, 1873-02-02
rhe Death of .Bu1wcr-Lytton
His Rank in Liter
ature.
Hfs Brother and Son--.The Gay
ton.BUl,Ser Treaty.
Bulwer's Novels as Compared With DICK"
ens'...Iying Within the Limits
Of Art.

noen who has had Lis enemies, and who Ia
,ored under the general dislike Of the age for
,ristocrets in literature, has just. passed away:
BuLwEn.
he belonged, however, to the greater guild OF
ettars. and worked for the nobler uses of the
,ge and our race. His descent he could not help,
md in much he proved that hereditary rank is
an imaginary line, and that We are all open to
The convictions, the institutions, and the hDer-
sities Of tie modern age.
If DuJwer ever visited America it has slipped
nv memory, although his elder brother,
HENRY BuLwER,
s.s British Minister 10 the United States from
1919 to 1852, and concluded with John II. Clay
TIM. Of Delaware, the famous Clayton-Bn1wer
in motive the High Joint Commission pro-
II was cannl treaty, and Clayton
uaa naturally contrived for providing for
t.oaIs as he represented Delaware, through
which State the first consequential canal
south Of the Hudson was opened in the year
1s29.-tLe only work Of note in the State, except
the breakwater at Hen1open.
THE cAYIoS-DuLwEn TREATY
g,s wears in advance Of its time. It WAS
Christian conference Of ncighborly men, one Of
Fhom had eaten well-done roast beef for years,
.nd the other fricaseed chicken, aud neither Of
them wanted wnts or the rumor Of wars. The
Cl.yton- Bulwer Treaty was opposed by al the
savage manifeat-destinarians, many Of whom
bit the dust in subsequent battle-delds, or were
distinguished Tor a-dor to make Slavery the
moral sense OF the New World: Barksdnle,
C1ingman, Cobb, Edmundson, Horace Maynard,
Edmund Rufnn, Zollicofrer. The object Of the
treaty was to connect the oceans, twenty years In
advance OF the Suez Canal, By mutual protect
crate Of America and England. Had that
design been established, England and
America the Ang.o-Sa1on race - would
hare been joint partners in the commerce Of
the globe. There would have been no English
sympathy for the Rebellion, no Alabama and
"Florida,'' no Spanish atrocities in Cuba, and
no Ma1imi1ian tragedy. The suez Canal would
not have been the route to the Indies.
Ne would have made channel across Mica
rsgua. We would have for
TIE True CONFEDERATE STATES,
America and England, partners in, Free Trade
such an understanding in 1856, twenty years Of
pisconception might have been anticipated.
Occasionally it looks as it the Monroe doctrine
vas a fraud. The best that has been done for
South American ndepsndsnfe Vas m BY :Tpaa,t hofa ID
Co Gss7ipi ptvsge saS of Es' do1g all tho Pais
philanthropy for whole continent smacks
Of q selfish intent; aud to postpone an
iater-oceanic ahip-canal for twenty years be-
causo ne are ourselves unable to achieve it,
the year 1858, the following Liberal Democrats,
amongst others, voted in the House for the
LIayton-BuIwor Treaty: Reuben Davis Of a[is-
sisslppi, Horace T. Clark (son-in-law OF that
Commodore Vanderbilt who has never soliciteda
snd:grant}, Faulkner George @ =; 5Gnes, = Lamar, m,
Ware.
THE MORAL MEANING AND INTENT
OF the treaty WIS either frustrated by the brutal
opposition it encountered, or the treaty itself
@ the It 70
tied up the Isthlnus with corporation, and for
bade the approaching seas to mix their waters.
Sixteen years afterWard, Oakes Anes and Du-
raut--thoee Murrells Of the land-laid the Pa~
eiac RsN BY corruptlng Congress, az aad u WAS
capital of 5120, ,00o, 900 Qncluding what Mr.
Alley calls I: the profits y, the very same year
that the Sucz Canal Was completed at q cost of
$50, 600, 600. There is still no Nicaragua Canal,
although there is plenty Of Monroe doctrine.
Fish policy toward England and Henry Bulwer
anticipated Edward Thornton.
It was in America that
BULwEn's SON
cultivated his poetic tastee, and probably laid
in Washington City between the ages Of 18 and
q. Edward Robert, or g Owen Meredith, is q
better poet than his father in lighter matters;
but society, and not man,-the sentiments, and
not careers,-mhke the staple Of his pieces
Robert Bulwer is the heir Of bis father; and ho
has Irish blood in his veins, his termngant
mother having been Of that race and country.
TIE NOVELS OF BuLWEB LYTTON
hsre been contributions to the dignity OF the
British Nation in 4 more direct sense than the
novels Of any other person, except Sir Walter
Scott. Dickens wrote for great mess Of fire.
side people, and in but two cases sought to
ylsify the episodes Of larger history. His "Tale
OF Two. Cities" leaves the impression OF the
French Revolution that it was great human
csckle set to no tune. "Barnaby RudSe" does
ialocd literature. The power Of Dickens is rel |
stsely imposing according to the smallnesa OF |
tbs stage he phys. upon. In general views, in |
long philosophy, in morals which point |!
xit6 the clear index finger, and in
th.t ,asaimilating power 49,, Of IT, intellect 1s ee
produce both in the true ard equitable propo1- |
tons and strength Of art, Mr. Dickens was |
NEVER EITHER GREAT OF CAPABLE.
he VAS forever fetching out Of the woes OF
childhood stimulation for tears, s,-woes newt
able and common to ua all, as truly hs the cut
~ 'NSSAe%-~A3AHe
Hos many Dotheboys Halls are there in real !
life7 How many Little Panls die Of cramming7
How many Oliver Twists are sold and made
thieves The philanthropy Of Dickens is ut
terly lacking in indication it deVieeB nothing
destroys nothing. It is 9 most effective, most
designing play upon the readers emotions, for
purposes never quite clear, and it sell
dom strikes and guides the steady currents
q o9r nature which in indignation are resistless.
e1f. dickens could no more have made Henry |
Esmond" live out his story so modest1y, and yet
touch With life and truth all the adjacent fea-
q tqsea Of the reign Of Queen Anue,-the politics,
me vice the genius, the beauty, and the tend.
:sancy q Of that age, than he could have formed
Rehelieu, Of ' Rienzi,' or Harold"
bold the high test Of the influence Of Atera-
szre to be
!, It's INFLUENCE UPON TIE CITIZEN,
'he unit Of Society and the State. Alr. Dickens
~ 1as been called the great democratic author.
y herein? Lot au his motley crcus-company
proceed I to the polls. and what reflection do
aes present upon the propdety of liberty and
presentation? They all seem to teach the
lesson that q club-foot is a fine thing in ite
"ay; that an idiot fighting in the riots is
sood average type of the agitator; that content
oent under the circumstances Of debt and bank
sqptcy 4 is rather good occasion for humor; and
MT On the whole. to be IN earnest about any,