We do not often sympathize with Mr. Beresford Hope, but
the .severe moral condemnation cast upon him by that great moral
" Historicus," for applying the subscriptions he had received for General " Stonewall " Jackson's statue to their legitimate -object, does seem to us, we confess, an obsolete piece of pompous claptrap. "Historicus" calls this proceeding of Mr. Beresford Hope's "awakening the terrible recollection of sleeping resentments," and 4‘ conjuring up the ghosts of buried animosities," which is beautiful language, but not excellent sense. We, at least, were pretty strongly Northern throughout the war, and have no political weakness at all for General Stonewall Jackson's side of the quarrel. But surely by this time people of moderate sense on both. sides of the Atlantic and on both sides of the Potomac must be well aware that Lee, Jackson, and Johnston were military figures of great prominence -and note, no leas than Sherman, Grant, and Sheridan ; and that it cannot be undesirable even for the future historians of the North to have the figure of any of them, now gone, recovered as soon as possible from oblivion. The spite of the world is very small, but who, whether Northern or Southern, except " Historicus," would think that the adequate artistic representation of any of the great historical figures of the war was likely to "conjure up the ghosts of buried animosities?" The truth is, " Historicus" had got the rebuke in his mouth rolling about in nice, pompous words, and had not the heart to inquire into its common-sense.
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