ve as you are bribed or bullied
by the devils about you; what an advantage to parties concerned!
If Prussia follow its star--As it really tries to do, in spite of
stumbling! For the sake of Germany, one hopes always Prussia will;
and that it may get through its various Child-Diseases, without death:
though it has had sad plunges and crises,--and is perhaps just now in
one of its worst Influenzas, the Parliamentary-Eloquence or Ballot-Box
Influenza! One of the most dangerous Diseases of National Adolescence;
extremely prevalent over the world at this time,--indeed unavoidable,
for reasons obvious enough. "SIC ITUR AD ASTRA;" all Nations certain
that the way to Heaven is By voting, by eloquently wagging the tongue
"within those walls"! Diseases, real or imaginary, await Nations like
individuals; and are not to be resisted, but must be submitted to, and
got through the best you can. Measles and mumps; you cannot prevent them
in Nations either. Nay fashions even; fashion of Crinoline, for instance
(how infinitely more, that of Ballot-Box and Fourth-Estate!),--are you
able to prevent even that? You have to be patient under it, and keep
hoping!

2. In regard to England. Her JENKINS'S-EAR CONTROVERSY is at last
settled. Not only liberty of the Seas, but, if she were not wiser,
dominion of them; guardianship of liberty for all others whatsoever:
Dominion of the Seas for that wise object. America is to be English,
not French; what a result is that, were there no other! Really a
considerable Fact in the History of the World. Fact principally due to
Pitt, as I believe, according to my best conjecture, and comparison of
probabilities and circumstances. For which, after all, is not
everybody thankful, less or more? O my English brothers, O my Yankee
half-brothers, how oblivious are we of those that have done us
benefit!--

These are the results for England. And in the rear of these, had these
and the other elements once ripened for her, the poor Country is to
get into such merchandisings, colonizings, foreign-settlings,
gold-nuggetings, as lay beyond the drunkenest dreams of Jenkins
(supposing Jenkins addicted to liquor);--and, in fact, to enter on a
universal uproar of Machineries, Eldorados, "Unexampled Prosperities,"
which make a great noise for themselves in the very days now come.
Prosperities evidently not of a sublime type: which, in the mean while,
seem to be covering the at one time creditably clean and comely face
of En