Wilmington journal., 1875-10-29

read our article. entire, as it appeared
in our columns. before he replied to it.
Had he done so we believe we should
have been spared the trouble of again
showing that he has not read the
works of Macauley with the attention
which he sbonld have bestowed before
he attempted to quote from him, even
from the book"
IF however he attempts to reply to |
what he confessedly has never read |
except, indeed few extracts copied
in anothar paper, which as he says in
his not t. u. he could not tell wheth-
er they were taken from an editorial or
a communication, we are not surprised
that be should hastily seize upon any
quotation that might serve his present
purpose, even though he be ignorant
of the authors meaning as conveyed
Il, TIE Gel It.
Briefly then, for cur snace will not
admit of quoting at any length, we
propose to group 'e- OF Macaulay's
own sentences. 1T first from
his bicgr ,pby as contained in the
ffth volume + Macaulay's 81 istory of
Englerd.
On rage 80 his biographer, IN speak
| ing of Macaulsy's essay on Milton,
Gays In republishing it he (Macau-
| law made few alterations. but every
| competent judge will endorse his own
|
f. ch was aiItten when tGe author
:. -esh from College, aud which
coarsins scarcely paragraph such as
his matured Judgment approves, still
remains overloaded with gaudy aud
ungraceful ornament" Again on page
So: His real entry into liter
ature was through the gates of the
Edinburgh Review, in his hand
that paper on Milton, which has so of
ten puzzled the critics, and of which
he was himself in later life ashamed d.
Do these two extracts sound to the
ears of Gen. Barringer as If Macau-
ley continued in the years of his matur-
ity to endorse and confirm the COM
mendation, which. in his youthful days
in "words of gaudy and upg raceful
ornaments
IF Gen. Barringer wishes to draw
lessons of Wi=dom from the teachings
of the profound statesman and philos-
opher, let him seek the expression OF
his matured judgment, rati Ell than ths
gaudy and upgraceful ornaments OF
s'that paper on Milton" ''Haeret IN
Htera haeret in c0rtice."
And now for a few of Macau'ay's
} own words again.-In bis review o1
Mills Essay on Governments he dis
! cusses the modern doctrine Of popular
: representatives and says. "that the
higher and middle orders are the natu
raj representatives of the human race,
: In the same review h. disposes of the
argument in favor of Universal suffrage
without qualification, as drawn from
the example OF the United States, by
cxclaiming: "As for America, we ap
1 peal to the twentieth century ap
peal, 10y the way, which ha@ been abun
: dainty respond q to IN the mneteenti
> century by the experiments of Genera
Barringer's political party, which hav'
caused, as Gov. Chamberlain t"it
| lis at Yale, 'errois, folsles and crimes
5 to abound for tie time, and had result
: ed in corrupt Legislatures, wastefn
l expenditures, burdensome taxes
r ruined public credit, lncapaclty II
high office, and frequent violence ar'
dlsord"r-
: In Macaulay's Essay on Bentham
Defense Of Mill, he shows the a6sm dit.
0! III" thaory If universal suffrage :
F ""a "a+ 5h't 'V'rv argument whiel
tells ii /. q u" versal suffrage {
> the Il | - te.'- (; ally in favor o
} female suit. age In his essay on tn
Unitarian Theory of Government, Ia
2 says LIT us go beyond the surface O
l facts, ley US, IL the sound sense OF th
: words, penetrate to the springs within
: are the de- We go, the more reasol
2 sill re fn. > sn,ile at these theorist
l Wio ho'd thaf he sole hope of the Lu
, man race i in The rule Of three sun