The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-09

yshn Thompson ON shs Lsfe, character, and
Gsuaus OF NIastOa.


eloquent lecture the above subject 1t The Broadway
Tsbesnses 10 large and highly respectable audience
The lecturer sad-Bish mp indeed upon the sleeps Of
Psznassus In eose eostiguity, tower three statues
chiseed In eternal granite and wreathed with the bsys
Of I'm Milton and Byron-ths first
too By the unsninous suffrage Of the world the last By
all those who do mot permit their abhorsuce Of moral
dscrniy TO destroy their appreciation OF splendid
tel endowment refer 10 the latter only poet
not Dante the gush his glorious genius bathing
hill and valley stream mountain in foods Of uuut
tcrsbe btsuty-wtasng his gaiands ON the hghtniDg's
wing, and talking with the hunders throwing his hand
the finest chords Of the human soul,
and revealing in fountains Of feeling and sym
pathY-xaiing the proudest passions OF the
moral utes to which this power was applied we say
nothing but the lit ell it Is confessed m him to
the smiDBce We have indicated We have to speak
OF John Milton the eruaite fcholar, the stern minded
staesmsn the Halter tyrsnts and bypocres the in
oouuPtibe man the earnest fearless devoted patriot
the champion Of lib ana truth the poet of Heaven
the non of the imsgn ations power
nal, whoee inhu.pc- upon moral and polite Al re.
laions Of have hardly YET their beeinnprs
On the 18th Of December ICES after the acces
zion Of James the Frst to hs thfooe Of Englsuo Milton
was born Hcre the lecturer alluded the early life of
Milton, which Is too we'll knosn To need comment
Milton said be- was rt.In republican and hated ty-
ranDy both In Church Or johnson does JUS
tce to his abity but says ia him there nothing
10 admire because he ju.ued the execution Of nfa
nous ling and was - cIetary the Commonwealth of
England In the aye in which he lived the most re-
cent religious power slways the most despotic
the Presbyterian tolerant thar the Episco-
palian, and neither tolerant the Catholics.
Thousands and tens thousand, of Mtons CO mpeers
MacAuley isittd their voices against ship money
and the stan chamber bus f.w the results Of moral
and slavery and the benefits Of the liberty OF
the and the right OF pnvste judgment Milton
deeiIous that the people should think for themselves
as well Is tax them el,es. and for this it that
he scted with party and then forsook them,
and this thai fought their percus battles
and hen turned from their insolent triumph;
he had ell the elements Of the revolution in his great
soul and he ,.ded with each party only far they
added to bis grand conception. He prepared his grand
fpesch for the liberty Of unce printing directed
the Parliament OF tnesrd by which " will be that
he fer advance Il bis sge he wanted only
liberty Of conscience worship but the power send
the wings OF the wind around the globe Living
do surrounded all blessings. il impos-
Gbie to realize with u shock that splendid paper
fell upon the liberal toisIan of men 1t has
bet D bdor Of diction and for its
reason it is VII neut parallel the literature Of the world
About this time the tyant Charles went to the scat
fold and in lo4s Milton wrote his Tenure Of Kings and
Magistrates proving thsr n is Sfu and had bsen held
throughout all ages, for any people who had ths
power 10 call TO tyraDcal and wck king and
TO d. pose and put him death The Exon BecIiAn
then in defe Of Charles but Mutton
himself TO the tax Of answering L. and he at
trsted it's ecpbistres and heap-d upon it such
that left IL powrrloes upon the nation Shortly after
wards work appeared by Ssmstius upon prelacy and
royalty by far the greatest publ shed that sub
jec, 1t was Harmed. astu'e powerful and much So
that It Is said that Edmund Burke drew his mightes
Weapons in argument and debate from its pages The
yes Of the world TUNED upon Milton, but he was
then half blind the light of eye quench.d for
ard his doctor hao advised him to abstain from all
Of his rsmsining eye But he ready for the
work end the answer in him and be sat down and
with his accustomed diligence short time produced
reply which stands the most mastery OF oil his
performances Europe resounded with his fame but
what q dearly bought reno$n! Milton had reached
hs year ana 10 man Of his age had written
30 uch and 20 we'll HIS fOme wide the know
leege Of letters for he The greatest scholar in Gu
rope But be had only th commenced his career. for
he had planned ana gathered materials for hres great
sks 10 the compost Ion of which he proposed to
employ himself The FIRST epic poem the sec ond
a history of England, and the third Dictionary of the
Latin tongue; and this be accomplish d by
utterly bind The epic poem was Paradise Lost" the
history most laborious work he brought down to the
time Of the Norman conquest and the dictionary
published Bestoes hese be wrote and published
brief history Of Muscova and in the position Of these
various works be aii.d his daughters probably by
his wife literary friends and last Least by
accomplished Quail r FRI. nd Swocd The Common wealth
was nov drawing 10 close and the patriots OF that day
had given ali hope for lot The age not rife for
republc but Million absted joE OF heart hope
and 10 inspire the splits OF his counrymen he published
several wotktone in 1865 tnt,'leo Ready and Easy
Way TO Establish Free Commonwealth. and the Dan
gers o. admitting King hip the geam, which he
predicts the very evils that upon the
tion ar another, called The Resoiest Way to Remove
Hirepes of the church. We to the
greatest ever In the history Of Milton and his times On
the 30 September 1865 The ofIest spirit then upon the
cath TO Milton upon whose great heart laid the
weight of aim stretched upon his ing couch in
Whitehall and while weeping friends stooc around and
Eup held her hr ab IN that heroic oal that had
stenned thousand battle hlds, aud carried the glory
b
monarcbs and wtoe ehtly vison and daily talk it
to give freedom al religion to bis fonowers-that ssu
aitt< d away upon The bfah Of prayer Oliver 0rcn-
well deed and wb HIM vent foi season thu noer
tee OF England No other hand had power 10 guide the
realm and other could still the dacordspt fac
tions The stuai agsu ped the tcsptre, and then
CANE thute days he recalled without blush
the euldep sgs Of the cnEard the bgo and the slave
But where was Milton then! 0ne hor says that Nil.
ton pretended to die aud rad a public funeral and that
the king rel he'd the joke, and let it pass reality
Dsyensnt intfposed fo bis friend but without
n.x.. at hfuHE ha hp Inc INN.
but this vas not the case for he was prose-
outed, and wbsn In custody, remembering the ex
ample Of the heroic John Hampton be refused to
pay the Court fees johnson thinks that compassion
operated in his favor but Charles and James had no
v.persop for sbity hut the contrary, the
cftatnt was almost sure TO tnd his wsy TO the scsod
Paradise Lost yet written, aud nov among the
wreck q his political hopes he turned to the vision he
had Bused in and defeat and poor ami old and
bird in distress and danger he ed this
which Hume Rnd Ms-sulay admit a. the most sub
lime OF any production in any language. Homer, Lucre
titus spd excepted II as IL
aiop from God and not the p'ooucnon OF mao; and II
Is dh arrangement TO he genius Of Milton that the Boe
furp the outline h- work any than IL is TO
Homer that be euboded the poetical traditions OF the
Greeks without plbaps ipvenring one Of them
But tbs end approsches ard on the 10Th November 64
be fell asleep in the aims OF his friends, sixty six
years Of age The harmed OF the world seemed TO awake
10 their lose snd all the glory Of Lon came trooping
space TO his funeral aud DO monarch had sucn
encere mournerf or perhaps more splendid funeral
for he onsrch absolute in the world Of let
than bis greet in the reslW cf ENGLAND
They laid him beside his father IL st. Qless Cripple
gate and sthough the bitterness Of sprst uaed him
In cripion q monument stands now In Westminster
Abbey CIV cied by BtpeoD We az that circumstances
make men; but make circumstances truly
the soul within gives shspe and complexion to the
events without. Oliyer mace bis army and vicio
In any other mans hand the 1ist would have been
a rbtie aud the otf route. Go Napoleon
sifucted himself The Of France which any other
would bsye bten scsDold Milton yes his great
not to the without him but TO his great
soul Had times been different his genius might not
have sought its o.y.opement in the way but in
some sbspe OF sps ndor and beauty, 1t would have
emerged the sdmirpg gaze Of all generations As
patriot Million knew no fear His polar star bis
country'e e cd and he shrank from toll danger
and unsved by power be counted his life WORTHLESS
that be might give pure religion and FREE dom TO his
THE world will look upon his like again lie fol
filed glorious destiny tie was prophet AYE, more
than a proph.t-for be the defender and expounder
every and glorious principle in moral and pot
cal freedom
RAILROAD AocIDBkTs.-A man named Collius,
in the employ Of MIR Msrsh, at Elixahethport, while
attempting get upon the train ofhe Central road in