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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to iceep things fixed when , all ttie world is by the verylaw of lfcscreatioain . eternal progress . —Db . Arnold .
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THE DUTY OF TO-DAY . The objects of the war are undefined to those who regard it aa a crusade for liberty and civilisation . They are undefined to those who regard it as undertaken for diplomatic purposes , always shifting as circumstances change , and perpetually reconstructed ^ " out of the ashes of others which are floating in the air . " But to us they are defined simj > ly and sharply \> y the lines of the Allied armies round Sebastopol . The nation undertook the expedition to the Crimea to destroy the
[ Russian stronghold in the Black Sea . Whether our blood and money might not have been better expended is another question . " We stone , with the -whole resources of our empire , and in conjunction with our ally , before the ramparts of Sebastopol ; and honour , fidelity , and policy alike require that we should persevere tilL we have taken those ramparts or proved that they are impregnable . All thoughts hut victory are out of
the question for the present . The Peelites and Lord John Russbxa have probabl y ^ brought themselves to believe that they besieged Bebastopol only to coerce Russia into granting them a paper treaty of limitation , and that this paper treaty of limitation being granted the siege may be raised . History , recalling their denunciations of the " standing menace , " will fix them with a different design . They designed , and liord John Russelt , at least boasted of
his design , to obtain from Russia the only limitation of her power ¦ which is worth an hour ' s purchase- —the actual diminution of "her meana of war . [ But their hearts fail them , not unpardonably , at the eight of so
accomp heard for peace . We believe the . present Government to be really , as well as professedly , united in their determination , and undisturbed bv any of those differences of opinion which it is the patriotic object of Mr . Disraeli to evoke and display to Europe . No doubfc there must have been discussions on the Austrian
prise is lished can their voices be much blood and such wreck to civilisation ; and the recollection of their original design accommodates itself to their present feelings . They , however , like their colleagues who still remain in the Government , must persevere in the enterprise for which they are responsible , and not till that enternviDO ia nstsi / vmitliatto / l nfl . 11 thpiT Voices be
propositions , but into these discussions neither friend nor foe has a right to inquire , provided they have ended in unanimity ; and the malicious anxiety with which such inquiries have been made in the House of Commous merely shows that the spirit of faction reigns uncontrolled in that assembly , even in the most extreme peril of the nation . The Government stand , if not strong , at least united before the nation , and in the face of Europe ;
they have triumphed gallantly , if not greatly , over all attempts to shatter and displace them ; they are clearly , for the present , the only Government we can . have ; and , therefore , it seems our duty and interest for the present to support them . The Roman Senate » ave a profound lesson of policy as well as a high example of magnanimity to after times , when they thanked the general who had lost Cannae for not having despaired of the Republic . The old Premier does not crush his
assailants like a great man ; but lie parries their furious thrusts with high-hearted bravery , showing some English stuff , and verifying the Duke of Wellington ' s saying , that his dandy officers were his best soldiers . We could reprobate his levity in a national crisis more cordially if it were not hypocritically reprobated by men within the House of Commons who deal themselves , at all seasons , in libellous satire and coarse invective , and who assail the buoyant old man with intolerable insults at the same time
that they sanctimoniously exhort him to speak with the gravity of a judge . If anything is more calculated to excite a reaction in his favour than this , it is the attempt made to condemn and ostracise him for maladministration to which he was not really , though he may have been constitutionally , a party , by men who , since the facts , have Bought for their own ends to associate him with them in a Ministry , and offered to act under him as leader of the House of Commons . The
technical plea that the facts known before to all have since been logally certified by the finding of the Sebastopol Committee , is a subterfuge which only serves to show that those who use it are conscious of their offence . To offer to combine with a man in the most confidential relation , and , when he refuses , to
take part in visiting him with infamy for things done before the offer was made , is a proceeding for which there can bo but one name among men of generosity and honour ; and nothing but thd forensic manner in which the ATTOBNEY-GENEHA-ii put the point could have prevented its having tho duo effect , even in the House of Commons .
The late appointments , too , have given hopes of better things , and improved the position of the Ministry in the eyes of all but those whose dreary vocation it is to growl at everything without discrimination . The mass of the nation will cheer tho Premier on in I the good path upon which he seems to have entered . With our statesmen as with ourselves , the generous acknowledgment of good
actions is quite as potent an instrument of reformation as the denunciation of bad ones . The other parties are nowhere . The great majorities on the Confidence questions ^ though they were not majorities for Government , were majorities against anyone else . The Tories are avowedly divided ; tho more respectable members of the party refusing to > commit themselves to the factious manoeuvres which are suggested by the craving appetites
and shortsighted cunning of their leader . Tho Peace party are impracticable . The Peelites , opposing as ex-Ministers the prosecution of an enterprise which as Ministers they originated , are very weak , if nob in a sinister position ; and they seem to have fallen under the inauspicious guidance of Sir James-Graham , whose moral weakness leads himself alternately into panic and bravado . A combination of the three sections is as
impossible as the accession to power of any one > of them ; though , so far as JVfr . Disraeli is concerned , there is no living thing with which he would not combine to oust the occupants of the Treasury Benches . In spite of the customary malignity of party imputation , we have no doubt that the coalition against the Turkish Loan was unpremeditated and transient . It is , then , in face of aonanifest necessity
that we preach the political duty of supporting against a foreign enemy a Government which its rivals are unable to replace . We have watched the struggle of parties with the coolness of bystanders , and , as citizens , we acquiesce in the result . An appeal to the people for better men , we are firmly though sorrowfully convinced , would not bo responded to at this moment : the men are not ready for the people if the people is ready for them . We should have the old
fanaticisms , the old party cries , the old attorney organisations—a two months' anarchy , a scandal in the face of Europe , and no adequate improvement . We must promise ourselves , and try earnestly to prepare for ourselves , better things hereafter ; but for the present wo must make the best of that which our own past conduct has given us . As the Ministry has fairly survived public
opposition , we must uphold it against the attacks of personal envy and malignity ; wo must treat it as the national Government , and endeavour by generous treatment , and something of that loyalty which ought to dignify commonwealths as well as despotisms , to exalt it before Europe and our enemies , and to infuse into it the majesty and spirit of the nation .
Vacancy Of Her Majesty's Opposition. The...
VACANCY OF HER MAJESTY'S OPPOSITION . The Queen is not likely at present to " send for" any public men , for a reason which tho people should ponder . There is in reality a poBt which is preparatory to that of Minister , and all posts of that kind at tho present moment are vacant ; we mean the seats in
" Majesty ' s Opposition . " There is no such body at the present moment . Persons in the House of Commons set themselves up to speak in the name of great public interests , and raise a pother about the demerits of measures emanating from Ministers , ormake obstructions to the passing of resolutions and bills whenovor they can ; and votes of censure have been lavished this session . A Member
cannot entertain conscientious or party objections to the course proposed by Cord Pai > merston , JCord John jRusselx ,, Lord Aberdeen , or any Minister in or out of office , but he must turn round and < ask the House of Commons to adopt his sentiments in a formal u vote of censure . "
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Leader (1850-1860), July 28, 1855, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28071855/page/8/
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