The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-02-02


This is the conclusion Of Mr. Carlye's article in
the last Westminster Review
such is the drama of life, seen in BaillIe Of XII
winning; a thing of multifarlou5 tragic and eplc
meaning then as now A many voiced traIely and
epos yet with broad based comic and grotesque &C
COMPARTMENT done by actors not in buskns ever re-
pete with elements of guilt and remorse OF pity m
s,ructiop and fear ltis now two hundred y,ais and
odd months since these Commons members, shoutlng
Withdraw Withdraw" took away the life OF In q
mas Wentworth Earl of Stafford and Introduced
,riven by necessity they knew little WHITTIER, h3rud
rebellion, the phrase went, and suicidal wars INTO
the bowels of this country. On our horizon, too,
there loom now inevitablties no less stern one knows
not sometimes whether not very near at hand lhty
had the divine right of Kings 10 settle those untHfu
nate ancestors OF ours: Shall Charles Stewart 9nt
William Laud alone have soul and conscience IN -
nation under extant circumstances; or shall others
too have il That had come now to require settle
ment that same "divine right" and they our brave
ancestors like true stawart hearts did on hest OF ne
cessity manage to settle it, by cutting of ITS head, II
no otherwise.
=. Alas we their children, have got perhaps still
harder thing to settle the Divine Right OF Squres
Did God make this land of Britain, and give II 70
us all that might live there by honest labor or
did the Saures make it, and-shut to the voice OF
any God open only to Devils voice in this mat
ter-decide giving it to themselves alone m
This is the sad question and DIVINE rlghl
we in this unfortunate century, have got to settle
yer be an end the best settlement Is but a tempo
rarv partial one Truly, all manner Of rights, and
ad justmens of work and wages, here below, do
verge gradually into error, into unbearabe error
as the tme-food bears onward and many iigM
which used to be duty alone, and dirine enough,
turns out, in latitude of the Time-yoyage to
have grown altogether undivne Turns out
when the fatal hour and necessity for overhaul-
ing it arrives-to have been, for some considerable
while past, insanity, a conventonay, hollow
simulacIum Of use-and- wont; which if ii will stll
assert itself as a divine right" having now no dt
vine duty to do, becomes diabolic wrong; and, by
soft means or by sharp has to be sent travelling oui
of this world! Alas, 'intoerabillties do now again
/ in this century "cry to Heaven or worse d"
not cry, but in low wide spread moan lie as petl,lng
as if IN heaven there was no ear for then, an1 m
earth no ear "Eevenpence haltpenhy a-"eek IN
this world and in the next world zero And Sliding
scales, and endless wrigglings and wresnsS oN'r
mere corn laws governing class hired " asFedTSj
at the tate of some fifty millions year, whoa not only
makes attempt at governing, but Will not, ny any
consideration passionate cnreaty or even menace as
vet be persuaded to eat its vctuas, shoot IT'S par
ridges and srangle out the general life hy ms
governing 1t cannot and it will not come to good
| Slisht Circumstances Sir Walter Scott walking
one day along the banks of Yarrow, where MunEj
Park was born saw the traveller throwing stones
the water, and anIously watching the bubbles thdt
succeeded Scott inquired the object OF hls occupa
ton was thinking" answered Park, chow oiten
had thus tried TO sound the rivers in Africa, by cal
culatnp how long time had elapsed before the bubbles
rose To the service 1t a slight circumstance
but the tray ellers safety frequently depended upon II
| In watch the main spring forms small portion Of
the works but it impels and governs the whole -
il is in the machinery OF human life slight clrcun
stance is permit ed by the Divine Ruler deiange
10 alter it riant falls by pebble; girl, a. the
door Of an inn, changes tie fortune of empire II
the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, said Pascal
| in his epprammatic and brilliant manner, tho cond
! ton of the world would have been different 'the
Mahommedans have traditions, that when lhclr
prophet concealed himself on Mount Shur, hls Tursu-
ers were deceived by SPIDERS web which covered
the mouth of the cave We trace the same harry n
Aucnce of slight circumstances in te history "l sc
ence Pascal was born with genius tor nalhemd-
cal discovery; no encouragement couu 'tPi'sf MS
carer passlon for scientific investigations he heard
5,n,on dinner plate rng and Immediately, wrote
,oo,,so IN sound While Calico was studying mo
lc,ne in the University of Pisa, the regular oscla-
,i,n ~ n lamp suspended from the roof OF the cahe
Al attracted his observ alton and led him to consider
he vibrations of pcnduuns keper having married.
the second time and resembling, perhaps, the Great
Flofcntlnc astronomer, in his partiay to wine deter
mined to lay in ,tlre from the Austrian vineyard
some difference, however, arose between himself and
The seller with respect TO the measurement aud ktp
Ter produced treatise which has been placed among
the earliest specimens of what is now called modern
analy sis The slight circumstance of Newton W.
serving the different retrang blty OF the raSe o lit
seen through prisn upon the wall, suggested we
achromatlc telescope and led To the prodigonN disco
, veres of astronomy. The notion Of seek oi Gu'
has been said may illustrate causes adequate 70 30
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