The native American., 1838-03-24
PERSONAL DESCRIPTION OF
ARMAND CARREL,
THE REPUBLICAN EDITOR OF FRANCE.

THE REPUBLICAN EDITOR OF FRANCE.
| We would with pleasure lend our columns t
prove the high tone of liberty.
| Carrel was of middle height, slightly made, ant
very graceful. Like all persons of really fine ia
culhes, he carried those faculties with him into
the smallest things; and did not distan to excel
being qualified to do so, i'll those things which are
great only to little men. Even in the details o
personal equipments, his taste was watched for
and followed by the amateurs of such matters.
He was fond of all bodily exercises, and had
says M. Nisard, I'm peu de tous les gouts Uifs,
more less Of all strong and natural inclinations
as might be expected from his large and vigorous
humannature, the foundation of strength of will
and which combined with intellectand with good
ness, constitutes greatness. He was human
being complete at all points, not fraction ol
frustum of one.
ssThe distinctive feature Of his character =
| says M. Nisard, 'swas his unbounded generosity
| In whatever sense we understand that word the
vagueness of which is its beauty; whether il
mean the impulse of man who devotcs himself
or merely pecuniary liberality, the life of Carre
gives occasion for applying it in all its meanings
All the actions of his public life are marked will
the former kind of generosity. His errors were
generally acts of generosity ill-calculated. AS
| of better sort. Carrel could neither refuse
nor give little. do not diminish the merit of his
generosity, by saying that there was in it Ger
tain improvidence, which was but his confidence
| in the future. He drew upon the future to meet
the demands of his liberaity. Exposed by his
lpositon to incessant applications, he often had
recourse to the purses of his friends to relieve
sufferings, perhapsn not of the most authentic kind
and ran into debt to give aims There are sto-
ries told of him like those told of Goldsmith, OF
any other person of thoughess generosity. NJ
Nisard tells of his pawning his watch to relieve
a person not in extreme necessity, and of his ia
king the cloth off his horse on winter evening
| to throw 1t over poor man whom he saw in
the streets, shivering with cold. As is often the
case with persons of strong impulses, he was of a
careless character when not under excitement and
his natention sometimes caused inconvenience to
himself, and made him give unntentional offence
| to others. But on occasions which called into
action his strong will, he had the eye of an ca
gle: 81 he seized with glance, as on field OF
battle, the whole farrain on which he was placed;
and astonished above all by the sureness of the
instinct with which he OWNED the significance Of
small things. Small things" continues M Littre
ssare those which the vulgar do not perceive; bu
when such things have produced serious effects
pause, quite disconnected, before the irrevocablt
event which might so easily have been prevent
ed" Carrel was never reduced to say s.who'c
have thought it." Everybody" says M. Littre
'thinks Of great things; superior minds alone tax,
proper account of small ones"
i His conversation, especially on political sub
jects, M. Nisard comparing him with the bes
conversers in country where the art of conver
sation is more cultivated than IT'S here, declare
to be the most perfect he ever heard: and we ca,
add our testimony to his, that Carrel's writings i,
the National seemed but the continuation of hi
conversation. He was fond Of showing that Ii,