Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1836-10-19

urday. The subject of il is Armand Carrel,
the late editor of the National His death
has caused considerable excitement in Eu-
rope. His writings it is said, were the main
cause of the revolution of the three days in
1880. He fell in duel with the editor of
a paper called the 'Presse.'
Carrel had great hatred of violence
though he'looked upon animal courage as
indispensable to public man, and to the |
chief of a party-Carrel was no regcide
he hated scaffolds-bloodshed the
substitution. of the courage of the hands,
for the progress Of reason and the influence
of truth. fCarre fought duels, he was no
duellis:; but he falsely imagined his posi-
ton required it.
"Imteciles that they are" remember to
have heard him exclaim, when speaking OF
certain anarchists, who imagined that the
cause of the republic was to be served by
force and violence.
Carrel was n gentleman! His manners
were most finished. He entered the room
not as swaggerer, but as statesman, and
was uniformly well dressed, kept good
table, rode on horseback nearly every day
and associated with the best society. He
was as free from vulgarty, as he was from
| pride or ostentation.
| Carrel had undertaken to write the life
Of NAPOLEON. If he had lived to conn.,
pete it, all other histories of that great
man would have been laid aside, and G.
ven the decline and fall of the Roman
Empire, by GIBBoN, would not have ex-
celled it.
Carrel was great orator, as well as
writer. These qualifications are seldom
combined. In conversation, he was as
eloquent as Coleridge. AT the tribune he
was as nervous as Brougham, and as to
his writings, Chateaubriand has not hest
tated to place him on an equal rank with
the first writer's of the last and present
century.
The DUEL in which Carrel was engaged,
and which terminated in his death, was lit
tie better than murder on the one hand, and
suicide on the o.ner. That man, Girardin
had no more right to fight with Carrel, a
bout the trumpery affair, the mere CONNER
cial speculation, than the most obscure
merchants clerk would have the right to
demand satisfaction of GEN. JACKSON
Carrel acted in circumstances without being
convinced of the proprety Of his conduct.
He therefore anticipate | death, and made
his will On the day prior to the duel, one
of his most intimate friends breakfasted with
MIN he was as cheerful and affectionate
as ever, but he said not a word as to the e.
vent Of the next day. 1t is thought that he
disapproved himself of the step lie was a.
bout to take; yet he knew not how, with
honor and propriety, to retract his engage
ment.
1t is high time that the subject of Duel
ling should be taken up in France. 1t is
high time that these civilized & murders
should be put stop to! 1t is really infa-
nous for an enlightened and great people,
as are the French, to allow themselves to
be the dupes of the most wretched system
of butchery ever invented by the devil or
his angels. Here was a philosopher; a
statesman; great public writer; patriot /;
a lover Of his species; faithful and devo-
ted friend; a COOL master; an impartial,
upright, honest, conscientious citizen; the
pride of the young and the hope of the a.
ged, called out in wood in the neiglbor-
hood Of Paris, (the Bots de Vincennes)-
and there wounded MORALLY, by man
named Girardin !! And for whatl For
sumo noble cause, to ensure the triumph OF
liberty and truth? No such thing. But
M. Girardin, an obscure individual, who
has set up new commercial speculation
cheap Journal; considers himself offended
by an article in the Natonal-nsults M.
Carrel-threaten to publish biography
and EXPOSE him and thus urges on duel
with man whose shoes he was not wor-
thy to blacken. Thus France and Europe,
and the world-thus literature, and the
cause of liberty and truth, are TO be depri-
we'd of a wise, noble, great e. glorious being
because mere speculator in Journals cries
for blood!
The FUNERAL Of Armand Carrel, oil
course attended. There we're about TEN
THOUSAND MoURNERs ;-and should say
that half Of them even shed tears.-CHA.
TEUBRIANDl stood near.-He was too much
affected to speak. The poet of the people
BERANGER, wept like an infant! and the
kind and generous hearted THIBEAUDEAN,
the associate and friend of Carrel. was So
overcome by grief that he could give utter
ance to few eloquent words Of sorrow
and regret. my dear Carrel,' he said,
shall never see you more 7 and thought
his heart would burst as he put the ques.
ton to HIMSELF for the dead could not reply
to his sad interrogation.
The remains Of Carrel were Inferred for
the time being at the village cemetery OF
Sainte Maude-but the city of Rouen,
which gave him birth only 35 years ago,
has claimed his ashes land DAVID has
engaged to present the birth place Of his
departed. friend, a marble, but almost
speaking bust, from his own immortal CHI
sci.
Aud tbs thus that the brightest and best
depart, IT'S thus that the hope and expec-
tation of politicians and statesman-patri.