The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-19 00:00:00

Archbishop MANNING'S secession led to the ces-
sation of intimacy between the two friends, but not
to the cps.sation of admiration on the part of one
for the other. Archbishop MANNING finds in Mr.
GLADSTONE the model of a high-minded, generous-
hearted statesman. His character and career excite
in Dr. MANNING'S mind that enthusiasm which we
find so prevalent in the nation generally, especially
among the working classes. He and they see in him
a disregard and contempt for all the conventionalisms
of politics, for the little mean intrigues which
our leading statesmen have too often sanc-
tioned. He and they have caught the con-
tagion of Mr. GLADSTONE'S earnestness so welcome
after seven years' faithlessness to Liberal ideas
by professed Liberals. Archbishop MANNING knows,
the whole nation knows, that when Mr. GLADSTONE
has set before himself an object, that object he will
pursue. Men laughed at him when, two years ago,

he said, " We have crossed the Rubicon, we have
broken our bridges, and burnt our boats." They did
not believe, after the seven years' regime of PALMER-
STON and persiflage, that there was such earnestness
to be found anywhere. They were undeceived. Mr.
GLADSTONE was defeated in his Reform Bill, but he
was determined that Reform should not be beaten.
He told his antagonists that if he fell, out of his ashes
an avenger would arise, and carry the old standard
on to victory. We all know what followed.
There is another reason why Mr. GLADSTONE is so
admired and trusted. It is, that in spite of all the
great change which has taken place in his political
ideas since the old friendship which has been so much
animadverted on, he is and has been thoroughly con-
sistent. Consistency is by no means synonymous
with fixity of opinion. As Mr. DISRAELI once said, the
man who has never changed his opinions must be
either a fool or a knave. To suppose that the man of
50 with matured intellect and wide experience will
have the same views as the man of 28 who has only
just begun to examine the great questiott of the day,
is as absurd as to suppose that the employmenti
of the child will prove satisfactory to the
man. If a man's mind does not go on developing
he will be as much of a dwarf intellectually as the
poor stunted creatures of three feet high we some-
times see limping, with baby forms and aged faces,
through our streets, are physically. It is not
inconsistent to be a Protectionist at 25 and a
Free Trader at 50 ; it is not inconsistent to
uphold the " sacred union " of Church and State
as a youth, and to believe that it is sometimes
the reverse of sacred as a sexagenarian. We will
go farther, and say that it is not inconsistent to
hold opinions one year and to surrender them the
next ; for, as in PEEL'S treatment of the free-trade
question, new and powerful arguments may arise
which may overbalance the old counter-arguments.
But it is inconsistent to maintain opinions
in words and to deny them in deeds.
It is inconsistent for the Conservatives to
accept household suffrage so long as they declare
that they are of the same mind that they were when
they opposed the suffrage. It is something
worse than inconsistent to attempt to reconcile to-
day's concession with yesterday's refusal. If the
Conservative party would come forward boldly and
honestly, and admit that they were in error two
years ago, they would find full forgiveness
on the part of the nation, as PEEL found in 1846.
But this is just what they will not do. Mr. DISRAELI
has, indeed, boasted of having educated his party ;
but they deny the education ; and high-minded men
like Sir STAFFORD NOTHCOTE contend that there is
nothing wrong in his acceptance of the present
Reform Bill, although when opposing Mr. GLAD-
STONE'S he declared that nothing should induce
him to vote for household suffrage, whether
with or without guarantees. Contrast with the
Indian Secretary his former chief, who has frankly
avowed his youthful mistakes, who has told the
Liberal party that he came sueing to them in forma
pauperis, and that for their generous reception of him
they deserve his everlasting gratitude. It is this
great fundamental moral difference which makes the
public estimation of the two political leaders differ
so widely. They know that Mr. GLADSTONE
will never take a step unless he believes it to
be right ; they believe that Mr. DISRAELI would
take one because it was expedient. They feel
certain that Mr. GLADSTONE if he should ever adopt
a course which the public could not sanction
would have clone so because he believed it was for
the public good ; they feel that with Mr. DISRAELI
they are never sure against " leaps in the dark " and
other like perilous feats performed in order to "dish"
an opponent. What wonder, then, if men of all
creeds admire and trust Mr. GLADSTONE ; if the
Catholic Archbishop MANNING, the Presby-
terian Duke of ARGYLL, the 66 Tractarian "
Dr. PUSEY, the Quaker Mr. BRIGHT, find
in him a man to excite their generous enthu-
siasm, their loyal devotion. These four men, so
widely differing in other matters, so united in this,
are but representatives of the nation.
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