The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1914-02-06

% what might have been" II Cron n
veil had not consented to tn F IL,
~ Charles; | believe it is Macauisy
ODD later Hallam who think lI5
a iioa- Course would have been to noiG
C ca a state prisoner; but II ne i hau
Zen en- held plots and counteiT-PTI1I!s
pe I'D have constantly followed. ms
~ ~ subject s is ably treated by Ma
IT. in his review of Hallam,s Con
st;tntionaI History. He says we we
detest the character OF Ohall es.
had lost the confidence OF every parry
Churchmen, Catholics, PresDyte!i ialiS'
Gndenendents, his enemies, his trlehdS;
he tools, English, Scotch, lrlsh' all
d;yisions and Subdivisions OF his Peo-
oie had been deceived by HIM. one
tbirg and one alone, could make e
Charles dangerous-a violent deatn'
Rut his death "at once transferred inc
allegiance of every Royallst to an IN
heir and an heir who was at llDerty'
and as soon as he was executed every
lover of monarchy in genera! straight,,
wav forgot all of Charles faults ana
mannifed his virtues, who good man
privately, although false as king, ana
fhe nobleness which he showed in
death caused much reaction IN favor
of royalty. 80, Co1,
in his inmost heart favored the death
of the king; if he did that was his. one
weak point as statesman. FerhaPS
it is not strange that public opinion
turned so strongly against him; but
how purile it was to dig up his body
and impale his skull on lance; and
if one wishes to know how multltudeS
of Englishmen felt towards Cromwelfs
memory in the years following the be-
smirching OF his memory in the reign
of Charles II, he has only to read
the wonderful "Pepys Diary man
who was in those years in Govern
ment employ, but down in his heart
had true Englishman's reverence
for "Oliver;" and Macauley sums up
his discussion OF the Lord Protector
by this conclusion: Cromwell was
emphatically man."
1t took almost two hundred years
for the English to diveSt themselves
of royalist prejudice and consider
Cromwell in his true light. Hallen
puts him on his true pedestal with
Macauley, and since their day he is
ly considered. He was Ole of the
greatest of Englishmen; have no
doubt that if he had desired he could
have led his victorious army across
the Channel into France, and to do
so would have aroused the latent
hatred of the people OF the Briaish
Isles, and led many to join his stan
dard who led aloof from him in Eng
land; but Oliver was not eaten up
W tn military glory; he began his war
fare to protect the liberties of the peo-
pie, and uphold law; he had no am
bition for conquest; his was the same
spirit as that OF Washington And
there is no doubt that those English
men who, twenty short years after
divers death, excluded James II
from the throne did so because of the
sentiments which Cromwell had |
taught, and which were become a part
of the English mind, however much |
they denounced their author; prob
ably they would not have owned it,
but have been Mortified at the sug-
geStion
Once in 1886 spent an evening with
the senior Bishop of the P f. church
in our country, who had recently re-
turned from a great Convocation in
England; telling Of impressions he had
received, among others was this: that
the spirit of democracy had penetrat-
ed all ranks of English society, and
that it would never do for another
English ruler to try to play king
as Charles |, James II and George Ill
had attempted. | think so, too
OBSERVER.