The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1842-07-15

has a strong willard an active mind but
neither the mental cultivation leading 10
clear views and sound judgment, nor the
native intelligence ito supply its place..
Hence he is as often energetcally wrong
as right as often welding all his strength
against mere nonsenses, as against deep
rooted errors and abuses. One Of his mobiles
said Of him that his falling is that with great
energy and strong good will---he had not
knowledge nor sagacity-+"eB an mot, It est
|IeNoRA AMI and stupidity
His power of will is not that 6rmness OF
principle and conviction which wears the
dignity of gentleness and repose--but that
absolute, infexible persistence and purpose
which is as often puerile as majestic, so that
TO his conscientious, though i'll directed de-
sire for his peoples good, hisintense labouri.
business both mental and physical, his un-
daunted perseverance, through all obstacles,
and above all his control over nature
wherein vas originally revived and embodi-
ed all the rude violence Of his ancestors, are
opposed the degrading frivolity and extraVa-
gance Of his court-the emptiness and Vani-
ty in which he has educated his family-the
lchild's play of his military tastes-the i'm
lmense importance attached to the length of
Ia spear or the breadth Of button
As Grand Duke he was popular in no cir
Ecle, Tepelling all by the abruptness of his
manners and irrascibilityof his temper-and
mo revolution in Russia was ever more I'M
foreseen than that in the bosom of the new
monarch on his accession. His comparative
moderation can only be appreciated by those
acquainted with the real brutality of hasty
passion among the Russian nobles-but il
is a noble thing to say of him, that the
} strength of his absolute will was first exer
; cised on himself
! Alexander was in advance of his age, anC
} therefore not Russian national Nicholas
is the very type of his people. In spite o
the corruption that testers deep, while he il
: wrestling fgigantically with surface trifes
land the ragged wretchedness that exists il
the State, behind the splendid osteRtatioE
: of his courf-and the diminntlVe and skin
deep reforms resulting from his prodigioul
; efForts-it IS impossible not to prospect mo
} march who in no way spares himself He
] often astonishes the hardest soldiers by hi:
; Immense activity and endurance. Like 3
I lsecond Saul, he scars above his subjects
: $ from his shoulders upward" or like hi.
$ better and truer moral prototype Agamem
: non,
80 Maiestically tall,
Towers DER his armies, and Outshines them alp
while his strength is equally colossal HI
! lean sleep any where; eat any thing; cal
! watch and can fast; and measuring other
:. lby himself, so taxes their powers, that TIT
health of the officers about him is frequentl
!, sacrificed TO their over charlottesville In
dicroUs instances have occurred Of gentle
men apoplectically- inclined, whose live
lhaye been heightened by the anti-plethori
Requirements oe the imperial service. Wit
this frame of strength, and the utter absenc
Z of all sentiment in the mental structure
se there is no fear that the health of Nichola
. should be affected by the same circumstanc
: that undermined that of the more sensitiv
y lAlexander-whos mind OVERLOOKING wit
q the milk of human kindness was embittere
= and turned to gall, by the slow poison {
perpetual disappointment, displaying tn
= change not in bis private relations, but i
= the public acts of his last years, which wer
= marked by spirit Of great severity. By tn
rigid regulations of his army, he seemed I
revenge himself upon the wilfulness of Rui
ia lsian mankind, who had returned hun evil f
Dir good, and 1Would none of IT." Differer
lg las is the character Of Nicholas, we are tenn
lied 10 inapute 70 the same soured mutiv,
u his increasing and most senseless milital
nd mania-a mania which seems omineus, f
M ii marked the last days Of both his pred
e, cessors. The same love of exhibition th
ee characteri the nation, is no where stron
M Ter than n the person Of the Emperor. mi
ID. led, moreover. BY the very system of parac
Fts which be himself uphoids, no one is firm
believer than he--if any 50 firm, il. the ma
ne inifcent statements Of the Official estimate
sst loo tie increasing prosperity and muIlplyiI
he production 81 he empife-.one half of whic
gh II true, would preclude the necessity If n
La the possibility Of much greater advances
nc Whereas, III no department above the SCI
iHt Is industry spontaneous, and the prese
- commercial activity is part prescribe
which the nation has got byEate; founta
ar arGifcially fed, which viii cease to play
0n left to itself.
ich Power and zeal is pitiably misspent, q
ia Car giving the impulse e the tactltiO
Of system, By always attempting pFodigies,
FOR inflated with more prelension by hlssnb'
eFs dinates. The administration Of the laws
- anything but The dispensing of justice.
81 There thorough reform oVhere, but {
eI. casioha slotanly brushing ssetywhei
ae The absence of eonfdsnce work