The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1857-10-16

popular leader. Nevertheless. we m9st ,ir
Curtis the justice to own that his theories. what
ever else they wanted, had at least the merit ot
novelty. We remember one address Of his enti-
Tied 'ihe American Scholar" delivered bpfor.
some coi!egr or other, IN which he gravely laid
down the proposition, that the material prosperl-
" oil a nation was at war with the CROWN oi
poetry, OF heroIsm, Of the tlueg FEELINGS OF the
soul-that Holland lacked poets becaos- il
aoounded IN fat farms and luli barus-tbat
America was Fastening to the same iulDops CON
dHion, and that consequently, until the national
ELBOWS We're out, We must wait in vain for a
Homer, or the heroes to give majesty to an Had.
W doh pretend to say what the sentiment OF
our hel4 hDors may be; but, for our own part, we
blush to confess vulgar partiaIny for the reign
OF good Clothes and good dinners aud horrible
shrinking from lhs poetic mAennium-this
thousand years OF glory and starvation
We all remember how Fremont lril-hoy
hard be tell, how Uat, how ioW Ihe ..H1wIl-
j%' fell wItu him. Wherever he had spoken.
The Buchanan vote, It was OBSERVED, was unusu-
ally large. He retired 10 the walks OF private
HE. There was no hope under TIE ..sIave pow
Tr'' ior the ''yolng men OF The old families" >"
and 50 Mr. Curtis weddrd what hlte cash he
had with the declining fortunes ni Putnam, and
lost 1t, II we are correctly informed. by !he de-
cease OF that respectable periodical. The peo-
pie wouldn't staod It any longer. The expert
inent was failure, and Tie Magazine has Dera
renodeled on another plan. W nave had >oule
curiosity 10 know what mad brcom.r Of Curtis
since this Disaster We tanced taat perhaps he
had gone 10 SYRIA again, or was umgJ>inE an
,tt4 ~, -.
was eating some rich mans dinners IN The Fifth
avenue, with tue harmless design OF Satilizing
his host as a ''snob" iu some prospective Putnam
or tnat, perhaps, he had linked hiS iortunrs with
''the great Pathfinder himself and, IN company
with that IlustrIouS man, was engaged IN eating
mule meat, and grass-hopprr pies, and plotting
another presidential 6sbl ~ 1860.
In all these conectures We were wrong. Mr..
Curtis is again delivering orations, not tins tlr
before the calgaS P0Putt, not IN open lots, or
from tavern portcues, tut before the scholarly
gentlemen who graduate al tDr Yankee colleges
the inciPieut philosophers vino az to mould
thr next age, as Curtis < Co., tried 10 mould
this.
:. 10 tbe St. Lawrence Republican n Srptem-
anybody who has the curiosity to look Will fnd
some four columns OF close Prlnt with the ial-
lowing title:
.sPATRIOTISM-AN \ GRAFTON:
sDelveed at Union Coilrgr, \. y, July
20: at Dartmouth COLLEGE, y. h., July %:
at the Normal School Conyeuinn, Nr>ltirid.
Mass, Jniy 81 ah9 al h'o"" o"'''''''S' IT,
l., September q. IH''' ol
'etoE"A A,' '''o'
ii tFl Yra t,p mn .f
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thought !, i''>>'o'1 '','' ,,.' or his tor.
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mff i'I'y' ann oo'''5 J|''''' ,..,s'l .l..,',.,
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studied pfoa"o'h 'i%F ''S' "'' wa. 49,
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irrole failures on lAr fr"o"' stump w, .
iof5"iten alio$rAtf' OF 'oI 2''e'' ~ ,i>
production O ms iaifF 2,'''''' - al '''' .n
p1tla'o"s y" ".'' "o.'rn,,, vs. 81. ,l;~b ., sa,
i"'n''u' '.5 - vain FIo,v
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TFS oI fnT'o''0 90 "g,,t,,. fr,,, G.lds d
'h'y 20 ''' SP,'" :l.a,,.,I,,, ,,,,,ral hloor
l"o1Sa'' no, ''o',,V Wv adnSt
~g' , , ',',' " @ ,,sss on tavern mantelpitce
60 Vii sutiic 10 prove what W
o"' = '''''' = "
say , amid ~. i,rcoo Of corrupt poll
''ue"i'rmel'' anna '''7 49, - ,,r,ity an
tics, and the Sa'TeFHs n's,'I's ,,. .. ' n ,.v