The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-10-09

tween the high-ayng pretensions Of the Crown and
The stubborn purpose Of the people 10 retrieve eN-
tend and guarantee their ancient liberties burst ON
into that fierce consulsOn which presently DESTROYED
the monarchy aud The sOSEEECS. To- the slOWl, sub
siding conflict Of these principles, easily and osa
again awake ed into destructive collision, Caosl
WELL had 10 deal with menacing condition of thing.
and with hostile opponents that were only u bee g.s1
pied with, BY a, yigOr almost beyond the lW
aud constaucy almost equally Inaccessible Ia
The suggestions of human pily and human weaknes.
Yet, where, among successful leaders against t.e
FORCES Of ancient dynssiies and opinions, hr1ncs ana
monarchs, institutions and establishments, shall wr
bnd parallel TO CRoMwELLi The kNG's death be-
II remembered, was neither his exclusive act nor
could he, alone, have arrested fate already deter.
mined on by those whose strength and will CRoMwEl
could not yet pretend 10 oppose. II lie gave way l
the BRITISH intolerance Of his Parliament in ,,,,.
toning the cruelties exercised against Tie madinau
NAyLoR, and Others he is 10 be- TO a great extent
excused by the purtanica bisotry Of his time agi
the coneurriDg preudlces Of the entire people put
neither his political vengeance, his RELIGION.
flnaticism INDUCED IN those horrible oxces,es ,r
boodshed and torture which disgraced the memor,
of so many ny the best Of our Kings, who wcr.
also wise legislators and inyncibe captains
We pause for moment 10 remind the reader m
OLIVER CROMWELL. raised the true grandeur of IA.
country at home, and its political influence abroad
10 pitch II had previously attained only un er Elz
BETH, IN less than ten years In place Of tL, d .
trust which British diplomacy had incurred sbr,,
under the disorganilation produced by CH,RLys-.
policy in oil his affairs, Cromwell made the propd
Minister of France sutton Tor his friendship aud r
vor He humb!ed the pretensions both Of France AMI
SPAN by the prompt yIgor and decsion of his rr,o
buttons, and the matches energy with which he y..
ever prepared TO give action and effect 10 them I
sasacy prodigiousiy enlarged the limits Of our com
merce and whist he repressed and .ignaly punish
the arrogance OF Spoinh cultivated relations Of Ird
which land the foundations OF the lasting and adyauta.
gcous connexion that has since subsisied betc,
tins country and Portugal. He did not fail how
ever, TO subject Don PANrALEoN Sa. the brotf,r
OF the Portuguese Ambassador for an airucous nun
der committed here TO the same extreme and ~,
mniou' penalty which would have visited the com,
mission OF similar offence by the meanest English
subject. la the old world and the new he daii,ed
the terror, ana indicated The authority Of the British
Nag When he had 10 choose between the alliance
OF France aud Spain, he wisely preferred the artri
Holland he compelled to relinquI,h her Wanted sl.
premacy OF the seas and the same Blake who de-
leated an IrImp and ransacked the sett ements Of
SPAN IN South America, animated by the intrei
courage and ability OF his master, reduced the power
iul State OF AIgers 10 ablect submits, ion auer II
had dehed for ages all the other powers of Europa
The great Chaii les V, about hundred years brf,,
had iailed IN like attempt, and was compellei 10
retire with discounted army after seeing h.,f.r
annh lated he powerful hing of France t0i.,y
years afterwards, was equally defeated aud hum IA.
ted In similar effort Such, then, having been ilt
good fortune, and victorious and to his country en-
nenty useful career Of Oliver Cromwell VIII, ,ha.
he be omitted out Of The sculp,ured line of English
so, eregns IN the halls Of the English Legislature:
The vena and corrupt House of Commons, which
he so summary dismissed, could It now have ali,
voice IN the matter, might well vote for the excelsior
OF his statue. The Hierarchy which be displaced
might now reasonably anathemlti,e hun. Bu, from
the Incidental effect Of never having worn the tau-
Bile " TO Josile HIM out of the dignifed company Of
the warrior Paniagenets, the ADLER monarchs OF the
White and Red Roses, the more enlightened and
powerful! Of the Iudors, the all-miSerable Stuarts
the convention called Nassau and the Parliament
created line OF Hanover, and ais lu,rious rrogeny
OF BrunswIok-wculd be, we repeat, a solecism aud
4 Disgrace To our nation To leave out Cromwell
would be, too, TO pas, over the most extraordinary
creation OF that marvellous 18th century OF which
he was, as 1t were, the salt aud the concentration"