The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-08-28
LOWELL IN LONDON.

LIZ" ELI N LONDON'
A message from the queen is tribute
seldom paid to a private citizen of an
other country. The queen never made
any secret of her liking Mr. Lowell. He
was her guest at Windsor more often
than most of his colleagues. When he
left the queen said that no ambassador
had ever excited more interest or won
more general regard in England. She
knew very we'll that he was not an am
bassador, but in speaking of him to
third person after he had taken Lave
of her she gave him the distinction
which Congress withheld from him, and
from his eminent successor, and still
wlthholds. The message from Lord
Tennyson is the browning proof of many
that IN that world of letters where Lord
Tennyson reigns Mr. Lowelrs place is
recognized just as fully here as at home.
A very different writer, whose creden-
tials are not quite the same as Lord Ten
nyson's, does homage to him in the
name of that English democracy which
looked to Mr.. Lowell as it's champion,
its true friend and best poet. 1t was
known here how deep were his sympa-
thies with the masses. They have no
authorized interpreter of their feelings
but there is no doubt what they thought
and felt about him who is gone. Never,
1 think, before his time had departing
minister been honored by addresses and
meetings and resolutions of great bodies
of English workingmen. Certainly
there had never been one in whose
poetry the laboring classes had dis
covered new gospel of progress and
the dawn of new hope for dreary
lives.
In truth, Mr.. Lowell's position here
was unique. No American had ever
held-and in saying that do not forget
Motley-quite the same relations to the
English people. None ever did quite the
same service to his own country. That,
1 think, is the eulogy which Mr.. Lowell
would have liked best of all. The fire of
his patriotism burned brighter and
brighter the longer he lived abroad. The
one thought uppermost in his mind was
his country. l say that as one who
knew him long and well, one to whom
he talked freely on that and many other
subjects. His Americanism was the
dominant passion of his life; that, and
not poetry, nor letters, nor even those
friendships and affections which were to
him as the air he breathed.
There is no need of any private testi-
mony to it, mine or another's. 1t is
writ large throughout the record of the
years he spent in England. 1t is stamped
the warp on which was woven the web
of all his English associations and SYM
pathies. We all know how often while
he was minister the contrary was said.
1t was said sometimes ignorantly, often
dishonesty, always either with some
personal i'll will or with some political
end to be comprised by the sayer. If
refer to those splenetic criticisms, it is
mainly in order to express the hope that
now, when they can no longer serve
selfish purpose, they may be forgotten
as he tried to forget them. Undoubted-
ly they gave him pain. So far the OBJ
ject of those who uttered them was ac-
complished. But none of them, nor all
of them, ever caused him to swerve from
the path he had traced for himself-the
strict path of duty-which, while he
was minister, he followed patiently and
Loyalty to the end.-G. w. S. in. the N.
Y. Tribune.
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