The New Hampshire Gazette

The Newspapers.—The last Edinburgh Review, in an article on De Tocqueville's Democracy in America, say,

The real Political Unions of England are the Newspapers. It is these which tell every person what all other persons are feeling, and in what manner they are ready to act: it is by these that the people learn, it may be truly said, their own wishes, and through these that they declare them. The Newspapers and the Railroads are solving the problem of bringing the democracy of England to, like that of Athens, simultaneously in one agora; and the same agencies are rapidly effacing those local distinctions which rendered one part of our population strangers to the other; and are making us more than ever (what is the first condition of a powerful public opinion) a homogeneous people. If America has been said to prove, that in an extensive country a popular government may exist, England seems destined to afford the proof, that after a certain stage in civilization it must; for as soon as the numerically stronger have the same advantages, in the means of combination and celerity of movement, as the smaller number, they are the masters; and except by their permission, no government can any longer exist.