The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-03-01

noble erections of the Central Government,
in place OF grouping them all with the mag
n;hcent Capitol, raising Grdnde Place
whose equal no monarchy of the modern
world has yet been able to display, and
showing that, even in decoration, despot-
ism, with all its resources, may be outdone
by patriotic freedom.
But [ must not wander from the two
great Scottish cities. OF Glasgow enough
has been said /; but who, or at least what
Scotsman, can say enough of Edinburg? /
shall detaln you 10 longer with talk about
stone and mortar, except to remark that, In
charging their picturesque capital, the
Scottish people, liberal as the majority of
them are in politics, and with church sys-
tenn that, In Its whole design and admins
tration, exemplifes republican equality,
have never more strikingly prove their love
of order and cf law than when they consent
ed to be bound by definite plan, not SIM
ply of their street lines, but of their individ-
ual dwellings,, which are their castles, most
peculiarly their OVID. This proof of obedl-
ence is curious one, but that makes it all
the more emphatic; and | doubt if the like
can be adduced IN the case of any other peo-
pie equally sturdy and equally free. A cal
edonian is loyal and logical even in his ma
sonry This singular merit, suspect, was
not perceived by Mr. Ruskin, when some
years ago he lectured the Edinburghers on
their architecture, very much as president
of the Royal Academy might patronize a
promising school boy, who had ventured to
show him his book of drawings! | admire
and honor Johr Ruskin. He is an earnest,
eloquent man, who has done as much for
faith and morals as for art; but his esti-
mate for Edinburgh and it's people it ap
pears to have been as ludicrously English,
as that of Lytton Bulwer, or old Dr. John
son, or Sydney Smith, when, sacrificing
truth to wit, he said that joke could not
be got into the skull of Scotsman by any
thing less than surgical operation. -
Beautiful for situation, says King David
speaking in praise of ancient Jerusalem,
beautiful for situation, the JOY of the
whole earth, is Mount Zion, in the sides of
the north y Could John Wilson or Wal
ter Scott have said anything more appro-
pirate Of their Town romantic town. Its
situation is simply suberb; and | could
lead you to spots within the city from
which you can obtain views Of pile over pile
and arch over arch, and terrace over ter
race, as sublimely as the imaginary archi-
tectural wonders Of Martin in his pictures
of Babylon the Great, and the new Jerusa-
lem. All this is lost to the flying tourist,
and probably even if pointed out. would
not be appreciated by an American accus-
toned to his rectangular platitudes, and
disappointed because Scotch hotel placed
on his breakfast-tab 1'zzered hGddocks and
klppered herrings, instead OF buttered beet
steak and robins upon toast Most towns
appear to best advantage when looked down
upon from height-a steeple or tower
but Edinburgh is grandest when viewed
from below; for then only can you have the
peculiar effect Of its clustered hills covered
with habitations and spires, and crowned
with the hoary battlements of its rock
citadel. Il is in It's splendid approaches,
however, that it eXcels all other cities. -
Whatever way you come TO it, you pass
through beauty aud magniicence. Enter
it from the north by Dean-road and Dean
bridge-enter it from the west by the hills
of Pentland and Corstorphine--en 1t
from the east with the monumental Gallon
on the right hand, and on the left Holy
rood in the valley, with Arthur s seat and
the Crags beyond-enter it from Granton
as It towers ridge over ridge before your en-
raptured eyeS-enter 1t from the south
with naughty Marmien-enter it on any
side you please, ard the words of Marml-
on squire will spring spontaneously to your
lips, when
''As if to give his rapture vent,
The spur he to his charger lent,
And raised his bridle-hand,
And, making demi-vault in air,
Cried where S the coward that wo not dare
To fight for such II land "
Some one has wisely said that that neo-
pie is most happy whose history is least III
teresting. According to this aphorism, the
history of Scotland ought to be the most
interesting of any in the annals Of the hui
man race, for up to the time Of its hearty
acceptance Of Union with England, Its ex-
istence appears to be one long tragedy, re-
lieved by no greater number OF Joyous
scenes of Shakespeare intersperses with the
terrible incidents Of Lear and Macbeth. Ii
we believe the annalists of Ireland, the
Green Isle, during the long period between
the aposteship OF St. Patrick and the con
quest of Henry H., was a very para
disc regained, gladdened by the sunshine OF
continual prosperity, and dihuslng plety
anu peace to the less favored region where
our ancestors dwelt. Bnt from the time
when Scottish history becomes authentic to
the eighteenth century, we find the country
perpetually involved in civil feudS, resist
ance of invasion, or persecution for rellg-
ions sake The great victory of Bannock-
burn, and the brilliant reign Of the Bruces
for few years after, stand almost alone as
bright spot On scroll written all over
elsewhere with lamentation and voc
1t is the sterncst Of all histories ;
but this stern history 1t
was that made the Scottish people what
they arc-frugal, heroic, enduring, indie
pendent, proud, MISUNDERSTANDING priva-
ton without murmur, going to battle as to
sacrament, and resisting tyranny, not in
outbursts of passion, but with the steadfast-
ness of men who feel that a grand duty is
laid upon them, and that it must be done.
From youth of trials and struggle the ma
ton has arisen to manhood Of grave ener-
gy, pathetic genius, and conscientious reso-
luton
''SuIer to prosper than prosperity
Could have assured it -
and its children, wherever they go, are met
with a welcome corresponding to the esteem
which their 'Auld Mither" has so nobly
earned.
OF course a people so hardly trained must
have given birth to illustrious men. In
daed I know no modern SPOT of ground sc