The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-09-20
JUDGE DOUGLAS AND THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE.
GEORGE Ill

mise they now combine against popular sover-
eighty.
GEORGE Ill.
Mr.. Thackeray, in the '' -Four Georges" speaks
thus of the old King who plays so prominenta part
in American history:
His mothers bigotry and hatred he inherited with
the courageous obstinacy of his own race; but he
was firm believer where his fathers had been free
thinkers, and true and fond supporter of the
Church, of which he the tituar defender. Like
other dull men, the King all his life suspicious
of superior people. He did not like Fox; he did not
like Reynolds; he did not like Nelson, Chatham
Burke; he was testy at the idea of all Innovations
and suspicious of all innOvatOrs. He loved medioc
rites; Ben amin West his favorite painter;
Beatte was his poet. The King lamented, not with
out pathos, in his aftere, that his education had
been neglected. He was dull lad, brought up by
narrow-minded people. The cleverest tutors in the
world could have done little, probably, to expand
that small intellect, though they might have i'm
proved his tastes, and taught his perception some
generosity.
But he admired as well as he could. s
He did his best; he worked according to his
lights; what virtue he knew he tried to practise;
what knowledge he could master, he strove to ac-
quire. He was forever drawing maps, for example,
and learned geography with no small care and in
dustry. lie knew all about the family histories and
genealOgies OF his gentry, and pretty histories he
must have known. He knew the whole Army List
and all the iacings, and the exact number of the
buttons, and all the tags and aces and the cut of
army. He knew the personnel of the Universities;
what doctors were inclined to SOcinianism, and
who were sound churchmen; he knew the etiquettes
of his ami his grandathers courts to a nicely,
and the smallest particulars regarding the routine
of ministers, secretaries embassies, audiences; the
humblest page in the ane-rOOm, the meaneSt
helper in the stable Kitchen These parts of the
royal business he was capable of learning, and he
learned. Is :
Yet there is something grand about his courage.
The battle of the king with his aristocracy remains
yet to be told by the historian who shall view the
reign OF George more justly than the trumpery
panegyrists who wrote Immediately after his de-
cease. 1t was he, with the people to back him,
who made the with America; it was he and
the people who refused justice to the Roman Catho
lies; and on both questions he beat the patricans
He brbed: he bullied: he darkly dissembled on Oc-
cason: he exercised a slippery perseverance, and a
vindictive resolution, which one almost admires
one thinks his character over. His courage was
to be beat. 1t trampled North under foot: it
beat the stiff neck of the younger Pitt even his
illness never conquered that ndOmitabe spirit. As
as his brain clear it resumed the scheme
only laid aside when his reason left him: as
his hands out of the strat-waiscOat they took
up the pen and the plan which had engaged him up
to the moment of his malady. | believe it is by
persons believing themselves in the right that nine
tenths Of the tyranny of this world has been perpe
trated. Arguing on that convenient premiss, the
Dey of Algiers would cut off twenty heads of a
morning; Father Dominic would burn score of
Jews in the presence Of the Most Catholic King,
and the Archbshops Of Toledo and Salamanca sing
Amen. Protestants were roasted, Jesuits hung and
quartered at Smithfied, and witches burned at
Salem, and all by worthy people, who believed they
had the best authority for their actions. And so,
with respect to old George, even Americans, whom
he hated and who conquered him. may give him
credit for having quite honest reasons for oPpress-
ing them.
From November, 1910, George III. ceased to
reign. All the world knows the story of his malady
all history presents no sadder figure than that of
the old man, blind and deprived Of reason, wander
ing through The rooms of his palace, addressing
imaginary pariaments, reviewing tancied troops,
holding ghostly courts. have seen hia picture as
it taken at this time, hanging in the apartment
of his daughter, the Landgravine of Hesse of HON.
| bourg-amidst books and Windsor furniture and
| hundred fond "reminiscences of her English home.
| The poor old father is represented in purple
| gown, his snowy beard falling over his breast-the
star of his famous Order still idly shining on it. He
not only sightless: he became utterly deaf. All
light, all reason all sound of human voices all the
| pleasures of this world of God, were taken from
| him. Some slight lucid moments he had; in one
of which the queen, desiring to see him, entered
| the room, and found him singing hymn, and ac-
| companying himself at the harpsichOTd. When he
| had finished, he knelt down and prayed aloud for
her, and then for his family, and then for the
nation, concluding with prayer for himself that
it might please God to avert his heavy calamity
| from him, but if not, to give him resignation to
submit. He then burst into tears, and his reason
| again fled.
| What preacher may moralize this story p
what words save the simplest are requisite TO tell
| it? 1t is too terrible for tears. The thought OF
such misery smites me down in submission before
| the Ruler of kings and men, the Monarch Supreme
| over empires and republics, the inscrutable Dis
penser of life death, happiness, victory. "Oh
brothers said to those who heard first in Amer
| ica-"Oh brothersl speaking the same dear mother
| tongue-oh comrades enemies no mOre let US take
a mourIfu hand together and by this royal
corpse, and call truce to battle! Low he lies to
whom the proudest used to kneel once, and who
| was cast lower than the poorest: dead, whom mil
| lions prayed for in vain. Driven of his throne;
buffetted by rude hands, with his children IN revolt
the darling of his old age killed before him untlme-
ly; Lear hangs her breathless ps ana cries.
'COrdelia, Cordelia, stay little!
syex not his ghost-oh let him pass-he hates him
! That would upon the rack OF this tough world
Stretch him out longer!
| Hush Strife and Quarrel, over the solemn grave!
| Sound Trumpets, a mOurnfu march! Fall, Dark
Curtain upon his pageant, his PRIDE his grief, his
| awful tragedy?
The committee of arrangements for the ball to
! the Prince of Wales, in New York, have issued
their "rules and regulations" Gentlemen must
appear in full suits of black, with white cravats and
white gloves. This rule however, is only advisory,
not peremptory.
| Mr.. Shaw, the rich old bachelor of st. Louis
against whom Effie Carstang brought that notable
breach of promise case is assessed at S57O,OOO for
real estate, and S43,500 for personal property.
Efiie still resides in ST. Louis.
Bavard Taylor, in a farewell letter to the New
York Mercury, thus sums up his abors for the past
sixteen months: "Two hundred and fifty lectures,
thirty thousand miles travel, forty-eight Mercury
articles, two books published, and one house built
John B. Cough, the eminent temperance advo
cate will deliver his first lecture since his return
from Europe, at the Cooper Institute, New York
on Monday evening, October l, under the auspice;
of the Young Mems Christian Association.
Hon. Edward Everett is to open the course o.
lectures which will be delivered before the Mercan
, tile Library Association of Boston this winter.
Gerritt Smith is said to be dividing property
the value of 100000 among five devoted relatives