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

,e REORGANIZATION Abbey TO maintain and the few
them who persisted IN Inc nad r S s pr
Jury with their crowns ana WIN theu nyes. anu t
them. too in justice TO- our oonnOt abs sDSs the
Mobiles or the Commons Of England, since the DAYS
SaSa 1 in Westminster Hal on the OF May 1888
There not wanting. say to the Kings tho N9De
speak the truth defend tho right even at the risk oil
their goods and their own lives. TIA than,
Remind them, too. lot our monuments remind them,
that even in the of the War of Independence
there were wanting in England statesmen VINO
they were not only confessed TO no the leading
men Of their own day but h they T we pl1 %s
in her Pantheon. show them the monuments
of Chapman PITT and FoKBurke sleeps In peace else
whero-and remind them of the great Earl who literally
died much your service as IN ours1whose merry i
proud 10 say still commOnp place for defamation among
our Engfh schooLboys dared-oyen %he2 ,on ai
| OF Lords at | an American as
| am an Englishman. while foreign troop was
nrmsneyer never. noycr Yes, an American well
as an Englishman may find himself in the Old Abbey 10
that II you look through tho monuments IN thal ADDey
since those OF and Fox you VIII hn1 tha the great
majority commemorate the children not OIL ops'ruc''on
| but oil progress. not OF darkness but OF hght'
THE ABBEV's REGISTER.
Holland, Tieruey, Macintosh Gratan, Peel Canning,
Palmerston. Isaac Watts, Bell. WDerforce. Sharp the
| Macaulays, FOweil Buxton, Francis Homer Charles
Butler. Golden. Watt, Rennoll. Teliord, Locke,
Brupel Grote. Thackeray dickens. Maurce--men who
| each in his own way-toiled for freedom OF
some KIND; OF race OF laws ,.r OF com M
Thought OF education OF human charity and OF sympl-
thy~these arc the men whom England still delights to
ancient spirit dead and that we, as you are stii
800 years ago. tbe sons OF freedom ana OF iint .,
ut beside statesmen who were ilSt ana true 10
ieforc whose Monuments would ask thoughtful Amer.
leans to psuseI those Of our Old lighters by land
ANA sea do speak only OF those before our cIvli
wars though they are indeed our common heritage, and
UIau lopEu
Norris, the fIthets or the EIgl3h lntihtry, you
should remember that your ancestors ana mne'-or
those OF any other Engislman-nay have traied the
nike or handled sword side by SIDE under those very
men in those old wars the Netheran13 which your
own historian has 60 well described OF have sailed To-
ElIegh or with Drake There those again who ala
Blake ALA lies here no more-cast with Cromwell
and his heroes by fanatics ycophants OF the est
ration In whom not only we but royalty ITSELF wou!d
restore, could discover their noble asIes. 10
their righfu resting place Aud these, II not M%ays
common ancestors wero Often enough our cohol
brother was settling in w,Engind 70 iolnl
1 WSe the ot Sas Brother n| was ains and hepa
defeat Charles RJwtOn MOoc Bat there Is another
visit tho AbDy-to look on with respect anu let me say
with affection. tool mean the men VINO dd theIf uuy
menrng IN 1880 endel IN 1885, Oh those who fought
against you say naught; but mus speak Oh tuVs
Sheor lizard blows that family compact House OF
bourbon which dangerous to you upon TINS sue
| ID
heavy stroke the transatlantic power OF SPAN III She
placed her once aud rich POSSESSIONS IN your
more muortant sun prevented the French from SELLING
at Iasi the Whole valley OF Mississippi. ani saarlnL
your nIscent dominion viva hostile irohtief from
Louisiana to the mouth OF ths 80. Ltwrcnce
when you wole's hugs cenotipl WIN ins chriou5
bronze bis-toIef Of tue taking OF the Hi1hss OF
Abraham. think pray yoa tlt no5 oy JOE co ~
and lied or another OF these monuments need hardly
speak for Abbey owed It to the EeHefos.y % &c
niruIid yuIng j.d Howe who fell IN the unsuccessful
attack upon TcOndcrOga IN IDS. JJuI' si'o'J' VI
affection between our two countries
INTERNATIONAL CONVERSATION.
Remember too that while your ancestors were Tight.
ing well by land aud WIshin and such As he were
learning at Fort DlQne'ne AMI elsewhere
better than wo could teach ATTENTIVE were fighting
WELL when we knew how to hzat, at sea.
and when in the nave you such names
a. Cornwall Saumarcz. Wager, VcrnOn-the cDnquerOr
of Porto BellO Lord Aubrey, Belucerc etc.-bethlnK
you that every French anl spanish snip Wnlgn t.go
CLrthaxena and rom Cirtuls'nl to IL lI * Inll,
OF colonies which you were then helping US
to defend aud then lsree--ike generous hearty PEG,
pie, which you are that II ~ after years we nhu hou
against yOu-aDd how heavy were our sins know
too well-tnere was time before these eVil day
when we fought Tor you ahh ~ your sde ana a. th o!d
by the young even though IKE thJ on non ana Jne
young began only TOO soon tearing each other to
pieces over the division OF inc prey. Nay, VIII 20
aud say this pIradoxical a. may seem wnen
you enter the North Iransep from 81 MlrSdrets lrch
yard,yOu "lH see on your rlShI nint mug oIl 10y
ungraceiul naval monument Of white marble: inscribed
three commanders OF Rodneys in tlo crowning victory
April Ia 1872 fought upon tropc waters over which
own grandfather that day board Rodney's
slIp Now do you all know what that days great nght
meant for YOU fought though IL was while yOu alas,
"red mn ak month. after by Iord iI5wes relief at
Gibratar-,ettled. hold. the fate OF the world for
many year. True, IN one sense, IL was settled al
ready. Cornwals had a'einy o Gtptq an d Az
graced. bleeding faintlnS reily TO yrld - Dut
only to you OF his own Kin and D.ooi-struck though
with failing paw two such tremendous blows at MS Oh
enemies ras TO deprive them heuceforth OF any real
and ruin which issued IN French and Spanish reyO.u-
uons and made certain a. believe, the coming day
when tlo AuglosaxOn race snail be real masters Of
the whole new world.
or poets and men OF letters l say nau-ht. They
the heritage neither Of Us you, but OF tho human
race The mere letters may well sleep IN the
OF that busy civilization from which ne drew ms
inspiration. lie not 10 the town put nature Tor his
nspiraiOns and to nature when ne dies he should re-
urn. such men-Irtihclal aud acknowledgements
brilliant grand az tmes-as Davenant. Dryden
Cowley, COngeye Pryor Gay-sleep htly IN one cave
here. Yot even Pope, though one OF such in style
ana fara %SEs4aam NJ" and Gray the lonely
yard Of Stoke. Ben. Jonson has right to
| heart; aud a Court pet too But Chaucer Spencer,
are TO men Du trHns
need and woe. But should have Rather buried Chau.
| aises, and Drayton by some silver stream - each
| mans dust resting where ms heirt was
Who like Shakespeare Wordsworth ana southey, Scott,
and Burns lie far away IA they knew aud loved.
a m tho snuthern corner OF some country churcnyard
| than IN the tomb Of the Capuets
THE DUST OF A GREAT AMERICAN
| One word more. 1t may be not merely sentimental,
but foolish aud dangerous, to wish for too much
with the Arabian Nights. who fancied
that her fairy palace imperfect till she mad Roc's
egg hang beneath the dome aud trying to get that
forbidden luxury lost her palace aud all its
And yet l. Canon OF Westminster, long for Roc'segg
for our old Abbey-fancying, thatf so far from
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