The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-10-22

marched on with majestic courage
| from one conflict to another, know
ing that they were fighting for God
, and liberty
Bancroft did not like Palmerston
He, as prime minister, had treated
| with scorn the request of the govern
ment to maintain the rules the Eng
fish government had laid down 10
govern neutral nations; treated our
Union as already destroyed and jeer-
ed at our governments efforts to put
down the rebellion. Like Russell,
Gladstone and the others. he wanted
to see our republic split into frag-
ments. 1t may be interesting to
close this by giving Bancroft's COM
parison of the characters of Lincoln
and Palmerston:
Hardly had the late president been
consigned to the grave when the
prime minister OF England died, full
of years and honors. Palmerston
traced his lineage to the time Of the
Conqueror; Lincoln went back only
to his grandfather.
Palmerston received his education
/ from the best scholars Of Harrow, Ed
inburgh and Cambridge; Lincoln's
early teachers were the silent forest,
the prairie, the river and the stars.
Palmerston was In public life for
sixty years; Lincoln for not tenth
of that time. Pedmerston was
skillful guide of an established arls-
tocracy; Lincoln a leader, or rather
companion of the people. Palmer
ston was exclusively an Englishman
and made his boast In the house OF
commons that the interest of England
was his shibboleth; Lincoln thought
always Of mankind as we'll as his
own country, and served human ma
ture itself. Palmerston, from his
narrowness as an Englishman, did
not endear his country. to any one
court or to any one nation, but rather
caused general uneasiness and dis
like; Lincoln left America more be-
loved by all the peoples of Europe.
Palmerston was self-possessed and
adroit in reconciiing the conflicting
factions of the aristOcracy; Lincoln,
frank and ingenious, knew how to
pOise himself on the ever moving
opinions Of the masses. Palmerston
was capable OF insolence toward the
weak, quick to the sense Of honor,
not heedful Of right; Lincoln reject
ed counsel given only as matter Of
policy. and was not capable Of being
willfully unjust. Palmerston. essen
TALLY superficial. delighted In banter
and knew how to divert grave opposi-
ton by playful levity; Lincoln was
man Of INFINITE Jest on his lips. with
saddest earnestness at his heart.
Palmerston YVES fair representative
of the aristocratic liberality Of his
day, choosing for his tribunal not
the conscience of humanity, but the
house OF commons; Lincoln took to
heart the eternal truths OF liberty.
obeyed them as the commands Of
Providence and accepted the human
race as the Judge Of his fidelity.
Palmerston did nothing that win
endure; Lincoln finished a work
which all time cannot overthrow.
Palmerston Is shining example OF
the ablest of a cultivated aristocracy;
Lincoln is the genuine fruit of institu
tons where the laboring man shares
and assists to form the great ideas
of his country. Palmerston was
buried In Westminster Abbey by the |,
order of his queen, and was attended
by the British aristocracy to his
grave, which. after few years, will
hardly be noticed by the side Of the |
graves of Fox and Chatham; Lincoln |
was followed by the sorrow OF his
country across the continent to its |
resting place In the heart OF the Mis-
sissippi valley to be remembered thru
all time by his countrymen and all
the peoples OF the world"