The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-04-11

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90 many are suffering On and on, unit
some morning finds him In delirium,
which he talks Of home and then rise
and says be must no and look after thos
patients He Is told to lie down, but
fights his attendants until no falls BAG
and is weaker and weaker and dies 70
| people with whom be had no kinship an
far away from his own family and Is has
tily put away in strangers tomb, an
only the fifth part Of newspaper line tell
| us Of bis sacriflce-his name just men
toned among five. Yet he has touched tn
farrhest height of sublimity In that thre
weeks of humanitarian service. He goo
straight as an arrow to the bosom Of hin
who said, II was sick, and 70 visited me-
Life for lifel Blood for blood Substitu
toni
A Story Of Seward.
In the legal profession I see the SAM
principle Of self sacrifice. In 1916 William
Freeman, a pauperized and idi0tiG negro
was at Auburn, N. Y, on trial for muir
der. He had slain the entire Van Nest
family. The foaming wrath of the com
inunity could be kept off him only by
armed constables. Who would volunteer
to be his COUNSEL No attorney wanted ia
sacrifice his popularity by such an un.
grateful task. All were silent save one, a
young lawyer with feeble voice. that could
hardly be heard outside the bar, pale and
thin and awkward. It was William III.
Seward, who saw that the prisoner was
idiotic and irresponsible and ought to be
put in an asylum rather than put to death,
the heroic counsel uttering these beautiful
words
II speak now in the hearing of people
who have prejudged prisoner and con-
demned me for pleading in his behalf. He
is convict, pauper, negro, without
intellect, sense or emotion. My child with
an affectionate smile disarms my careworn
face Of its frown whenever CROSS my
threshold. The beggar in the street obliges
me to give because he says, God bless
you! as pass. My dog carosses me with
fondness II will but smile on him. My
horse recognizes me when fill his Manager
What reward, what gratitude, what SYM
pathy and affection can / expect here2
There the prisoner sits. Look at him.
Look at the assemblage around you. Lis
ten to their III suppressed censures and ex-
cited fears, and tell me where among my
neighbors or my fellow men, where even
in his heart can expect to find senti-
ment, thought, not to say Of reward or
of acknowledgment, or even Of recOgni-
ton. Gentlemen, you may think Of this
evidence what you please, bring In what
verdict you can, but / asseverate before
heaven and you that to the best of my
knowledge and belief, the prisoner at the
bar does not at this moment know why it
is that my shadow falls Oh you instead Of
his own"
The Hero Ruskin.
The gallows got its victim, but the post
norton examination of tho poor creature
showed to all the surgeons and to all the
world that the public were wrong and
William H. Seward was right and that
hard, stony step Of obloquy in the Auburn
courtroom was the first step of the stairs
of fame up which he went to the top, or to
within one step Of the top, that last denied
him through the treachery of American
politics. Nothing sublimer was ever seen
in an American courtroom than William
II. Seward, without reward, standing be-
tween the furious populace and the loath-
some imbecile. Substitution
In the realm Of the fine arts there was
as remarkable an instance A brilliant
but unprecedented painter, Joseph William
Turner, was met by volley of abuse from
all the art galleries Of Europe. His paint
ings, which have since won the applause
Of all civilized nations, "Tho Fifth Plague
of Egypt, Fishermen on Lee Shore In
Squally Weather." "Calais Pier, "The
Sun Rising Through Mist" and "Dido
Carthage, "were then targets for
critics to shoot at. In defense Of this out
abused man young author Of |
"a years, just one year out Of college, came
forth with his pen and wrote the ablest |
and most famous essay on art that the |
world ever saw or ever will see-John
Ruskin's Modern Painters" For II |
years this aulbor fought the battles Of the |
maltreated artist, and after in poverty |
and broken heartedness the painter had |
died and thu public tried to undo their
prueltios tow,j I'd him by giving him big !
funeral and burial In St. Paul's cathedral
his old time friend took out of a tin box
IS, 200 pieces of paper containing drawings
~ the old painter and through many
weary and unoompensated months assort-
ID and arranged them for public observa-
Jon. People say John Ruskin in his old
lays is cross, misanthropio and morbid.
Whatever he may do that he ought not to
10 and whatever he may say that he ought
lot to say between now and his death no
will leave this world insolvent as far as it
or It's chivalric and Christian defense of a
'oor painters pencil. John Ruskin for
William Turner! Blood for blood Substi-
ution!
An Exalting Principle.
What an exalting principle this which
eads ono to suffer for another! Nothing
o kindles enthusiasm or awakens elo-
uence, or chimes poetic canto, or, moves
ations. The principle is the dominant
he in our religion-Christ the martyr,
'hrist the celestial hero, Christ the de-
ender, Christ the substitute. No now
rinciple, for 1t was old as human nature,
ut now on grander, wider, higher,
eeper and more world resembling scale.
NE shepherd boy as champion for Israel
With sling toppled the giant Of Philis-
inc braggadocio in the dust, but here is
mother David who for all the armies of
hurches militant and triumphant, hurls
he Goliath of perdition into defeat, the
rash of his brazen armor likoan explosion
+ He'll Gate. Abraham had at Gods COM
land agreed to sacrifice his son Isaac, and
he same God just in time had provided
nm of the thickot us a substitute, but
here Is another Isaac bound to the altar,
nd no hand arrests the sharp edges of
ioeration and death, and the universe
hiyers and quakes and recols and groans
the horror.
All good men have for centuries been
wing to tell whom this substitute was
ko, and every comparison, inspired and
ninspired cyangelistic, prophetic, apos-
lilo and human, falls short, for Christ
as the Great Unlike. Adam u type of
hrist, because he came directly from God;
oah type Of Christ because he delivered
is own family from doluga; Melchisedeo
type of Christ, because he had no prcde-
ssor or successor; Joseph type Of Christ,
cause he was cast out by his brethren;
oses a type of Christ, because no was a
'liverer from bondage; Joshua type of
hrist, because he was conquoror; Sam
II type of Christ because of his strength
Stay the lions and carry off the iron
ties of impossibility; Solomon type of
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