The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-24

e1xfte8 ME McCaftay sWf4teAssfis @5,
 .'PaImerston:s whole ,policys during, al the earlier part of the Civil War wa conducted on' sies assumption that tn, .l lNorth was simply playing the part of , N bbraxgaft and G coward .ands a bungicr and that no lEngiisir'n government wal called upon to- sheg. anything but con I tempt for So sorrys and 'Ahopsfess a per. formance. Thisfw fwas not only. the mean. | ing of ms polfcy, but it, found expression | In many Of his speeches in and outside | of the House of Commons. His tone was taken up sby many public speakers | and by most of : thea daffy and weekly | Journals, by whom thes cause rand the ] statesmen. the generals and the armies. of the North were held up to' incessa 1t | ridicuie. Before the Federal States were | able to prove their capacity for carrying on the war to successful issue a strong feeling of hostility had already been ex- cited among Americans of the Northern | States. and at one time it seemed as if a lasting enmity were doomed to prevail between England and the victorious North. If 1t were possible that even so great a man as Cobden, holding seat in the English cabinet, could exercise a re- straining influence over Lord Palnerstef and some of'ahis colleagues, the country might have beenTs from thel Alabama trouble, from the payment of~the heavy damages decreed. by the Geneva conyeE.. !tion. and fromi the humiliation. Of having to make q -publiciapology. s' s .. "we know'ofrly too wellifrom documents. afterwards published with authority that
 Queen Victoria herself" was entirely .cp-. posed to the tone and policy of Lord- Pal
 merston in dealing with the American
 question, and. that her influence, limited
 as it was by her fidelity to constitutional
 principles, was not strong. enough to
 bring the primo minister to better mood" ii N ,sr tse.
 Mr. Mccarthy certainly had no sympa-
 thy with the cause of the South, and he |, plainly and frequently in these pages states the fact. .t4.-
 Very Interesting is. . his exposition of Carlyles advocacy with word and pen of our cause: ,ls4 %
 Tt unlackiiy happened that just about the time when IShad the. good afortune.te meet Carlyle there were great questions stirring in tiie werlds on which Carlyie held. the most definite. opinions one way, while I could not help holding opinions which put me on- the opposite side of the dispute. .eN, ei> s. ~ss~
 The great American Civil War was then going on, and Carlyle was ever ready to give judgment against the Northern States l was at, that time one, of the writers for the Morning Star,, the daily newspaper which represented the views of Bright and Cobdens and was naturally a strenuous and consistent advocate of the
 Northern cause! The Daily News and the
 Morning Star were the only London daily
 papers which held firmly to that side dur
 ing the whole of the long struggle. Car
 lyle. in a short, sharp essay of his called, If I remember. rightly s"The' American
 Iliad in Nutshell,' had summed up tiie
 whole controversy to his' own complete
 satisfaction as merely a. question between
 the right to hire oneis servants by tne
 week or for life. Some of us still per-
 sisted in thinking that servittfde enforced. for fife was a very different thing from
 servitude hired, by the week, or by tie
 mbnth.' and we continued to regard siav- cry just as we had done before. At the time every ones was naturally talking oe4 the American war; and 1t was not pleas-
 ant for those who thought as 1 did to draw out Carlyle un the great question.
 Nor did he, always wait to be drawnfout,
 for he frequently expressed his opinion and denounced hisppponents without ahy challenge or provocatI6n' on their part.
 Under these conditions>it will readily lie, understood that an obscure and modest. young man who did not happen to agree
 with the sentiments of@tiie orator was not
 likely to find himself quite eicomfortabie Tn
 the prcseTfeeN of Cariylst did not there fore. seek for, opportunities Of possible dispute. and my slight iacquafntahceshlp' with him soon cafne to an end" "A distinct lessS to Mi. Mccarthy this. disagreement of opinion brought about. but that some disagreement of opinion
 was fectInd of loss 10 all who touched it.
 This fefreshment' Of memory ofl the sympathy of Palmerston and of Carlyle in our cause reminds us again How far
 reaching are the s1nflbenceS Of riass; neighborhood and tipbrfnging, HPalnaei,- -ston doubtless felt. a sub-conscious sylh- Fpa athyrwiAh aud perfect urdeTetanding of old Cavalier element that went to make up the greater part, of our, Southern colon 1st. Carlyle no doubt had the same breed ing. the. same brain and brawn of our stalwart Scotch settlers, The sympathy for our cause felt and expressed by these
 two great men of England was, doubtless formed for theph Gas Holmes says gen tleman'ss education must be- q hundred years before they we're born. .r< '". Mir. MeGarthS' 8 sfrAnSlN,e xpressed lack of sympathya for us is~ sincere and does not detract from the charm of his pen- pictures Of the great'ones of his day. ''' Ty Patti. malsing her first appearance in London. May. 1861, is especially interest Ing in connection with the farewe; ap- pearance this season of the great singer
 NIT. McCarthy traces the use of .tlie. -Raphaelite school, not directly :. to Ruskin. but to the artistic awakening of his time which insgreat part he brought about .-
 Like living people they pass before Hsu the great immortals of yesterday broughvs to life not by lengthy discourses on the great things they accomplished. but by the terse telling of some bon-mot charac- teristlc Of the maker by the relating of Some anecdote seasoned with the unmis- takabe personality of the subject of the anecdote. Of sothern's creation of Loid Durdreary MT. Mccarthy writes: ''The, story went at the time. and believe there was truth in it, that Sothern had first