Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1840-02-14
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OLLVER CROMWELL.

The last number Of the London and
Westminster Review contains an excel
lent article on Cromwell, from which we
have taken the following sketch:
Oliver Cromwel7was born at Hunting
ION the 25th of April, 1890. lie was
descended by his mothers side from the
lord Steward Of Scotland, founder Of the
Stewart family, and Cromwell, the com
moner, was three generations nearer their
common ancestor than Chnylcs, the king
Charles the First and Ctemwel's mother
we're eighth cousins. Cromwell, by the
fathers side, was connected by descent
with Thomas Cromwell, prime minister to
Henry VIII, and afterwards Earl Of Es-
sex. From him Sir Richard Williams,
Cromwel's great grandfather tool; the
name Of Cromwell. This Sir Richard
was a gallant iouster at Durham House,
VII re now stands the Adelphi, and hav-
ing distinguished himself there one day,
King Henry VIII said to him, "FormerIy
thou vast my Dick, but now thou shalt be
my diamond" aud babe him clap ring
on the demi-lion of his crest. CromweIIs
grandfather, too, was knighted by Eliza
beth, and was known in his neghhorhood
among The poor as the Golden Knight.
Cromwe!l'A iaherwas brewer, and Crom-
well is said TO have gwen Prince Charles
a bloody nose, when on visit to his
grandfather. lie played the part of Tao
ms in Brewers Lingua, at Huntington
school. In this piece he takes up crown
and thus soliloquizes:
Was ever man so fortunate as |?
How gallanly it fits me-
I'm Transformed
Unto the sacred temper Of king;
Howpriocely do speak! how sharPl threaten!
Ia 1916, at the age Off, he was trans
ferred to Sidney Sussex College, Cam
bridge, and here he was something of a
Rowsteerer. lie, however, did not study
himself out Of business habits. " You
have gathered up said Milton, " the lite
rary dust at Cambridge without deepening
the tracts Of learning" Ills father dying,
he became a member 0: Lincoln's Inn.
On the 22d of August, 1920, he married
Eliza, daughter OF SjrJ. Doucher, Il rela.
tive Of the Hampdcns. 1t was joke
against her that she gave poet who cele-
brated her beauty an old boarded gold half
crown. lie now seems to have determined
TO become Il man in earnest, and Iesoiuteiy
paid back $50 he had formerly won at
play.
Cromwell entered Parliament as men,
her for Huntington ia his 20th year, March
1923. Hampton was his cousin, and in
iroduced him to the great men Of his party.
Cromwell is said to have worn at this time
thseadbare and torn coat and greasy
hat; he had a compressed month, large
nose, deep piercing eyes and shaggy eye
byows; his face was rough, warted, gnarl,
ed and stern.
He retired to his farm at ST ives, and
opposed successfully the Bedford Level,
by which means he acquired the title Of
Lord of the Feus.' Ills popularity in
creased, and Hampden said Of him, lhat
he was "man to sit well TO a mark. y
He now came in for Cambridge; there
was a strong opposition, headed by Cleve.
land, the poet. Ooe single vote carried
the day, "That single vote" said CleVe-
land, "has ruined both Church and State.
1t was the long Parliament.
And now the civil war begun. Stafford
had suffered. Cromwell was first in the
field, or one of the first; he sent down to
his old neighhors fl00 worth of sabres--
many with The initials 80. c. are slllI
seen in the neehborbood. Baxter says,
SHAT Cromwell liked religious men, aud
out Of very love for them turned them into
a cavalry regiment" In the fight near
Grantham he routed double his numbers.
| At Gainsborough he fled through gate
in the face of a concentrated fire, charged
up hin, broke through the Royalists, tho
three to one, and scattered thominto bog
Il would" cried King Charles, " that
some one would do me the good fortune to
bring Cromwell TO me dead or alive"
1t is certain fact that Manchester and
Essex, his supporters IN command, bad no
wish to succeed in the cause they cham
Ipioned, and CromweIl's efforts were often
marred by their secret antagonlSm. His
troops also were better treated by the Par
Lament when they were unsnccesssul; the
Parliament indeed dreaded their success
and concealed their dread from all but the
penetrating eye of rehec elton.
There is general impression thatCrom-
we'll was a vulgar man. True it is he was
moi nnlishnd In mnnners. but his mind was