New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-07-01

put on the airs Of smiling popularity. But
even here General johnson has something TO
say of the people among whom Washington
grew up and with whom he lived all his quiet
years. He dgresses in paragraph to show that
Anglo-Saxon is missioner for at least large
number Of people who settled America. In his
opinion nothing Is more certain than that the
English adventu-ers from the time OF Raleigh
onward were usually men Of Norman descent.
Compare the portraits in Lodges Gallery of
British Worthless" which display the leaders OF
thought and action at tho time Of the settlement
and they show a race of long-headed lean-iaced
strOng-cheekbOned men-with the portraits III
Browns Genesis Of America" Of the Americans
of the Revolution. and the remarkable likeness
al once appears. The same gravity the same
contour Of face and head appear in Inc era 81
Coke and Raleigh as in that Of George Mason. ~
Gunston and George Washington. OF Mount Yer,
non; and a visitor to any of the courts ol the o'u
counties Of Virginia will see to-day on court DAY
the same grave department. the same reSe'N'd
carriage the same courteous intercourse ~ was
exhibited by their ancestors OF SIX generau'n ms
ago: and the characteristics, physical ana moral
Of person and manners were ana are N"rnl1i
and not Saxon The people who settled virginia
and have held II ever since, are the pest SP'VI-
mems who now exist Of the breed who roVed the
Spa Ash Main under Hawkins and Bake VINO
with Raleigh sought FL Dorado. and under cap
tain John Smith explored the CheSapcaKT, ~
who fought the Grand Armada under Loru iioW-
ard Of Efnngham, and won Tor mahklnu 'ne
freedom OF the seas.
According TO this view If the case. Washing
toms seriousness only a racial trait lh'ehsl-
eod The author cites as an Illustration of this
Virgiuian popularity the silence Of Picketts men
whom they made the famous charge at Gettys-
hure In this and other instances General
Johnson evinces the value Of the Southern point
of view in the study OF Washington's character
But when he implies that the failure To weaken
the bond Of the Union In the Constitution LOT
which Washington did so much was cause oi
subsequent harm to Virginia, he writes III wa!
which cannot be commended. Possibly Irai''r
bond would have tempted secession all the ear
Her But the misery Of II cannot DC attribute"
10 those who made the Constitution, but To those
who tried to break It, On another page H'h''"'
Johnson compares the colonial instruction Win
that Of the Southern States. Apparently his
meaning is that the British Government III 'he
one case and the Government Of the United
States I'm the other mistOOk the purpose OF the
insurgents, that in reality separation was not the
aim at the outset. This extraordinary dcu-
sion" he adds. ION the part of the mother coun-
try. like the Identical one believed IN 10y IN"
Northern States toward the Southern States III
the Var Of secession. was absolutely unfounded
,r zach case The resistance 10 British laws DID
not mean in the first place. revolution. Ihe
right Of rebellion had been always the right To
ras,st illegal acts Of government by arms. ana
Was the method by which the balance ~ liberty
had been preserved and the English Constitution
developed" II would not be easy TO convince
the Unionis,s Of Sixty-hve that what they "p-
nosed was not from the outset design L" breaK
m the Union The threats 81 secession In earlier
times both North and South had all been "ni-
mons of the only meaning that rebellion can nave
under a federal system with written constl'u-
ton But these bits OF pHmphleteering rarely
d,sAeure General Johnson's animated ana inter-
eating work