The Hawaiian gazette., 1871-02-08

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win have to be complied with-tae sooner At tho
cheaper rate. Il is hard lcsson tosvaia glorious
Francs, hut France We hope, has s, 10 II veraeiiy
and probity enough 70 scceps fact as an evidently
adamantine Guilty, which win not break resistance
Without penalty and Is anslterable by the very gods
'sThe qaantity of conscious mendseity that France
Official and Other has perpstrsed laitsry, especially
since July last Is something wonderful and fesrfu-
| And, alas perhaps even that L small compared 10
| the seifdeiusion aud unconscIous uiendacity long
prevalent among the French; which 10 Of stu teller
and more poisonous quality though unrecognlsed
for poison To me, at times, the mournfnllest symp
tom 10 FFance is the figure its smeh Of genIus'its
highest literary Speakers, who should be prophets
and seers to II, make at present and, indeed, for
generation back have been making. It Is evidently
their belief that celestial wisdom Is radisting
out of France upon ell the other oversindowsd na-
tions, that France Is the Mount Zion Of the nni
verse; and that all this sad, sordd, semidelirous,
and, IN good part Internal stuff which French liter
atnre has been preaehing TO Us for the last any
years is q veriiabie new Gospel out Of Heaven.
pregnant with blessedness for all the Of men.
Alas, one does understand that France made her
Great Revolution; uttered her tremendous doom's
voice against a world of human shams, proclaimlug,
as with the great Last Trumpet, that shams should
be no more. I often call that a celestial internal
/ phenomenon-the most memorable in our world for
thousand years; the whole, transceudant re-
volt against the Devil and his works (sluee shams
are all and sundry of the devil, and poisonous and
unendurable to mani. For that we al Infinitely love
aud honor France. And truly oil nations are now
busy enough copying France In regard TO thatl
From side TO side OF the civilized world there Is, Ia
a manner, nothing noticeable but the whole world
in deep and dismally chaotic insurrection against
shams, determination to have done with sham e0ufe
qua cos. Indispensable that battle, however ugly
We done may say to all that; for 1t Is the pre-
minary to every thing; but alas, all that Is not yet
victory; il Is but half the battle the much
Ter half The indefinitely harder half, which Is the
equally or the still indispensable, is that Of
achieving, instead Of the abolished shams which
were Of the DEVIL the practicable realities which
should be veritable and of God. That first half Of
the battle, rejoice to see is safe, now new
er cease except in victory but the further stage Of
it. also see, must be under better presidency than
that Of France, or 1t viii for prove impossible
The German race, not the Gaelic are now to be
| protagonist in that immense world drama; and from
| them expect better issues. Worse we cannot well
have. France. with dead-lift effort, Of eighty
one years, has accomplished under this head, for
herself or for the world, nothing, even less-in
strict arithmetic, zero, with minus quantities. Her
prophets prophecy vain thing, her people rove in
darkness and have wandered far astray.
"a hundred years ago there was in England the
liveest desire, and at time actual effort and
hope, to recover Alsace and Lorraine from the
French Lord Carteret, called afterwardf Lord
Granville (no ancestor, in any sense, Of his now
honorable synonym, thought by some to be, with
the one exception Of Lord Chatham, the wisest for
eign secretary we had, and especially the ono
| "a
German matters at ALL had set his heart tbis
very object, and had fair prospects Of achieving It,
had not the poor Duke Of Newcastle suddenly ped
died him out Of it, and even of ecs altogether,
into sullen disgust land too much Of wine with
al says Walpole) and into total oblivion by his
tion, which, except Chatham has none sich to re-
membsr That Bismarck aud Germany along with
him, should now at this propitous juneture make
like demand is no surprise to me- After such prov
ocation and after such victory, the resolution
does not seem RATIONAL just, and even modest. And
considering all that has occurred since that memo
rablc cataclysm at Sedan, could reckon il credit
able TO the sense and moderation OF Count Bis
marck that he stands steadily BY this; demanding
nothing more resolute to take nothing less, and ad
vancing with slow calmness towards IL BY ths
eligibest roads. The Siege Of Paris, which lookI
like the hugest and most hideous farce tragedy
ever played under the sun, Bismarck evidently
hopes will never need to come TO uttermost bon-
bardment, to millioufold death by hunger, or The
kindling Of Paris aud its carpentries and asphalt
streets by shell and red hot balls into Of fire.
Dilligent, day BY day, seem those Pfussians never
resting nor too much hastiDg; well knowing the
proverb SLOW FIRE makes sweet malt l believe
Bismarck will get bis Alsace, and what he wants Of
Lorraine; and likewise it will do him, and Us, and
all the world, and even France itself by and BY,
great deal OF good. AnarchIc France gets her frat
stern lesson there-a terrible drastic dose Of physc
to sick France land well will it be for her Il abe
can learn her esson honestly. II she cannot, abe
will get another and another; learnt the lesson
must bel
considerable mlsconception as 10 Herr Won Bis
marck is stiIl prevalent In England. Tbs English
newspapers, nearly all Of them, seem TO ne TO be
only getting towards true knowledge Of Bismarck,
but not yet got to IT, The standing likeness cireu-
latng everywhere ten years ago. of demented Bis
marck and his ditto King TO STAFFORD aud Charles l.
versus our Long Parliament (as like Macedon toAon
mouth, and not liker) has now vanished from the
EARTH no whisper OF It ever to be heard more That
pathetic Niobe Of Denmark, reft violently Of her
children (which were stolen children, and were
dreadfully ill-nursed by Niobe Denmarkl is also
nearly gone and Will go altogether so soon as know
ledge Of the matter is bad Bismarck. as read him
is not person Of 'NapoleoDIc ideas, but Of ldeas
quite superior to Hapoeobic; shows no inEineibie
lust OF territory, is tJrmented with vulgar am
biton,' &c. but has aims very far beyond that
sphere; and in fact seems to me 70 be striving with
strong faculty. BY patient grand and successful steps
towards an object beneficial to Germans and to all
other men. That noble, patient, deep, piOus aud
solid Germany should be at length welded into
tion, and become Queen Of the ConiineBt instead Of
vaporng, yain-gIorious. gesiculatiug, quaHelsome.
restless, over. sensitive France, seems to the
hopefulest public fact that has occurred 10 my time
na r. CARLYLE,
"Chelsea, November II"