The Portland daily press., 1894-12-05
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

he mas no mOnumcub al EuSIduus
and he can have none with the sanction
OF the government, because monument
to Cromwell would be an official ac-
acknowledgement of successful rebellion"
This paragraph surprises the reader of
the concluding pages of Samuel Harden
Ch,lrch's admirable Life of Oliver Crom-
we'll. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons;
Portland: Loring. Short & Harmony
Only thirty years have passed by, and
monuments of Jefferson Davis, Robert
E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson-all men who
strove to tear down thia nation-have
been raised in many places in the Unit
ed States with the approval or acquies-
cence of most of the American people.
Over two hundred and thirty years
have passed since the death of Oliver
Cromwell, and no monument of him is
sanctioned in the nation to which he has
given some of the most inspiring tradi-
tions Of English glory. Colonel Oliver
Cromwell enunciated his famous princi-
pie that the Cavaliers could be conquered
only by substituting men of religious
principles for the ,decayed serving men
and tapsters who made mobs of the
Parliamentary army. 1T was only tif-
teen years later that this Parliamentary
colonel of the novel idea, died in the
palace of Whitehall, the most powerful
and most famous man of his day. In
1643 England was rent with dissensions
at home, and despised abroad. The
whole Protestant world had been
shamed at the shufling and ineficie t
course OF England when the gallant
Huguenots of Rochelle called in vain to
Charles and Buckingham for aid against
their oppressor Richelieu. And the
shame of that government abroad was
not equal to the shame of it at home,
with Scottish army encamped on Eng
lish soil; and murderous revolts raging
in Ireland. In 1868 Ireland. Scotland
and England for the first time in history,
were the united. and peaceful and pros
porous members of single nation; Eng
land ruled the seas more absolutely
than she rules them to day; an army of
the famous old Ironsides had astounded
the best soldiers of the continent by the
matchless discipline and bravery which
they showed at the battle of Dunkirk !;
and the simple remonstrance of the
mighty protector had suficed to cause
France to stop at once the persecution
of Protestants in the remote valleys OF
the Alps. There can be no doubt as to
whose genius did these mighty things.
"Are we to call this fellow meaning
CromweIl) brother?" demonstrated Louis
XIV, to Mazanin. " Call him your father,
Sire" answered the willy minister, if it
will secure his friendship" The judg-
ment of Mazarin echoed the voice Of all
England and of Europe.
When Cromwell died he.was buried in
Westminster Abbey; but his body was
allowed to lie with the kings Of Eng
land a few months only. Then it was
disinterred with every mark of contempt,
and his head was placed upon a pole
over Westminster Hall. The English
people allowed it to bleachen there
through the SHOWS of.twenty winters, -
a fact which illustrates the peculiar
position occupied blythe Protector. The
majority of the English people were
not with him. By his own genius and
valor, aided by the Ironsides swhom the
Puritan spirit animated and whom the
genius of their leader organized, he made
| England great IN spite of herself.
| History has been no more unanimous
| about Cromwell. Hume has treated him
severely; Carlyle has made him hero
in supernal garh." Two schools have
fought over his memory, the one giving
| him few faults; the other few virtues.
The author of this latest work has en-
deayored, SO far as possible, to discover
| the true character of Cromwell,-a task
which lie acknowledges to be very diff
| cult. That Cromwell had nothing of
the small ambition of the place seeker is
one of the great points in his favor.
'CrueI necessity" were his words when
! he visited the body of Charles l. al
Whitehall; and in those words he gave