The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-07-22

mountain peak which receives the suns frst
kiss and catches his last rays is the target
too Of all heavens thunder Pretminence
must be expiated by pain Of some sort. Tn,
worlds brawling mediocrity demands son,'
sort Of compensation for ia enforced HON
age. In politics, we have had experience
IN our own republic, bow dearly the popn-
lar candidate pays for sgccess--bow the Ia
/ tai enforcement Of Convention blasts the
reputation and ruins tbs family natGe--and
/ how the misfortune Of an election TO Office
consigus one 10 iniamy ia cxac, proportion
10 the honor conferred But the activities
Of politics, which cngro5a the passions, dead
IN the sensibliics Literature, on the 9th.
or hand, which disaects the passions, in
flames RESPONSIBILITIES. There ARE no Keats
in politics The disappointment of politi-
clans art appeased with foreign missions
and II foreign missions art moi available,
they do not die Of broken hearts. They
take abuse M the corrcativc Of fame The
censureg they receive they divide with their
party, the praise they take 10 Themselves.
The men Of literature have no such con.
solutions They have the susccptibilities
Of personal vanity, without its sophistries
The philosophy which teaches them patience
gives them also more need Of IT, BYaos
wac untrue TO his vocation when he deluged
the world with ha mctrical sorrows But
that his were were not simulated grefs, his
own history aud the history Of literary men
IN general, shows too well. They have al.
ways been an unhappy raco--unhappy from
necessity Of tempramcnt--thc genus uri-
hbhe. The IDEAL liie they write is the real
life they live, across which the facts OF act
ual experience strike harsh dissonancc.
What Is not true 10 their aesthetic con-
science, 10 false TO their moral sensibiIity
Hence the numerous instances Of domestic
misery among men OF letters. From tho
AAsrIrfk Of SOCRATES TO Lady BuLwgR.
the biographies OF literary men have been II
long series Of domestic troubles. And now,
by the double title Of being writer of en-.
inence and All amateur actor, CHARLES Dick.
EMS Is added to the Iist Of unfortunalcs. II
Is not 10 be supposed that there arc more
uncongenial marriages among this class
than among any other But the truth IL, there
Is only one thing which a wife could bring
poet which could atone for the failure Of the
domestic picturc-ior it, neees sary want Of
conformity with his artistic pre- conceptions.
That one thing Il heart, which most wives
have not got to bring which most men can
do without but which poets cannot do
without.
1t is ,rucr, perhaps ia literature than in
anything else that man ia known by his
works Ills power TO move hearts comes
from the force of his own emotions; and the
motives which inspire and govern his pro-
dactions are almost sure TO be the ruling
motives Of his life and conduct And so
every true hearted English and American
reader has learned TO love and reverence
CHARLES DickESs for the manly disdain of
all the hypocrisies and shams OF society, for
The noble lessons OF charity aud unsclish.
ness. and Of sterling eonscientioasnos which
he has impressed upon the hearts Of his gen
GRAFTON. and above all. for the poetry h. has
found IN the dull facts OF common lite, and
diilased over the dark lanes aud wretched
novels Of the city. When, year or two
ago, The story came across the ocean that
DICKENS had given up the simple ways Of
the commoncr To ape the livcricd fopperies
which he had taught US TO laugh at, the i'm
putatiou was rcpellod by the unanimous in.
stincts OF his readers aud il was false.
Aud now lately, when the rumor comes
Kissing hot through hundred channels OF
foreign correspondence that DicKKSs has
abandoned his wiio for the SMILES Of para.
mour, the SANDER would not have been be-
lieved even il II had not have been coupled
with the indignant public denial Of Dlcxsss
and his wife. The tact OF SEPARATION in.
dNd is admitted but the trouble which We
are told has thus been amicably arranged is
zone which claims to be respected, a. Of
sacrcdIy private nature II is the supreme
misfortune of such IL man as DicNgSs. who
is a part OF ev.ry ones family that he can
have no private family troubles. Ills family
troubles are the troubles Of his readers. and
hundrtls OF thousands 81 meu and women.
plying, not accusing him demand to know
why the deal lover Of the gentle AaNss,
separated from his wife.
OF DicSE>s private life, even the g,eSiys
II 10 L III hftl.