The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-07
KINGLY HE STANDS IN ALL
THAT MAKES MAN GOD-LIKE
Bryan, the Great Tribune of the People, Holds a
Warm Place in Doctor Kingsbury's
Heart

India of somewhere about $4,000 a.
year his duties being to codifv the
laws of that remote part of the British
Umpire. He learned much of India
and the Government, past and present
during his sojourn. He saw fully into
the defects of the former rule. and
the corruption and abuses that follow
ed upon vicious and oppressive gov
eminent. 1t was probably the study
or the past in India. that led him to
write SO polntedly, so justly of the de-
Hc)enceS OF the Indian Judiciary His
remarks have a wider application For
instance, he writes: Nobody de-
niands from party the unbendng
equity of a judge. The reason that
judges are appointed is, that even a
good man cannot be trusted to decide
a case in which he is himself concern
ed Not day passes on which an
honest prosecutor does not ask for
what none but a dishonest tribunal
would grant" When honor and JUS
tice and morality are showed aside.
and the f1OOd-gateS of vice are opened
there rushes in all manner of barbarity
and because of it wrong doing, and dis
SOluteneSS and raScality are regnant
The time has been, as history shows
in most convincing statement, when
1.-The infidel, and the hereto, were to
be run down like a mad dog" when
mo outrage committed by the Catholic
warrior on the miScreant enemy could
deserve punishment" Gord Macau-
lay.) The most corrupt, then took a
hand-rOgueS, ravSherS, plundererS,
enthusiasts, "a vast mass of ighoble
depravity.' So it was in France. so it
was in Germany, Austria Italy and
even England-M Morality, pure religion
enlightened and earnest, loyalty to
God and the church and the human
family, are absolutely essential if there
are to continue just and humane codes,
chastity and sincerity, high integrity,
exalted manhood, sobriety, honesty
and sacred cause of liberty. The illus
triouS Calhoun once asked when sur
veying the loss of virtue and patriot
ism and the incoming of subserviency
But where is the example to be
found of a degenerate, corrupt and
subservient people who have recovered
their virtue and patriotism when once
lost?"
DR.. Henry w. Elson is a Northern
man, and has published a new text
book of American History, and which
is praised highly as the best of it's
class by the New York Saturday Re-
view" Judging by the review of it
there is real merit in the work, and it
is based upon original sources, and
upon Bancroft, McMaster and Rhodes.
He should have closely read what
Lecky tells in the sixth volume of his
mastery History of England in the
Eighteenth Century" He might have
been profited and helped as an indie
pendent investigator and historic
H. 4; leo
TreVelyans two volumes on the Col
onial period. 1 am disposed to attri-
butte merit to DR.. Elson's work by an
extract l take from the Saturday Re-
view as follows:
'1n their treatment of Lincoln many
historians, of whom Nicolay and Hay
are conspicuous examples, have been
troubled with what Macaulay called
Lues Bosweliana.' the disease of ador-
alton. DR.. Elson, while recognizing
Lincoln's greatness, believes that the
Administration was at times seriously
at fault, especially in it's treatment of
General Mcclellan. Why the latter
was removed after Antietam, the his
tcrian has no power to determine.
The Democratic opposition in the
North during the war is not de-
nounced as is usually the case in his
tories written in the North. DR.. ElSon
=
work of Rhodes. More harm than
good, he says, came of the suspend
| ing of the writ of habeaS corpus 9th
| er observations unusual from a North
ern man are that Grant was no match
| for Lee as a strategist, and that Thad-
| deus Stevens and his colleagues dis
played an utter want of magnanimity'
| in their plans for reconstruction"
That reads like there is some com
L,
among some few in a million of peo-
pie. John p. Ropes would have given
the country a. fair and veracious his
tory of the great war if he had lived.
He had begun the writing of a work
of the kind when he died, much to
my own regret and the loss of the
country at large. He was indeed an
historic inquirer who loved truth and
sought it diligently like Lecky. His
ca pital stout volume on Waterloo" is
evidence to show his ability, patient
investigation, general fairness and
resolution to do right There was a
Western journalist of much distinc-
ton, Don Piatt, now gone beyond this
"Sad vale of tears" who knew how to
be candid, bold, honest, truthful. He
gave the country a memorable article
in which he discussed certain North
ern idols, made out of clay for the
1,
some others. I kept his opinions for
years, but searching for them to use
here | could not find them. Ropes,
Piatt and Elson are writer's to be
trusted, it seems, if you wish the truth
told. But how many people really
love the truth, and search for it hon
estly, inquiringly, earnestly? Most
PEOPLE are one-sided and ridden by
ignorance and prejudice.
A gentleman wrote to me to know
of the birthplace of Americas most
gifted, greatest poet, Edgar Allen Poe
He was born i'm Boston, Mass. His
mother was an English actress, and
was filling an engagement in the chief
Yankee city when she gave birth to
the supreme genius of the American
continent. His father was native of
Maryland, and was connected with not
only his own excellent family but had
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