Bulwer On America

In a recent {ter il inner speech Sir Bulwer Lytton rema:ked that lie 1 could not se how any thinking innn uould conoeiva that the wholé of the American Continent culi.Id remain u'ndêr r.)i]O govornmeht, but that, separation must sooñrar ir lator take plucu." " and I fiow venture to predict that our young man wjll live to see, not two, but ut lö8t four, and probably a greiiti'r number, separate, ndopendüDt coum.ur.ities, urising out f tho American population, whnse legslation lias been iiithei'to directed by a ingle President, and whósë eommerce ïas been dejènded by a singlo fl.ag ; ind so iar from thinking with tho Ein leror of llusia, ihat this separation vil! be injuiioua to tho future developnvnt of America, ar inffict nny blow n the great prinolpul of sulf-govern yient tiie onlv s'.ihsi.-tence for Ireedom - xt is my rnnvirtion that i! will be atrtidvd hij ifipy rcsults to the lafrty of Eurupe, and to tho developn.eiit ol American eivilization. I ask you to refioct on this; for I am going to 8y whut has not, l think, )een huid btfore. Just reflect, if wealth and population continúes to increase in America with tho sam rapid sirides as hilherto, whether it were lOSiibla that the hole oi that contilent, with its immense heaboard, and the tteels vvhich its extended anibition would havo raised and armed, could ong remain u rider ono governinent, with an Executive so feeble that it is unable to control an excitable and ad venturous population. Why, Ainiru.a would have hung over Europe ül;e an overcha-grd and dextructive thvnder coud, for no nat ion would be oble to resist tltt vignrons dtnands of a nation abe to consolidati the resources (ƒ a continent. But, then, that imwieldy empire would have been destructivo to p.iblic fruedom and virtue. In tho universal experionce ot histi ry. such cmpires as are too vast for the circulation of the life-blood of the people, feil to pieces. (Hear, hear.) It wh so with the Babvl'Uiian and Assyrian empirea (irdepotisms, and with that of Rome, u republic. The same fatein later daysbefell the empire of Chiirlernagne, and the pieces into which it f't-ll are riow the great kingdom-' of Europe ; and America could ba no exception to Ihe tiuth of histoiy &nd the laws of naturo. Subdividud, she is ess formidable 'o Ett' rope, less davgrrous to tnglund; but in tho wholesome spirit of competition, there is likoly to spring up a rivalry betweon tho divided St itosfivorable to the prog-ess and intüjo-its of humanity. Prona vvhat 1 havo said, you will see that I am not one who ee io the sep! aratif.n of America the failure of Dej moernov, Ibr tho s-.i:nü ' thing ouKl have ocourred undur anv forrn of ernmenf, as th"6 single Stiltes huH no I single interest in coimnon. But when we see how liberty and law broke down in the moment of danger and of: warfare, and hovv printing prenses were invaded by lauless rnob, legi:iiTiite public opinión stiíled by government, and how Ihe Pre.-idnt, despairivg r,f hii own Generala, tffsred tí) Garihaldi the commnnd rf the ltalian patriots - then. without vunity to oursrlvcs, ind without otFense to Ameriua, we may say thiit in the art of good governrne it, by wbioh libeity is iniiintüined in the midst of danger, America hus more to learn froin England than Enyland from America.