New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-11-14
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No snokr of Mons Thicrry being strong y
conservatives in feeling we were very much sur
,,.;s.,, &, .,, how, intense was this sentiment IN all
n,r.o,. IN ruropc who held position and rank In
.,,;.,, md il was singular 10 study the various
characters i, took according 10 The character oil the
men In ctor Cousin, for example, who has arl
acn from the position OF teacher without fortune 10
I've Peer Of France and various other things with
mn income of n hundred thousand francs or more, II
WAS undisuiscd ihoush,lcss and revolving, as is the
conversation OF Il ihcorist, who knows nothing OF
the practical affairs OF the people, and OF their
( dreadful toll and priyations The people are well
enough Oft he remarked in conversation give
them more money and :hcy will squander 1t in H.
ccntous anusemcnis, aud in drinking. shops; but
/ give them good preeepts,' he added and at least
! .lcy cannot abuse them. We thought that this rea-
son for giving the people good precepts was capi
tai one We found Carlyle also n conservative, a neg
a.irs conservative howevcr-not from selhshness OF
position, bu, his soul filled with despair, without faith
or hope in the virtues and the intelligence OF The
masses did not look forward TO The possibility oil
rres, and successful reform and the elevation OF
humanity 10 q high aud noble destiny he thought
tina, in the course of ages portion of society might
purify and elevate itself and effect in time some
amcorations bu, that with the rotten aud corrupt
multitude nothing for long periods could be done
The noble soul Of Carlyle. aspiring to and feeling the
c,crnav Free and Just was so revolted at the sell
hshness, the ignorance, the pretensions and hypo-
crsy the brutality and rotenness OF the social world
around him. that he lost all hope. We were not
surprised ut it, particularly when we consider the
character of the English masses, on which he based
MS Judgment The consequence Is that the hope
and feeling o! Carlyle are not progressive and re-
iorma,orv. He writes So it is true but he does 1t
hscausc he can write in no other way, and because
re sees the abstract truth of the great and sacred
principles OF human elevation, social redemption
( and he must advocate them even ifthey were never
10 be carried out on this earth. From paralysed
I hope CARLYLE then becomes what we may call
aegatire conscrvative,-not pOSltre one iromgross
and rotten seGshness of position, like Mons Cousin
for example and that tribe which is technically called
in France at present les rlpHs The influential
minds Of the world appear 10 be divided into two
classes. of which we have chosen Carl le and Cousin
as types The one from the loss of faith in humanity
and from disgust at the moral state OF mankind,
retire within themselves and haveno hope in great
and universal reform and the collective elevation OF
mankind The other from individual selishncss-
intense and brutal-wish TO subject the entire world
10 themselves and become great, even if it be by It's
abasement they uphold all kinds Of Ubiquitous and
UNEQUAL laws and institutions and are the conserva-
tves of pure blood ofhis age of universal individual
ism and sefshness.
Between these two classes come two other sets
OF men the first are the oui-andout rcformers, half
OF whom are insane: the other are the holdbacks
and retrograders--a species Of the conservative
senus-but not from that pure and revolving selfish
ness of which we spoke, but from Kind OF antipu-
thy 10 come forward from weakness Of intellectual
vision which prevents them from seeing into the
future. and bege,s mortal fear and anxiety when
they attempt it, exciting violent desire TO remain
where they are. They are, so 10 say, the wheel
horses of social progress whose principal duty Ii Is
TO hold back the social when II may be descend
ing toe fast any decliyity or ii may be necessary at
anv time TO call a halt. In this category VIC would
place the Courier and the ErprcSS. The Courier
ia particular is mol bic whee-horse: strong and OBJ
stina,e he settles back in the brcechng in way
that excitcs the admiration OF the old tcamstcrs OF
reform in descending the last decivity, called
Convention Hill, he furrowed up the ground SO as
spirit of progress in this direction had beaten down
the road by repeated travel as hard as a rock Some
saw maliciouslv that he knows that the corntrough
hangs behind the old wagon, and that IN pulling
back so va!iantly there is an instinct that II Is lie
shortest direction to the trough On this point, how
ever we will not undertake TO decide the instincts
of re,rograde Conservatives puzzle US more than
those of all other animals no doubt they have
their use as every thing in nature has It's use out
we have not yet been able to discover IL The old
political doctors say that ii is the natural anudote TO
a very dangerous disease i'll the universal human
mind which is very acute just at present, as is mani
| tested by all the terrible iSmS Of the age
But we have got from the Merovingian Era into
our own epoch; ii is time 10 STOP We will merely
remark in concluding that it is great pity the Con-
serva,ives OF those times had been able 10 put
down efiec,ually the Radicals, Progressivsts and
Revoutonis,s OF this day; if they had done so we
should have enjoyed the blessing Of living still in
the good old Merovmgian Era. Butthen we should
not have had the Courier and Express; however,
as progressive are, we are not sure that this
would have been progress.
~ The following article from Liverpool paper
shadows forth the destiny of South Brooklyn when the
valuable improvements going on at the Atlantic
Dock are completed
new CIrY.-The following animated description OF
one OF the wonders OF day, the city ris
inc al Birkenhead Liverpool, is from the pen OF a
noble dipomatist and vii! be read with interest have
made very agreeable Trip TO Birkenhead. which is a
place rising by enchantent out OF the desert and
bidding fair TO rival If not TO eclipse the gores OF Liver
pool Seven years ago there were not three houses
that side OF the Mersey-there now above 10000 IN
habiants and on the spot where sir w. Stanley 5
hounds killed fox in the open held now stands square
larger than Becrsve square every house OF which is
cuUied A, Liverpool there are nov ten acres OF docks
the charges for which at Brkenhead there
will be orty.seven acres with rates twoth!rds lower
which will gradually diminish UNI! (suppos'ns trade 10
continue prosperou they will al most disappear and the
docks become the property OF the pubic al me enc oil
thirty years 1t would have been worth the trouble Of
the Journey to make acquaintance with the protector and
soul OF this gigantic enterprise MT Jackson. WIN us
desire 10 create great commercial emporium proceeds
pari passu that OF improving and eeyailng the condition
OF the a5oring there, and before his DOCKS are
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