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Executive. Even ilie Opposition, to its honor be it 

 said, conducted itself with comniendaLlc reserve and 

 consideration. How dill'erent from all tliis was the 

 spectacle exhibited by the British Parliament! 



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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 toj)ics of international reproach arc more com- 

 mon in England than liere. Tlic 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 sulyect of contempla- 

 tion in Great Britain. England perceives, but not 

 with i)orfect contentcdness, that the British race in 

 America ])ids fair soon to exceed in numbers and in 

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

 the gradually increasing force of those factions or 

 parties in (Jreat Hritaiii, which denmnd progressive 

 enlargement of the basis of suiTrage, e(|ual distribu- 

 tion of representation, vote by ballot, the separation 

 of Church and State, sul)division of the great ])rop- 

 erties in land, cessation of hereditary judicial and po- 

 litical ])ower, intellectual and social elevation of the 

 disinherited classes, — I say such i)arties or factions, in 

 appealing to the institutions of the United States as 

 a model, provoke criticism of those institutions on the 

 l^art of the existing depositaries of property and polit- 

 ical power. Owing tc these, and other causes which 

 might be indicated, it seems to me that the United 



