New-York daily tribune., 1865-10-26


has evidently been more solcitous of accuracy OF
statement and soundness of criticism, than OF
rhetorical display. His work is entitled TO high
place among the English authorities on the subject
of which il treats abounding with rare ard inter
esing information, and written III style of purity
and vigor, which from the pen of one TO whom the
language is not native awakens perpetual surprise
and admiration.
TIE NORTH AMERICAN .GEyIEw. oc7oBrR Tick
Fields.
very spicv article in this number is devoted 10
a review of the life and political opinions Of John
C.. Calhoun. whom the writer justly regards as the
"cause and fountain Of the evils which have 80
profusely flowed from the pestent hercsy Of seces-
sion. His South Carolina Exposition is de-
scribed as "the baleful egg from which were
hatched nullihca,ion, treason civil war, and the
desolation of the Southern States." From interr j
evidence we are safe in ascribing the article TO the
fertile and piquant pen Of the bographer OF Aaron
Burr, and Andrew Jackson, who has so brayely
won his spurs in that Geld of literary effort.
4 The following sketch does no more than justice
to the position and character of the great apologst
for Slavery.
Webster Clay, ard Calhoun-tbese were gr, NJ names
In their day When tie last ~ them had departed tie
country felt sense Of bereavement and even on eli'
distfusi dOubting ever again such men would adoin
the pubic councils close scrutiny into the lives oi
either Of them would Of compel ne TO deduct
something from his cotemporary Ienown ior they we're
all In some degree NJ periods diverted nom their
trie path by sn ambition beneath an American sisles'
man whose true goiy clone consists in serving his
certrv well Ia that sphere TO which his fellow citizens
cr hin From such a scrutiny tie fame OF neither of
{, those distinguished men vCnd euler 20 much O.
: that Of Calhoun. His endowments were not great
nor Of tie most valuable kind; and his early edu'
' cation. hasty. and very INCOMPLETE was rot con
,inued by mfiuTeI study, lie id rather to confirm bus
. fmmessitns than 10 correct them IT vas impossible
ta he fboud ever have been wise because Dc refused
~ sant His liability TO error Never was mental
= surauCo more complete and seldom es- yaTTilled by
II innate or acquired superiority. II his kno~itdee 6!
= books slight his opportunities of observing
c were s more limited since he passed his whole life in
m Ilaces ns exceptional perhaps any IN the world,
" Washington and south Carolina. From tae beginning
o. bis pubic career there Wa conser IN u" he'r Of
u; for While lis cath hs member Of Congress 70 fup
: p5ft ,ha CggsiNi.g q T.: I2!:A S'tes;, was siill
ii fresh upon his lips. b dccnitd ,ig h's htitlmtrt ~
M the Union was conditional and subordinate. lie SAID
h that tLe alliance between The southern planters and
:. Northern Democrats Was false ana calculated COR.
y pact 70 be broke when tle planter could 70 longer
with Tie Republican panty in TIE ush Of he double tri
u umpA, he appeared respectable CAaTaoicr and w"n
= code. opinions from eminent men IN bOtl parties. But
when he again subjected 10 Tie narrowing and per
- yertng .Jcesbcc o residence n South ChrO.uh. Ae
g., shruk III "a bis original proportions aud became
the noeoIth, not the scran OF his country. but tie
special peeder Of a class and the Representative Of
section. And yet, with that strange JUDICIAL blindncfs
II which has ever been the doom OF tie offenders Of
wrong. 10 bil hoped 10 atfein the Presidency ILere
IL scarcely example Of nfatuaton more remarkable
than this. Here We have hing befols ~ at this mo
D ment undenable proofs, in the form Of campaigr
lives and campaign documents tbnf. as late as
is1 there money spent and labor done for the pur
pose c placing him in nomination for the highest o'ce
Among the literary papers, tho notice of Henry
D. Thorcau will attroct attention by It's keen an-
alysis of tho pretensons Of that conccitcd and so
tary huinorist, and its lively pictures Of the intel
; lectual movement in New-England, Of which MIR.
Il. W. Emerson and Thorcau may be regarded rs
the products and eyponeDts We give bit from
the curious history described by the writer
Il What ootemporory. ifhe VA. in the fighting period
OF his c (since Nature sets limits about her c0nsorp
ton for spiritual fields the State does ia ply scal
warfare will ever forget vhet was somewhst vaguely
called the "Jranscendenta Movement OF thirty yeGs
ago Apparently set astirring by Carlyes essays on
the Signs Of the Times and on Ifistory, the final
and immediate inpulse seemed 20 be given by
Sartor Resartus. At lert the republication IN Bos.
ton Of that wonderful Abraham Sancta Clara sermon
on ears text OF the miserable forked radis gave the
signal for sudden mental and moral nutiny. Eooe
temprs aoc,ptaJI, was shouted on s hands with
every variety OF emphasis, and By voices oil every con-
ceivabe pitch representing the three sexes OF men.
women. and Lady Mary Wortey MoutaFues. The
nameless eagle Of the tree Ygdras was about " sit ut
each eager o thrust under the mystic bird that chalk
egg from which the and farer Creation 10 be
hatched in due time Redeant Saturnia rrsnd.-so far
was certain though In what shape b. what methods.
was stl matter Of debate. Every possible form OF in
ellectual and physical dyspepsia brought for s Cos.
pei Bran had its prophets. and tho prosartoria SIM
plicy Of Adam its martyr, tailored mpronptu fro,
the tGrpOt by iDcensed cbbors and forth to II
lustrate the II feathered Mercury" defined by Web
ster and Worcester Planness Of speech was carried
TO pitch that would have taken away the breath Of
George Fox; and even swearing had its evangeliss,
who answered simplo inquiry alter their health with
an elaborate ingenuity OF imprecson that might have
been honoraby mentioned by Marlborough In general
orders Everybody had mission with scspitai NJ to
attend 10 every elses business No brain but had
lis private maggot which must have fonnd pitiably
short compons sometimes. Not few impecunicus
yealots abiared the use Of money (uness earned by
other people, protesting 10 1.-Two the internal
nues Of the spirit Some bad an assurance OF instent
millennium coon a. hooks ana oyes should DC nb'ti
tinted for buttons Communities were established
where everything was 10 be common bat common
sense Men renonnced their old gods. and hesitsted
only whether 10 bestow their flr0ughed allegiance on
Thor or BUdh Conventions very held fT eVery