The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-01
IN HIS SCALES THE HORSE
PULLS THE WOMAN DOWN
Declaring Lynching of Horse Thieves Necessity,
Roosevelt Grows Goggled- eyed Over Lynch
ing of Negroes for Rape.

whom they have come. The celebrated
and perhaps Infamous, Aaron Burr was
a grandson. He was highly intellectual,
and possibly was not so base as he is gen
orally represented as being.
Much has been written in censure of the
illustrous Thomas Jefferson, the greatest
political factor and genius yet born in
this country-greater than Washington,
Hamilton, Jay, Madison, Webster, Cal
houn Clay or any other OF the grand roll
of statesmen and political writers-5ecause
of his alleged infdehty. He has been
scoffed at, lied upon, slandered without
stint, and yet in fairness it can be said
of him that he was not an infidel, scoffer
at religion, an atheist or anything else
low and malignant He wrote to DR..
Benjamin Rush, of Pennsylvania, on q
April. 1903, in which occurs his views as
TO the Christian religion. The whole of the
| letter is not before me. but in the part /
| have he writes as follows: "They are
the result Of life of inquiry and reflec-
| ton, and very different from that anti
| Christian system imputed to me by those
who know nothing of my opinions. To
! the corruptions of Christianity l am
| indeed opposed: but not to the genuine
precepts of Jesus Himself. | am a Chris
tian Ill the only sense in which He wished
any one to be, sincerely attached to His
doctrines, in preference to all others" If
he accepted the Divinity OF Jesus Christ
it is not given. 1t should have appeared.
How any man can read Johns Gospel,
and not believe that Jesus was indeed the
Son of God, and clothed with the creative
and saving power of God, is beyond my
understanding. | do not know what JET
terson held at this great, vital point.
Henry Theodore Buckle was one of the
most gifted English young men of the
last half of the nineteenth century. HIS
famous work on Tho History OF ClYih- !
cation in Europe" will perpetuate his
name for years to come. He died in the
East when but thirty-nine years old, while
travelling. He left one of the greatest
private libraries of which / have read. 1t
numbered 5000 volumes. Mr.. Gladstone's
| library contained 1000 volumes. Buckle
agreed with Macaulay as to the great
executive abilities of Rev. John Wesley.
Macaulay was the first great historian to
appreciate the eminent religious reformer,
SeilOidi uhu Wv lin, "A'S 'AiiN' it'''~ '-
guages. could speak Greek fiuently I'M
conversation, and wrote Latin as easily as
some scholars can English. He was over
| ten years at Oxford University, and was
not even Phi. d. or d. D. Titles were
not common as fish i'll those days. 1t took
much learning to attain them. Macauley
said of Mr.. Wesley that 'his genius for
government was not inferior to that OF
Richslieu," and he was the greatest OF all
executives of France Macaulay said
more-that Wesley devoted all his pow
ers to what he considered the best good
of his Species" Buckle referred to him as
1.-The first of theological statesmen, and
so he was beyond all fair question.
Buckle said that he was the greatest OF
all divines in his time or since, and so
he was There is tablet to his memory
in the great national mausoleum, West
minister Abbey. Green and Lecky pay IN
their noble histories high tributes also
to the illustrious man of God.
/ read not long since five stanzas III
the Charlotte Presbyterian Standard, en-
titled 1.-THE Seabeach in Autumn by
Mary c.. Gates If l am not wrong in
Judgment. they are poetic, and she may
be glad of them. They are breezy, stir
ring, heart-lfting. l would like to copy
all but content myself with the first and
fourth, and they may not be better than
the others:
Beyond long lines Of seward dunes
Beats martial music of the sea;
Like Titan blows of rhythmic ease,
Or onset Of old mailed dragons.
Long slants the light of Autumns sun;
In choirng chant the crickets sing;
Snow-white the sail as plumed doves
wing,
And peace falls wide, for day is done
I make a few literary notes here that
may please some readers. Right Hon.
John Morley's life of William E. Glad |
stone in three octave volumes, is now out.
The first edition in England was exhaust
ed the first day. lne price for the work
is 5000 net
The American novelist resident in Rome,
Italy, Crawford, las a new novel just
issued 1t is well praised and he is an
interesting writer of fiction. 1t IS called
The Heart of Rome The price is $50.
CUTLER Couch, writer of some clever
fiction, has a novel emitted "Hetty Yves
ley" II is said to be full of insight and
suggestiveness" The heroine is sister
of the celebrated John and Charles Yves
ley. She was gifted and unhappy
Hon. Thomas E. Watson's Life and
Times Of Thomas Jefferson an octave,
price S2.5o, will attract attention. for the
theme is highly important and the writer
IS of skill and power and independence.
Mr. Watson has achieved richly deserved
fame by mis- ;'The Story OF France, re-
| ,narkably entertaining work of some 1900
pages His Napoleon I have rot seen,
but it mas been lauded no little. Apple
ton and Company, the New York publish
crs. say OF the work on Jefferson: Mr..
Natson's book is without doubt the most
valuable recent contribution to the his
tory OF Revolutionary times and charac
tiers. His personal sympathy with the
democratic simplicity and the political
ideals OF the great Virginlan have cspe
tially fitted him to be the biographer of