character is always the same. So you may apply what soubriquet soever, to despotism, it is always, and ever, the same child of Hell. Sometimes, the appropriate cognomen of one of these, is applied to the other. It makes no odds. Misnomers in nomenclature, do not alter or affect intrinsic differences, in character. And you shall find in every government, on the face of the earth, that the two opposite elements of despotism, on the one hand, and Democracy on the other, are in constant, deadly conflict-a conflict that knows no peace, that indeed really, (though it may seemingly,) admits of no truce. The mastery may be on the side of the one, or the other, temporarily, or permanently, the opposite principle, however, whether successfully or unsuccessfully contends though vanquished, struggles, though hopefully, strives though feebly, for the supremacy.
In England, for example, the Democracy, is to be found in the middling classes, the Liberals, moderate churchmen, and the non-conformists. In France, poor God-forsaken France, the Democratic element, though almost crushed out of existence, is to be found among the brave men whose principles are too strong and sterling to be avowed, though they have been obliged to suffer imprisonment, from the tyrant, La Petit Napoleon—In these countries, everybody admits, that despotism is on the side of the claimants of hoary abuses, class legislation, and the denial of popular rights. In some of the European governments, the British,for instance, De-