Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1843-08-26
CARLYLE TOUCHES.


contains, characteristic paper by |
THoNAs CARLYLE on the Life and Char |
acter Of FRANcIA (lstely deceased.l for
twenty years Dictator Of Paraguay, in
the heart Of South America. We clip |
from It the following passage:
PITY" exclaims Sauerteig once more,
shat nation cannot reform itself, as
the English are now trying 20 do,
Wy whit their newspapers call rremen-
dous cheersr Alas it canno; be done.
Reform is not Joyous but grievous; no
single man can reform himself with
stern suffering and stern working; how
much less can a nation Of men? The
serpent sheds not his old skin with
out rusty discon lsteiIess: he is not hap
py but miserablel Ia the water cure il.
self, do you not sit down for months;
washed to the heartIn elemental d rench.
ings; and, like Job, are made to curse
your dayi Reforming of,a nation is
terrible business2 Thus, too, Medea,
when she m1de Ten young again, was
won't Ida Himmel, 10 hew them in pie
ces with meat axes; cast them into cal
dTons, and boil them for length Of
time. How much handler could they
but have done it by tremendous cheers
alone.n
.'Lke drop Of surgical antseptic IL
quld, poured (by the benign Powers, as
Iancy,) into boundless brutal corrup-
lions: very sharp, very caustic. zorro
sive enough, this tawny, tyrannous DR.
Francia, in the interior Of the South A.
neriean continent, he too, is one Of the
elements OF the Phenomen on. A mon
81 taG no
monstrous glutionous boa constr iclor
the is Of length from Panama to Patago-
MAJ shedding his solid skin; whole con
ilnent getting Itself chopped to pieces,
and boiled in the Medea caldron, IN be
come young again,-unable to manage
IL by tremendous che ers' alone
"Whal they say about 'love Of power
amounts. TO little, Power? Love OF row.
er, merely to mike hunkies come an Il
20 for you is q love, should think,
which enters only into The minds Of per-
sons in a very inGantIae state. Agrown
man, like this DIR Francia, who wants
nothing, as am assured, but three CT
gars daily. cup of mate and four oun-
ces of butchers meat with brown bread I:
the whole world and its united funkes,
taking constant thought OF the matter,
can do nothing for him but that only
That he already has, aud has had al.
ways; why should he, not being a minor
love flunky power" He loves TO see
you about him, with your f1unky promp.
titudes, with your grimaces, adulaiions,
and sham loyalty? You are so beauli.
tul, daily, and hourly feast to the eve
aud sou!f lie unfortunates, from his
heart rises one prayer. That the last
created turnkey had vanished from this
universe, never to appear more.
Add yet truely man does tend; and
must under frightful penalties perpetual
~ tend, to be king of this world to stand
Ia hrs world as what he is, a centre OF
light and order, mot Of darkness and con.
fusion. A man loves power; yea, If he
sees disorder his eternal enemy rampant
about him; he does love TO see SAID enc
my in the way Of being conquered; he
can have no rest Till that comes 10 pass.
Your Mahomet cannot bear rent coat,
bat clouts it with his own hands, how
much more a rent country, a rent world
Tie has TO imprint the image Of his own
Veracity upon the world, and shall and
must, and will do it. More or less; it is
al hts peril If he neglect any great or
oHy Shoi pOSSiOblty ne may nave oil
this Francia's inner fame is bat a
meagre, blue burning one; let him IRA
date midnight Paraguay with it, such as
il is"
''Nay, on the whole, how cunning is
Nature IN getting her farms leased Is
II not blessing this Paraguay can get
the one veraciOus man il has, to take
lease Of Il in these sad circumstances?
His farm profits, aud whole wages, il
would seem, amount only to what is cal |
led Nothing and find yourself Spar.
tan food and lodging, solitude, two CT
gars, and cup OF mate daily, he already
had.''
Francia was man that liked perfor.
nance: and sham-performauce, ia Para
quay as elsewhere, was a thing too
universal. What a time Of il had this
strict man with unreal performers, i'm.
aginary workmen, public and private,
cleric and laic. Ye Guachos,-it is no
child's play, casting out those Seven De.
wis from you.
Monastlc or other entirely slumber.
Gus church establishments could expect
no favor from Francia. Such Of them
as seemed incurable, entirely slumber.
Gus, he somewhat roughly, shook awake
somewhat sternly ordered to begone,-I
leboUt canaIlle saineante ss prophet
Raynal says; DebouE aux champs, aux
aielIers. Can have you sit here, do
ming old metre through his nose; your
heart asleep IN mere gluitony, nearly 80.