The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-03-24

| Massachusetts Legislature, has made this dis
covery, and. We suppose, by adopting and circu-
latng il all over New England he is preparing for
the great contest and fermentation which are ap-
preaching there among the different parties and
men. In the meantime, we trust that the leading
men In Congress, who have, with the little aid of
our influence and power, been brought within
sight of a settlement of the slavery question, will
come together as soon possible, arrange the
form of the settlement, and take, as soon as pos
slble, from those malcontents and ultras In New
York and New England, the only material on
which they can live for another year or two.
EMERsoN's QUEER MOVEMENTS IN LITERATURE.
We have already presented some of the curious
vaganes of Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emerson, and have
several more reports of his extraordinary read
ngs IN type, one of which will be found in
another column. To understand how the man has
come up to his present position an insane sanity,
must look little into his history, and discover
how the outward has operated upon him.
Ralph was clever boy In coege-went through
his tasks, at Harvard, plainly, practically, and
with credit, and came out neck ahead of his
fellows. This was about eighteen years agoy
Unitariansm seized him between the shoulders,
and took his head and heart by Storm He fol-
lowed disciple Of Charming, in those footsteps
that Priestley had left on the sands of time and
theology, and was soon recognised in the college
atmosphere as one Of the planets Of Patonism and
piety. His whole faith was grounded on a unit-a
grand convenience for divisions and fractions Of
ideas-and in his ph-beta,kappa Grafton, the little
clique Of New England hteratows found the evil
dences Of his future greatness. A god of new
literature wanted, and Emerson was set up
for alteration. Homage commenced. Around his
SHINE, situated in village Of Massachusetts,, the
willing apostles bent down their ears to the oracle.
Heterodox unitaranism had not yet appeared, but
tiI-rv s.. 10, -sd ID. o,'-H"s.s-s ioss
speech, made at Worcester, which was ex-
pressed some confidence in the divinity Of the
Saviour, broke away all barriers to aspiring am
biton till candidates for the shoes Of the father
Of unitananism IN New England started up on
every side.
About this time Carlyle's "French Revolution"
"A kind of opium vision Of historical events, blend
ed with moonshine, cigar smoke and guillonnes,-
broke upon the view of Emerson and Of the thou
sand imitators of the tory pages of Blackwood and
Fraser. The magazines had laid train for a
grand sortie upon everything practical and shaped
TO common sense, and dreaming students were
ready to throw aside the essays of Montague, Bur
toms Anatomy, Fellthams Resolves, Browns Urn
Burial, and kindred fountains Of curious lore, TO
suck with their long and short straws the new CT
der ground out OF the golden apples which had been
squeezed IN the press Of the Germanico- English
historian. There was pause while the Carlyle
Juice was taken in, but IL was soon evident that
many had become intoxicated, recling, staggering
drunk, with the modern Falernlan. Emerson con-
tracted, after copious drauehts, serious disease
in his mental epidermls. lie broke out over head
and ears in little romanzas and sonnets, and com.
muncsted this literary itch TO his neighbors, who
scratched away at an awful rate. II with no
effect that the Calvinsts recommended brm.
stone for the malady Il could not be rubbed in
at any rate. The disease, consequently, took its
course. Finally, Emerson applied alternatives, and
with free application Of the German leeches Of
literature, taken from the siagnan pools Of Leip-
sic and transferred to the "well Of Eaelish unde-
fled. he succeeded in giving the disease reliable
diagnosis Prose supevened upon the peetlcal
carbuncles-but sull there was fanchul matter
enoush-pus enough to show tina, the disease had
only slightly changed IFS type. "The Dial" ex-
hbiiet, for months, the general itching, and those
who controlled scratched away as before, till
they died out Meanwhile, Emerson travelled
district. The disease was confined neither to az.
nor sex. Boys in colleges were almost swept away
by IL. Young ladies in semlnatics al nos, swooned
and died away with il; and at every renewal Of
the vaccine virus, in the shape Of Essays" the
disease is found to break out with astonishing viru
l,nce. Emerson's visit to England resulted in no
such evil consequence. The climate and regimen
Of the people preserved them. New York is now
A -. n q.
sen with what results
In the broader view Of this subject, we cannot
but see that New England and Western New York
rivals in these queer transcendental and social
let Developments. New ngand dreams out all
KINDS Of ounosiiIes in politics. theology, morals
and manners. New York gives these local habit
taiion and name. New England dreams Of hcav-
enly knuckles tapping on vibrations of the s'mos-
phefe. Western New York gives us the sounds
thereof and interp'ets the language Of the supernat
ura telegraph. New England draws all the es-
sence from the smoke Of German literary pipes, and
blends IL imeginaiivey with the Cochriua,es Of
and puriensm. Western New York con-
It in "Rcveaiions" a, Poughkecpsie,
under the garments Of Matthias, and in the temple
Of Jo. Smith, the Mormon. New England designs
after the most approved German patterns-Wesl-
ern New York executes. New England contains
the capitahsts-western New York the mannlac-
torres; and no one can doubt that with these
enterrris,rg sections fully at work, aided by the
cunousy twisted knot Of socialists, deists, add
whai not, IN this city, shall be able TO have stll
much more amusement than Emerson's lectures
are likely TO Afford. We live in a great country,
snu uust DC liberal 10 our new lecturer. Let hun
nave nv play Tor that eereglous vanity which he
Myual Ie'n hide under the mask OF philosophical
ihoinerence' The evil VIII cure itself in time
srEANsHir sourHERsKR fine steamship
Souihemer, Capt. Berry, has been detained until
tomorrow morning, at O'Clock, on accom-, Of IN.
storm Of yes,erday.