The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-12-08
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MI" Moses retains his sent as Chief
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truth to state, that had the minority been
called upon to make a choice between
the radical candidates, they would, we
have learned, very generally have voted
for Senator Robertson, as the least OBJ
jeotionable man-a circumstance which
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Carlyle on the Franco-Prussian War.
The London Times contains letter
from the eccentric thinker and writer
eccentric and yet concentr'fe-.T Thomas Car
lyle. It has been we'll called can episto-
lery peal OF thunder'-tsa fiery denun-
citation of France" In this letter,
Carlyle expresses his hopes for Germany
and his faith in her. At the same time,
he bears down upon poor France like q
grim monster, and devours her fame
and her name with hungry spirit of
wrath. He sneers at the French COM
plaint Of threatened ''loss of honor, :"
and tells France that her honor can be
saved only by her "decp repentance. {"
She must determine s'never to do so
again. in the past deeply
sinned and in that way, says the sage,
t'may the honor of France again grad
ually brighten to the height of its old
splendor." For the present, Carlyle
paints France in no attractive colors.
He thus pours out the vials of his bot
tied wrath upon France:
..For Che present. must say, Franco
looks mote and more delirions, misera-
gle, blamable. pitiable. and even con-
temptible: She refuses to see the facts
that are lying palpabIe before her face,
ard flle penalties she has brought upon
herself. A France scattered into anarch-
ieruin, without recognizable head; head
OFchief, ,.indistinguishable from feet, or
rabble; ministers flying mp in balloons
baliasted with nothing but outrageous
public lies; proolamations of victories
that were creatures of the fancy; q go
vernment subsisting altogether on men
dacity, willing that horrid bloodshed
should continue and increase, rather
than that they, beautiful Republican
creatures, should cease to have the gui-
dance of it; l know not when or where
there was seen nation SO covering itself
with dishonor. If, among this multi
tude Of sympathetic bystanders, France
have any true friend, his advice to
France would be-to abandon all that,
and never to resume it more. France
really onght to know that refugees of
lies were long ngo discovered to lead
down only to the gates Of death eternal,
and to be forbidden to all creatures
thnt the only hope for France is to
recognize the facts which have como to
her; and that they came wthal by invi-
tation of her own; how shea mass of
gilded, proudly vanished nnarchy-has
wilfnlly insulted and defied to mortal
duel neighbor not anarchic, but still
in o quietly human, sober, ond governed
state, and has prospered accordingly.
Prosp, cred as an array of sanguinary
mountebanks versus q Macedonian pha-
lanx must needs do; and now lies smit-
ten down into hideous wreck and impo-
tence, testifying to gods and men what
extent of rotten ness, anarchy, and hidden
vileness lay in her. That the inexorahle
fact is, she has left herself without re-
source or power of resisting the victori-
ous Germans; and that her wisdom will
be to take that fact into her astonished
mind; to know that. howsoever hateful,
said fact is inexorable, and will have to
be Icompiied with, the sooner at the
cheaper rate. It is hard lesson to vain-
glorious France; but Franco, we hope,
has still in it veracity and probity
enough to accept fact as an evidently
adamantine entity, which will not brook
resistance without penalty, and is un-
alterable by the very gods.''
In her great revolution Mr.. Carlyle
admits that France commenced great
work. He says:
''Alasl one does understand that
France made her great revolution;
uttered her tremendous doom's voice
against world of human shams, pro-
claiming, as with the last trumpet, that
shams should be no more. often call
th0t q Ceestin1-infe fernoI rbopomono,