Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1859 — Lord John Russell on Washington. [ARTICLE]

Lord John Russell on Washington.

The first volume of the “Life mid Times of Charles J. Fox,” by lord John Russell, lias just appeared in England. The following is his Lord-ship’s tribute to Washington: “Before taking leave of the American War, a few words may he allowed on a topic where there can be but little difference of opinion. George Washington, without the genius ol Julius Ccesur or Napoleon Bonaparte, litis a tar p irer fame, as his ambition was of a higher and holier nature. Instead of seeking to raise his own name, or seize supreme power, he devoted hisXvhole talents, military and civil, to the establishment of the independence and perpetuity of the liberties of his own country. In modern history no man has done such great things without the soil of selfishness, or the stain of a groveling ambition. Caesar, Cromwell. Napoleon, attained a higher elevation, but the love ol dominion was the spur that drove them on. John Hampden, William Russel, Algernon Sydney, may have had motives as pure, and an ambition as unstained; but they fell. To George Washington, nearly alone in modern times, has it been given to accomplish a wonderful revolution, and yet to remain to all future time, the theme of a people’s gratitude, and an example of virtuous and benilieent power. why are people Tike bricks?” “Whv, kaze they'r redder when burnt.”