New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-10-14
Fcom The Dial for October.
CROMWELL.

patching tailor ar consttuton-1nehdlng, we must
claim for him a larger fraction of humanity than
the NINTH which tradti.n awards to that useful,
ulan-making class of artisans. Manhood real,
soul-ins pired manhood, must have aEoundsd more
,han ordinary under the buff jcriin Of that sturdy
woman Else how should he, in times when mau-
Illness was far from rare have stood out in bold re-
lief beyond all other figures carved in that panel OF
Engand's history That portion too, be it re-
marked, which is of all the soul-strrng in
the perusal. Place the record before the MAD OF
generous youth aspiring man, and whether
coinciding with the Commonwealth doctrines or
not, he shall not fail to be touched by the recital
of those twenty years events
Great action speaks to all. Ihc universal per.
cepton of herosm in Cromwell's character grants
him the stamp OF true greatness. Great was ne III
the outward for in political rank nonc stood above
him; great must he have been in the inward, for OF
exterior advantages TO raise him outward emf
nence he had none His wears OF education dissi-
patcd, his fortune mean, his dress sloyenly, hi.
speech sisagreeable, his person coarse, how hap
pened it that to the topmost round OF ambitions
ladder he was enabled to climb
Never can it be permitted, that we may conclude
the whole English nation at any period to have been
SO besottcd as to be deceived by prctensiors for d
Gonger time than is usually given to a nine-day'
wonder. At this era, moreover, there was too
much acuteness, intelligence and determination IL
activity, to allow hollow usurper to defraud us o.
or good opinions. Ii impartiality will not ale
Englishmen to see this, nationality must. Tho
cosmopolitan asserts it; the patriot admits it,
Destiny is the sternest master the blandes
friend the most puzzling guide which men cat
have. His scholars, al times the most active, are
anon the most inert Of the human race. He ac-
cepts neither assistance resistance from hi
pupils and when one appears most to he instruct
ing his fellows the great teacher is 5tinsruclng
and constructing him. Kings and republicans
equally pupils of a power which, now through eX,
ternal circumstances, now through central life. III.
nuences human action 10 some great event.
Why do they not suffer the embarkaton of tina,
moneyess, roug h,ac.ive jealous puritan to the
congenial shores of New Eng land He stands there
on the wharf, the ship is about TO sail, happy So
ciety in perspective is beheld on TIE other side OF
the ocean, warm and wealthy friends will accom-
pany him. He may thus escape from "a country il
which it is difficult to earn ones bread, offensive
to express ones thoughts almost impossible TO liz,
q pure life, to one where the outward burdens
lighter, and the new conception, il not the new
birth, of freedom is realized. He will cease longer
10 be oppressed by Royalty aud Episcupacy in thei
strengholds. He aims ut Il land and brotherhood
where long prayers may consist with long purses,
and he may wait duly on the Lord without neglect
ing his crops
But no; the sharp, gray-eyed fanatic, humble a:
he is, must be detained They issue that royal
order in council, sad council for royalism, and he
must remain. Thus goes On the work of Destiny.
The ball then passes to the other side, and Crom-
we'll becomes the player. Ecrnestness is thing
not to be annihilated by order in council; and
you will not allow its activity to be manifested il
emigration, which is its quiet, natural course IL
this man, takes another, and for you more trouble
some, form. He is now member of Parliament for
the town of Cambridge. Just the character to be
chosen by town, which is too near neighbor OF
Protestant Rome to be igRorant Of its corruprons
Providence has evidently adopted him in.
strument for its end. That bronze mind is roughly
cast and little polished but there is that in hin
which will not lot him be turned aside from his
purpose. Moreover, he has a purpose. Rcverit
is, for the moment, past for him. He has the
lation, and now he comes forth TO action. To frau
argument and long drawn speech he never descends.
His tactics are talkatve, but active. To place
his cause the rotten stage OF logical precision
were to forecast defeat. He gives fac,s,-hud.
died. truly, like basket OF mony-coored warns en-.
tang led, but still facts. Evils he recounts, needless
of eXaggeration, for they are known to all Abuses
he exposes OF which all are convinced, for the proof
is in their own suffering. Rights and just wants he
asserts, and the assertion suthceS, for they find
sympathy in every BOSOM Zeal. too, he displays;
the earnestness, the sincerity, which cannot be
feigned, is seen in him by the thousands the mil.
lions, who cannot be deceived bv the zeal, the
earnestness, the sincerity they seconscious of
Here lies the point. We all see, we all fee
eternal rectitude, but we do NOT all act il. We
do not even verbally affirm it, In the dark and
troublous hour, when the flame of liberty is all bu,
cxtinguished, when it most demands bold hand
to add repleashing oil, then are fewer spirits found
TO take the foremost place. When again the lamp
burns highly, multitudes. gaddened by its bright
ness, can talk of heroism and applaud the actor
but no more.
Action is the assertion oil greatness. Mobility
essentially epic. Man himself is the da,kened
glass through which he darkly sees. Children and
nations. while they the most open to fraud, are
the last TO be deceived. They know While they are
cheated where integrity lies. They award no honor
TO the man who says bat docs not who talks arsel,
but acts tle,w speculetes freely and in his being
or doing is narrow.
Turned from dissipation 10 married life bv the
reforming spirit; averted from gambling fury 10
religious zeal; forced by lbe,al expenditure to
farming declared from emigration by roya ord;
nance; chosen as the representative of wronsed
citizens, be attacks jobbng lords yet here finding
not the exact sphere for action he suffers no, him
self 60 be clipped of his fair proportions; he is no,
TO be- the victim of circumstances, he viii a, least
selec, them. At the age OF forty-,hree years he
enters the army, Until then the idle student, the
domestic husband the struggling farmer, the re
ligious zealo,, the quiet, hnmbie emigrans, The
talking legislator. Employments all distant enough
E !, alar no Sho
path for his exertiens.
How deep must be that feeling, how sincere those
convictions, how lively that indignation, which per.
mits men having the Christian Scririures IN one