Revolutions of '76 and '61 [pp. 36-47]

REVOLUTIONS CONTRASTED.
been used by charcoal burners years before, but was now rarely
travelled by man. We waited for the guide only when compel
led by the paths running in different directions through the forest.
(To be contieted.)
ART. IV.-REVOLUTIONS OF'76 AND'61 CONTRASTED.
LOCKE, FILMER, BROUGHAM AND CARLYLE-IDENTITY OF ENGLISH
TORYISM AND SOUTHERN CONSERVATISM.
MESSRS. EDITORS:-The herewith enclosed essay was written, during the
war, for your REVIEW. Its suspension induced me to publish the article in
another periodical. I now request you to republish it as part and parcel of
the history of the times, of cotemnporary history; for what men thought
and wrote during the war is a most important part of the history of the
war. Especially is this the case, where the author's writings have usually
met with a favorable reception from the public that he addresses; for then
he may be considered somewhat as the representative and exponent of the
thought of that public. We have neither changed nor modified any of the
abstract political doctrines expressed in that essay. But times and circumstances have changed, and' we without murmur submit to such change.
Our plan now is to preserve the Union, and along with it our old prescriptive rights and liberties, by the antihomes, the opposing, yet concurrent
forces of Southern conservatism and Northern rationalism, thus begetting a
healthy equipoise. The Tories of England are conservative, the Whigs
rationalists.'Tis the natural division of parties, and but represents and
carries on that war between Faith and Reason which has always existed,
but which burst out with uncontrolled fury at the time of the Protestant
Reformation. Yours, &c., GEO. FITZEaUGH.
THE Revolution of 1776 was, when subjected to the searching
analysis of learned and comprehensive philosophy, the commonest thing in nature. The birth of a child, or the moanings of a
calf excites no wonder, and stirs up no fanatical ardor, because
of their frequent occurrence; yet the birth of a nation or the
separation of a colony from its parent stem, are events quite as
muich in the order of nature as the birth of a child, the moaning
of a calf, or the dropping of the ripened apple from the parent
stem. The Rlevolution of'76 had nothing dramatic, nothing
pnovel, nothing grand about it. Every child and every chicken,
that, getting old enough and strong enough to take care of itself,
quits its parents and sets up for itself, is quite as singular and admirable a spectacle as that of the thirteen adult States of America,
solemnly resolving to cut loose friom the state of pupilage and dependence, from their parent England, and ever thereafter to enjoy
the rights of independent manhood. It was an exceedingly vulgar,
commnonplace affair. It had nothing poetic or dramatic about it,
A birth, a christening, a circumcision, or the donning of the
"toga virilis," in fact, anything that marked an epoch in life, was
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