The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1864-02-27
CARNEY LITERATURE.


We have spent several hours to-day enjoying
that sweet felicity which comes Of reading
the literary productions Of the eminent gentle
man whose names heads this article-produe-
tons which have been paid for by him at good
rates, and read by him, before large and en-
thusiastic assemblies, from beginning to end
without "spelling q single word. They are
great! yea, we may say, grand, and, we might
add, without being justly accused Of extrava-
CANT panegyric, grandiloquent!! In proof
that our enthusiasm has not been needlessly
excited, we propose to furnish our readers with
a few excerpts from these sublime, ten cent per
line illusions. Here is On extract from his
great lecture before the Leavenworth Mercan-
tile Library Association. The attempts which
have been made by few of the brutal presses
of the State to disparage this noble production,
because it is secondhand, having been read,
by another man, before o little one-horse con-
Germ of like name in Cincinnati, and in two or
three school houses in Ohio, is most unj Just to
Gov Carney. The fact is it cost his E1cellen-
cy nearly as much as if it had been bran
new for, at the time he contracted for it, lit
erature was high, and good secondhand lee
ture would bring nearly as much in the market
as gallon of the best brandy. =.
"Alas that rum should be 80 dear,
And empty words so cheap
That's quotation of ours, we think, from
Cowper, bat will not be certain. His Excellen-
cy could doubtless tell US, for he is familiar
with the English classics. "Let us be just" :"
and give his Excellency-who has "the mon
ey," and who has Z" no heirs credit for what
ever he pays for. Here is the extract: 1t may
properly be headed .r4..
ADvICE 70 THE PEoPLE: s
"Indeed, if digress, let me advise the peo-
pie, if they will hear my advice, to guard, every
way, against this very quality We call, cunning.
It is the bane Of Republics. Nothing doth
more hurt in State, said one of the wisest
statesmen Of the world, than that cunning men
pass for wise. Nothing, indeed, can be more
unfortunate. For what is wanted? Simply
this, that those elected to Office, those in power,
should deal justly, and use this power proper
ly. If this be not done we shall have no hon
esty in our public officers, and should this evil
continue, no manliness among the people.
Plain good intentions, genuine simplicity of
=
cementing principle and while sure to con-
serve order, is certain to secure progress Gun
| ming is denounced by all able writer's, and
especially by those who treat most solidly upon
| the stability of Governments. The best of
poets join with them, as you will readily per-
ceive from this description of the cunaing man
by Churchill:
with that low cunning which in fools supplies,
And amply, too, the place of being wise,
Which nature, kind, indulgent parent gave
| To quality the biockhead for knare;
With that smooth falsehood whose appearance
And reason Of each whole doubt disarms,
Which to the lowest depth Of guile descends
| by raest means pursues the rilesf ends; go :.
Wears friendships mask for purposes Of spite,
Fawns in the day, and butchers in the night
| 1t is but proper that we should remark here,
| that we regard rs unwarranted the imputation
which has lately been made, that the .criter: Of
the lecture Intended, by his quotation, to satir-
ize his reader, and that the last line of the poe
try, "Fawns in the day, and butchers in the
night" has relation to his Excellencys dealing
with the great ogre, Lane. It is impossible
that any such thing could have been intended
for be it remembered, the lecture was ,rritea
more than ten years ago, and how could the
writer. unless prephetically inspired, have
satirized transaction 50 far, then, in the fa.
ture-unless, indeed, he was thereunto ''cheer.
ed by q good omens," or by those +" bayonets
that think t+ a-
But we must pass ON to another attractive.
telling and admirable passage in this lofty and
elevated secondhand lecture. 1t is said this
is an Interpolation Of the lecture as originally
written. On that point We make no issue. II
is gcod-no matter whether its cost was 6ve
| cents line or ten.
THE RISING GENERArIoX.
Home bred, and home inspired feeling, is
the most enduring. s.
felt the honor conferred upon me- by you,
in electing me the first President Of this Asso-
citation, therefore, more deeply, than did the
higher honor, conferred upon me, 50 generous
~, by the people Of the State, because it VAS !
home honor. - . :.
But turn from mysel1 and would look
only, to the rising generation. am at that
| age when can do 50. am midway between
those entering the stage of setion snA itAoss
preparing to leave it. I conceive-as can
readily do for have passed through the fear
full ordeai-I know how the young man seek
ing employment or how the clerk having lost
secured employment feels. They are -0traa-
gers. Socially, they are unknown, and tAsrs
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