New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-26
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Anything bat thstJry, for that must be FALSE
Sir Robert WGlpole is recorded to have said. And,
indeed, he was justified Take any great event,
and see aoW impossible il is TO tile the details Off
The victims Of the S., Bartholomew massacre are
variousIy stated, by La popGIionore to have mum
bered 2O0G0, by hdriani, De Series, and De Thou
3O090 by Bayila 10000. by Suiiy 70 eco, by P6rt-
hxe 400 000 Titus Oates was convicted of perjury,
pilloriea, whipped, and sentenced to imprisonment
for life, in reign, and in the next was pardoned
and granted pension as an injured individual.
And 80 on 1t is unnecessary TO multiply instances.
Any one Who will take the trouble to read the ac-
counts given by different historians Of the sane
events, may easily settle any doubts he may have
as to the correctness of the proposition. Lingard
and Hume will afford instances, aa well as Macau
lay and Alison, or Pollard and Losing.
Asi is with events, 50 It is with men. Bigohy,
partaauship, aud other evil passions lead TO the
landatton Of the bad and to the viiicatiou Of the
good, with such Yehemence and Yersimiitude thai
it is not seldom impossible to decide what was the
actual character Of the subject Of the record,
In this category may be placed John Horne
po0ke Of whose otthin 1875 the 2j:h Of June ia the
anniversary. Originally priest, he came to doubt
the truth of what he had been educated to teach,
and he threw off the gown. Justice wonld seem
to demand that for this franlSness aud mdepen.
deu2e he should be admired. But instead Of that
he Was abused as groBsly as ever nan was "Ren
egade priest s one of the mildest cpithets applied
to him; and he was treated as if not fit far decent
society, although he was q learned and lab, rioue
man; and Rogers, the poet, with whom lie was
intimate, deacrbes him as charming companion,
Politically he was even worse treated than he was
socially. He vas fined aud Imprisoned Tor oppos-
ing tue Anerloan war; and, because he repre-
scented the notorious rotten borough of Old Sarum
IL the House OF Commons, and advocated par,ia-
mSnt&ry reform, he is abused as being Inconsistent
and as having stultifgd himself, instead OF being
given credit for sufficient disintere teduess 10 risk
his reelection for the place, and choosing rath4r
to represent it for the time being thsn to be eX.
cluded from the opportunity of endeavoring in
PaFlamenttD confer whatever legislative benefit c
could upon the country. Unfortunately Tor his good
name, zoo, ToUke was an earnest advocate of free
| trsde-#as, in fact the very father OF the d, c.
trine-and SO capped the climax of his offensive
ness to the dullsrds and calumuIators OF his day
and generation. In short, he was, as is truly said
"iooked upon as one of the political pests Of his
| era" and he is still magued by the unreheoting
a. ~'N SSHuNtbi9 oua " bohi sulllSlSlb tu
fists and hypocrites. John Horne Toobe's political
doctrines are now those of large portion Of the
civilized world; and hs2 Rps5 PIaroeata, Winged
WORDS, or Diversions OF Purley, is treasured in
every library, as one of She most erud.te aud val
OabIe upon the subject upon which it treats; aud
his memory will ultimately, perhaps, be freed from
the dirt which religious bgotry and political an
tagonsm principally have cast upon it. lie died
| n 1872 al the ripe age OF &C.
Joue 25h lis the t#entieth anniversary oil the dea,l
OF hous Bonaparte, oG-kiug, soealled, Of Holmud
! taird brother Of the first Emperor Gapoeon and
father Of yho present emperor. He wa born in
i775 and lived therefore to see his sixty.aghtl