The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-11-04


latter yere-killed.
The Snakes and other tribes had sent an am
bassador to the Chiefs of the Utahs, expressing
a desire to make a treaty of peace. Mr.. Rose
and his party experienced molestation from
the Indians during their trip Phelps's train
with the Secretary of the Treasury of Utah ter
ritory, getting aieag well.
The Mormon's are bull ding up dense city
at Salt Lake, and extending their settlements in
all directions in the valley. The Tabernacle is
finished.
| Mr. Ross learned at Fort Kearney, that a war
party of Pawnees was out against the Sioux
The Late Duke of wellington.
The Duke of Wellington is by this time
buried. The soul of the late body is-God
knows where. The volles fired above his
grave, and the batteries SO grossly uttered,
not alone to the dead Duke, but to the
| living Empire, that worshipped him as Its
own image and likeness, begin now to clear
away. We have stood by patiently at 1t
all, but even beside Lake Erie, In the name
of History and Heroism, in the name of
India, ireland, and the century we live in,
we must raise our protest against this In
famous conspiracy to cheat posterlty.
The Duke of Wellington a Hero! lib
orator. sage! a christian. ga perfect
man r' Do they who assert these things,
imagine that they can keep history under
Hobbs lock, which no expert can pick
Do they suppose our OWE days so deluded
with words, that all memory of essential
facts, has passed away? 1t seems so, but
here, as elsewhere, seen,ingis not being.
The Duke of Wellington's character had
two parts, and only two. He was for thlr-
,, ty years soldier, for thirty more states
man. In 1898 he won his first battle in
1918 his last From the peace till the last
session of the Westminster Parliament, he
was constantly engaged in what he meant
to be, the government of the Empire OF
which he was the first subject.
That two exhibitions of power, such as
his in peace and war, constitute the highest
greatness, we deny. Even material great
ness requires pre-emlnence over others,
in meeting the special requirements OF the
! cotemporary age. Moral greatness-the
only true-requires service OF more 1un-
damental and ethical character. To the
last, we presume, the eulogists OF the Duke
do not advance any claims on his account
He was neither Apostle, Doctor, nor Or
ganizer neither was he Discoverer, 1nven-
tor, or Founder of anything which exists
in the material order-ifw we except Apsley
house, and a Ducal posterity. 10 origin
alitv. the greatness which Columbus, MI
chaei Angelo, and Napoleon had, the late
Duke can advance no claim.
His place, then, is in the second rank OF
materially great men. There his own ac>
tions for sixty years of public life, have
bound him, and all the special pleaders IN
Britain cannot undo the chain of facts by
which he is held there.
Let us remember that he was by birth
an Irishman His youth, his first friends,
the first to trust him, were lrlshmen; his
very outfit for India, was advanced by a
Dublin tradesman In Ireland the tombs
of his ancestors invited him. Yet IN near
ly forty years of peace, living within day
Journey of it, he never once visited the
land of his birth
He was left fatherless, and his education
was solely conducted by his mother. That
mother lived to see him one OF the richest
and most famous men in Europe. Yet he
suffered her to die In debt-sutfered her
personal effects, her very wardrobe, to be
seized and sold TO pay OH Tic uep'S VI INV
mother of Wellington.
He was husband, and one who claimed
great self-control Yet his intrigues, un-
til a comparatively recent day, were noto-
rious. His silly letters to Madame Reca-
mier, are but small part OF the Indlct-
ment against him, as husband and father
AS a captain he was great, rather by
prudence and labor, than by genius or IN
yention His intense tenacity OF purpose
was certainly heroic. In that quality, he
NAV compare with the most famous sol
diers of antiquity The Peninsular war is
the true theatre of his glory, because 1t was
there he displayed his best quality to most
advantage.
But to talk of him as the conqueror OF
Napoleon, is simply absurd. Europe and
the Pope conquered Napoleon. 1he Neys
of Peter, the SHOWS of Russia, the walls OF
Leipsic, the exile of Elba, had prepared the
French army to be beaten. But even tneh
it was not England, but all Europe that
did it. -,
The conqueror of Napoleon should not
only have beaten him in arms, but also IN
ma agnanimity Did Wellington this D1o
he attempt to save the wounded teeiings
of gallant people. No he trlumphea