New-York tribune., 1901-03-10

revolutionary tribunal of the rapid movement
of their revolutionary army with the Corps Of
Justice and the flying guillotine before it: for
getting that not of them is not liable TO it's
stroke on the accusation of the greatest vaga-
bond board. They asked me with triumph
if yesterday had not been Sunday. Oh said
they, the National Convention have decreed
that there is no Sunday. and that the Bible Is
| all lie
These troubles passed and the interchangeable
young Governor restored prosperity 10 his coli
ony. struggling himself through continuous III
ness, overwork and anxiety. His journal bears
striking testimony to the accumulating horrors
or the slave trade on those shores; day by day
he was acquiring that mass Of practical perso nal
information which. when afterward laid before
Parliament and his eountrymen generally. was
to serve as mighty engine for abolition The
reader must go TO his own pages for instances
or Woe and cruelty set down with the burning
Indignation of a righteous soul Overborne by
his labOrs, he returned to England for rest in
li9J. and. invalid as he was, he embarked on a
slave ship TO learn at close quarters how the
poor creatures were dealt with on their passage
10 the West Indies. He learned We are re-
minded by his description Of the way in which
the slaves were whipped make them eat and
| dance. of an instance of humanity narrated
by one Of the slave trading captains who visited
the settlement y number of his captives died
ION one OF his voyaSes-"went of one after an
other, without complaint or groan or any
symptom Of Illness. but a settled gloom in their
counteaances and = bathing Of food When I
see any now falling into the same way out OF
humanity 20 them I fog them and it is a
remedy which L have never known to fail"
In respect to MacauIay's work an associ-
ate has saiG Of him: His memory was so
retentiv- that without the trouble Of reference
/ he could collate the papers of one Session with
these o1 three or four preceding years; he
Used with such rapidity that he could reduce
/ To ten or twenty pages all that was worth
extracting from five hundred: his acuteness was
so great that no faIIacy of argument escaped
him and no sophistry could bewilder him. and.
more than all. he truth and accuracy ITSELF
Every friend to slavery well knew MacauIay 20
be his most dangerous foer'
| The gravity of the book is relieved by the
story Of Macaulay's love. by many interesting
giimpses Of celebrities. by numerous anecdotes
| and by various letters from the beloved son.
Tom the future Lord Macaulay. We see a
great deal of Hannah More and her sisters for
| they long time friends of Zachary and
his bride. Selma Mills. their pupil. She
| was. indeed. almost an adopted sister, and the
course OF true love was rendered rough by the
| absurd jealousy of Patty More. who could not
| enGure that her pet Selma should care for any
one but herself The revered Hannah's good
ness was not proof against her sisters unrea-
sonabIe grief. and she did actually fb in per-
suadins the departing Governor Of Sierra Leone
that her dOve-eyed pupil had only friendly feel
ings toward him. Alas for the great and the
good Hannah and jealous Patty \ happy
accident revealed to the young pair their
mutual affection. and q long engagement ended
in marriage OF beauty and tenderness.
The big hearted Macaulay bore the sisters no
grudEe and through all his painfully busy later
HannahS man of business to make her in
veStmentS, to deal with her publisher and TO
answer her FUSS little notes Of injunction
There is comcal letter-thOuSh its writer sees
no ccmedy-in which Macaulay warns the I'D
lady that her servants at Barley Wood
deCeiving and pIunderins her and induSins
/ in SUrrrptjtiouS entertainments in the kitchen
and in midnight junketinss in the village, Il
am driven like Eve out OF Paradise. but not
like Eve BY angels says the venerable dame.
when, within 4 month OF the date of her friends
/ letter she leaves forever her dearly loved
try home and seeks. upon his advice, abode
not far from help and observation Warm
the good Iadys enCOmiums the boy Tom.
who in visiting the friendly sisters would in
Sratiate himself with Miss Hannah by the
hibition of his literary taste and knowledge. and
win Miss Betty's heart by his fOndness for
making bread and pastry with his sleeves