The Portland daily press., 1867-08-23
A Grow, fpsu, CarIyie.

The passsgeof the Reform, Bill has stirred
up Carlyle as effectually as ever bear on ex-
hibition was stirred up by the obliging show
m IN for the mingled amusement and terror o.
the gaming youth on the benches. Carlyle's
a ,swar;ng roar resounds in the last number Of
M,cmillai,,s Magazine. The most grotesque
n,asa,,s in the essay entitled - Shooting Mag.
ara-Ind Ater?" is that in which the writer
compares the iervid zeal manifested by the
better class of Young Lords and Honorables'
in bvhall of the Reform Bill to the impetuous
haste of the Irish carpenter astride ofhis plank
firmly stack out of q sixth story window, bet
ting two to one that he can saw the plank off
IN Sd many minutes, and winning! The pas-
sage which we quote below, respecting the
American Rebellion and its consequences
reads like a translation from the New York
Day Book into Carlylese. 1t is the most often
sively pungen5 statement of the Copperhead
creed which has been hitherto given to the
world We append sign.e paragraph re-
specting English Reform: fr -aH
BY far the notablest result of St0arDsery, IN
these times is that of the late American war,
with Settlement of the Niger Question Tor re-
sult. Essentially the Niger Question was one
OF the smallest; and in itself dad not much con-
Germ mankind in the present time OF struggles
and hlIrries. One always rather likes the Mig
GER: evidently poor blockhead with good dis
POSITIONS affections, attachments-with a turn
for Niger Melodies, and the like; he is the on
ly Savage of all the colored races that doesn't
die out on slgnt Oh s!e hite man; but can ac-
and be merry. The Almighty Maker has APP
pointed him to be a Servant. Under penalty
of Heavens curse, neither party to this pre-
appointment shall neglect or lnisdo his duties
anu Is certaln ttnongn as YET wlae
y. - nervahtsnip on tne nomadtc pm
o.p,o, az 'ho I'.o Vi 50 many snliiihSS per gay,
canl , DC other IMAM misdone. Inc whoie
W.. ~ "I nd Saieno No tSns. you, On near
lnS ol suen th,hS, yst ile whole world us
senins 70 t1o cool Snsne,u o,sciosures Oh rat
eeI.y, any o sne ,1 VI niururI III 'naI
slusuiar , CheIheia ASSASSINATION COMPANY
lLlmlted1, ieels It's mar rising on end TO lutte
PURPOSE hl,her.o, Deing w NIL, even sdi
| lows 10 make response! lne 10. u Wv tin.i
stens yesr aiter yeas ~. ano.e gsne.a ,o
back: TO disastrouS Sr'IeS, merchess socHc
outs, and other details OF the nomadic scheme Of
servitude; nay, IS becoming !horoughly disqui-
eted about its own TOO lofty minded funkieF, mu-
tinons maid-servants tending, too often, as dis
tressed needlewoman; thirty thousand OF these
latter now on the pavements OF London), and
the kindred phenomena on every hand; but 1t
will be long before the fool OF world opens its
eyes to the taproot OF all this the frantic
notion, In SPORT, That servantsmp and mas
will ever be, except Tor brief periods, possible
among human creatures Poor souls, and
when they have discovered it, what pudding
anu anu we ein ana scolalng ana Jargonlng,
there VIII pc, before the nrsG real step toward
remedy Is taken:
oervahtship, ike an SOHO contracts between
men liike wedlock itself, winch was once noma-
oic enough, temporary enough must become
contsact OF permanency, not easy TO dissolve,
but difhcuit extremeiy-"a contract for life, If
you can manage IL whlch you cannot, without
many wise laws ana regulations, and great
deal OF earnest thought and anxious expe-
rlencel, VIII evideniiy De the last OF all. And
| this was really the Niggers essential position.
Mischief, irregularities, injus!ices did probably
ABOUND between Nigger and Buckra; but the
| poisonous taproot OF all mischief and ilnpossi-
bility OF fairness, humanity, or well doing in the
contract, never had been there. Of all else the
remedy had peen easy IN comparison; vitality
Important to every just man concerned in it;
and under all distractions (Which, in the Anne
rlcan case, Degirt with frantic .Abolitionists,
Was ea tse
| 10 me, individually, the Nigger's case was not
the most pres ing In the world, but among the
least SO! America, however, had got into
Stodrnlery uponit (not Americas blame either,
but IN great part ours, and that OF the nonsense
zoe sent over to them) and felt that in the
Heavens or the Earth there was nothing so
godhke, or incomparab'y pressing to be done.
Ihelr energy, their vaior, their &c, &c, were
worthy OF the stock they sprang from--and
now, poor fellows, done 1t is, with a Witness
a continent OF the earth has been submerged,
f9r certain years. by deluges as from the Pitot
Heh MAJ, q mutton solne say whole million,
put surely they exaggerate.l Of excellent !, !
Mnise Men, iuta OF CUTS ana FACULTY, nave slit
one another into horrld death, In temporary
| humof, Whlch VIA leave centuries OF remem-
pranee, iierce enough; and three million Blacks,
men am! protners tol sort)' are completely
femanelDated; launcned into the career OF i'm
proyement likely to be improved off the face
OF the earth IN generation or two! That is
the dismal prediction to me, of the waDmest
enthusiast to their Cause whom have know n
OF American men-who doesn't regret his great
efforts either, in the great Cause now won,
Cause inGomparablyg the most important OH
Earth or IN Heaven at this time Papae papde
wonderful indeedf 3'''' ="
In our own country, too, Sodrmery has play
cd q great part for many years past; and espec.
tally is nov playing, in these very days and
months. Our accepted axioms about "Liber-
ty Constitutional Government" Reform,
darlai eAture, yeherapie Dy antiquity
many OF them and written in all manner OF