Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-10
An oner to the Carlyle Committee.
New York Tribune.

New York TrlDune.)
To the Editor of The Tribune:
Sir: 1 have not been strongly inclined
to the fund for Mr.. Carlyle's memorial.
His style repealed my earlier years, his
thought my later ones. In Mr.. Froude'
solar spectrum Carlyle's splendid beam
of moral light, "Do the duty that lies
next to you." decomposed itself into,
:" Let Mrs. Carlyle do the duty that lies
next me-" Even sthe real Carlyle"
who tried to explain away his Ilad-in-
nuce to G. W. s., Is hardly an improve
ment on the Carlyle of our war-seems
rather like man trying to disclaim res
possibility for sentiment that struck
below the level of humanity. If Carlyle
only meant that what God allows to
triumph in the long run is right he
might as well have been silent till the
long run was made; then there would
have been no need TO speak at all.
Proper debate is from men who must act
in the short run, who must therefore
judge at once by principle and cannot
wait for success to decide which is right.
None the less, the letter of your CORES
pondent,G. w. S., has converted me to the
purchase of the Carlyle house. When l
see "the real Carlyle" turning away from
everybody's America, the America of
Washington and Lincoln of indepen-
dence and emancipation, and "kind-
ling" his eye, deepening his tone, ,"
lavishing his love on the true America,
that paid him solid cash, am willing to
buy his house for memorial. Not that
he is the first Briton who has loved
American gold, but he is, believe, the
first Briton who has frankly built his love
on that avowed basis.
G. W. S. offers to Mr.. Laurence Hutton
500 for the Curtis fund, if MI Laurence
Hutton 500 for the Curtis fund, if Mr..
Laurence Hutton will give 500 to the
Carlyle fund. l will do better than that.
| will contribute $500 for the Carlyle
memorial if G. W. S. or any or all of
the members of the American commit
tee or of the English committee will
produced proof that Mrs. Maybrick, an
American woman now in penal servitude
for life at Working, England, committed
the crimes, or any of the crimes, for which
she is imprisoned, the umpires to be the
lord chief justice of England and the
chief justice OF the supreme court Of the
United States.
Such proof has never been furnished by
the crown that imprisons her. 1t ought to
be furnished easily by the Carlyle COM
mittee. Mr.. Chauncey Dcpew was pre-
sent at the trial. The late Vice President
of the United States, now Governor OF
New York, is not unacquainted with the
case, and signed the petition for her
release. Mr.. Henry White we learned
from the Tribune, had the pleasure of
entertaining Mr.. Asquith, and of bracing
him up for the onerous but embarrassing
task of waiting behind a screen to see
that some PEASANTS child was not surrep-
titiously introduced into the bedchamber
of the Duchess of York to become the fu-
ture King of England, and Mr.. Asquith
is the man who holds her imprisoned. The
Rev. Edward Everett Hale has had a
hanging in his own family, and is proud
of it, Mrs. Maybrick is of as good a
family as Mr.. Hale. In all the committee
list on both sides of the Atlantic no one is
better born. She is direct descendant of
the Phillips family, which gave the
AndOver and the Exeter schools and the
Theological seminary to the American
people. The Rev. Benjamin Thurston, who
dedicated them to the services of God and
our country, was her great grandmother S
grandfather. Martin Kozsta's Ingraham
was of her family. The two Ingraham
authors and clergymen-one of them still
the aged rector of Grace church, St. |
Louis, were SONS of her great grandfather. |
The mother of the late Justice Lamar of
the supreme court, was sister of Mrs |
Maybrick's great grandmother, and her
brother was also justice in the supreme
court. No one has yet shown that she has
forfeited her right to the honors of her
family, or to the protection of her coun-
try.
If any member of the American or the |
English committees can show it, if any |
one can furnish proof that she has by any |
crime lost her freedom and her fortune,
let him speak now, and prove England's |
justice, remove profound belief in Eng
lands injustice, and put $500 into the
Carlyle fund. GAIL HAMILTON.
Feb. 20, 1895.