The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-31

and relation of life. 1t may be overlaid for
a time, so as to be apparently
suppressed. 1t may vacillate in its
judgments from the conflicting evil
dence upon which it rests. 1t may often
er still take a false direction and render
verdicts unsafe and untrue. 1t may be
blinded by the mists of passion, distorting
the objects presented to its view. But
from these very causes will arise an un-
satisfa ctoriness in its earlier decisions, be-
getting a suspicion as 10 the truth of the
findings. 1t will then go back upon
its path, sitting its own prejudices,
breaking through the obstacles with
which malevolence and ignorance block
up its way, placing Itself in all
the crosslights shooting upon its
search until a verdict is found that shall
lay it's unquiet spirit to rest, and the final
decision is nailed against the walls of its
chancery, which the universal conscience
of mankind shall recognize as true and
righteous altogether
Before the World Itself
1T will, however, be asked where are
these chambers of this High Court of
Commission, before which old issues are
to be thus tried? What judges sit, flom
whose decision there can be no appeal eX-
cept to the bar of God? Whence the ad-
vocate who filings his broad indictmen mt
over the defamations of all the centuries?
These are questions not difficult TO answer.
The forum where this high adjudication
is held is the broad world itself. The pub
lie conscience is the judge, reused 10
honesty by the very responsibility OF ms
function. The intelligence and virtue. the
truth and candor of the race, constitute
the panel before which the cause is plead
ed And sublime Providence raises up ad-
vocates who speak-men of judicial build,
and who have a lofty scorn for all the
shams and cheats which have been tie
idolatries of the past Look at
MotIey-draw wing from the archives
of the Escurial and damning evidence
which has slept these three hundred years,
upon which the Second Philip is convicted
a.; the blackest felon that ever dfsgraced
the purple On the same page, too, stands
the Silent William, in all the relief of con-
trast; the man, who, out of the loss Of
every battle, wrung even from defeat and
massacre the redemption of his country
and who in matchless endurance and
moral sublimity is the only prototype in
European history of the American Wash
ington and of our own immortal Lee.
Iook again at Carsylse, with his rugged
honesty piercing the flames and false
hoods circhng around the corridors of his
tory; and in his uncouth inverted style,
rescuing Cromwell from the crime of regi-
eide Planting his burly form against the
pillows, he rolls back from the Puritan
Protector the tide of prejudice which had
SWeHed against ms just 1afne lneSe TWO
hundred years. Al the touch of his dis
enchanting wand the molly fools garb, IN
which the wit and satire of England S
great novelist has clothed those Pragmat-
ical Round Heads, falls aside, and to-day
the verdict of history stands recorded that
all of constitutional liberty which England
enjoys is due to those men of robust prin-
cjple. who, beneath the mask of a fam
tastic piety were yet loyal to truth, and
had the stubborn will to place law and
freedom upon the throne of the Stuarts.
And then Macaulay; whose gorgeous COL
ors thrown upon the canvas the long con-
f!ct of 1913 to 1888, as the struggle between
prerogative and privilege, upon whose is
sues hang all the chartered rights pos
sessed this day on either side of the At
lantic. Who, too, could have dreamed that,
under pure sense of historic justice, Mr..
Bancroft would come forth from all the
prejudices of his cold philosophy to be the
special advocate of the great Calvin? Or
that Mr.. Froude would stand before the
University of st. Andrews to pronounce
the eulogy of the Genevan hero in the
memorable proposition, that whatever
may be thought as to the truth of his dog
Inatic. creed, the only men who have
wrestled successfully in life's great battle
and rescued it from defeat have been the
men who, under some form of philosophy