| Show cromwell william III ili and wash ington guilot the tha well known french statesman and historian has published a work which has bag recently been published in england on the causes of ho the success of the english and american revolution in lu one of the recent london papers we find tile the following extract giving portraits of the leading men of three revolutions three great men cromwell cromwel william III lil and washington remain in history as the leaders and representatives of those critical occurrences which decided the fate of the two great nations for ex tent and energy of natural talents cromwell is perhaps the most remarkable of th the ethree three his hia mind was remarkably prompt firm supple inventive and perspicacious he possessed a vi vior vigor 11 or of character which no obstacle could discourage c urage arage and no conflict could tire lire he pursued his plans with an ardor as inexhaustible as his patience traveling sometimes by the tha longest arid and most circuitous roads sometimes by the shortest and most precipitous pati ile he excelled equally in gaining and ruling men in in personal and arid familiar intercourse and he was equally skilled in or vancil nul nui Dg aird and conduct conducting in an army or a party I 1 ile he had the instinct of popularity gift of authority and antl lie he was able with tile the same boldness neis to let loose or quell factions but born in the midst of a revolution and carried by successive convulsions on to supreme power liis his gerdus was by nature and always remained essential revolutionary he had bad learned to understand the necessity of order and government but he lie waa was unable elther either to respect or practice moral and permanent laws in consequence of the defectiveness ti veness of it hla hia is nature or the vi ess of liis bis situation wanted regularity and serenity in the exercise oi of power had immediate recourse to a exi measures like a man continually by mortal dangers llad bad perpetrated or aggravated the violence of his ilia remedies lle ile lie the violent evils that he wished to cure the formation of a government in a task that requires proceedings prece edings of a more regular character and m more ore in conformity with the eternal laws of moral order cromwell was able to subdue the revolution that he had made but lie he could not succeed in a establishing it less powerful perhaps than cromwell by natural gifts william III ili and Wa ton succeeded in tila tha enterprise in which lie he failed they fixed the destiny and established the government of their country this may be accounted for tor by the hie fact that oven in the midst of a revolution they never accepted nor practised practise tt a revolutionary policy they never were placed in the fatal situation of having at first anarchical violence as a stepping and then despotic xi lo olence lence as a necessity of their power they found themselves at the tile very outset in the regular way and under permanent conditions of government I 1 william was an ambitious prince it is pue u e rile jile to believe that until the appeal was mat may made maje to t 0 him in 1688 lie he had llad remained free from all desire of ascending the throne of england and ignorant of the schemes which had bad long been oil on toot for raising him to it william followed step by step tile the progress of the scene without taking any i part anit but without discountenancing it giving in its is author no encouragement but affording them th all the protection in liis his power his ambition had also the characteristic of being assoria I 1 1 ted led with the triumph of a great and just baue cau e tile the cabie cause of religious liberty and the he european balance of power no man ever made milde a great poll political design more thoroughly the idea and exclusive object of his life than williamn did he was devoted to the work which lie he was accomplishing and lie he considered his own agaran as merely a means of that end in his designs r upon tile the crown of england lie he didiot did not attempt to succeed by violence or disorder his mind was too lofty and too well regulate regulated d to b be e ignorant of the incurable viciousness of buch such success and to submit to its yoke but when tila ilia he career was opened to liim by england herself her ber belr seir lie he gave no more heed beed to the scruples of the private individual in lie he was anxious hat that his cause should triumph and that lie he should receive re elve eive the honor of the triumph A glorious mixture of ability and faith of ambition and devotedness washington washinton had no ambition ilis his country couf itry had need for him lie he became great geat to serve her from duty rather than from choice and sometimes even with a painful eltoft his ilia experiences of public ilfe life were bitter and be preferred the independence pen dence of private life ilfe lifland and the repose of he tile nind mind to the exer exercise else of power but lie unhesitatingly ta a tingly accepted the task imposed upon him by his country and in performing it he lie allowed no concessions to be made either toward his country or himself for the purpose of lightening its burden boi bol bom n to govern though he took no llo pleasure eleasure in it lie he told the american people what he e thought was the truth and maintained in governing them what lie he thought was wise with a simple but lint immovable firmness and a sacrifice of popularity which was all the more meri merl meritorious merito rou because it waa was riot not compensated by the joys of dominion tire tha servant of a nascent republic in which the democratic spirit prevailed he lie obtained its confidence and secured 2 its iti triumph by that modest and severe reserved and independent policy ola AIX seems only to belong to lo the tire leader of an aristocratic senate placed at the head bead of all an ancient state his success was 1 remarkable emar kable kabie and anti does equal honor to washington and to his country |
