HARPERSWEEKLY
Vol. III.-No. 106]
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1859
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in this course (in this country the opinions of the their great historians-Bancroft, and Prescott, and Mot-
there ley. But if you ask how free popul
masses were rather
is no doubt but the English people did not coincide
than against
continent, you are denounced as unpatriotic, and, at any
mte, treasonable to t
became inten
hester at the general elec-
men, from the report
con
s to
in all the sovercign
ependent
have proposed to-night. There is
is, therefore, only forty-seven years of age at the et of nembers to the electors; and there is
e States, the protection of the bal-
find law,
popnlation i
and the introdu
forts and abundance such as a
Br
hich have nev
known in any country in any age of the world
e people in t
we refer abov
Now Lord John Russell, a short time ago, was at Liv
Associstion,
me to be errors in principle, some that are errors in prac-and he made a speech, many parts o
tice, in the Constitution and the customs of the United most admirable and instructive. He referred to America
n two partienlars, and showed how, in the States of New
York and Louisiana, th
our
from America but cotton, and rice, and tobacco,
aws had been codified and sim-
And, in fact, we do take a good many other things.
himself perfectly acquainted with the law
eminent
1 machine from America
a regard to land and landed property
ith which to make brie
ture of this country has been greatly advantaged by the | on annatter of this kind) w.hy an old country-I do not
importa
ussell is not afraid to look
tion of reaping machines from America.
own words-should be compelled to continue a
know that those persons who are going about system which was not necessary, and which it was foun
a revolution have particular reason to so adv
be delighted with America, because they have received
moment, in the Government small-arms establishment
at Enfield
e United States of
eriea to proceed in their wonderful career, upheld by
t popular institutions, without serious distur
making gun stocks. They ean turn out a gun stock
I quote another nobleman-a most estlmable man,
a dreadful thin
sure that Mr. Miles, if
not lon
too--a man who has done in 1
s protectionist principles have
of the United States-the
o hear thet people and the
Earl of Carlisle
America was fresh in 1
English how to work them. But there is much morerom which I have taken
behind. The Times, The Morning Star, The Daily Tel
egraph, and the
their elections, he says:
leading newspaper i
anchester Daily Examiner, with, I believe, two or three
of the widely-cireul
Elections may seem the universal business, the top-
: but these are-at least, with but
London weekly papers, a
en, or, being made in this
s country, were made on the mult, rudeness, or disorder; those
see rere the most seda
And further than this-don't you re- imagine.
member that the West-Enders, ineluding even Iadies, bear an active, and I believe,
e Free States, at least, the people at large
have been subseribing ten guineas apiece to invite
he concerns of internal government and praetical
rmer from Ohlo to show them
And then, speaking of the
ition of the peopl
charmi
Whittier, and eaid-and you
now how fir it corroborates, how far
t and instruct yourself by
d-he says:
STATUE OF SENATOR DOUGLAS, BY LEONARD
LK, OF CHICAGO.
ure or not; and his portrait, in connection with his
late speeches, can not but be interesting to the peo-
ple of this countr
THE STATUE OF
SENATOR DOUGLAS
otton-spinner by trade, the head
& Brothers, of Rochdale
of the firm of John Bri
engrave herewith the statue of Senator His first appearance in public was abou
Douglas, which is being sculptured by Leonard V
the admission of foreign
ll be remembered by all our subscribers that into Great Britain free of
aristocra
52 of the Weeklg, democray or he coun
being
nence.
i on foreign bread
ive
to charge more for thei
r demanded cheap bread at all1
t the hands of the A
nist
and the Bright was soon known as one
prospect t
most conspicuous public position in the country,
combine to render his "counterfeit presentn
peculiarly interesting to the p
honesty, and his energy secured for him a leading
place among the chiefs of the movement; h
Corn-Law League;
e league prev
Mr. L. W. Volk, the author of the statue, is a
lished, Mr. Bright
the honors of the
essionn
hree years previously, in 1843, he had
Crawford, a Powers, a
chosen, at each session, to move the free-trade res-
utions. In 1847 Manchester selecte
representative.
sat for that eminently demo
JOHN BRIGHT, ESQ
minority, won the repute of being the most eloque
When
TH
that of one of the greatest and best Englishmen of out he took decided ground against it. He was
ich accompani
present one of a deputation of Quakers
engaged in a fierce contest with ma
ed upon the Emperor Nichol
uted question protest against the action of the Bri
JOHN BRIGHT, ESQ., MEMBER OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT
whether democracy in the United States is a fail-
ment.. Whether Mr. Bright was right or wrong
