New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-01-17

IN AFRICA-A sTYRAN VIEW OF
AMERICAS MANIFEST DESTINY.
,BY CABLE TO THE TRrBrNE1
c,n,,ioht: 1892 BY Tvs Tribun. Association.
Iondon. jan l6.-Seldom, indeed does the same
aor and almost the same hour, witness the deaths
- a Prince of the State and OF Prince of the
Church: of one who had scarce entered his public
career. and of one who had completed long life
n incessant activities in a great sphere. Cardinal
Manning died at eight Thursday morning in
his eighty-fourth year. An hour later passed
away the eldest son of the Prince OF Wales, who
had inst celebrated his twenty eighth birthday,
and six weeks hence would have celebrated his
marriage | have said what could of the Dnke
of Clarence in another dispatch Here can eX-
press but briefly an opinion OF Cardinal Manning,
which is not perhaps, that of the majority
Cardinal Manning is judged in death with singu-
lar generosity by those from whom he had no
claim to anything but strict justice. lie was
soldier Of the Church of England who deserted to
Rome lie was priest who mingled in politics
lie was minister of religion who fomented social
strife. He was disciple of Christ who showed
himself sef-seeking, of fierce ambition, with
passion for worldly power Virtues he had, and
abilities he had both Of a high order, hut neither
sufficient to soften the Judgment which history, so
pass on this militant ccclesastic. From the
moment when he went over TO Rome, he set him
self to drag bis countrymen after him. lie had
no success lie lacked the sympathetic nature of
Newman, and his sincerity. which need not be
questioned, of a kind wholly different from
Newman's. The appeal which Newman made was
spiritual. Manning's was to motives, many of
which were other than spiritual, other than re-
lgious. He had gift for organization, for propa-
gandism, for intrigue; and no small share of the
wisdom Of this world, though no such broad grasp
of affairs as could be called staesmanlike. With
ont great learning he was skilled in controversy,
and skilled also in the art of adapting his beliefs TO
circumstances. lie hailed the doctrine of Papal
Infallibity, and hot partisan of the dcclora-
ton on which Plus the Ninth had set his heart. He
had his reward in cardinals hat, while Newman
was left TO lapgush in obscurty.
Perhaps Newman saw, and perhaps Manning did
not see, that this proclamation Of iniallibility
ruined the hopes OF those who dreamed OF renew
ing the subsection Of England to the Vatican. 1t
stayed the English movement to Rome, which III
case could have assumed great proportions.
Mannings share in this hopeless enterprise of what
was then known to Romsh enthusiastic ma
tonal conversion was a bellgcrent He felt,
or at any rate showed. to the Church of England
something of that animosty which the apostatc SO
often feels to the cause he has betrayed. He
attacked her, schemcd and contrived and plotted
against her. and he dies leaving her stronger than
ever. All fear of great secession TO Rome has
departed.
lie showed no less bitter enmity to social order
than to religious stability. lie was not by nature
a fanatic, but he showed the zeal of fanatic. He
quick to see the rising power of the working
classes, and he allied himself with the more
dangerous spirits who led them. lie became
agtator. lie took part in strikes. Whether
Manning was the tool of the Socialists or the
Socialists the tools Of Manning may be doubtful
They wrought together for i'll. His share in the
great dock strike shows his method Of operation.
He was heart and soul the side of The strikers
and rioters and he arbitrator in the dispute
He offered himself again in that capacity when the
gas strike occurred. But il was not a game 10
be played twice. Nor was Mr. Liyescy the man
to be duped. lie had the most singular associa-
tions and worked cordially with the least reput-
able allies in journalism and elsewhere Some of
them parade what they call Mr. Gladstoncs re-
gard for the late Cardinal. If Mr. Gladstone
would express Sis real opinion Of Manning it might
astonish these Gentlemen
With all this. the Roman prclatc goes to his
English grave with not less homage from his
English countrymen perhaps with more. than if
he Rad proved loyal 10 the State and the Church
TO which he owed allegiance.
The admirers Of the late Cardinal Newman are
putting rather severe strain Oh the patience Of
The English Protestant public. What they now
ask is nothing less than to set up n statue of
him in Broad-st. oxford. The Catholic Duke
,f Norfolk stated this scheme. The Protestant
City Council ha, given a needless vote in favor of it,
Renonstrances appear. They appear none too soon.
/ he Wegbtest of them is from Dr. ince, Roeius
Professor of Divinity in the University. lie, like
Everybody else, pays homage 70 Ncwmans genius.
jncerity and simplicity of life. He does not OPP
pose the scheme for n statue. which, dOubtfully
appropriate though it may be- men Of all parties.
,oth creeds. and all divisions of the Protestant
.hurch in England, have subscribed for. What
ne rslsts Is the proposal to place 1t In Inc
incst open space in Oxford within hundred
Yards and in immediate sight Of thc spot where
Cranmer Ridley and Latimer were burnt at the
stake He well says that to put it there would
be an anront TO the memory of those Bishops, who
were put 10 death because they refused to accept
that supremacy and doctrine Of the Papai
Church which Newman did more than
any other man since the Reformation again 10
impose upon England. If any man could have
rndone the work of the Reformation, Newman
was that man. Give him a statue. if you VIII,
says DR.. Ince but do not insult the memory OF
the Protestant martyrs He adds; 1T is an
abuse of the modern spirit of liberation to act
as if all religious opinions were 10 be considered
equally true and equally false, if only they are
held sincerely
The Nonconformists themselves may accept tins
as timely reminder. They were once the s'ahch-
est opponents of Popery in England To-day they
are the accompliccs in a conspiracy to MAKE '''c
Roman Catholic priests the political masters OF
Ireald. In that policy also, and in the looserlnS
OF the moral fbres of English Dissent, may pe