New-York daily tribune., 1842-09-03
wRGEE NO. as7.

own hearts sfIs, circle
of domestic rsations whore alone We Gun In gene
raj be truly appreciated. No one can doubt thass
! If bacchanalian songs had never been invented.
millions of recruits would have been withheld tron
the armies of intemper anre. IF no Lauras had
been sung and celebrated, many female heart
that pants for the reputation of belle, would
be easy In the enjoyment and diffusion OF some
more tranquil ard more attainable happiness.
Many man who now annovs mankind by his
efforts at some ssrr of violent pre-eminence, who
seeks, if not TO extort respect appreciation,
at least 10 force himself upon our knowledge and
compel as to be familiar with his name; many
man of this kind might have been saint and
sage in private life, had the fipgerposts of his in
fancy pointed him the way to independence,
Independence; that loftiest and most perfect con-
,dition of the soul, which only place
lsaboye mankind can teach him to measure his
faculties with his duties and DO truly and quietly
that which he most efectually and can pro-
cure to him sometimes the reward of that .' self
approving hour, when BE feels in the still small
voice that TO him I" well done,' the direc. In
spira:ion of his God.
1t is a detestable heresy and one Cor which POI
cts chiefly y@nzas rnapensible, which teaches that
there is scope for great talent IN private life.
The mute Milton must be reproached that he IS
also inglorious; the guiltess Cromwell is set in
our estimation at pins fee in comparison with
the guilty. A presumption of inferiorty Is
dedgced from the want of notoriety, success be-
comes thus invidious, and bad feelings are gese-
rated which cause half the misery of society. All
this is wrong. II is in private life that the human
mind is most generally destined and designed TO
act; it is thithervard that its highest qualities
tendit is there they must seek their natural exer-
cise their appointed tasks. and their reward. 1t
is there that poetry should follow them; there it
shsuld seek the undisguised, unstuded man, in
the freshness, the originality, the rich variety OF
nature. The mask, the costume, the grimace of
public life gone; the monotony of etiquette and
afectstion have given place the play of feeling,
the ebbs and flows of passion, and the modes,
phases and phantasies, and caprices, that success
sive hours and days. and time, and chance bring
with them But sock and buskn courage rhetor-
cal patriotism, and scenic love, have had their
day our relish of them is gone, and we even hate
them, except indeed in the fresh simplicity of
those earliest bards who sang when everything
new.
The Angel of Tears botrnys good, healthy
tone of thought and feeling, but is decidedly infs-
rior in point of grace and taste to previous papers
bv the same author. The Ancient Feudal and
Modern Banking SYSTEM &C. C. Cambreling,'
and Financial Article, are the political papers
of the month. well written paper gives US some
fine sketches Of the Political Theorists OF the
English Commonwealth quote the following
notice OF one of the noblest among them:
The name of ALGERNoN SIDNEY is one hallow-
ed by the noblest exertions, ending in martyrdom,
in the cause of liberty. Justly and with an honest
enthusiasm might Wordsworth exclam, in one of
his sonnets dedicated to Liberty,
"Ungra,eul country, if thou eer forget
The sons who for thy civil rights have bled!
Her ike Roman, Sidney bored his head"
Sidney renlizes ir.idea of Bru,us, whom he
took for his model. The same irascible temper,
similar devotion to liberty, the contempt of
death distinguish the two patriots. Though most
jealous for commonwealth, he must not be con-
founded with the devoted adherents of Cromwell,
for he became strong enemy of the Protector on
his assumption of supreme power. Like the ad-
mirers of Napoleon the first Consul, but the de-
termined opposers of Napoleon the Emperor, ne
left Cromwell, when he thought he saw his ambi-
tion predomrating over his regard TO public good.
From his earliest years Sidney wds imbued with
republican principles, almost romantic in their
scope and tendency and on the scatIold though
denying 10 the last the Justice of his sentence, he
delighted to suffer for the good old cause"
Though appointed one of the judges who condem-
ned Charles L. for some reason other he was
not present, nor did he sign the death-warrant.-
Shortly after, he was appointed captain in the
Parliamentary army; but after the nomination OF
Cromwell to the Protectoratc, he threw up his
commissions and would receive no employment
from him, or his son Richard. Under the Paria-
ment which assumed the powers OF the govern
ment on the retirement of the Protector success
scr Sidney was sent as commissioner to Sweden,
| to mediate in negotiation between that nation
and Denmark. From this he after returned,
and on the Restoration passed over TO France
Here he remained until an act of oblivion shelter
ed him from the regal dspleasure, upon which he
returned to his native country. In Engan his
active mind kept him busy in agitating political
schemes and discussing points OF policy AT
Penshurst, celebrated the family seat of the
Sidneys, he composed his Discourses upon Govern
ment Upon these his reputation as political
writer depends. The sentiments tn, y contain are
purely republican, drawn from the most enlighten-
ed historical reflections; and as for his style, we
have the eulogium of Coleridge, who speaks of
him as disclosing the gentleman in every line.
His trial and execution appears without any suf-
6cient ground of justice, and must be ascribed TO
desire to crush one of the noblest spirits of his
time; and were almost as fragrant as the trial and
execution of the admirable Lord Russell. 1t is
possible, however, that mistaken ardor may have
led him into ntrisues, at the consequences OF
which his soul would naturally have revolted, had
he seen them with temperate eye. Has charac-
ter has been drawn by Burnet, with such accuracy
of colorng, as to superseae the necessity if it did
not rebuke the presumption, of new portrait
.s He was, says the Bishop, a man of most ex-
traordinary courage; steady man even TO obsti-
macy sincere, but of rough and boisterous tenn
per that could not bear contradiction. He seemed
,n be a Christian but in q particular form of bis