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Excerpt from Remarks on Europe, Relating to Education, Peace and Labor, Vol. 8: And Their Reference to the United States
People. To show exactly what this last remark means, we need only look at Hanover, whose rash and obsti nate king is preparing for himself every form of suffer ing by his senseless opposition to the will of his people. They speak the language of the masses in Europe, when, in their address to His Majesty, they tell him they 'will not surrender those natural rights which the nineteenth century guaranties to citizens.' In their sister-realm, England, the people have freedom, but want bread and the peculiar legislation of that coun try has armed Ireland and the poor with a terrible hostility to the existing institutions. The frequent meetings of reformers alarm the civil authorities, and the principles of the Chartists have made such progress, as encourages reformers to hope that by new alliances they shall be able, before many years, to control the elections. -it is well known that this sad condition of things constituted one of the strongest objections to a war with the United States. Any signal failure of the crops in Great Britain, or any wide war in Europe, must have the immediate effect either to modify or abolish their corn laws; and when this is done it will be a step of half a century. The manufacturing cities will one day speak with emphasis. France is always in a state of political inammation always dreaming of something better; always gazing at an unreached paradise. Uneasiness there is reduced to a science; and the secret societies which exist through the whole length and breadth of the land, give it embodiment and form in their murderous attacks on the life of the king and his sons, whenever favoring opportunities occur. It is very evident that the revolutionary lava, which was thrown up from the Parisian volcano in 1830, is not yet wholly cooled. There are many standing topics of.
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