National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-10-30
NIB. BEREsFORD HOPE, II. P, AND HIS
GIFT TO VIRGINIA.

Enghshmen, as general thing, are the
natural enemies of Republics. Their high,
est ideal of government is a monarchy,
with its court and attendant fiunkyism. Il
does not matter much what distant country
gave rise to the war, there are always any
number OF Englishmen ready to mix them
selves up in If, and extend the bad feeling
already existing. There are two classes of
Englishmen who make themselves particu-
larry oficious in such matters-the meddle-
some Englishman and the mercenary Eng
lishman. The former is not so fond of TAX
ing hand in the fight as he was fifty years
ago; but he is even more active in dictat-
ing the policy and plan of the war. The
latter is very different sort of animal; he
will furnish supplies and munitions of war,
and in that way prolong its Iniseries, to one
or both of the contending parties, just as he
can make the most money. Indeed, he
will sympathize with both, and sell powder
and balls to both.
Our readers remember only too well the
bad part played by both classes of Eng
lishmen we have described during the late
war. A. ]. B. BeresGord Hope, NJ. P,
seems to belong to the meddlesome class
of Englishmsn who are never SO happy as
when they are earning a little cheap
notoriety by mixing themselves up with
what does not concern them. If there was
any one thing more than another in the
career of Mr.. Charles Sumner for which he
merited crown it was his effort to obliter.
ate all traces of the late war, to forget it,
and have the people forget it. to make il
entirely thing of the past too horrible in
all its details to be commemorated either on
canvas or in marble or bronze. Every
thinking man and right-feeiing American
heartily Endorsed Mr.. Summers sentiments
on this subject; and yet, after peace of
ten years, and at time when every right
thinking American is doing what he can to
forget the past and promote better feel
ing and entire harmony between North
and South, Mr.. A. ]. B. Beresford Hope,
NJ. P, and, of course, an Englishman, comes
forward and furnishes the very means
most calculated to engender bad feeling
and renew sectional animosities. If this
gentleman was so enthusiastic in his ad
miration of the private virtues of Stone.
wall jackson that he and his few friend:
must needs pay tribute to them, why was
it not done in becoming manner? There
are monuments of many designs, in mar
bic, bronze and porphyry, dedicated to the
private virtues of great men. Why was
not one of these, more simple and yet more
appropriate as representing private worth,
chosenf Simply because it would not have
suited the tastes or the aspirations of the
people it was to be presented to.
The simple truth is, that the statue of Jack.
son was costly tribute on the part of these
Englishmen to the military achievements
of jackson, as well as the cause he fought
for. The statue is made to represent him
only as a military man, booted, spurred,
belted, and in all his uniform. There is
nothing you can tortun, into or devise ex
pressive of his private virtues. That the
reader rlay notT;e misleds we insert the In
scription
siPresented by Eneiish Gentlemen, as a tri
butte of admiration for the soldier
and patriot,
THOMAS j.. JACKSON,
and gratefully accepted BY Virginia in the
name of the Southern people.
DONE A. D. 1875,
in the hundredth year of the Common
wealth.
tIookl There is jackson, standing like a
Stonewall."
In accepting this statue the people OF
Richmond, as well by their speeches and
actions, and subsequent ceremonies, show
conciusively that they did so with the
understanding that it was q tribute from
Englishmen to the military achievements