The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1880-06-05

|dinal Priest Of ST. Cecilia Three months
Halter &c became Lord Chancellor Of Eng
Hand. This was followed By an appoint
ment as legatc d the Pope, an Office
lotiginally restricted Is period Of two
years, But which tlIe willy incumbent con
Itrivcd to have 80 extended and enlarged
as 70 include within lis powers nearly Al
the prerogatives pr The Pontiff himself.
In diplomacy, his labors were incessent
and skillful No court IN Europe was
able to conceal IFS secrets from the apar-
emily ornniscient minister The struggle
between France and Austria for the bal
ancc of power was 50 deity manipulated
BY his superior genius, that popes and
princes feared his intervention and court
ed his favor. The arbitration Of Europe
rested IN the hands Of Henry Not Al
boundary line could Be shifted, not a war
could be projected, not state marriage
could be proposed, but Wolsey laid his
finger on il and either changed, arrested
Of confirmed it. Continental politics Be-
came as familiar to him as the councils of
his own royal master. II all the conpli-
Gated relations existing between France.
Spain Italy and the Empire, involving
alliances, antagonisms and mutual sus-,
picions, hostile armies changed front and
and jealous courts embraced each other
under the wand Of Wolsey's magical di-.
plomaey Peace was at once the8work-
shop and the pleasure garden Of the inde-8
fatigab1e Cardinal. The thunder Of the
battle field had no charm for him. War
brought him no less triumphs, but peace
was his more eongenial arena. He.lived
in stormy times and was himself, uncon-
sciously, a storm breeder, but acted as
though his willWas absolute and no cloud
could dim the heavens except BY his Of
der And yet he could yield to the ineyv-
table with all the graceful philosophy
that characterizes the real leaders Of men.
Il was this quality by which hard steel
becomes flexible and adjusts itself to the
mechanism which it keeps in motion that
enabled Wolsey to become the prince Of
diplomatists and the master of his sover-
eign. On the contrary. Henry was
man Of war. No amount Of prasperity
within. his own realm could divert him.
from his dream Of recovering his French
inheritance. =
When Macmillan died, Henry pre-
sented himself with Francis of France and
Charles Of Spain, as a candidate for the
imperial throne. Both Henry and Fran
els held out to. Wolsey the prospect Of the
papacy ih3the event of their success. The
choice fell hpon Charles, the nephew Of
Henry. Cut off from his designs against
France, with the Empire as a base, Hem
~ was only too glad to listen TO the new
Emperor, who encouraged him to believe
that he would yet be enabled to over
throw the kingdom Of his hereditary enc
my. Francis, alarmed at the signs Of apss
preaching invasion, sought to retain the.
friendship Of Henry. Into this move
ment Wolsey entered with all his diplo-
matte enthusiasm He could not forget
that through Charles election he had lost
the papacy. There was no glory to him
by the way of the Empire, and il was not
to his interest that France should Be hui
inflated. ..3
The war was inevitable and Wolsey
must accept what he cannot avoid. His
Violations change, but his role goes on
The stage manager holds his place, the
aefors are the same, but a new play is put
bPon the boards.
To him Europe was Chess board with
princes for paWns, but war makes short
work Of chess boards and Wolsey was
10th to give up his little game In vain
he protested. Henry, for once. aatago-
nized his minister and rcpudiated the
whole basis on which the Cardinal had
conducted his administration. What could
the Cardinal do but repudiate it himself7
10 Wolsey was given the ardurous task
of raising funds for the new campaign.
Under the peace policy there was no diff
Guilty in providing the necessary financial
fabrication. But the peace policy was al
s. the policy Of absolutism. For eight
years Wolsey had governed England
without a Parliament The new mon
archy, established on the ruins Of the
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