Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-06-17
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PRESENT.

u upULn OF bFutlE,Hl StIBE IL lllGb1 GttHL lftfL
land A depth of sense, Of Justice and cout
+ age in which, under all emergencies an
! world bowildermonls, and under this mos
complex of emergencies we now live ~, tlor'
is s,ill hope, there ls still asFufante
The English arc a dumb people. They Cal
! do great acts, but not describe them. Like
the old Romans, and some few others, hei
Epic Poem is written on the esrth's surface
England, her Mark it is complained tina
they have 10 artists one Shakespeare, indeed
nothing but a Mr.. bishop not a picture, not
song. And yet they did produce one Shaks'
psafe consider how the elements of Shaks.
pearesn melody does lie imprisoned in tl,eil
nature. reduced to unfold itself in mere cotton,
mills, Constitutional Governments, and sutl
like ALI the more interesting when it does
become visible, as even in such unexpected
shapes it succeeds in doirg! Goethe spoke
Of the Horse, how impressive. almost affect.
ing 1t was that an animal of such qualities
should stand cbstructed go; its speech nothing
butan lGarticulate neighing, its hardness mere
hSotiness, the fingers all CONSTRUCTED, tied to;
gether, the finger-nails c%oagulated into a mere
hoof, shod with iron. The more significant,
thinks he, are tbqse ye-fasings of the gen
erous, noble qriadrupod; those trapcingr' Cit.
wings of the neck clothed with thunder.
A Dog of Enowledgt hap trca ,utterance,
but the War.1foles is almost mute, very far
from free! It is even I'd. Truly, your treest
utteranccs are not by any mcanH always the
best: they are the worst rather; the ieeblest,
trivialest, their meaning prompt, but small,
%eplltmerai, Commend me to the silent En-
glish, to the silent Romans. Nay, the silent
Russians too | believe to be worth something:
are they not even no@ drilling, under much
o~bloquv, an Immense semi barbarouH half
world from Finland 10 Kamtsc b%atshai into
rule, subordination. civilization teally in ai
old Roman fashion speaking 10 word about
it; quietly hearing all mann6t OF vittpeFatlve
Able Editors speak While yoIit ovcr.talk-
ing, ever-gesticulating French, fot example,,
what are they at this moment drilling May,
Of all animals, the freest of htterance, | should
Judge, is the genus Simia: 60 into the indian
woods, say all travellers, and look what a brisk.
adroit, uDrestIng Ape population it is
The spoken Word, the written Poem, is
said to be an epitomo of the man how much
more the done Work. Whatsoever Of moral
ity and of intelligence what Of patience, per-
severance, faithfulneEs, Of method, insight, in
g%enuity, energy in a word, whatsoever OF
| Strength the man had in him will lie written
in the Work he does. To work why, it ia
to try himself against Nature, and her ever
lasting, unerrIng laws these will tell a true
verdict as to The man, So much OF virtue and
of faculty did ICE find in him; so much and no
more lie had such capacity Of harmonlzIng
himself with mo and my nnalterable. ever
vo3racious laws OF cooperating and working
as I babe HIN and has prcspered, and has
not prospered as you see !-Worklng AS great
Natlire babe him does not that mean virtue
of i hind nay, of all kinds Co't5n can be
spun and Bold, L.aIicaahir6 operatives can be
got to spin it, IND at ltngti one bas the woven
webs and sells them. BY following Natures
regulations in that matter by not following
Natures regulations you lave them not.
You have them not there is 10 cotton-Web
to sell Nature finds a bill against you your
Strength is not Strength, but utility Let
faculty he honored, so far as it is faculty, A
man that ran succeed in working is TO me al
ways a man.
How one loves to tEe the bury figure Of
him, this thick skinned, seemingly opaque,
perhaps sulky, almost stupid Man Of Practice,
pitted against some light, adroit Man of Tie
DRY, all oquipt Will clear logic, and able any
where to give you why for wherefore The
adrdit Man of Theory, 20 light of ttovement,
clear of utteranco; WItk his bow iull-bent and
culver full of arrow. argumen's,-s'trcly nc
will strike down the game, tran8hx every where
the heart of the matter triumph every where,
as he proves that he shall and must do! To
your astbnishtnent, il turns out %oftenest NO
The cloudy -browed, thick-solBd; opaque prac-
~ticality, with no logic-utterance, in silence
mainly, with here ard there a low grunt or
growl, has in him what transcehds all logic
utterance a congrulty with the unuttered
The speakable, which lies atop, as a superb
cial film, or outer skin, is his or is not his
but the doablc, which tbaClieb dot"n TO the
Worlds centre, you find him there!
The rugged b~rindley has little to say for
himself; the rugged ~brindley, when difficult
ties accumulate on him, retlres silent, gene
rally TO his bed : retires sometimes for three
days together to his bed, that he may be in
perfect privacy there and ascertain in his
rough head how the difficulties may be over
come. The ln-eloquent b~rlndley, behold he has
chained seas together his ships do vlslbly
float over valleys, invislbly through the hearts
of mountains the Mersey and the Thames,
the Humber and the Severn have shaken
hands: Nature most audibly answers Yea
The man of Theory twangs his full-bent bow:
Natures fact ought to be stricken, but does
not his logic-arrow g%lances from it as from
a scaly dragon, and the obstinate fact keeps
walking it's way. How singular At bottom,
you have to grappIe closer with the dragon
take it home to you, by real faculty, not by
seeming faculty try whether you are strong
or or it is stt6nEet. Close with II, wrestle
with it. sheer, obstinate toiighness of MUS
Gle but much more, what we call toughness
Of heart, WHICH will mean persistence hopeful
and even desperate unsubdtable, patience,
composed candid openness, clearuess of mind:
all this shall be strength in wrestling with
your dragon the whole mans real strength
is in this work we shall get ths measure of
him here.
OF all the Nations in the world at present
English are the stupidest in speech, the
wisest in action. AS good as a dumb Nation,
| say, we cannot speak. and have never yet
~spoken-spite of the sHakspoarssand Millions
The shew us what possibilities there are!-
o Mr.. Bull, | look in that surly face of thine
with a mixture Of pity and laughter, yet also
with wonder and Teneration. Thou complain
est tiot, my illustrious friend and yet | be-
lieve the heart of thee is full Of sorrow, of, tn
spoken Sadness neutrality-suspicious. f'el-
anch5ly Gas some have said) the basis of thy
being. Enthusiastically, for .tHor .speakest of
this great Universe is great to thee.
Not BY levity of floating, but by stubborn force
of swimming, shalt thou make thy way. The
fates sing Of thee that thou shalt many times
be thought an ass and a dull OK, and shalt with
a godlike indifference believe It. MY friendt
and it is all untrue, nothing ever falser in
of fact! Th5h art of those great ones
whose greatness the small passer-by would
not discern. Thy very stupidity is wiser than