Show THIC THE OF REPUBLIC ix iff the year wa 57 the lanious U gorian hia hi torian macaulay a letter aletter to an american author mi mr heay it which att rated muck much attention at the time and his h gince been irenea repeatedly gedly published it t is again brought before the public tas a its iti prescience is ia nap apparent bahe by he developments of the times and ve copy he haae je a portion of it as the predation of a great thinker aad foreshadows fore shadows a 4 probable prolific fau ib this thib country said cald C ald mr the day nid come when in the ot 01 a otreo pie I 1 none of whom had more than thau hall note a breakfast or expects uh to have more th than half ha a dinner will choose abose a legislature e sl aturo Is it ia I 1 possible able to dodot doubt what at sort of el a legislature will be chosen an of one M side z e is is a statesman preaching pati patience nee respect for vested verity d rights riA lits strict itrice observance of public falth faith on the other Is a demagogue about the thi tyranny of capitalists and usurer and asking why anybody should be permitted to drink pha champagne champa paghe Kne and to ride in ii a car altti ehtle while thousands of honest hown folks are in a wa want at aft necessaries which cidh i of the tae two bandl candidates a S likely to be preferred ferr ad by the w who hears I 1 his children cry xer or inore b bread ti d I 1 duly apprehend that you will ill an P I 1 boine io p such season of adversity adver sit 14 as 1 I have described do da things which L will ill prevent prosperity fr from 0 m returns returning 11 that won wound dd act like p people eople would in a year of scarcity devour devoar all seed corn and thus wake make the next year a year yeah not of but of absolute famine this will be J fear spoliation 0 the spoliation will increase in t afie e distress this distress will produce spoliation is to staat your constitution is all sall sail ond no an chorT or mr avs conclusion as to the result of this state of affairs is that elther either some coar or napoleon vim seize the reins reini of government with a athe hand or your republic will be as fearlessly plundered and laid 0 waste o by barbarians inthe in the twentieth as the roman empire was in 10 the fifth with this difference that tile the huns hans and vandals who ravaged the I 1 koman empire came from without and aad that your flung huns and vandals will have been engendered within your country by your own institutions 11 1 we do not ehe the opinion that the th a of our country is all sail and no anchor we look upon it adaa as an anchor itself and the danger to our government is the increasing dl disposition 4 to dispense with the anchor and let the wind of popular clamor drive the ship of state will there uve are few english statesmen 0 or P political writers who nave have e carefully I 1 studied led ul the constitution of the th united states tes and who understand it in all its bearings ings they are accustomed to the elastic unwritten constitution of great britain which no fellow can exactly denne and askance V at a written instrument that that may be mast mastered tred by aa an ordinary ary in mind td A monarchist is not likely to admire republican institutions and it lil is true that history is not very encouraging as to their perpetuity or stability vox z without vox dei is very apt alft to demand that which leg leads ds to ruin democracy js side safe when toe the people are intelligent virtuous and add OL devout but when they tile become demoralized vicious and infidel look out for riot an and d disaster our constitution is the real safeguard of the nation while proy providing idin lor a government by the people it be b stows powers on the state and national authorities that are as sa sacred and essential as the popular expression of the populate will it is ia a strong government czi v e L ament in that sense it Z ht f to the citizen and fk separate parate e biffle ais othe general government ahne t the con ution jia preserved intact there is no danger of of too loo much sail or r too much force behind it cast aside ad e the con sli aud and the bark will be indeed in veru peril of being dashed u upon p on the rocks but the growling growing growl ng 1 distinction of 4 classes Is an elt element majit of great danger the aggregations of capital arid and the increasing creasing ranks of the hungry and unemployed ca mp loyed foreseen by the eminent writer are facts that stare the in the face and the tendency td deu iBm is apparent few W ht public u men care for the inherent rightfulness 1 triness I or ar mischief 9 of w I 1 public I 1 lite meas urethe brime question is usually tl gu f it popular to favor ea capital pital bu on the une one hand and please the thea evott voting masses aslies tb anthe on the other are the aims 5 6 of office seekers and ake arts of the time servers of the period herein iloan la dan get to our institutions that troubles es of w will U i coito Os nation and y portended by macaulay we have no doubt 0 abt but the result he predicts we do d 0 not anticipate e salvation al from the evils to come will spring net from or military despotism but from a power which wih uphold and maiR mairian tAn the constitution 1 iu Us integrity it aiu be ih by its spirit silk r 1 and true to its letter all the disasters air referred to by I 1 the english historian and m many that he did not feresio will be experienced need in the not distant future they were seen in by joseph hf the great N I 1 prophet I 1 of the nineteenth century he also left as a legacy to his bis followers the t task ask of saving the nation in ia the hour of its pe peril rilby iby rallying around that god given linstra ment meat the constitution and making it the standard for all the good and tile the true throughout the land the perils which a lia have kasal assailed led all ra lups U s will befall this proud and I 1 government but it may not me se final late fate of its predecessors fori I 1 s escue ascue wm come from means ordained ordala edol of its ita preservation and it ft will comel orth out of the flery fiery trial purified and strengthen streng thep e to make america in very deed the land of the free and the home of the brave |