The advocate., 1895-05-15

monarchs, it was most deVoutly believed in by the
English people. Enlightenment destroyed that be-
lief, and the absolute power of English monarchs is
gone. Change the views and the feelings of man
KIND and you are certain to change the institutions
under which men live; but you can never success
fully change those institutions any other way. In
order 10 raise revolt, what is the very first thing
you have to do? Must you not persuade the people
to attempt certain alteration in governments Edu.
cation OF public opinion is the first thing to be &C.
compllshed In political movements, too. In every
instance, agitation for principle must precede
organization of any kind fOrthe practical application
OF that principle, Those in authority in governments
have always shown their wisdom by lettering speech
and the press, or the drama which once performed
the function the press performs noW Ask of history
it be not true that the armed reVolutionst but
the orator who can call up armed revoutionists, has
ever been the most dreaded by privilege and poWer
But see. The most advanced thinkers the radicals.
bring about revolution which tears down the old
order of things but ever the morrow of the reyo
utiOn the most conservative faction among the sue
cessfu overturners assumes the work of recOnstruc
tion and no revolution accomplished by violence has
ever yet advanced the liberty of mankind single
step beyond what was approved by the most conserv
atVe portion of the reVolutionists. Look again at
America. Did Washington or Hamilton really be.
eVe that all created equal and are possessed
of an inalienabe right to libertyP Why, Washington
is Shareholder to-day From thrashing the British,
he retired to the quiet occupation of thrashinR
slaves at Mt Vernon and he is perhaps the seVerest
man in Virginia with a slave who attempts to run
away and thus assert his inSenabe right to liberty
Jefferson did, and does, believe in the preamble to
the Declaration of Independence and he could scarce
drive his slaves away indeed they are not slaves at
all, but only part of his family. Your Paines and
Jeffersons made your Revolution possible, and kept
the people in the field but that the victory has
been won, your Washlngtons and Hamiltons are
your idols and are to settle the limits beyond which
political change shall not go. And this brings me to
what was saying at first: that you are unWittingly
playing into the hands of these men,
THAT is what l wish you would explain, as l must
be going soon. would not have interrupted you at
first when you were that subject, but your ideas
concerning revolutions in general were so new and so
am glad held you to their elucidation
How do you make out that am helping the very
men hate WOrst?"
"I ought to tell you how l come toknow about the
things am going to explain, else you might wonder
that hermit should have discovered what people
who live in the world have apparently not found out
You doubtless know something of the history of
General Charles Lee, who died about four years ago;
that he entered the British army when he was eleven
years old; fought here in the war between England
and France served in Portugal visited Frederick the
Great on friendly terms, and became aide de camp
to the king of Poland and major general in the Pol
ish srmyp"
eyes, but my father always denounces him as q
traitor to the CoOniss during the later years of the
Revolution"
"Then of course, your father is a Washington
worshipper. The English ministers at the outbreak
of the war feared nothing than the possibility
that Lee might be chosen commander-in.chief of
your armies and the Congress discussed his appoint
ment, but the point was made that he was not ma
tive American, and Washington was appointed in
stesd and Lee was made major general. During