The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-19


 four hundred years from England, were permitted to erect synagogue in Lon- don and their chief Rabbi pensioned by Cromwell. The brutalities inflicted by order of Parliament on a half crazed Quaker was sternly rebuked by him. War was Waged against Spain who had refused without the consent of Rome, to bring to justice the assassins of the ambassador of England because they had taken sanctuary in church, and who had denied to British nler- chants, resident there, permission, to use the language of Cromwell, ito keep their Bibles in their pockets and to ex- ercise their liberty of religion for them selves" Portugal, whose ports hadbeen opened to royalist cruisers against the commerce of England, were obliged to accept treaty which provided for the rights of protestant English merchants and which was signed by the Portu- guese ambassador on the very day his brother, who was attached to the em- bassy, was hung as murderer.
 A treaty with France, nearly comple- ted, was promptly suspended in conse- quence of the atrocities in Piedmont PSi lVtl etltNl Dy llS SONClClSiI uPOii ii'o Protestant subjects, coupled with the assurance to the French court that the roar of English cannon should be heard in the castle of St. Angelo in Rome, if the authority of France were not eX- erted in behalf of these persecuted Waldenses. It is not to us an ungrate ful coincidence that while Milton was 1 indieting his noble lines,
 Defend, Q Lord, thy slaughtered saints,
 | Whose bones lay scattered on the AL pine mountains cold"
 that the general court of the New Ha- | ven Jurisdiction had ordered "the four | teenth day of November, 1855, to be kept in fasting and prayer for our | selves, our native country and for the poor distressed and afflicted Protes- | tants which were sorely persecuted by the king of Savoy"
 | How marked the contrast between such vindications of the rights of con- | science and the cool indifference of | Christian statesmen, whose devotion to commercial interests has left thousands l to be butchered in the mountains of l that more distant Asiatic Piedmont | over which the Moslem reigns.
 When Cromwell died the hopes of a | commonwealth died with him. There | was no second Oliver. The feeble son who succeeded him, the weak men who carry the burden which was almost too much for the protector, only prepared | the way for the Restoration.
 | No revolution is success that has not back of 1t either an overwhelming force or preponderating public senti- ment, and they had neither The en- l tire body of the Catholics, the adher- ents of the disestablished church, the | disappointed Presbyterfans, fifth mon archy men who awaited the personal coming of King Jesus with radical | division of sentiment in the army itself and a large hostile element in that part | of the population, to whom the austeri- 1 ty of Puritanism was odious, left no es- cape from general anarchy except to | call back the covenanted king from his | ten years exile In this delirious whirlwind of restored loyalty nothing was left to the surviving regicides ex- cept to await the gallows, to sue in hu- \ MI Ioy rpl IlSiAiSiANy VI " iiS Eight were hung, nine were left in per petual imprisonment number es- capped to foreign countries, while three sought refuge here.
 | The fugitive life of Whalley and Goffe was prolonged for many weary years The story may be read in the second volume of the proceedings of this society, as told with historic fideli- l ty by Professor Dexter of the universi- ty. At last in helpless decrepitude of body and hopeless infirnity of mind came to his end Whalley, the brave sol dier, the custodian of the king, the oc- | cupant of a seat once reserved for the hereditary nobility of England the signer of the death warrant of his sov- ereign and the devout Puritan believer. He was laid to his rest not by the side of Cromwell and Bradshaw and Ireton not borne as once he might have been beneath stately catafalque, with militia ry honors and all heraldic pomp to that mausoleum on the bank of the Thames | where rests so much of the glory and something of the shame of England
 but buried in secrety and silence in the humblest of graves on the banks of the Connecticut It must sometimes have entered the thought of the solitary companion of his wanderings that if
 Whalley had failed in sharing with his friends the honors of Westminster Ab-
 bey, he had also escaped the ignominy of having his body thrown into hole
 beneath the gallows at'Tyburn and his grinning skull exposed by their side or the towers of the hall which had wit messed the sentence of the king.
 But it is not so much with dramatic contrasts of this kind that we are con cerned, as to know what civilized socie-
 ty has gained by the slaughter of SC many honorable and conscientious ner
 engaged in hostile array against each
 other or by the tragic end of a sover-
 eign who with all his weaknesses gave
 his life for the perpetuity of church
 which he believed to be an ordinance o1
 God or by the hanging, disemboweling
 and quartering of the men who went tc
 the shambles, joyfully testifying theil
 fidelity to the good old cause that Goo
 alone Is the judge of the human con.
 science.
 For nearly a century the policy of en-
 forcing religious uniformity had beer
 on trial in England in a country nearly
 homogeneous in it's population of a few
 millions, and in territory of no grea
 extent. No circumstances could bt
 more favorable for success, If success l were possible Henry the eighth. huns