The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-11-24

ana GeTm0Oy-HS views nj AmCr1.
can Love for the Union, with ~ Trkb-
ute to Emerson.
IN. b. Conway's Letter to the Cincinnati Com
mercial.
LONDON, Oct. %, 1870.
l have just passed an evening with Thos.
Carlyle. Although none who in former
years knew intimately the old home in Chel-
sea, can fail to miss the presence of the noble
woman whose influence and tact did so much
to render the conversations 80 memorable,
still London holds no other intellectual
pleasure comparable with an evening nj
Carlyle's. The old man is not left alone.
A pleasant and cultivated girl, daughter OF
his sister, who resides near Dumfries graces
the home, and the circle of friends still
gather. Of recent years 1 have thought
that the voice Of ''the old man eloquent"
has grown some what gentler, and his views
of the world less gloomy. Nor an sure
but that the increased cheeriu!ness of his
mind is due to the growth and development
of his darling Germany. Long ago lie rec
ognized the "magnanimous Herr Bismarck, I"
as he called him, as a man after his own
heart, and as the looming man. of the
Fathsrland. As YOU may judge recent
events have only increased his enthusiasm
for Germany, and his esteem for Bis
marck. On the other hand, Carlyle has
never had much respect for modern France
or its Emperor. Some have thought that
with his homage to the strong autocrat, Car
lyle ought, in consistency, to have regarded
the French embodiment of Casarism as a
hero. But while he honors the strong man,
he hates shams, and he has always regarded
Napoleon Ill. as pinch-beck Caesar. He
has through long years spoken Of him-for
he is still good at epithets-as ''an intensi-
fled pig" or 'the pickpocket Emperor"
On the evening that recently passed with
him he spoke Of Paris As the fit monument
Of one he had always regarded as 4 pretender.
Louis Napoleon" he said, "was from the
frst simply swindler. l, is probably true
that he did not wish to fight Germany; bu.
he saw the democracy continually increasing
in strength and boldness around him, and he
hoped he could draw of peoples minds from
it by war. He could hardly have hoped to
defeat Germany, but he fancied there might
be long struggle, which might keep down
internal political dissension under the pride
and patriotism of the French. The event
shows him to have been utterly without Wis
sources whatever"
Speaking of the French people he said:
"They have made nearly all of the serious
wars in Europe for 400 years. The Reform
alton in Germany might, indeed, have led to
a war in any case, but after all it is possible
that even that might not have led to blood
shed, had it not been for the French. Yet
in all this time they have shown that they
were not really = match for the Germans
Even when Napoleon /. defeated the Ger
mans, it was perceived by many who looked
closely into the matter, that it was not due
TO the superiority of the French, but rather
to the disorder into which the people about
Berlin had got. The Germans were wretch
edly managed, and Napoleon was able to
wedge himself between them and their pro-
visions. The German is 4 more valiant kind
of man than the Frenchman. The French
have what they call elan, which generally
shows itself in gasconade, but they have al
WAYS suffered BY sudden reactions from that,
and been liable to fata: depressions. But l
never could conceive such utter corruption
and disorganization possible to them-or in
deed, to any people as that which this col
lapse of their preiensions has revealed"
With regard to Count Bismarck, he said:
GAN the politicians in the world seem to
me as mere xindbags beside him. He has
shown himself capable Of throwing himself
utterly into his cause, and all other causes
are simply Insignificant in comparison with
his-the building up of great genuine
power and government in Europe out Of the
only solid materials left in it. For really it
seems to me that the true principles of order
and government have almost disappeared
from Europe, were it not for Germany.
Prussia has gone on building up the charac-
ter it has to-day for seven hundred years. Ii
is marvellous to think of that history. 1t
vas about the year 1170-just seven hundred
years ago-that an ancestor, from whom the
present King Of Prussia is about the twenty
third descendant, vent over that same track
toward the Rhine. He stopped at Kaiser
slautern to take service under Barbarosea;
and since then Germany has been feeling her
vav toward another Barbarossa. II is Curl
Gus what spell the old 'Red-beard'' has
woven about the popular Imagination. In
the German country houses the peasants ne
late to wideeyed children how old BaS6a-
roan i sill sitting in cavern somewhere
in the mountains awaiting his time for reap
pearapce. Once shepherd entered his cav
ern, and surprised the old man; he was
seated before . table, and his beard had