Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-24

Correspondence Public LEDGER
Carlyle the Great has published lee.
ture on the British Reform Bill, in which
he berates poor lords Of "high degree"
for conferring the right of suffrage on
such common.lace, stupid bees as Cleon
the Tanner, Beales, John Of Lyden, John
of Bromwichami. Poor Carlyle how he
foams in intellect and champs the golden
bit of reason, worried by the " devils
pickle" of swarmery " IA German word
for democracy. All the milleniums he
ever heard Of before we're to be preceded
by "chaining of the devil for thou.
sand years." but the millennium of
swarmery" acts in an opposite direc'
ton, and cuts loose all the straps and
trums binding the man in black so
that in fact the devil himself is likely to
become an "emancipated gentleman,
1.-THE of limb as in Adam and Ewes time,
and scarcely toe or finger OF him tied
any more. Hoordh for swarmery ="
which the great Carlyle informs us is to
complete, itself" by leading toward
the Bottomless or into it What a mil
lenium Complete liberty to all per-
sons; Count of Heads to be the Divine
Court of Appeal on every question and
interest of mankind Count of Heads to
choose a Parliament according to its own
heart at last, and sit with Penny News
papers zealously watching the same (;
said Parliament, so chosen and so
watched, to do what triae of legislating
and administering may still be needed in
such an England, with its hundred and
fifty millions free more aud more to fol-
low each his own nose, by way of guide
post in this intricate world. An ha
And then in fifty years hence, the great
Carlyle tells vs., "all churches and So
called religions, the Christian Religion
itself, shall have deliquesced-into Lib
erty Of Conscience, Progress of Opinion
Progress of Intellect, PhilanthropiC
Movement, and other aqueous residues
of vapid, badly scented character-and
shall, like water split upon the ground
trouble nobody considerably thenceforth
but evaporate at its leisure" Glory
hallelujah, the devils loose But who
unclaimed him, great Carlyle2 You
forget that swarmery," the " Count o
Heads, Liberty of Conscience, Progress
of Opinion, Progress of Intellect, Phi
lanthropic Movement" etc, are the off
spring of the Reformation and of the act
of Harry the Eighth. The Valentine clas
of merrie England cut loose from thu
monarchy of Rome, and set up " con
stitutional government" of religion
and now you frown on them because the!
are building reform Parliament, anC
giving the 0rson class-the "aristocrac!
of nature "a right to vote and chance
of "self- government" How absurd
What if the Knight of the Hoe and Ham
mer, in his majesty of Orsonism, and th'
Knight of the Tin crowned Hat, in hi
majesty of Valentinism, join voices ii
the selection of law makers ? Don't tht
industrial hero support the government
and fight its battles as well and as Ions
as the titled hero? Why, therefore, no
have equal privileges2 Why shoulc
there be a drllsergeant for one more
than the other 2 Why should there be I
drill-sergeant at all, when " all men arr
equal2" Manhood in England surely !!
not on a level with Horsehood or Dog
hood therefore Quashee Niger is no
equal to Socrates or Shakespeare, moi
Bedlam and Gehenna equal TO the New
Jerusalem. Here in the New World
however, there is a difference of races
and you are right, Carlyle, when yol
say "the Almighty Maker has appointed
Niger to be a servant Under penalty
of Heavens curse neither party to thu
pre-appointment shall neglect or misd'
his duties therein" Let that curse res
on the heads of the fire breathing Dizziei
who broke the contract; Buckra anC
Niger had nothing to do with it. Won
derful, indeed, is what you say, that a
continent Of the earth has been sub
merged, for certain years, by deluges as
from the pit of He'll; half q million o
excellent white men, full Of gifts anc
faculty, have slit one another into horric
death, in temporary humor, which viii
leave centuries of remembrance, fierce
enough; and three million blacks, mer
and brothers (of sort, are completely
emancipated; launched into the careei
of improvement-likely to be improved
off the face of the earth in a generation
or twoP Ay, but in England there car
be no such mortal smash, for Walter the
Psnuyless and Beales theRough, although
raised in the ways Of 0rsonism, are of the
same race and blood as the proudest
soions Of British nobility, raised in the
ways Of Yslentinism yea, and are as
much entitled to consideration in the
Commonwealth (if you like it) as the
successors Of Imperial Majesty Harry the
Eighth, Defender Of the Faith, and So
forth, or Of Lord Archbishop Latimer,
Overseer Of Souls, and the Lord knows
what else. Don't purse thy lips, man,
at swarmery." tits a very good thing,
/ II rightly understood but the devil Of il