Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-30


for twenty years, which dazzled and subdued
the generation which saw it and now stands ar
rested but permanent, "defying the crumbling
touches of time and the misty vaporousness Of
oblivion" Among these men Moore has held
his place. He is more intimate with us than
are any of his companions. The intense and
egotistic personality of Byron has failed to
make him vital to this day. To Us the man
is indeed dead. He has wheeled away to his
destiny, spirit with
- wings like thunder clouds above some
Whose barren beach with frequent wrecks is
paved, ts
His brow was.like the deep when tempest tost;
Tierce and Questionable thought engraved
Eternal wrath on his immortal face,
And where he gaze3 gloom pervaded space !"
We would fain embrace Shelby but the
spiritual form melts in our grasp and eludes
us. Like the cloud of which he sang he has
dissolved. We hear the sweet echo of his
going away,-strange melodies which make the
senses ache and the heart sad at the thought of
that wondrous compound of fire and dew and
dross: Ta
'He is made one with nature; there is heard
His voice in all her music, from the moan #
OF thunder to the song of night sweet bird
He is a presence to be felt and known, z.
In darkness and in light, from herb and stone,
Spreading itself wher'er that power may
=
Which has withdrawn his being to it's own;
Which Yields the world with never wearied
love-
Sustains it from beneath and kindles it above"
Keats walks not the paths of daily life. He
lives among his themes in a very distant past.
Latmos holds him. He sleeps by Endymion,
and is kissed by g, ddesses. He fits with Mag
dalen through baronia1 halls. ''s
| ETHEREAL flushed, and like throbbing star
Seen mid the sapphire heavens deep repose. !"
! He is carved on Grecian urn a "silent form
! teasing us ont of thought"
He CON say
II am a shadow now, alas alas
Upon the skirts of human nature dwelling
Alone; chant alone the holy mass,
! While little sounds of life are round me knoll
| And glossy bees at noon do fieldward pass,
And many a chapel bell the hour is telling
Paining me through; these sounds grow
strange to me, -
| And thou art distant in humanity"
The limitations of this occasion contract to
visited the United States in 1904 during the
| administration of Jefferson. He was here at a
time when party spirit ran high. The personal
animosities between men SO great as Hamilton,
Adams, Jefferson had been and were intense to
degree difficult to comprehend. These men
|
ried each other. Wives of statesmen teased and
worried cacd other. This acrimony soured the
| intercourse of private life. Little communi-
tics were so divided that their members would
not speak to each other. Jefferson gossipped
about John Adams. Truculent John Adams
Of Jefferson. Sardonic Burr was dicing and
Grabbing and presiding at an impeachment
| trial in the Senate of the United States with
1.-The rigor of the devil and the impartiality of
an angel" There was of course a cause for
this state of feeling. The influence Of the
us. There was Gallican and anti Gallican
| party here There was much wild talk about
| libcrty-not our liberty but French liberty
which was then very different thing. Moore 8
social relations were entirely with the Federal
lists and the Federalists hated the French, and
the few seventies which he inflicted upon us
were in reality directed against party.
There was one feature of our Institutions
which he hated, and that was slavery. He saw
with disgust
The patriot fresh from freedom counsels come,
Nor pleased retire to lash his slaves at home;
To WOO perhaps some black Aspasia's charms,
And dream of freedom in a bondmaid's arms.
But he revered the memory of Washington,
and embalmed it in those verses, quoted by
Charles Phillips in his rhapsody at Dina's Isl
and, which for fifty years has been acclaimed
by American school boys:
"How shall we rank thee upon glorys page,
Thou more than patriot and just less than sage:
Less moved by glory's than by duty's claim,
Renown the need but self-applause the aim.
All that thou vert reflects less fame on thee,
For less than all thou dids't forbear to be;
Nor yet the patriot of one land alone
| For tnines name all nations claim their own
And every shore where breathed the good and
brave,
Echo'd the plaudits thy own country gave"
I cannot see that at that time anybody was
bound to love us, for we were hating each 9th
er internally, and were showing great dispo-
sition not to mind our own business among the
nations. have looked over Mrs. Trollope't
book and have no doubt that we richly de-
served what the termagant gave us.
'Humors pink primate, Sidney Smith" in
repudiated. Is it wonderful that the Dean of
St. Pauls grew wrathful, and yet not toe
wrathful to lose his joke about our splitting up
on the floor, saying that 'all claims to civil
cation are suspended till the secretion is other
wise disposed of. No English gentleman has
spit upon the floor since the heptarchy.
| When the Honorable Elijah Pogram de
claimed. of the average American of that time
that she is true born child of our free hcmis-
phere, verdant as the mountains of our coun
try, bright and flowing as our mineral ticks;
unspiled by whitening conventionalities as all
ouA OAodN dLNA OouAuACSS PSAoASAS3 AouSA
he may be, so air our bars; wild
he may be-, SO air our buffalers
But he is child of nature and chile
of freedom. and his boastful answer to the
despot and the tyrant is that his bright home
is in the settin' sum-" Dickens did just right
in reporting him.
i have now to speak of Moore in his relation.
to his country. The affection of the Iishmar
for his native land, his aggressive love for it
great men, his inextinguishable patriotism
and allegiance to his outraged, betrayed anl
yet invincible nationality has done more t,
make that people great than all the splendort
of its renowned sons. For more than two hun
bred years Irish names have shown like soil
tary stars over every European State. Lacy IL
Austria, O'Donnell in Spain, MacMahon il
France, have been the very foundations O.
! these States. None of these men lost, il
: their affiliations with these countries, thei
, identity with the race from which they sprang
/ In all the generations which have lived anG
died since Sarsfeld's ships put out to sea
laden with the chivalry of Ireland and followed
: by the lamentations of women cruelty divorcet
, by English treachery, not one OF the descend
) ents of these men who has written word OF
the page of history seems to have failed t
5 glory IN his ancestry. I have had occasion be
4 fore to speak of the great Irishmen, and wa
: happy then that truth and unqualified prais
t were consistent.
, The truth most be spoken of Moore. Hi
e memory will not on the whole suffer by this
t and it is in vain to attempt to make history q