leave them, for the present; and cannot predict the success of
Democracy, on this side of the Atlantic, from their
example.

Alas, on this side of the Atlantic and on that, Democracy, we
apprehend, is forever impossible! So much, with certainty of
loud astonished contradiction from all manner of men at present,
but with sure appeal to the Law of Nature and the ever-abiding
Fact, may be suggested and asserted once more. The Universe
itself is a Monarchy and Hierarchy; large liberty of "voting"
there, all manner of choice, utmost free-will, but with
conditions inexorable and immeasurable annexed to every exercise
of the same. A most free commonwealth of "voters;" but with
Eternal Justice to preside over it, Eternal Justice enforced by
Almighty Power! This is the model of "constitutions;" this: nor
in any Nation where there has not yet (in some supportable and
withal some constantly increasing degree) been confided to the
_Noblest_, with his select series of _Nobler_, the divine
everlasting duty of directing and controlling the Ignoble, has
the "Kingdom of God," which we all pray for, "come," nor can "His
will" even _tend_ to be "done on Earth as it is in Heaven" till
then. My Christian friends, and indeed my Sham-Christian and
Anti-Christian, and all manner of men, are invited to reflect on
this. They will find it to be the truth of the case. The Noble
in the high place, the Ignoble in the low; that is, in all times
and in all countries, the Almighty Maker's Law.

To raise the Sham-Noblest, and solemnly consecrate him by
whatever method, new-devised, or slavishly adhered to from old
wont, this, little as we may regard it, is, in all times and