The Portland daily press., 1885-07-01

has played many great part of which some
one great man has had the glory, If great
men, able men rule the world why was not
| Wentworth successful? He was the one SUI
premely able man the king had. On his side
were constable and king, nobility and army.
| Why fell his head into the basket? In truth
| in those old fierce days when life was the
| stake of politics, if the great man however
| 'supremely able" met a great popular wave
| he had to dive under or be drowned.
The Puritan Revolt, as | have said, was a
| great uprising of the English nation. Ma
tions, like men, have their periods Of high
enthusiasm which lifts them above their past
and their future which wrecks institutions
and covers the earth with ruins, which will
! be by and by slowly builded into new insti-
tutiOns more suited to the progress Of the
| race. These periods of high enthusiasm can
| be no more maintained than the great waves
OF the sea can be kept in the air: After ev
cry great wave comes a great hollow After
Puritan England came the England of
Charles II! After the French Revolution
ana the trlumphal march OF the armies over
all Europe comes the France of Louis XVIII
| andof Napoleon Ill. Themen who are on the
top Of these great waves get mistaken in
the popular mind for the wave itself.
The human imagination kindles at the
thought that a man like ourselves may
stand sublime, like Ajax defying the light
nings, moving at his will the passions Of
mankind and achieving alone the infinite
purpose Of time We delight to concentrate
Tesentatiye of ALL In the old days we made
them gods, sometimes even while they lived,
and always after they died. You and | are
witnessing one OF these transformations.
Every criticism against Abraham Lincoln is
dying out. Every fault Of his life is drop
ping away, is passing out of sight. The cen
tury after his death will find him transfgured
II II re hearts OF all mankind, and when
tnlnk OF those patient, SorrOwful years; how
that great man lent hi14iSef with his whole
heart IN Slngleness of purpose t011r-as-.stt -
to do in great things the will of a great peo-
pie, cannot be the least enthusiastic OF
those who rejoice at his coming apothe0sis.
But to say that without him we could not
have worked out the problem would be to
do not justice to him, but injustice to
all Others, Not to the one great man,
but to the many belongs out vic
tory. Not at Springfield, but on the broad
plain of Arlington Heights, stands the mon
ument of our shining achievement, not tower
ing high to Heaven, but spreading lowly over
many an acre rich with the memory of the
buried dead, and not there alone, nor on the
quiet hillSides where every year the living
assemble to do honor to the dead, but every
where in hamlet and in city, in the field and
IN the mart wherever during the great strug-
gle there was steadfast patriotic soul.
But 1t is easy to see in lands and times like
our own how the people govern, for all our
institutions are moulded to make visible their
wishes. The people, however, had their way
even in despotic times. Not so swiftly as
now, but as surely. 1t takes time for all
things earthly. 1t takes time for great
river to run to the sea. If you dam it up, the
tighter the dam the less water that runs by,
the surer the uprooting of all obstacles and
the wider the devastation and ruin. For
three-quarters of a century the French no.
bIllty and clergy, entrenched behind existing
institutions, behind the use and wont of man
klnd, hghtlng against an ignorant and impov-
erlshed people, thought they were success
fully keeping down the rising flow of knowl-
edge and liberty. But when the flood burst
not vestlge OF old nobility, of Church or
State eneumbered the earth. The ruin was
as wide as the dam had been stout. Anew
Church and State uprose in time, but it was
the Church and State of freer, amore civil
lied, lOftier people And so in every coun-
try, whether liberty broadens down, as in
England, from precedent to precedent, or, as
In France. from revolution to revolution the
steady progress of civilization comes from the
people and by the people is forever Of them.
You cannot keep the people out of govern
ment and progress If their intelligence does
not rule their Ignorance will. Take few
| examples of the kind of power they had un-
| der despotism. King Henry VIII. was
| masterful man. He certainly killed and
| divorced his wives and cut off the heads of
ms his mobiles with freedom and great boldness.
| The people as to those things were careless
Gallios Such matters did not interest them.
But the subject of religion did, and it was
hard to find out which way. So when the
monk Peyto told the King that the dogs
! WOulu llVh Ills DlOOu as LHey lau uOne
J Ahab's,"' the King took no notice of the in
and when Elstoy repeated it the next
sui.. NV had him reprimanded. When
day he Oh. "ted him on his. birth
Latimer 1ros. leaf
DAY Testament Win
sa1a spaeuoasiy s..sy turned down to the mas
viii viii ipGaa TGmorrsemongers and adulterers God
pleased? But it was not safe to taah tmenhTy was
nal. nl'.i, IL might be touching of the wbnIa
hbaS,ohi haTa l. II 1t had been safe the monk miobf
conId N.sd1wH 100 a py actual experience if enc
land, and the holy bishop wonId IaSer nave bsd Of
an SaIller martyrdom than the one which
crowned crowned his life. When the Nun Of TzoT9 Kan9
Ssdlst q INN her threats of the divine
ho, honS7eance IL was not until he could confonnd
er tba+ petoIe al the people by her shameful Ifa
'nat a ne dared to punish her. i'i NE
tions Ros,s ,Ierg rergn !, that the broad founds-
eminent: A change of li RELIGION sn3 ., g9Eo
2gmnersllp WI OF one-ffth of the land Of lrinn7
~ dSlu u could only have been made in fbe nanes
u c tne people and by them. i'''iiie
England 9o'Gm b OF government and that which
'neerlngly called government mas h, oesn zen
counting % alg Of heads" But it Is No nore ore
Tbara n ,,lan ~ aii J. other government has been
,dpe and ,t;Sd q Sidiousand ways in which knowI (
~ ~ @ anu WISu0m, culture and scholarsb;n :
,nt ,alu eVen Drute force and wealth and ennnip,
~ ~, themselves L counted. Heads are conntaS 3
.lo1 ld Dralns also. Ignorance gets co,mtsd gu
ne larger vote. - d"i'e apt 10 poll
,anda nmere Is, and always has been one fro +
a len4Qus ruler of the human race rnIor C.
;hia aI1d Snde Io otner despotism has been nos
be on;l,i aaH snat ruler is that combination Of
ne opinions OF all; that leyelno m 81 III u T
Srsai sense which scalled Public Sentinantt ii UNI
ntt Is tne ever present regulator and IoIinc 2
b;ai humanity Like the elephant's tpUnS tpUnIe
oJ,a ctn ~ m It pqncheon or pick IN min q
ii persecution az ~ tne e mhumanity Of the Jew Il
no row Destirs itself at the bad condunt
da SnT queen III not giving a drawinqSroom. u
'or~9, ,rrS - uenounces cruel murder and to- ~
ear q rod 55upPiiesses ,.,pit man who wants to -
y y not govern US. Public Sentiment wb;eS lie
aIe ~ I Lne Revised Statutes executes them "a
TN TN que abatement if they seem harsh ena bt
so oh; ~ an occasional Bill of Attainder or pl
IS ~ II tney seem not adequate The IvSa %
ia of morals and politeness and dnt, me- wiue q
ue 40; u the Revised Statutes are whoiiv Iett IL
orE NY @IesulaIor, and it faithfully does fhe tT 5
- - n ~ Nog only does it control men 1iving nB:
aeh hevo %u9uI ~ 70 dle salute it. 1t seems To Il
,Iaio dcil peyond the grave, When Sir WaItep u
llelgh, at whose name every loval baoett baleet W.
niHles, ny VINO had with equal mind acbiSyaS pa
81 y,i, ieHoWn s, ana endured undeseryed iono tel
sffolS d'VUI wboDa on ms last morning on that tb
rotu Al, whence he took his latest LOOK Of IN In
ici III ana SKY he begged the execntioner 70 70 lei
e aeaiy ~ lliliSh his work lest his ague shoniI ne
~ ire On ana men should,say he trembled for tn'
~, ne whose unfaltering conrage he'd I'D ep
1a ,ea death and sorrow on Sea and Sbnra raa gr'
II ~ bis ilot az mat supreme moment endure e4 90
I'll y MS IelloWmen, even after ali tbina0 OF
smelly IN had ceased to concern him sbonsfS GU
sak M lHghtly OF his name. When the mar Una
0',l TOn4 rogers stood at the stake with the ael
IN iing lagots about him the crowd with tbe te me
.lnct ,dn OF humanity sustained him nv tba;r no
ssrs anu encouragements They knew 'tj9at tbat Pra
=, ~ .i human sympathy could strenpthen NO
n N tne soul of a martyr 'nei pro
@ ne munger we have for the praise of mo, eag
tdre notnlng about and our dread af An 1
lpprobatlon of those utterly unknoyyn ore ore are
Fear and constant incentives of men,e ne ago
| 10 what dangers do | expose mvSaIf nne
Ae1lanS, TO be praised by Won. :" said ol Mol
ondeT the Great at the periio1s crossinet i,g emo
| W Hydaspes. When Lord Bnte WIZ hat hat
reddenly raised to power as sndadeniS, m,IU eleC
try the chief place in the British minicy con
NEE moment when he was the safest a1I tlda
coudered why. No doubt beeanse he pow
prosendure the fusilade Of nonmlsr ra nc o
whidIH1e. had not had the seasoning season. gro
| sftertlcians have who reach bigb nianass MeI
Thme years. si' p'''ces the
| living also exercise dominion ovar +bo so f
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