The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-29
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|fccelv more Pm 6Kebcn, aiLnose uosviu
niafortcnl ", yet It serves to bring the n
q. vith allis personal attributes ana
nrn1knristio6ividly before us. His view {
{'shn great kmier's character Is by no Il
~ An ori6l one, yet it Is striking and
,rsrr al,le meat political leaders and {
EYtesnen Of s3reBritain there 70 noe one
*nos6 career hasen more prililaa. y ~
go tr.r that Disraeli. Unlike most
&s-..r-,x,ar .bia ~ remarkable and some
.Lst -, TT ouersonality has never been
=. {, - -. q, trenown of his deeds, and
~ go ~ ~. 800 tself is as much mystery
a. Il. ~ 1ls,ar. i, ious interest to the world
& = - :, onf society when he first con-
s... y M. or,gi project OF obtaining the
~. .'A..,., ~ ting society novels. To be
III ., .S.ss., a,,crnd to always keep himself
y ~ .-ivata / individual character, con-
he, the public, appears TO
,p ~ 49,. .ho ling ideas OF tile plan upon
-. ~ haslered his life. From begin
ns' = "a career IL an enhancing ro-
80 - n Benjamin Disraeli, de-
EuI...ss,,. :, Sephardim, Jew and the
- - ~ the hero. Whatever he has
4 49, - Il aaged to give personal inter-
8. ). .aar nspicuous than the historical
- ghievements he has managed TO
sss. -ssrIrather incidents Of his own CO.
-. ~, itributIons to contemporaneous
- this respect his life presents
1890. Irast to the lives Of most states
not mere succession OF measures
a. OF alternate successes and fall
- 49, 'p - thrilling story, full Of dramatic
sst.s.4,, Of plots and counter plots, OF
bankruptcies and striking denoue-
..ssrts,hroughout all Of which ne
,,rei,sersonal interest In the "a ese
.-,aaortunes Is maintained. Mr.. Towle
-. lirably said, whose view Of Beac ons-
4 -, character we have present ed
"e following the hero Of an absorb ng
Nv" whose achievements are never du II,
mo takes care never to let our interest
y er has this popularity of Disraeli's
IL been more strlkingly illustrated tina u
40 his premiership and In the eve nts
IN have recently brought him more con-
uonsly than ever before the world. The
u fondnese for startling display and
.rre effects that induced him to bedeck
nereon Ia Jewels and embroidered waist
= to disport himself In Lady Blessing
n parlors, is manifested to-day In the
INTO effects and audacity OF his statecr ait.
ace the days OF the First Napoleon there
Ne been no such striking displays OF power,
such brilliant transformations In history
/ those which have illustrated Disraeli's
~ achievements.
10 Imagination less vivid than his could
Iwe conceived, and no spirit less confident
81 audacious could have carried to success
osudden and complete such vast designs.
Wat other brain than his could have con-
bsvod the idea Of hailing Victoria as the
Empress OF India aEd what other hand than
III could have conferred upon her that title3
Ye this was the first, and, to Disraelfs
mid. the Indispensable lstep that was to be
ta;er in that line Of policy which has re-
srted In acquiring control Of the Suez canal
Al Cyprus, and In securing peace with
hncr" out of the intricate and involved
ta,ole Of the Eastern question:
throughout all Of these vast designs We
neer lose sight Of him who conceived and
vought them out for England's glory, anc
" know not which to admire the more, the
DENTAL imagination that conceived them
III dauntless courage that sent the British
f,et into the waters of Constantinople at thu
crical moment, or the cool, clear, subtle sa
rnity that contaminated all at Berlin.
III. such are the peculiarities Of the mans
mid and temperament, 1t may be seriously
custioned II the exultation he must have ex
pdenced over these great achievements wa
eorateful to him as that satisfaction he fel
WIN. on his return from Berlin, where h
Ia been the most conspicuous figure In tn
met imposing conclave OF his day, he wa
pemitted to walk down the aisle OF the Hous
Of lords enyeloped In the robes and bearing
onhis brow the coronet OF an Earl OF tn
relm, or on that other occasion when he wa
summoned to Osborne to receive from nj
rrteiul sovereign the Order Of the Garter
Thee things were morc vivid and real, an
without them his life could not be, In his eyes
at east and to his imagination, the complet
] an symmetrical thing he would have it.
b enc other respect Disraeli is unlike h
predecessors In the control Of British polite
heretofore, WQGu kIcst CoLLihOACA Hoo DOc
mtde a peer his political career has bee
brsuQht to a close. It was probably the II
tertion to place Disraeli on the retired LII
whsn, some years ago, on the occasion OF h
retiring from the premiership to make plat
Tor his lifelong rival, Mr.. Gladstone, ii
Oueen offered him peerage. 1t Is remen
bered that he declined 1t, and, at his sugge
tion the title viscountess Beacons6eld WI
conferred on his wife. He was not prepare
10 retire at that time, and the acceptan'
az peerage would have forced him to DO
il the hour or defeat He did not refuse Il
coronet, however, when he came back fro
Berlin In triumph. He did not theret
leopard any Of his personal power and inf
enca and he has refused since to be retire
M Pitt was when he became Lord Chatha
or Robert Walpole when he became Earl
Oxford. He remains to-day as much t
head Of the government, Of the ministry, al
OF parliament, as he ever was, and he d
tates their policy and makes himself felt
much as ever In all the affairs Of state, nor
IL likely that be will abdicate his power
,onr as he has the strength to WELD it.