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and to establish a daily paper, exclusively devoted to its interests and support. conductor of this organ and Royal Gazette

ue, when weighed against the inestimaprivilege secured to every member of community, of freely speaking his ad, on all subjects and occasions; of writ-has, in addition to his other duties, the hard whatever he pleases, and taking the task imposed upon him, of enacting the laponsibility for the consequences:— borious and not very dignified part of the ugh it has been observed, that through political auctioneer of the party; and is influence, perhaps, of that "pale cast accordingly obliged to adopt both in his thought," by which the resolution of language and manner the air and peculiar n the loftiest spirits is sometimes slang of the vendue-table; being expected cklied o'er," but few exhibit any par- and required to cry up, puff and be praisealar forwardness to avail themselves of not only all that the government does, has last unquestioned and "inalienable done, or intends to do-but at proper init." On the contrary, those who are tervals, that is, every other day or so, to t ready to exercise to their fullest ex- eulogize, and give a dissertation upon the the two first glorious franchises-those merits and abilities of each and every memriting and publishing what they please-- ber of the cabinet, lest they should be found generally to affect the anonymous, prefer the unpretending incognito, even en most fiercely asserting the above feasible rights of freemen: influenced, doubt, by a desire to do good in secret, diffident disinclination to make a pae of their services to the public, which y rather leave to others to find out appreciate; a task, which those who ht choose to undertake it, would proby be enabled to achieve in due time, with final success. The editor par eHence, or who has the actual charge the paper, has not only to bear the nt of the political warfare, which these ring and disinterested gentlemen conute to kindle and keep up around him, is required also to have at least courand assurance enough to cover with responsibility the articles that appear his columns, and especially such as e from the heads of the party to ch he belongs; who are not only

than in the United States. *** Let the reason

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and from behind the Telamonian Id of the editor, are enabled to take a e assured aim at such of their oppots as stand fairly and bravely exposed he open arena of conflict.

The first measure, therefore, of every - administration, is to secure the sers and subserviency of at least one or e of the ablest and most experienced of Swiss-corps* we have been describing,

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be what it may, certain it is, that John Bull
contrives to be, in a habitual way, a good deal
more free-spoken about those who govern him,
usual in the United States. Many books, directly
and even about his Institutions, than is exactly
advocating a Republic, are published in England;
but let anybody try if he will to do the like
in this country, and write in favor of monarchy,
N. Intelligencer, March 25th, 1848.
or against popular government."-JOURNALIANA,

The writer of the above, it is carefully to be borne in mind, in maintaining that the Press is freer in England than in the United States, does

not mean it to be inferred that it is also more having long since attained in this country the utlicentious. For this is impossible, both from its most limits to which it is practicable to push its excesses, and from the circumstance, that under a government like that of England, where it is subjected to a certain degree of restraint, its efforts are always and naturally directed to the object of enlarging its liberty; which an indulgence in licentiousness, and an abuse of its privileges, would rather tend to defeat than to prothe contrary, it is already free, and no efforts are mote or increase. Under a free government, on

needed to assert or extend its liberty. Hence under such a government, it soon runs into licentiousness, from the absence of all restraint; and as an instrument of the majority, is rather used than to advance the cause of true liberty, while as a means of tyrannizing over public opinion, it otherwise is an ever-fuming censer of flattery to the people, who are treated by its conductors as an idol, before which all who profess republicanism are required to bow down, and shout hosannahs, and to venerate as

"Most just, most wise, most good, most everything." Hence it is not free, and dares not breathe a word in favor of any other form of government than that most approved of by the people, or to avow or advocate any sentiments caviare to, or essentially variant from those generally entertained by the multitude.

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"With every virtue under Heaven,"

is quite good enough for and no disgrace to those who bear it-as certainthan they are in the experiment of workly none are more zealously engaged ing out, in as short a time as possible, the important problem, which has proved the Pons Assinorum of republican lawgivers and statesmen, for so many ages pastthat of popular self-government.

Government Press, it will be perceived, As respects the management of the from what has been said, that the labors of its conductors are of a manual rather than of a mental kind, and consist chiefly in a skilful use of the brush, instead of the per flourish of the former, over every one who -or in the aspersion, by a dexterous comes in their way, of two certain liquids

overlooked or not properly appreciated | of Locofocos-a name which, though not by the people; who, though their eyes are exactly synonymous with moderation, or directed with a continued and fixed stare upon these gentry, and all their movements, are sometimes strangely blind to the conspicuous excellency of their characters, and the splendor and value of their services. The organ receives from the cabinet its cue or tone, which it again imparts, with a keep-time movement, to other instruments of lesser note, which form, along with it, the regimental music and great brass-band of the party. The democracy, particularly the progressive branch of it, who are no less distinguished by their ear for harmony, than by the refinement and chivalric delicacy of their sentiments and manners, are unable to take even the first step in any conjuncture without a key note from the organ, to whose directing melody they turn, move, wheel, fall back from, or march up to the polls, with the precision of the drill and the punctuality of the parade. A parade and display of the uniform character of their principles, and of their equipments for service, (though their appointments are certainly none of the best,) forms, as we need scarcely observe, an essential part of the means which they employ to guide, gull, and govern the people. Those whom they cannot enlist, or drag into their ranks, they at once denounce as traitors and Tories,-lost to every sense of patriotism and decency, and "given up to strong delusion." To what "given up to strong delusion.". To what point the progress of this division of the party is tending, has never yet been indicated, and does not seem to be very clearly understood by its members themselves; though to others, it is sufficiently certain that the movement, instead of being in advance, as it is supposed to be, is only in that beaten circle, which all radicals and revolutionists have, from the

beginning of time, so invariably and fatally pursued. For a reaction, or return to first principles, forms the invariable termination of their rash experiments and mad excesses; which ever render them the final and foredoomed victims, either of the foreign despot, or of the domestic usurper. These remarks, we are well aware, will probably meet with no other notice than a quiet smile tempt from the party of progress, rejoice ghly respectable,

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focos" of America are now trying their hank
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a manner that certainly shows great knowing
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lated to convey any idea of the progress they
making in this ambitious, important, and a
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ample reservoirs or tanks, shaped like | be expected, to render this boasted bultands, and the Swiss editor has wark of freedom of little real benefit to ing more to do each day, than, brush either party; for as the invention, like and, to white-wash with the last that of gunpowder, is equally available to ribed compound, however coarsely or the weak and the strong, and is generally wardly this may be done, his patrons, used by each with equal license and want each and every member of the gov- of principle, it reduces both to a level in ent; and from the other witch's the field of political warfare, and neither Iron to black-wash, in the same hurts the one side by its slanders, nor digesale and unscrupulous manner, the nifies the other by its praise. Ás an ies and opponents of the party; his enraged combatant wastes half of his s in this way being arduous and con- blows in the air; as an overloaded gun , but otherwise sufficiently simple always shoots badly; and as a mountain easy of performance. Similar estab- torrent, with all its foam and fury, only ents on a small scale, are at the ends at last in a lake; this vaunted engine time in operation all over the coun- of intelligence and power-from the sense-both under administration editors, less and insane manner in which it is used the agents and partisans of the oppo- and abused by those into whose hands it party; so that the land is darkened has fallen-serves scarcely any other beclouded by the fury of the political effective purpose in the end, than to re constantly going on from one end afford a convenient safety-valve, by which to the other citizen being arrayed the feuds, wrath and rivalries of the difst citizen, and brother against bro-ferent parties, find a comparatively harmin a manner truly edifying to the re lovers of freedom, and highly raging to its maligners and enemies. gh the champions on each side do bsolutely hurl mountains at each , in the style of Milton's warring s, there is always enough of dirt in the course of a single campaign nvass, to make at least one goodmountain, and some half-dozen hills es, under which numerous unfortucandidates lie buried-some never to gain, while others either crawl, or t least dug out by their friends; after a little recollection, refreshand breathing, they re-engage in the st, with unabated spirit, and undiminfury.

› ultimate effect of all this, or of the us made of the Press,* is, as might may be said in extenuation of these viland mischief-making practices of the ediorps, that it is not their fault that Demos, ntent with his daily mess of roast and done to the bone, requires that his human ould also be served up, ready carved to ad, by his purveyors, and punctually furhim in this state each morning, as a sort dish at his breakfast table, as he is unable > begin to eat without a morceau of this dainty bit, sliced from the reputation of nfortunate wight or other, whom it is the the editorial pack to select, hunt down, tcher for his use. This duty they are gently required to attend to, as a diet of

less vent, in railing, disputation and scurrility; by which they spend their fury in ink, instead of bloodshed, and content themselves with speaking duggers, in place of using them-as was the more ancient and approved method, before the means was discovered of compelling people to hear what their neighbors have to say of them, and enabling both sides to "unpack their hearts with curses," and relieve themselves in that way of the bile and ill-humors which the heat of factious contention, and the unwholesome atmosphere of politics, so fatally engenders in the human system. For it is a somewhat untoward circumstance, and forms another of those serious drawbacks to the improvements of the age, to which we have had such frequent occasion to advert, that the fearless advocacy of free opinions (the terms in which calumny and scurrility have long since

this kind has now become absolutely necessary to his health and digestion-as without it, he would infallibly fall into some malady or other, and experience some gastric qualm, or derangement of the stomach for the rest of the day. In this respect, he is now to the full as delicate and particular as was his brother King of the Battas, who, according to the accounts of travellers, took on, and became dyspeptic, if he was not regularly treated with some choice piece of human flesh every morning, to stay his stomach with, and gratify his unreasonable penchant for this scarce and rather expensive article of food.

been merged by, editors and politicians, | such a state of things as this, that you and received republican usage,) is always made such costly sacrifices, and shed your attended, more or less, by this unpleasant precious blood? Was Washington sent and disordering effect upon the animal in vain on earth? and did Franklin economy, and by innovations like the foregoing upon the national speech, which have already rendered a new dictionary of the language necessary for the use of schools, and as a guide for politicians, statesmen, and historians.

"Snatch lightning from Heaven, and the sceptre from tyrants,"

to leave the golden fruits of their toil and achievements, only to be used as the stakes and counters of political gamblers-and Whether our beloved country be desoh! dire disgrace to become even among tined to press forward in this way, to great- such, the prize and reward of those who ness and glory; or whether the use thus play lowest, or who employ the ballot-box. made of the glorious privilege of free dis- as the faro-dearer does his, but the more cussion be typical of the progress it is in effectually to stock the cards, and cover future to make in knowledge and virtue; his tricasseries with the mere outward and we pretend not here to determine or pre-deceptive semblance of fairness and honor. dict. Being unwilling, however, to be termed prophets of evil, we are for our- NOTE. In referring to the subject slightly selves ready to say, that we rather look touched on at page 6, we must again express hopefully forward, and expect nothing ourselves but briefly, as it is one that cannot be less than the access of the Millennium, fully illustrated within the limits of a note. We can therefore do but little more for the present, that under the auspices of our present politi- partially to expand the remark there made, that cal leaders, sages, and editorial exem- we consider it as an error to regard the prin plars; though there are those, who are leges enjoyed under a free government, in the skeptical enough to maintain, that as long light of either natural or hereditary rights, or a as the taste of the people is thus turned being no less legitimately held by those to wize they descend as heirlooms, than by their first p from amusement and instruction to poli- sessors. For to maintain this, is virtually ties and strife, and continues to encourage adopt the leading principle of aristocratic instit the excesses of the Press, and to delight tions, by which the titles and estates of a privileg class are bequeathed to or entailed on the in the extremes of abuse and eulogy, in elder sons, however unworthy they may be to a which it daily deals, we can anticipate herit them; and who, not having earned thera ?? nothing better than a perpetuation of the any efforts of their own have no other class present state of things, in which citizen is them than that which they derive from arrayed against citizen, "as foe against and arbitrary laws. The blood-bought and foe"-in which men professing to be tend, blessings strictly contingent in their estimable privileges of liberty are then, wee Christians, pursue each other with far more and character, and like all other objects of ha rancor and virulence than Turk does Jew, man desire, or that are prized by man, b and with far worse motives than those considered as existing in abeyance and expe which actuate the religious persecutor. tion, until won, as was the Hesperian fruit by hands worthy to gather them: the clas Such, at any rate, is the present state of fable here alluded to, serving well to illustra Jonathan's mind and taste; as he now if it was not designed to convey, this inp regularly expects on the rising of the moral, and sublime political truth. By the newspaper curtain, to be treated with the institutor, therefore, they should at least be 4¬ usual panorama of political contention, upon the same footing as those more work. jects which they so much surpass in d. party rows, and encountering factions-importance, by rendering them the rewar with this daily and disgusting scene of civic virtue and military service, instead of traca rage and rivalry-of violence and vaunt- them as fruits hanging over a common ing-barbarism and discord-unworthy of a free people, and disgraceful to a civilized country. Surely something better than this was to have been expected from the inheritors and descendants of the patriots and sages of seventy-six. ages in council, and Samsons in com

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the evils of both of these extremes-with excesses of democracy, and the degeneracy corruptions of an exclusively aristocratic e. For while the admission of the base and orthy, both of our own and of all other counto the full enjoyment of all the rights of nship, has been the means of giving to mere mob an undue power and preponder influence in the government-it has, on the hand, introduced among the higher, or ertied orders, the luxury, extravagance, and meracy, which this class so generally exhibit r aristocratic institutions. For the premature ne and corruption into which a free people o apt to fall, is precisely analogous to and s from the same source as the vices and eracy of an old nobility, or the descendants u-trious ancestors. It would, therefore, be a reform, to reserve the higher privileges of -om-as those of eligibility to military com1, and to the more elevated trusts and honors e Republic-to reserve these, we say, for only who have undergone a five years' apiceship to arms, and passed through a sysof political training and instruction, which all take another opportunity to describe, or have distinguished themselves by specific of public spirit and patriotism, and by conous civic virtues and deeds. The indiscrimiliberality with which those precious and

sacred rights, which should be enjoyed and exercised only by the patriotic, the virtuous, and the brave, are imparted to the very refuse of society, and the most debased of mankind, not only deprives the privileges and immunities of all value in the eyes of the worthy and the high-minded, but are thrown away, like pearls to swine, upon those who are not only incapable of using them for any good purpose, but of comprehending or appreciating them, and are ever sure to degrade and abuse them. The above, we repeat, should be the principle upheld in relation to the rights, honors, and franchises, placed within the reach of the citizens of a free government; though we certainly are not so visionary as to expect to see it fully acted upon, or to insist on its enforcement, to the extent laid down here. We are yet satisfied that an approach may be made to such a reform as would embrace, not only a recognition of the principle above propounded, but would af ford such an illustration of it in practice, as would answer the most important political ends, and produce the most beneficial effects, both upon the national character and the public weal. It would require a volume, however, properly to illustrate this subject, and we shall therefore drop it for the present, but hope to return to it at another and more suitable time. ATHENION.

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