Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1856-03-06
nlisfeIIanrons Artiflrs.
K0sSUTHs FAREWELL.

INV tOlhhiiehtC, was SiOeaA ~ UOhiOA Al IL
Introductory article, published in the sew
enth of April number of this paper.
leave the reader to judge whether l have
been faithful to my programme. That
programme is my testimony that I was
not sanguine of success when ! entered
on the task, and, in parting with it, l con-
fess l did well not to be sanguine of sue
cess. Still, / look back with some salts
faction on this strange episode in my
strange life and though cannot boast
of having derived immediate advantage
from it, either to the cause to which l am
religiously devoted, or to myself, 1 do not
regret the pains it has cost me to go
through it. My conscience tells me that
l have performed duty, and to me that
is enough.
Some want hope for motive, and sue
cess for reward. With me, the sense
of duty is sufficient motive; and the
consciousness of having done q duty is
sufficient reward. Besides, swords lost
on the ears ofthe living are not always
lost for history" and q say it with sor-
row, not with pride) l have the presen-
timent that many a word have written
on the future in the Atlas, which, after
short while, may read like anticipated
record of history. But be this as it may,
l remember to have read in the Times
the telling remark, that in England the
leaders of party are intent on parliament
tary tactics, instead of European politics.
If that remark tells a true tale. it is
not amiss that the British public should
hear, now and then, some little of Euro
pean politics. Well, I have the conscious
ness that l, for one, have spoken to
them European politics.
Modest as my requirements otherwise
may be, this object, at least, is familiar
to me: protracted study, experience, med
itation,and my very suffcrings, concurred
to familiarize me with it; and the moral
solitude in which I stand, in England,
has this advantage at least, that, impassa-
BILE to the varying emotions of the fitting
moment, and of party interest, l may
keep steady eye on the main features
of events, and take broad view of a
broad case. True it is, much prejudice
exists in England against the opinions of
foreigners. While on the Continent it
Is vernacular truth that nobody is a
prophet in his own land, in England the
reverse is true.
In almost every other regard the most
cosmopolitan nation, in that one regard
the English are not free from selfconceit
Emphatically a nation of "details" each
man a Speciality" they do not much
care to arrive at bird's-eye view of a
European case; and because they do not,
they are inclined to think no foreigner
can. But strong as this prejudice NAV
be, truth is not the less truth because q
foreigner has told it; and if good be the
advice which foreigner happens to give,
not he will have to rue if men do not
profit by it.
Besides, though the son of FOREIGN
land, and though the best affections of NV
heart cling with superhuman ardor to the
land of my birth, am not an alien to
any people on earth. Corrupt as is the
Christianity of this our material AGE.
alas degraded into mere lip-worship,)
l thank our Father in Heaven that.
amongst all the vicissitudes of NV sor-
rowtul life, he has left me a heart reI;-
glously devoted to the sublime, fupda-
mental command of pure Christianity
0rotherly love and charity. Fraternal|
solidarity is my religion. 1 am no stran-
ger to my brethren on earth; no stran-
ger, especially to my brethren the people
OF England. I take the deepest interest
In the welfare of this country, which gave
a shelter to my homeless head.
1t was this interest that prompted me
to contribute the modest light of my lamp
towards the enlightenment of public opin-
ion at this critical period of England's
history.
Whether or not 1 have been too pre-
sumptuous in undertaking the task, time
Will show. The task is done. In mart
ing with it, l publicly thank the propri-
etors OF the Atlas, for the fair field thew
held open to me for performing what
IN conscience, think to have been the dnv
OF an honest man, and 1 thank the read
ers TOR the indulgence with which thew
nave borne the unfattering austerity of
my language, and the defects of a for.
eigner's pen.
, Unbiased as have been by any of
those particular considerations which Of.
ten have their share in the management
OF the English periodical press, 1 did not
learn to make a compromise be+woor