Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-11-15

is no more, nigh feel some regret-some na's
pain.-that the cause which we peheVe ."e
was not honored BY MS advocacy; out ""e" We
reflect or, the ~ NJ ind uence of his works. we are
satisfied thew nave been directed to the non'es'
ends, and have embraced the iargeste"c'e " "u.
man interests. We do not speak OF INC ov''s''
ha has noured forth over the ear'h-Hi the ione-
" hours he has charmed --of me sau oea''s nc
has besu,ied-of the beauty and the "us'c "h'c"
he has summoned to world "here a'' "'."''
and none repuse: this ,ndeed. IS so'ne'n,"s--"'S'
indeed, is a moral-'h's, indeea' "as 's'" 70. 20
n.f. to mankind And this is a new corrooo.
rant of one amuns the nobest ut Intelie, tuai
truths. that The books which please, are
always books that, in one sense, beneh'; anu
that The work which is largely and permanently
pnpular ~ hich sways. moaids, and so'tens the
universal heart-cannot appeal to vulgar ahu un-
worthy passions; isnch appeals are never whf'y
ar LONG ,riumphantH the delig int it occasions IS
proof Of the moral it inspires
But this power to charm and to begu'ie Is not
that moral excellence to which we reit.. o'"tt
has been tHe first great genius F'e'dins a'""e
eycepted-who invited our thorough ana uhcoh-
descending sympathy to the w'de mass OF 'he he'
man fsmily-who has stricken Tor III 'n's at"h'
cial wo, I'd il requires All etort into our hear's
love AM, respect fer those chosen from the Peo'
mai g the follies of the mub with strong ana
unfriend!y hand Where, in Shakespeare, IS
there Jeanne Deans? Take up which you VIII
of those numerous works which have appeared,
froia :. Waverly" to the "Chronicle of the Ca.
nongate, ''-open where you please. YOU WI hnd
portraits fran the peope-and YOUR interest Keep
ing watch beside the poor mans hearth. Not
in Scott, as they were IN the dramaiIs's Of our
language, are the peasant, ar,ihcer. the farmer
dragged on the stage merely to be laughed at Tor
their brusue, aud made to seem ridiculous because
thew are useful
lie paints Them il is true. in their natural Ian
guage, but the language is subserv'ent I" the cha
ractpr; he does not bow the man TO the phrase,
but the phrase to the man Neither does he Hat
ter on the one hand, a. he does not slight on the
other. Unlike The m0udlin pastora'ists VI France.
he contents himself with the simple truth-he
contrasts the dark shadows oil Meg Merrilles, or
of Ede Ochiitree, with the holy and pure lights
that redeem and sanctiiy them--he gives Us The
poor, even to the eipsey and the besgar, rs they
really are-contented, if our interest Is excited.
and knowing that nature is sufficient TO excteit,
From the palaces OF Kingston the tents ct
warriors, he comes.-equatly at home with man
in all aspects-Io the cotter's hrarth;-he bas
us turn from the pomp of the Piantagenets To
bow the knee to the poor Jews dauIhier-he
makes US scken at the hollow ness OF the royal
Rothsay, to sympathizc with the honest love OF
Hugh the smith No, never was there one -no'
even Bofns himself who tarced US more inu.
mate;y to acknowledge, or more deeply to fee',
that
"The rank is bu! the guinea stamp,
The man's the gowa. for = that"
And ia this being, Ia whom intellect taught
philauthr.py. to be judged b, ordinary rulr.f a'e
we to nuaue aud mete his capacities OF good, by
the common measure We apply To common men'
No! there was III him aarge aud Catholic
sy mpa,hy with all classes, all ,empers. all cond-
lions of men; and this u vas redeemed his noble
works from all the aint a. party, and all the lea
ven ~ scctariani>n; tins u was that made him,
il the Tory ia principle, the all embracing lead.
er IN practice Compare with what ne has
done for the people, IN painting the people,-the
wo. Ks Of poets called Liberal by the docfriaaires
compare the writings Of S, oft with those OF
B,ron-whch have really tended the most to
bin,l us to the puor?-'rhe first has touched the
homely string, of our real hrart--the other has
written fn. vague stanzas about freedom. LIZ.
| ra. the Corsair. Chide 'larod, Don Juan. these
are the NO ks--wp will not say Of the m'santhrope
at least of the arstocrat. Are Scott so!--
Yet Byron was a Liberal. and Scott Tory
Alas. The sympathy with humanity Ia true repub-
licanism of writer Of fiction L'beral aud Tory
are words which signify nothing ut the sphere
of the politics oil the day Nho snail We select
from the libt al pnet> OF our age who has bound
! US to the people. like Scott-sheley, with his
| metaphv steal reiin,nss? Moore. with his elab'.
rate hor,dity of patr,otisme NJ. We feel at once
that nature taught Scott mare oi friendship with
all mankiud. than the philosophy ct the one or
the fancy OF the other O1t Of print, Scott
might belong TO a party-in Punt, mankind be.
! longed to HIM. Toryisn. which is another name
| Tor the spirit Of monopoly. torsook him at that
point where his inquiries into human nature be
gan.
He is not, then. we apprehend, justly liable to
the charge of wanting sound mnrai--eyen a
great political rnoral-(and political morals are
the greatest of attl-n the general tenor ut works
which have compelled the highest classes 10 ex-
anime and respect the lowest In this. with far
less learning far less abstract pu osophy, than
Fielding he Is nniy excee,l7d by him in one
charactcr-(and that, indeed, the most admlra.
BILE a English 6ction)-the character OF Parson
Adams. Jeanne Deans is worth thousand such
as Fanny Andrews, Fielding, LIE Sage. and