Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-03-28

lion. The wisest and most patriotic of men
national movement. Six months before Lex
ngton Washington wrote: s'No Think
ing American desires Independence" Six i
PEARS before Lexington Samuel Adams ,
had exclaimed, ''1ndspeudent we are, indie !
pendent wo will b." Whether or no the |
patriot Pym cav In the ferment of the times
the constitution of 1888, the patriot STRAIT |
ford did not. He mistook the temper of the |
English psople. He thought to do what
was doing in France, what was al
ready done In Austria and Spain. For |
eleven years he strovs almost single-hsnded
for his king and then, like Curtius of old,
flung himself into the inevitable gulf, which
was widening between the medimval and the
modern world. 1t was because STAFFORD had
not trait of the tickle, fawnina courtiers
about him that he was forced to that action
which has branded him in the eyes of
many az faithless and inconsistent. He was
was q man Of cabinets and not of boudoirs;
he could not bend for the smiles even of the
queen; last of all could he pay homage to the
empty, wanton minister-favorite the duke of
Buckingham. Probably no monarch ever
had greater need Of wise counsellor or ever
employed . more incompetent one than did
Charles ct this period. Extravagant enter
prises suggested by the favorite were UNDER
bhk0u huu hUbuOOuoQ Ia QulCk BuCCc6olOus
the immense debt left by King James was
hourly increasing. To save Buckingham
from impeachment Charles had reckleesly
dissolved parliament and turned for revenues
to illegal exactions. Popular discomfort was
growing, the Puritan movement was allying
itself with dangerous political forces; firm
hand was needed at the helm. With his
royalist sympathies strengthened by personal
affection for the king Stafford saw that he
amid sarva CHARLES on1v hv nvorthr0Uino hia
ministry; he must make his own power felt
before it could be appreciated. Tho oppor-
tunity was soon to offer. Buckingham re-
turned from the disastrousRoeh expedition
to an enraged people, and the parliament of
1928 was summoned. For the first and last
time StraEord and the Puritans had COM
mon cause. Pledged to no party, serving no
interests but those of the king he loves and
was determined to save, cavalier from
crown to toe, STAFFORD rises in the house of
commons to crush the duke. The effect
10 electric. Born to command he rises
by sheer force of genius above the very Pyms
and Hampdens. The delighted Puritans hail
him a. leader, the king is reused to the stu
alton, the famous "petition of rights" Is
granted and STAFFORD mounts over his fallen
enemy to power. Within three months he is
| q viscount and president of the Council of
| the North. The popular leaders are filed
with an amazement which soon settles into
undying resentment. Straffords orbit had
touched theirs for a moment and they
thought him one of them; he swung on in his
constant course obeying other laws and they
cried "Apostate!" A letter written by him
during his presidency strikes the keynote of
his life. "Thorough" has already been put
into operation, and there is no little REBEL
| lion beneath the surgeons knife. At this
| time he writes: tThis way lays me open to
| calumDy and hatred, whereas the contrary
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But am not 80 indulgent to my own ease a.
| to see my masters Affairs suffer shipwreck,
whilst myself rest secure In harbor. Let
the tempest be ever so great, will work
forth into the storm, or at least be found
dead with the rudder in my hand" A stern
declaration sternly realized! STAFFORD of q
truth never rested In harbor. His public
life was ono round Of self-sacridoe
the enforcing of measures in another'a
interest only to resign the glory Of their sue
cess or court the blame of their failure. He
saw where the Stuarts had failed and the
claim made by them in stubborn weakness,
he set himself to vindieate. II mako both
law and gospel" clustered King James, and
did neither. STAFFORD issued no grandilo-
quent proclanstions from the retreat of q
castle; his personality was his power, greater
than any words, shrinking from no test OF
action. Where Charles had avoided parlia-
ments, STAFFORD conquered them; when dis
satisfaction arose he only asked to be upon
the spot, to look hostility in the
eye. The man is spitomized in his
maxim: "Do nothing by proxy
It was this interesting energy
Ss
Ireland. Call his administration tyrannous,
If you will-his was the tyranny of justice
of fearless impartiality. Under his iror
hand poverty and oppression gave way tt
thrift and law, and the revolution was un'
stained by drop of blood. Still implacable
hatred pursued him; enemies were busy a
court and only Laud was there to fight hi
battles; saddest of all, even Charles himself
feared the arm that firmly and lovingly up.
held him. cit was Straford's misfortune,
said Laud, "to serve . mild and gracious
/ prince, who knew not how to be or to b,
made great"
As the end draws near, the sense of dis
trust and isolation overwhelmed him al
times. "The storm sets dark upon me-" b,
cries. tall hate me, so uncomfortable worm
as II"
But there IL no rebellion in the tone. only az
infinite sadness; and when that voice which
IL had ever been his delight to obey, mex
summoned him, he conquers the torture o.
disease to lead against the Scottish the roya
army. Again Charles fails him; the armis
tice at Ripon il declared, and the long parli
amsnt assemblies. We know the rest; that
fatal promise of the king; Westminster
dressed in all its state, the impeachment. thu
heartless curious throng, the relentless Pym
and In the midst the pale STAFFORD, nov
"serious with his secrstaries," now meeting
thu torrent of accusation calmly, eloquently
point by point. For thirteen days he battles
alone against an Infatuated com
~I vut. khAv
cannot prove him; with tn
see in him . menace to Epsland's liberties
the dread "bill of attainder" 10 passed ant
only the kings signature In wanted to com
plets the tragedy.
And now that lofty devotion which casts
halo over StraHord's darkest tyrannies mani
While the wrstohsd Charles IL hssitating II
his palace over the death warrant Of tn,
friend he has sworn to protect, yonder in hi
cell In London tower sits the tru
king, the royal hearted ono, pen
ming these memorable words: "To cal
. destruction upon myself and young chill
drsn may be believed will find no easy con
majeety's conscience at liberty I do mos
humbly besesoh your majesty for prevention
of evils which may happen by your refusa
to pass this bill. Sir, my consent shall NOR
acquaint you herein to God than all tn
world can do besides"
At such words the voice of calumny mus
grow dumb. "Greater love hath no mai
than this, that . man lay down his life 70
his friend"
| PERSONAL MOTIFS
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