Show f THE CHRONICLE I t The Chronicle has but followed the course of all thing human and has gone to thegrave It is the destiny of the I race and all that the race shall do and we shall also go the same way sooner or later but we prefer that it be later rather I I than sooner But whatever may have been the worth of the Chroniclet it cannot can-not be charged against that paper that it had no welldefined course for it had I That course was ultraKepublican and its motto was Down with all that is not ultraRepublican It was a journal of the present with ideas of the past and had it continued in existence for a thousand yea is it would always have been fighting over again the issues I that were settled forever twenty years In fact its loveior ago for war times was as keen as Uncle Tobys love for the campaigns cam-paigns of Flanders but the Chronicles love of old and bloody war3 was not tempered f tem-pered by that sweet and Christian spirit which has made of Uncle Toby household house-hold idol It was as difficult for the Chronicle Chron-icle to see any good in anything which was not in perfect unison with its ideas as it i is for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and we are informed on good authority that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter that country So far as we remember the feat of a camel passing pass-ing through the eye of a needle has never been successfully 1 performed Heine ays that this is the first great question to be Solved before seeing whether anything can be done to save the rich But with all its faults the Chronicle fought its fight well and when at last it died it died with its colors nailed to the mast Probably the praise which will go down to the posterity 4hn4 11 u I L n111 rememlJer H will > e that which Dr Johnson gave his friend Dr Bathurst Dear Bathurst was a man to my very hearts content he hated a fool and he hated a rogue and he hated a whighe was a very good hater |