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276 THE LBADEB. [Saturday,
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276 The Lbadeb. [Saturday,
276 THE LBADEB . [ Saturday ,
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a'O CORRESPONDENTS . During the Session of Parliament it is often impossible to find room for correspondence , even the briefest . No notice can be taken of anonymous communications Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily ' for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . Communications should always be legibly written , and on , ' one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them . We cannot undertake to returnrejected communications :
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because thereis nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law oi its creation in eternal progress . —Dk . Arnold .
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THE CHOICE OF ISSUES . If Parliament is to recover from its disgrace , -and the elective Government of England is to be anything nobler than a shuttlecock for the Times , it must be through a union of the Illiberal- party . Iiiberal principles iare now the established principles of England . Tories counterfeit them when they hope for place . To the great body of Liberals power of right belongs ; and . they only can govern England long , peaceably , or with honour . Even supposing the Derbyite leaders personally were less abject than they are , Derbyism could
only remain in office bix months by a repetition of the rogueries and humiliations of 1852 , which clearly would not add to the moral strength of parliamentary institutions , and which , we presume , even the best of the Derbyites themselves would wish to avoid . The- old -Tories , —in—whom — the . „ aristocratic honour and spirit of the party lingers , must have begun to see that when principles contrary to their own are comp letely in the ascendant , and have become the rule of government , their only respectable place is that of drag : they cannot , without infamy , be the wheel . .
If anything that now exists is to form a government that the people can love and any inau of intellect can respect , it must be the Iiiberal party—the whole party , and with real men to lead it . Lord John JJusselIi must be made aware that he does not fill the intellectual world with thought , or speak words of fire ; and that great and beneficent as "Whiggery has been in its day , its shade is not ample enough for humanity to repose under for ever . He must be made aware of
this by decided and . manly representations m the councils of the party , not by peevish recriminations in the House . He must be reminded of the long catalepsy which we enjoyed under his able and historic leadership from 1846 to 1852 , and asked whether he conscientiously thinks that Mr . Veknon Smith ought to be a Liberal Minister before John Bright . Lord John is really a man of some high as ' pirationa , though oi limited intellect , and helms taken part in some great acts of political justice . But he was brought ; up and has always lived in a Whig hothouse Bafe from the rough winds of heaven ; and we may charitably doubt whether anybody has ever told him plainly that it is mean and
selfish , and damning to his name in history , to sacrifice everything to his own small pretensions and make a Lilliput of liberal England that a pigmy may be king . The leading Manchester men ought , of course , to have been Ministers long ago , as the authors of that commercial policy on which the Whigs and Peelites rode into power ; and were it not for their Quakerish views about the war , they ought to be
Ministers now . But we presume that Mr . Bright and Mr . Cobden , whenever they meet a man of high culture , must feel that they cannot expect to govern England by themselves . A nation does not live by bread alone . With great respect for material interests and their representatives we cannot consent to retrograde from Locke and Milton to a republic of pumpkin pie . The thing could not stand six months against the sentimentalists and satirists . Besides ,
the sympathies of master manufacturers with the people are not unlimited . Manchester must borrow cultivation of the philosophical Radicals , and lend the philosophical Radicals in return the stamina and working power in which they are signally deficient . We are afraid it is premature to talk about the contributions which may be expected from the Peelites . Some of that set ( let them give up the notion that they are a party ) have probably realised their position and know that they could not act for a week with men who prefer
established institutions to truth and justice , and class interests to the good of the people . But others , -of them , in spite of strong discouragement , still hang about the purlieus of Toryism , and still cant of Conservatism ; as though it were not the best and only practical Conservatism heartily to join the cause of political justice , and to ennoble and moderate its advance . It is simply disgusting to hear Mr . Gladstone , with his lights
and experience , saying that the best thingjbr England is that Lord Derby should form a government of Nobthumbeeiands and Pa .-kingtons , and that he , the heir of Peel , should support it . The squires made Lord Derby apologise for having been willing to touch Gladstone with a pair of tongs , and they did well . We are glad , and by no means , surprised , that :.. LpxiI ) ERBY ^ s . chjyalry _ was equal to the required operation .
We do not want to get up a party for vulgar party purposes . We are not writing in aid of Mr . Hayter ' s whip . We merely wish to put things before , politicians as they are . Parliamentary Government has come to a real , not a rhetorical or editorial crisis . Some people , whom we would not prudishly condemn , are inclined to think that we had better accept our destiny , and look out for a Dictator . The only alternative , however , ( unless the Derbyites get in and make a coup
d ' e * tat ) is such a reconstruction of the Liberal party , and under such leaders , as shall give us a strong and respectable Parliamentary Government . Fate and nature may forbid that we should ever have a strong and respectable Parliamentary Government again ; but selfishness , jealousy , prejudice , vanity , and obstinacy , ought not to stand in the way . Party , in the base sense , is , we hope , dead for rational beings , though it lives for protectionist squires . But still , men may act
sensibly and generously together for a great national object without sacrificing their intellectual independence . Liberals may learn . to tolerate and respect one another . Liberalism is simply the thorough-going love of political and social justice ; and that allegiance may unite men of various training , various , casts of mind , various connexions , and , therefore , inevitably of various shades of thought . We are aware , of qourse , that it is easier for us to see this , than for members of the House of Commons
to act on it . Ambition as well as prejudice there stands in the way . The feasibility of the thing is not our present topic . We only insist on its necessity , and point to the alternative if it fails .
Hungary, Italy, And Poland. The "Suppres...
HUNGARY , ITALY , AND POLAND . The " suppressed nationalities" are obtaining more attention as the growing prospect of war renders peoples more valuable to Governments ; but it is desirable , on every account to notice the distinctions that exist between those which are on every patriot ' s lips Hungary , Italy , and Poland . There is truth in the declaration that , no nationality which is worthy to exist , can be suppressed . It will be able to sustain itself against even a stronger power , as the cases of Scotland and Switzerland can tell ; but in these cases , the moral citadel lies in the devotion of the patriots , who are actually prepared to die rather than to submit ; and such men it is impossible to conquer . A great combination was brought against Hungary in 1849 , -when Russia joined with Austria ; and Hungary had before sustained her nationality bravely , developing her liberties with a generosity that did credit to all parties . Nevertheless
it is true , that the numbers of her population comprised different races , ene predominant and the others subject ; that although her " nobles "—that is , the dominant race—had given up some of their most odious privileges , such as exemption from the bridge tax , they had not given up all , including amongst those retained a species of villeinage in the holding of land . It is Austria who has abolished that and other ^ class distinctions
it is Austria who has rendered all _ equal before the law , has introduced railways , and placed Hungary in a position to develop her material and political resources , if she knows how , in a generous way , to make Austria ' s need Hungary ' s opportunity . Her nationality , therefore , is not under the oppression of Italy or the extinction of Poland , and her separation from Austria would seem to be , in the opinion of statesmen , a positive loss to all .
The case of Italy is quite different . Here the defect in the nationality lies in the survivin ^ force ~ of ~ tlie different '" stirpes . " Mixed as the races are , still the diversities introduced by Albanian , Etruscan , Greek , Ligurian , Venetian , and Teutonic , blood , have been sufficient to prevent the unity of Italy . There has been no subject race ; but the divisions are , in many cases , territorial . The power of confederation has been small ; yet Italy has often been united in two halves under
Pope and Emperor—the Guelph and GHubelline parties ; and it would be difficult , our" diplomatic liberals say , in the present vile condition of the Eoman and Neapolitan rule , to calculate the effect of reviving a Ghibelline party , if Austria were to imitate in the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom the House of Savoy in " Sardinia , " or herself in Hungary and Bohemia . Italy has been suppressed under a conspiracy of Governments who could bring into tho field aggreeither
gate armies greater than any which state could possibly muster . Tho genius of the Italian race—which predominates far over the diversities of stirpes—still survives ; Italy still is a land of arts , learning , patriotism , and political wisdom ; and every people in Europe longs to see the Italian people emancipated . " Che sara sara , " as tho 11 ouse of Boaford says . Italy and Europe wait , as Mnazini says , " Ora e sempre ; " and tho Piedmonteso show , as . Tuscany , Home , Calabria , Naples , and Sicily have done within any " statute ot limitations , " that Italy still has tho power ot action . A happy train of circumstances in
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Leader (1850-1860), March 24, 1855, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24031855/page/12/
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