Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1856-11-07

tinsel as he pleased!
The man who can read CromwelFs
personal history and private letters-who
can mark his conduct in the day OF peril
and the hour of death-and still believe
him to have been nothing but an amol-
tious hypocrite, must have lost all faith
in human nature. Cromwell left hap
DIV home at the age of 43, unconscious
of any powers in himself but those OF
good farmer, to fight for liberty and Cos
mel faith-he, and his boy Oliver, whose
loss "went to his heart like a dagger,
and whose memory fred his charge, and
saddened his victory at Marston-Moor.
His life was exposed, not only in every
battle, but in every skirmish, for what
he believed to be the cause of God; and
, his religion was the great source OF his
adamantine courage and his unwearying
decision. The hope which it kindled,
shone in him like pillar of fire" when
hone was extinct in all other men. 1t
raised his heroism, sometimes, to Hebrew
grandeur. What is the sun of Austerlitz,
S to the morning of Dunbar?
How could hypocrite have formed
: the Iron sides? 1t was said of those
men, they feared God, and that they
: feared nothing besides and the first part
s of the saying was as true as the last
l. They were not mere ranters and psalm
Is singers. They showed their practical
; religion by religiously abstaining from all
20 military license, even in conquered cities.
q When they were disbanded, from the
IL best of soldiers, they became again the
D best of citizens, and peacefully did their
l. duty to God and their State; while Jesuits,
'e and strumpets, and infidel prosecutors,
y trampled on the Protectors ashes, and
dishonared the protectors throne.
IL For the general cause of Protestant
e. ism he did more than any other man ex-
ie cept Luthcr-not by publishing propa,
I'll gandist manifestoes, or threatening tc
as subvert foreign Governments, or holding
le out promises of UNIVERSAL brotherhood
~ to be followed by universal perfdy anC
e. pillage; but by course of policy at onct
ne energetic and discreet, which made al
IN the world feel that the protection of pro
M testantism was the first object of tn
tn. greatest of nations. He had succeede,
re- in founding dynasty to carry out hi
ht- traditions, the Edict of Nantes neve
ch could have been revoked, the hopes G
as freedom in Italy never could have beel
IN stifed, and Europe might have beer
'ut Protestant at this hour. What ha
On damned Cromwell's memory is, not tha
for he betrayed his cause, but that he serve
at his cause to well. Perhaps, if he ha
m crushed the liberty for which his soldier
m died, had married Spanish Princes
use and restored the Anglican hierarchy, a
ar tool of his political domination, Church
OF men and Tories would not have bee
found censorious or unkind.
led In war Cromwell was the most mere
ind full of soldiers; for in his campaigns b
ng, always sought decisive battles, and HI
me battles were always soon ended by a d.
ties cisive charge. When he commando,
the the carnage was small, the results in
and mense, and few brave men died by mi
of cry, pestilence or famine. His five gre
r in and decisive victories of Marston, Mas
ess- by, Preston, Dunbar, and Worcester, d
,od- not together cost near so many lives
, be the hideous and fruitless butchery
avs Borodino. He treated war, not as a Sc
oes. ence in which he was to show his ski
for but as an appeal to human fortitud
ply which, for the sake of humanity, was
the be tried without delay. War, under hir
bar. was far less savage than under 9th
of commanders of that time. His men 6
the ways spared the country, and almost 6
aw. ways gave quarter, even to those wi
er- gave no quarter to them. The storm
.blv Dredagh was the single noted exception
avs his and their humanity. ''That bitterness
ion. he justified on the ground that it had sa
per, ed, as undoubtedly it did save, much {
fer fusion of blood in what would otherwi
reat have been a long and desolating war;
sent We must remember, too, that fright
atrocities had recently been commits
vie. by Roman Catholics upon Protestan
Who both i'll ireland and elsewhere. IT
la. blood of Dredagh was a drop in Il
ius ocean of O'Neile's massacre or the sa
izot of Madeburg. That any of the peacef
far inhabitants of Drogheda were put to t
pen. sword is confuted calumny, which !
hia- Guizot ought not TO have repeated.
row. Cromwell's political genius is a hac
With neyed theme of literary praise, to viii
hill NJ. Guizot adds the attestation of state
nan man. His reign is indeed the marvel
OWN history. In every department, from o
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