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Executive. Even the Opposition, to its honor be it 

 said, conducted itself with commendable reserve and 

 consideration. How different from all this was the 

 spectacle exhibited by the British Parliament ! 



ENGLISH MISCONCEPTION OF AMERICAN SENTIMENT. 



I contradict, with equal positiveness, the suggestion 

 that demagogic agitation in the United States feeds 

 itself largely on alleged hatred of Great Britain. I 

 think topics of international reproach are more com 

 mon in England than here. The steady current of 

 emigration from England, Scotland, and Ireland to 

 the United States, and especially at the present time 

 from England, is not a grateful subject of contempla 

 tion in Great Britain. England perceives, but not 

 with perfect contenteduess, that the British race in 

 America bids fair soon to exceed in numbers and in 

 power the British race in Europe. And, above all, 

 the gradually increasing force of those factions or 

 parties in Great Britain, which demand progressive 

 enlargement of the basis of suffrage, equal distribu 

 tion of representation, vote by ballot, the separation 

 of Church and State, subdivision of the great prop 

 erties in land, cessation of hereditary judicial and po 

 litical power, intellectual and social elevation of the 

 disinherited classes, I say such parties or factions, in 

 appealing to the institutions of the United States as 

 a model, provoke criticism of those institutions on the 

 part of the existing depositaries of property and polit 

 ical power. Owing to these, and other causes which 

 might be indicated, it seems to me that the United 



