New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-02-28

virtues and heroic suerngs they might lift up
eyes and hearts OF men forever out o, tIG DARK sad
ness and its crimes, toward the realm OF
and ioye as ono who from between black jaws OF
narrow glen, and from beneath the black shade OF
giaaDtio trees catches glimpse OF far lands, gay with
rJens and cottages purple mountain ranges, and the
far-of sea and the hay horizon melting INTO tue May
sky. aud finds himself led forth Into the lhhhity ana
freedom OF repOse.
THE GOOD coMPASr IN THE ABBEY
Awful aud yet not sad, at least to one who Is re-
minded by it, in its darkest Winters gloom, OF the
prlIueva tropic forest in its two most exquisite mo-
ments Its too brief twilight aud its .too brief dawn;
awful and yet not Sd az least are to an hpS e
statues and busts and names ana deeds
OF S n Your ccSn too ss %eS ars
For am not in goody company am not In very deed
pon INV best behavior among my oetters and at court
Among men before whom should have been ashamed
10 do base or foolish thing amonx men who
man whom should have loved had not met them
earth men whom may meet yet and tell them how
love them in some other world men, 700, whom !
might have hated and who might have hated me, had
met upon this poor and Win charity wn1
word where all shall know, even as they are known;
men and alas now as bsys oot 100 and a a.
often cleaning out OF the gloom AS every image OF tho
dead should do. In pure white marble as purged from
earthly faint; 10 them, toO,'
Nov but pure manly
Yes. while their monuments remind me that they are
am and humbled Better so but sad cannot be in
such grand company. 1 said the men who helped 10
make my country, and yours too. IL would be an im.
pertinence In me to remind most OF you OF
that. You know well as ] that you are
represented just much as the English people, by
every monument in that Abbey earlier than the civil
wars and by most monuments OF later date especially
by those OF all our literary men You know mat and
you value the old Abbey accordingly. But day may
come-a generation may cone-in a nation so rapidly
Increasing by foreign emigration IA well as by nome
born c,tizenshlp generation may come VINO VIII Tor
get that fact, and orators arise VINO VIII be
clad that II shall be forgotten Tor awhile
Int IL YOU would that the evil day should come,
then teach your children that the history ana the ee
dom OF America began neither with the War OF inde-
nendence nor with the sailing OF the Pilgrim fathers
nor with the settlement OF Virginia but looO years aud
more before. In tho days when our common Ieutohic
ancestors as free then this day, knew now
In die Dentehen Forster
Wis der Asr "a bosea
when Herman smote the Romans IN the Ieuto- burger
valid and the great CB,ar walled In vain TO his slain
General, Varus "Giye me back my legions.. Teach
your children that Congress which ats tat washing
ton IA "A much the child Of Magma CharIa ss the Paria
ment that sts at Westminster, and that when you re-
sisted tho unjust demands OF the English King 70 the
Council you did that which the Tree Commons OF
England held the right do, and did, not only AFTER
but before tho temporary tyranny OF kings
show them the t0mbs Of English kngs-not OF those
Norman kings" no Norman king lies buried ln our
Abbey. There Ia no royal interment between Edward
Conference.-The last English Prince oil Csrdos house