Ah! if the Right Honourable John Bright and other ardent admirers of everything connected with the "great Republic" on the other side of the ocean, would but go over, as I did, and study it honestly from every point of view for three years, say, they _must_ come to a different opinion about the nation which they are so constantly eulogising at the expense of their own! Don't let them merely run over to see it in gala trim, however, and have its workings explained only to them through a transatlantic section of the same clique of which they are members at home; but let them go in a private capacity and see things for themselves, mixing amongst all classes of the American community, and not only in one circle. They won't, though. The Manchester manufacturer of "advanced views" visits the Massachusetts manufacturer;--and, derives all _his_ knowledge of America and her institutions from him. The trades' union delegate of England palavers with the working-men's societies of the eastern states; whence he gets _his_ information of Transatlantic polemics. The ballot enthusiast over here talks, and only _talks_, mind you! with the believer in the ballot over there; and so arrives at _his_ conclusions on the subject of secret voting--and then, all these return to this "down-trodden," "aristocracy- ridden," "effete old kingdom," and prate about the glorious way in which their several theories work across the ocean--not one of them having resided long enough beneath the stars and stripes to be able to judge of the truth of what they allege, as they are quite contented to take for gospel the hearsay with which they bolster up their own opinions! If these respective persons would only go out and live, I say, for three years consecutively in the States, and move about outside of their respective bigotted grooves, they would find out, in time, that, the boasted free, liberty-loving, advanced, progressive commonwealth on the other side of "the big pond," is?--one of the most despotic, intolerant, morally-and-politically-rotten republics that ever existed, bar none!