The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-04-05
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historian tells us, to shown magnanim-
GUS example, released all the gentlemen,
nearly eighty la number, whom he held |
Gagged for non compliance with the vol
untary loan; and the people, grateful as
hismaiesty was magnanimous, returned |
nearly an of them to the new Parliament. |
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OF; Hampden sat for Wendover; Pym Tor
Grampound. :.
The meeting of the kings third Parlia-
ment was very notable event in the
worlds history. The old leaders were all
there, and another was now added TO
them. A stout, strongly y-framed man, OF
very "sloyenly" "appearance,a as gentlemen
curious in tailoring deemed him, entered
the House for the first time, accompanied
by Mr.. Hampden, who introduced him
/ to Eliot, Pym, and others congregated
about the Speakers chair, as my kins'
man, Mr.. Oliver Cromwell, member for
Huntingdon"
Pym was soon in deep conversation
with the stranger; there was something
in him, he soon perceived, more than
even the massive forehead, swift'gl lancing
ewes, and firm set lips at first indicated.
He was not much of a speaker, this
Cromwell. Sir Philip Warwick says his
voice was untunable and harsh; and he
(Sir Philip marveled that so great an as
semblage should have listened with 30
great respect to such an ungainly fell
low. He had a habit, too, we are told, of
suddenly grasping the hilt of his sword
with ferceness that would have proba-
bly, crushed Sir Philips dainty fingers to
a jelly as if there, in his mind, lay the
true argument or at all events, that
which would. all others failing, assuredly
prevail,
"Who is that sloen you came in
WITH" asked Digby of Hampden.
"That sloven" was the reply, eff we
should ever-which God forbid ! come
to a rupture with the king, will be the
greatest man in England"
The calm, keen eyes OF Cromwell's
kinsm had, we are now aware, read
the character of the new member for
Huntingdon Alright, and it is supremely
absurd to suppose that man who could
suggest such a.prophecy to a mind like
Hampden's, was the confused, heavy |
dullard, and hypocritical button which |
prejudice and folly would have us be-
lieve. Not an eloquent phrase maker, If
you will, but clearly of the true metal !
which discerning men had but to sound
in order to discover its essential and |
sterling qualities.
Oliver Cromwell-to reCapitulate brief |
ly all that history has told us trustwor-
thy of his youth and early manhood
was the son of Robert Cromwell, gen
tleman of good family and means,settled
at Huntingdon--a brewer there, some
say, but without much likelihood of
truth. The Cavaliers used, we know, to
call Harrison butcher, for the excellent
reason that his father was a large grazing
farmer. Be this, however as it may,
Oliver, since his fathers death, managed
his mothers business, whatever it was,
whether farming or brewing, and sue
ceeded in doing so reasonably well. He
had also received good education, or at
all events, what in those days pas ed for
one for we find he was entered Of Sus-
sex College, Cambridge, on the very day,
it is not interesting to remark, that
SHAKESPEARE died
The stories told Of the dissoluteness Of
divers youth may equally, with the pro-
phetic marvels which, after he had won
greatness, were said to have marked his
infancy and boyhood, be dismissed with
almost entire inCredulity, He was rela-
ted to Hampden by marriage only, hay.
ing espoused, August 22d, 1920, Elizabeth
daughter of Sir John BourCIier, kins.
man of the anciently descended Buck
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to have been a thoroughly sincere and
fervidly pious man; and well would it
have been had the charity of his relig-
ious zeal equaled its earnestness and fer
vor. An excellent neighbor, too, help
full TO all that needed help, and a Jealous
protector of the Non conforming lectur
ers, whom Laud was hunting and perse-
cutting through the country; man, ih
short, fitted for the perilous and anxious
time; watchful and patient of passing
events; eagle visioned to the dawnings Of
the future: and, to use Milton's express
sion, "nourishing his great soul in ST.
lence," while calmly but mournfully he
awaited the moment when the contest,
now thickening, should be moved toa
more decisive arena than that of the
Commons House, and men of bold deeds
more than of eloquent words would be,
required
The shadow of that time already low.
cred visibly over the land. The king
was in no humor to part with the reality
of the despotiC power he had usurped,
though he was profuse of promises that
he would for the future, out of his own
royal grace and fervor, deal tenderly with
the liberties Of his subjects. 1t was not
for a moment to be supposed that the
Commons would be satisfied with mere
words. and after agreeing to grant the
king five subsidies, they clogged the gift
with the precedent condition of redress
Of grievance, especially the intolerable
one of arbitrary imprisonment, which
his majesty claimed of divine, hereditary
right
All in vain was it that the Court party,
seconded by the Lords, urged that the
afectionate duty of the Commons shown
by passing the supply bills, the monarch
would be in a more complying hulnor,
and likelier to accede to their demands
A petition, or more correctly, Declara-
ton of Right, was framed by the House
on the basis of the following resolutions:
l. That no freeman ought to be restrain
ed or imprisoned unless some lawful
cause of Imprisonment be expressed.
2. That the writ of hdbed8 corpus ought to
be granted to every man imprisoned or
restrained, though it be atthe command
Of the king or privy-councils, if he pay
for the same. 8. That when the return
expresses no lawful cause Of commitment
or restraint the party ought to be deliv-
cred or bailed. 4. That it is the ancient
and undoubted right of every English
man that he hath a full and absolute
property in his goods and estate, and
that no tax, loan, or benevolence ought
to be levied by the king or his ministers
without consent of Parliament. This
Petition of Right was eloqdently enforced
by Sir John Eliot, Sir Thomas Went
worth and others. Wentworth, after
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