Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-06-18

" But 80 they all go-pell-meu. 1t Is
all taken up with Princes Of Waies and
know not whom! There is DO real King
that will be sought tor though L do
know some men who are kiogs-ioyal
men in their workshops. Discerning the
laws of this Universe aud obeyipg them.
All, KING is rare gift, by the grace Of
God!"
It must not be supposed that such ii
rades as these give any idea at all OF MIR.
Carlyle's conversation. Ii would be hard
to give right conception Of the wealth
with which he showers bis visiter. Be-
tween the great heavy boulders of his po-
litical ws,-conglomerate of worthy
and unworthy substance,-therea are beau
titul walks and swards. with which lie re
stores and delights the soul be has just
wounded. Sketches Of history, of persons
be has known, OF DR.. Johnson, of London
suburbs,-all these are etched with the
subtlety of Cruiksbank and the sentiment
10y al lady 4" of some hard but able man,
that l felt mist gathering in my eyes, as
when / read, in the Flight of the Duchess,
.The little lady grew silent and thin,
paling and ever paling."
| Nothing could have been more soft and
sustaining. and he al once filled the char.
acter which Sterling in the Onyx Ring es.
signs him.
No tribute to the real and permanent
| nobility of Carlyle could be more impor-
tant than this, that whilst others who
take up an opposition to the great tenden.
| cies of the age to Universal Liberty are a,
| once abandoned and met as foes only by
| liberals, there Las been disposition to
pardon it 10 Carlyle. The radicals here
are still his best friends, and they will not,
| and they cannot give him up. The man
| with all these faults does stand so grandly
| alone, in such absolute sincerity, in such
| sadness. He gains no princely chaplain
cies or professorships by opposing US; be
| eVermore scorns the rulers of those whom
he wishes ruled. So the best young men
here still love him; and | have observed
the same feeling in America. Carlyle is
now morbid; but he cannot undo the
great work he has wrought,-who walked
| up every sleeping mind IN his generation,
even as Emerson purged and uplitted those
minds when they were awake. His NOR
bldness is the result of solitude; he has
thought too much, not purged his knowl-
edge by daily use, and SO is now ''sicklied
Ger with the pale cast of thought"
When be told US how be had in some
late years purchased horse and gone out
OF London, and discovered a new world
to him as lmuchsas ever did Columb bus,
| could not help wishing that had an in
visible cap, that | might draw near to him
unperceived and whisper that perhaps
were he to go out among the men and wo
men within the city around him, he would
learn that they were more than the rats
and lice he now seems to think them.
There are human heaths, and moors, and
parks, with beautiful gorse, and orchis,
and blue bells, quite dscoverable all
around him.
When | went away from him, it was
breaking away from depressing fcscina
ton. | found the armament more neces.
sary, and looked up to the stars for help,
and all the way home this grand fface was
before me in Its sublime solitude, resem
bling more than any thing else the Old
Man OF the Mountain, up il our Northern
| SHOWS, ever looking out from bis bleak
height for the CONFUSION which shall
bring him deliverance. But until the
| urch-aDgel is enthroned on earth, and the
| arch-tiend bound a thousand years, he will
| scorn all relief and pleasure.
"Ruby wine is drunk by knaves,
sugar spends to 1atten slaves
Rose aud vine leaf deck buffoons.
Thunder clouds are Jove's festoons
Dropping oft in wreath of dread
lightning -knotted round his head;
| The hero is not fed sweets,
| Daily his own heart he eats,
| Chambers OF the great jails;
| And head winds rig ht for royal Sails