuba , Mexico , and the countries beyond , seem destined to lull beneath the southward march of the Anglo-Saxon federation . It is true that politicians in the United States declare that " they do not want Mexico . " It is true that many do not Avisli for territorial accession : but hitherto the
march of events lias been too great for individual wishes in the American republic . America annexes in spite of herself , and will continue to do ho ; nay , the last accounts from America show that the candidate for the Presidency whose prospects were not of the best , has thought it desirable , for the purposes of bis canvas , to rouse amongst the American citizens in the valleys of the Ohio and the Mississippi the remembrance of the military achievements by which new provinces have been added to the Union ; and at .
the same time , avc hear , the press has been rousing the spirit of jlii ( i-Brit . isn enmity and of Canadian annexation , to which we have already alluded . ( Jenenil Scott ' s friends aro raising a kind of " omnium gatherum" in their favour , comprising the popular interest show n in JV 1 rs . Harriet- Beecher Slowe ' s I hide Tom ' s Cabin , the anti-British agitation of the North , the Mexican glory of the South and the West ., and the . Free-soil spirit of I lie new States .
Two results are evident from the present agitation : one in , that the spirit of aggressive conquest which animates the American people is too great for the reserve or the reluctances of individual men amongst them , however intelligent ; is so much too / jfresil , that t he candidate for the Presidency is obliged to fall in with thai spirit , rather than resist it : the second result is , thai as the Whig candidate for the Presidency is rousing the anti-British spirit , his succoss will
be so far an anti-British , success ; and proportionately the success of the democratic rival may be counted favourable , and an enlarged spirit of friendliness between the two countries . In the opposite part of the world , of eastern and central Etfrope . Austria , alarmed at symptoms of national indignation , which her oppressions are exciting , is endeavouring to crush the spirit which slie rouses by new oppressions . She is moving her immense armies to back the
subjugation of constitutional Hungary and of Italy by a new subjugation ; clenching her oppression by a new oppression . Her armies become the machinery of her taxation , of her administration in detail . Austria , it may be said , is now in the act of a new and great military aggression on the countries of Europe which are already subjected to her rule . She is the centre of one of the great movements—a barbaric military movement , which is not stationary , but is advancing .
Nearer to us is the realm of France , now in the act of making itself imperial France , and of raising to the supreme power that singular adventurer who inherits itfie name of Napoleon . He professes peace , with a great threatening of war should he be opposed ; and we know that he has prepared the means of aggression . We know that he gives to the ships which have been built for purposes of rapid and aggressive warfare , names hostile to this country ; and we
know that the common talk of his household is that of a dashing attack upon the English metropolis . The form in which these threats come forth is not such as to oblige him to fulfil them . He may waver . If the fortunes of his game should make England a pliant tool in his hands , or should leave him too weak to cope with England , we shall have peace . Peace will therefore depend , in a great degree , upon the two opposite extremes which England may choose for herself . Tf she consents to be the absolute tool of Louis
Napoleon , she may be the ally of France , may have the protection of Franpp—so long as it may be the interest and pleasure of his Imperial Majesty . On the other hand , if England should be strong , she may defy ike aggression of France . If she should be firm , the military movement , which the destinies of Louis Napoleon will compel him to make , may be diverted against other lands and other powers . England , indeed , may in part help Providence to dictate the course of his armies ; and the great power which he is collecting may be turned more or less detrimentally , more or less beneficially , according to interests more powerful than his own .
Amidst these great movements , England alone remains tranquil and neutral . The movements arc too great , they are becoming too impatient , for her to expect that she shall be able long to maintain that neutrality . Belgium alone is an ally whose welfare might draw her into the European contest . But there are two very powerful allies whoso co-operation she can command , if she appeals to them . Those two allies arc , the people itself in such parts of Europe as desire to be free or constitutional , and the United
States of America . If England were to appeal against the barbaric aggressors of . Europe to the people of Europe , she would have an ally throughout the greater part of the continent ready to aid her , locally and generally , with heart and soul . If England could but maintain a sincere and friendly attitude towards the United States , that powerful remiblio would side with her in
upholding the cause of liberty throughout every approaching commotion . 1 he choice of her position , therefore , in the crisis which threutenH . Europe , depends upon herself : it depends upon Die degree of insight amongst the people , upon flic amount of activity in the people , and upon the proportion of influence which the people may exercise over the formation and action of its
own ( Government . If the ' English people chooses to require a national ( jJovernment , it is certain that the materials of a national ( government can be found . If it chooses to see with its own eyes that this Covernment maintain a national course of conduct , it can exact such a course of conduct ; and if it should so befal that our Government would be compelled and authorized to earn tho confidence of the United States and of the peoples of Europe , and would be able to dictate for . Europe a glorious freedom , followed by a not less glorious peace .
The great policy which might be wielded from the court of St . James ' s , consists in the principle of relying upon the highest motives of human
nature , and also upon a practical principle of statesmanship , setting one influence to antaeomV « another . The sole enemy that could menate on * commerce would be the United States . If our commerce were not menaced , but defended bv the fleet of that ally , while Europe was fiohtinJ within itself , England and America might con duct the commerce of the world , and earn th supreme position to share it between them . "We have often said as -much as this before ; but we again invite the reader to survey the map bv tht *
light ot the news which he has read this week and last week , from Vienna , from Italy , from . Paris , and from New York . If he does not by that survey understand the policy which is possible and incumbent upon , the Government of England , nothing that we can say further can make him . To us the path appears as plain as the course of a steamer from Liverpool to New York .
William, The "Miles Gloriosus" Op East S...
WILLIAM , THE " MILES GLORIOSUS" OP EAST SOMERSET . llfaut plus d'un diner pour sinstruire . It takes a good many agricultural dinners to teach us the stuff the " Farmers' Friends" are made of . "We only hope the turnipocracy are satisfied with the language of their chosen oracles ; if they are , we Free-traders and " destructives" have no earthly reason to complain ; and we are certainly not invited to hold in esteem our extremely sincere and disinterested opponents . If the " friends and neighbours" who were patted on the back last July by the squire and the steward , as stout
British yeomen , and what not : —who were summoned to save the Crown , the Church , and the country by their independent suffragesyin return for a promise of artificial prices and starvation to the million , by act of Parliament ; if , we say , these poor misguided innocents are now requested to persuade themselves that Protection is past and gone without recall , impossible , and even if possible , not advisable , —that they must look to themselves , and put their own shoulders to the wheel , —whose fault is it , we confidently ask , and at whose door lies the charge of false pretences and breach of promises ? We—their enemies forsooth!—told them as much before the
elections as they are now told by their friends ; and it is not for men who spoke the truth in July to eat their words in October . Agricultural gatherings have set in of late , with their usual autumnal intensity—this year with a more than common public interest accompanying the after-dinner orators . We are bound to say , that after close attention we can detect in all the speeches yet delivered , whether in Bucks , Worcestershire , Rutlandshire , Essex , or
East Somerset , absolutely nothing but one - versal " sell . " That vulgar but expressive monosyllable contains the whole nett produco of all these melancholy manifestations . In South Bucks , almost within earshot ot Ilughendcn manor , the rustics wero gaping f ° their man of men ; but he came not—no . came not . " Immersed in public business , ' said ^ ' 14 / j ^ A * ^ ' J" - ™ * s »* V jfc . . s ^* - <* m at m ^* ' m . v * * _^ ¦ *_* — —¦ — _ _ ^ _ - - ^ — - — . 1 ot
the apology for absence , received with a fry " Walker ! ' " sufficient to prove , at least , that the prophet baa no honour in his country—at Jcast when he dines at home . In Worcestershire , tne final abandonment of Protection was proclaimed by as many as three Protectionist representatives , and with an unanimity quite touching . J ' [ Rutlandshire it was the sanie sing-song , tn 0
same refrain . At classic Castle ITcdingliam , no leas a personage than the Right Hon . William Beresford , commonly known as W . B ., acknowledged the toast or her Majesty ' s Minivers with that tact and t « wu j which the-mention of his name imp lies- — " " ' speak of his grammar , which docs no ( lis (; ro ( to a colleague of Lord Mahnesbury . WI "« » the crumbs of comfort to tho fanners that J < from the lips of estimable W . H-H " It lias been nuid , and f sai / miindy said , timt »<<»
Majesty ' s ( ioveninicnt mine into office «]><>» 1 } •' *> - > . in up * " * ciplcH of "Protection , and that , having «<» " « ' m ^ - ^ those principles , they have adopted the tenets <> _ ^ adversaries , nnd have Kci / . ed hold of and " n ! lM * , Hlt carry out all the dogmas of I'Yee-tnidc . I " ' ) , „ ha * position in tola . I know no reason that any n « / tunny that the ( Jovermnont uro 1-Yec-tradorH : ^ ^ dm , / the other position also , that they did e ' ™ Hionm the ' . slit / htest det / ree upon the jrrineij des oj * ' ™ ' t ' That is a . strange thing for us to sat / , but tt < ts ^ true . ( Hear . ) There were causa * which op « i » - ' ^ produced it ; but for one whole year prcccai h
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 16, 1852, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16101852/page/10/
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