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

IsNfiftitl LIE hfB t-A5 lDf HHEg J. itpIbTI III IIGS
l1ud-bat,bIing days, al, the silent rather,
grand silence thai It Tic Romans nay III,
grande5t Of oil, ia u not thai q tFA tods' F7veI
trlrlality, inihecllity, that can at silent, ho"
respectable Is it in comparison! That ralen
of silence is our fundamental one. Grea
honor to him whore Epic is Il uelolious hex
ameter ilia1-rot a juggling sIiatt Had, no
thing true in il but the hekameters and forml
merely. But still greater honor. if his t,pit
be a mighty Empire slowly built together,
mighty series of Heroic Deeds-a mighty con
quest over Chaos tchjch Epic the '~eterna
melodies have, and must have. informed ant
dwelt IN, az IL sung ITSELF There ls no mis-
taking that latter Epic. Deeds are create
ban words. Deeds have such a life, mute
but u%ndeniablc, and grow as living trees anC
frult-trees do: they people the vaculty OF time
and make it green and worthy. Why slouIc
the oak prove logically that it ought to grow
and will growl Plant it, try it |l3t gifts
Of diligent. judicious assimilation and secre.
ton it has, Of progress and tefiatsftce, Of fort,
to grow, will then declare themselves. My
much.honored, illbatritta, extremely inartlc.
d1ato MI. full -
Ask Bull his spoken opinion of any matter
oftentil1eb tic fJfce Of duIIness can no far.
tfet 60. ieu stand silent, increduIous, "a
over a platitude that borders on the infinite.
The mans churchisms. dissonterisrns pusey-
isms, bentbamisms, college PHILOSOPHERS, fash
ionable llteratures. are unoxlmpled in this
world. Tato's prophecy is fulfilled you call
the IMAM an OK and an ass. But srt him once
to work-respcctable man, His spoken sense
is next to nothing, nino.tenths Of it pa)pahle
non sense; but his unspOken sense, bis inneIs
silent feeling Of what ls true, what does agree
with fact, what is doablc and what is not doa-
bIc-this seeks its fellow in the world. A
terrible worker. irresistible ag4lnSt ~ltlarsheg,
mountains, lmpedlments. disorder, lnCIvillSa-
ton everywhere vanqnisllng disorder, leav-
ing II behind him as method and order, lie
~'rotres to his bed three days and considers
Way WitliaI, stupid as he if, our dear John
ever, after infinite tumblings, and spoken
platitudes ~iunun1erable from barrel heads and
Batlidl4ent. be nehea, he does settle down some
where about the 'ist conclusion you are
certain hat his iuiEiblings attl tumblings will
end, after years or centuries, in tl9 stable
equilibrium, Stable equilibrium, | say cen
tre.of-gravIty lowest not tho unstable, with
centre of-gravlty highest, as, ! liaye known
done by quicker people For Indeed, do but
tumble and tumble sufficiently, you avoid That
worst fault, of settling with your centre-of-
gravity highest, your centrc-of gtaFit4 Is Ger
tain to come lowest, and to stay there. II
elowuess, what we in our patience call stu
pidlty,' be the price of stable equilibrium over
unstable, shall we grrdge a little FIownoss
Not the least admirable quality Of Bull is, af-
ter all, that of remaining ineenelble to logic
holding ont for considerable periods, ten years
~, ,poy, ,u -, tb,, t,f tl, f',rp .,.s altar all
arguments and shadow of arguments have IA
ded away from him, till the very urchins on
Tho street. tItler at the arguments he brings.
Loglc-Aoyikn, the art of specCh-does in
deed speak so and so clear enough never
theless Bull still shakes his head will see
whether nothing else H1ogica1, not yet 'spo-
KEN not yet able to be spoken do not lie in
the business, as there SO often does! Ny
firm belief is, that, finding himself now ell
chtntsds hand shackIed, foot shackled, in Poor
Law Raatilles and elsewhere, he will retire
three days 10 his bed, and arriUe at a ~conclu-
sion or two His three-years total stagna-
ton of trade alas, is not that a painful enough
lying in bod to consider hlmselfr Poor
Bull
Bull ia a born conservative 70. tbla TOO !
Inexpresslbly honor him. All great PGopleB
are conservative slow to believe in novel
ties patient of much error in actia'itles
deeply and for ever certain of the greatness
that is in Law, in Custum once Holemnly es-
tablisi,ed, and now long recognised as Just and
final. True, oh radical fcforlncr, there is no
custom that can, properly speaking, be final
none. And yet thou seest customs which, in
all civilized countries, are accounted final
nay, under the Old Roman name Of 1TorcS, are
accounted morality, virtue, laws, of God Him.
self. Such, | assure thee, not a few Of them
are; such almost all of them once were. And
greatly do | respect the solid charactcr-a
blockhead, thou wilt say yes, but a we'll
conditioned blockhead, aud the bcsI-condI-
esteems all customs once sol
EMMY acknowledged to be ultimate, d.
vine, and the rule for a mar to walk by, no
thing doubling, not inquiring farther. What
a time of Il had we; were all mems lits and
still; ii all parts OF it; a pfoblein, a by
seek ing, to be settled by pain
full logics and Bac0nian lnductIons The
clerk in Eastcheap cannot spend the day in
verifying his roadv-rockontr he taast take
it as verified, true and indisputAblc or his
book keeping by double entry will stand gtiIl.
where is your Post L.edgcr!' asks the mas
ter at night. Sir" answers the other, IL
was verifying my. roady-rechoner, aud find
errors. The Ledger is~-!'--Fancy such
A thing.
True, all turns on your ready reckoner be-
ing moderately correct-bcing not lnsupport-
ably incorrect! A ready-reCkoner which has
ed to distinct entries in your ledger such as
these :-'Crediior an English People by fifteen
hundred years of good labor and DeGsor to
in enchanted Poor-Law Bastilles
Creditor by conquering tho largest Empire
the Sun ever saw and Debtor to Donothing-
ism and impossible written on all depart
of the government thereof: Creditor
by mountains of gold lngots earned and
Debtor to No Bread purcbassble by them -
such ready-reckoner, methinks, ia beginning
10 be suspect nay is ceaslng, and has ceased
% be suspect! Such ready-reckoner is q, So
Iecism in Eastchsap and must, whatever be
he press of business, and will ard shall be
a little. Business can 60 on no long
sr with II. The most Conservative English
thickest- skinned, most patient of PEG
is driven alike. by it's logic and its unlo-
yic, by things spoken and by things not yet
spoken or very speakable, but only felt and
very unendurable, to be wholly a reforming
Theft life as it il has ceased to be
possible for them.
Urge not this noble silent people totfe
lot the Berserkir-rage that Lies III them DO
1ou know their Cromwells, Hampdens, their
gyms and Bradshaws! Men very peaceable,
out men that can be msae terrible Men
who; like their old Teutsch Fathers in Agrip-
pas days, have a soul that despisss death :
. FSHor+ 'dsath,' coradPared @ith fsIsetoods
and injustices, is light I'm whom there is a
age uncomfortable by the immortal gods .! ;
Before this, the English People lave taken
very preternatttral looking scePtres BY the
5saTd saying virtually sand if thou tert