Year: 1865

Giving tn6 Wuoio bauAsaiy AnsoA0oS Va WIG OAy
into the hands Of men Of special edu cation d
ono Of the vital points Of the measure, and one
that its friends ought 10 adhere to very tena-
ciously.


The Two Great Rcbeliions-The Cavaliers


and PurItans OF Eng nd and the United


States.


In the whole range Of historical parallels
there is no resemblance more striking than that
between the present war In this country and
the civil war called in English history "The
Great Rebellion" Between these two stru ggles
the especial points Of resemblance are that
they were wars Of almost inevitable occurrence,
due to necessary contests between prin ciples-
between opposed and antagonistic forces in the
lives Of the respective nations; that the parties
to each struggle came into collision under sub
stantially the same circumstances, that the
struggle was carried on in the same way, and
that the same party, after suffering the same
vicissitudes, was successful in either war. There
was in the English war an ultimate result, for
which the period has not yet arrived in our
struggle, but which there is some indication
will be finally brought about


England was not divided by any line drawn
between sections Of the country, but it was
divided quite as effectually by an imaginary
line drawn between classes Of the people. On
the one side Of that line there was as in our own
case, an arrogant assumption Of privileges in
consistent with the rights Of those on tho other
side the line, and an imperious determination
to 60 to extremes in the support Of institutions
that 1t was the tendency Of the times to unset
tie, and even throw down. Years Of dispute,
tho growth of intelligence, the spread of
natural and right ideas, had all done their
share to sap the foundation Of those insti-
tutons, and to call in continual question tho
propriesy Of those privileges; but the men who
wero interested in the continuance Of both
were proud, brave and reckless race, igno-
rant and meddlesome, not believing in progress,
swapping their fingers at all question of rights
except the rights they themselves held by an
cient tradition, and believing also that at the
las. the sword could give happy solution Of
all troubles, that it could outshine all el0-
quence and answer all argument, and that no
one could WELD 1t but he who had been born
in the ideas they held-who was gentleman's
son, or who believed that o gentleman's son
ought naturally to crush under his heel all
other men with whom he came in contact


On the other side the line were people,
growing every day more impatient Of this inso-
lent arrogance of class; slowly coming into q
conviction, by and by to have the weight and
force Of law, that these privileges, institutions,
immunities, were real wrongs, were enjoyed
unjustly at the expense Of others, belonged to
the past, and should be buried with It, and
have no existence in the present This people
was made up Of the active and earnest men OF
nation, its farmers, artizans and shopkeepers;
its soldiers, sailors, students and preachers Not
less brave than the others, they were in many
respects more intelligent; and though they
were inferior in certain OF the graces OF
lie-awkward, clumsy and impractical-they
more than balanced those defects by great
ness Of spirit that the others never knew; by q
tenacity and earnestness Of purpose that tri.
umphed over all difficulties; by an intellectual
and moral power that bore down the trivial
and frippery exsellences, the dash, spirit and
hurrah Of the others, as q massive iron cannon
shot would bear down an equal volume of
japanese jewelry.


Here were the two sides, on one or the other
of which the events Of English history and the
power Of opinion had forced every real man In
England to take his place-which were mar
shalled opposite to one another on all points Of
any consequence, and between which the clash
must inevitably come. Our positions in this
country, North and South, were the same, the
reasons Of the positions were the same, as also
were the purposes in view. Though the names
are different, the ideas are Identical through
out In 1910 an English Parliament sat that
was evidently the ultimatum Of the English
people. 1t was the first administration that
would not compromise and give up the inte-
rests and honor Of the people to the weak, mean
and miserable party. Hence that party saw
that the time for browbeating parlianients was
passed, and that there was no longer anything
for it but to fight. Swords had been crossed
even earlier than this; but now the combat
began really to rage. Analogous to
that administration was the election of Mr.,
Lincoln in our own case. And the result was
the same II is needless to follow the parallel
in particulars. The real point is that the peo-
pie, fighting for the present against the past
for progress and enlarged liberty is victorious
in both wars. Despite the blunders that seemed
to well nigh ruin their cause in the commence.
ment Of either struggle-cespite the fitness Of
the other side for war by all the qualities of 1T
nature, the perseverance, the sublime patience
and persistency Of the people carry them
through to a triumphant issue.


But the rest is not 30 pleasant to contem.
plate. 1t is however, the part that should serve
as grand lesson for US to avoid that which
brought II about The people Of Engand-the
real men Of the nation, under the guidance Of
their Puritan leaders-had thrown down the