Litchfield enquirer., 1877-11-22

rgz1eM4lF M1A4G eD the parties O4 friends who 20 sa ae Em Mk his place in the country, he allu- dAs1 inE1recf1y fo the charge sometimes urged asszimaG hzm af being a sentimentalist He showed the spxing 0f mueh of the Ioftiest and mnsE keruir hnmaan aexinn is what is described xz sEzEizEnE Patri0tism is but sentiment. Love a senfimenA The fling of sentimental ny H m1Eh Eke 0theF gibea It is form of exrrgsMinw The reason why. can nut tell and manafmeuGality is as good as any oxhz Thee who are fond of using the word ss 6GMxinxive p0fnf to LamaFtine and Victor Hzgo in RFe1cA polificA They are held to be aluserzaions of class that regard public affairs fum the em1aiDnR and not from reason h the mme senses alans Golden and Bright and al the speacE statesmen must be regarded as sezsimezGAlisex That ig to say they recoil fFum vSolence md hmve a general theory bas- cd upoa then refugnance,S that violence is Jn- necrssmry- But the real trouble with men like LkzAESine and Victor Hugo is that they lack pEzcxical cuEnron-Sense, not that they are sen rimeuGalstx For if will hardly be asserted Hkz< all men wfO are strongly under the infiu- ence 0f feeling mnz1 necessarily want good sease and judgment.
 The misc1lief les in the misuse of the word If t0 feel the f0rce of ennobling sentiments be sentimental, t is certainly no discredit. If it he weak, fO0lish, vzporing, and impractica- hle mzrpa0t is 60 be sentimental then it is, of cuW<e. a repruacA But it is not so. Public affairs may nOt always be moved by what is c1lled sentiment. but the loftiest politics may be senkimensaL The political epoch, in this cuunkry that Ams jus& eieeed was esbecially SO. So alsO WAS the paiod of the Revolution. The uainspriEg Of tize anti slavery movement and 0f al the p0lItics founded upon it was senti- meuL- Ii was the conviction that slavery was %Fueg which mroused the public mind and led Se- -sEa. A T& B.. deed true. and 1t was constantly and conclu- Svely shown, that slavery was essentially un- prufEahle because of its necessary effects. But this was not the chief consideration It was 8 neEe crOllaEy- That slavery was wrong was the czy that marshaled men politically against h- The politics of the last generation were in this se1se sentimental politics. But they were certainly as respectable and honorable and man ly @s politics of tariffs, banks and taxation. It Is true that such sentimental questions do not require careful study and training for their srea1meus, and that all kinds of iIl-ballasted saAlots may seem to make the cause itself ridic- usO1& But certainly ii would have been very fooEish to say that Mr. Stewards declaration of q klgher law were unworthy of a statesman on the ground that sentiment has properly noth- ing Co do with politics From DemOsthenes to ChMth&m and later men elOquence has had S1meshing to do with politics and sentiment is uos foreign to elOquence Indeed, as speech making plays much larger part in the politics of a popular government than in those of any oEher, szch system which we assert in this couuREy to he the wisest of all, is the most sen timezEal Of all
 Thers Is 10 necessary antagonism, as our own kizsngr shows, between the most efficient and esEgeEic practical organization for any purpose and the highest sentiment of that purpose. The mSscAicf begins when the two are antagoniZed zs Inrmpatih8e- Principle is then derided as sezximezt, and the very purpose for which the 0ggxniExGi0n exisas is Fidiculed by the organi- EzEsm itself The habit of sneering at senti- DSza dege1zzfes into impatience of principle Is Is the wuE1 form of demoralization, because 1 CnzfOunds honor, Tectitude, and patriotism wIsh impwacsicable folly. The desire for con sEznE FEugreSs and for the reasonable improve usrzf uf sEsesy is the true conservative ele- E<zG An e@sy-g0ing or a cOntemptuous in d7Hezv1re the devil take the hindmost" and 'xfter me the delnge" policy, is not wise or <TSzz sxfesmanslip. The people who were SzrAxMaed with Lnrd PalmerstOn with the Spxig of gczznium in his mouth, appealing to J0ha Bun. and who delight in the cool audaci- ty 0f DSx@e6, naturally thought Golden vis- i1z&Ey, and they think Gladstone prig T w1x 6wn 30, mother" says Byron's Deformed And thuae who think that Palmerston was gEea1 or wise English statesman, or thats Lord RcsrnzSzsrld is a pEac1ical.m man compared with tA< ssuzimenaal Gladstone, would probably be fuzsd to he those under whose influence and zzFsCies the tone of English politics and pub Ec Efe is nc materially frightened. a,
 The o0ah<ing brethren would preserve minds and sEmpers more equable if they could but k1ow lAExa the believer in the practicability of pxilcfpAe and decency and truth believes much @age he@rtily than the disbeliever disbelieves. The satempt in England to put Mir. Gladstone Iz the position 0f nlan who would comprom- i< sAe power of his country as a great civiliz- @g izfi1ence. is merely an attempt to smite kim win his own thnndeFbolts. It is essen tSAfly an appeal tO the very sentiment which is desrxSed in him, It is a strikingiand uneon- scsuas tribute upon the part Ofthose who usual ly S1err @a principles and ideas that .in a great cTSSSS n1Ehing Is % practical. EASY CHAER, in HaEPx's Magazine .tor December.
 
 THEoErEs ABOUT MARs.-The land regions of Mars can be distinguished from the seas by thSir Fl1dy color, the seas being greenish. But hcre. perhaps. you will be disposed to ask how zSsrunnmerS can be sure that the greenish re- gioas are scas. the ruddy regions land, the white spots either snow or cloud Might not materi- aas alfogesher unlike any we are acquainted with exis upon that remote planet? The spec tuOscOpe answers this question in the dearest way. You know that astronomers have learn. cd that the vapOr of water exists in the atmOs- pheTe uf Venus The same method has been applied even more satisfactorily, CO the planet of war. and it has been found that he also has his atmosphere at times laden with moisture. This being so, ii is clear we have not to do with planet made of materials utterly unlike those forming our earth. To suppose s0 when we find that the air of Mars, formed like our own, (fOr if it contained other gases the spectrascope would tell us. contains often large quantities Of the vapur of water, would be as absurd as to believe in the green cheese theory of the moon, Or in another, equally preposterous, advanced lately by an English artist-Mr. J. Brett-to the effect that the atmosphere of Venusis form eSi Of giaSS There is another theory about Mars. certainly not so absurd as either of those iust named. but scarcely supported by evidence al prcsent-the idea, namely, advanced by a French astronomer, that the rlddy color of the lands and seas of Mans, is due to red trees and a generally scarlet vegetation. Your poet Holmes refers to this in those lines of hs ''Star- clouds and Wind clouds" (tomy mind, among the mOst charming of his many charming Poems:l :.
 .TAs snOws that slistered on the disk of Mars
 Have Have melted. and ths planets fiery orb
 His quite possible, of course, that such col OEs as are often seen in American woods in the Autumn time may prevail in the forests and vegetation of Mars during the fullness of the MArtian Summer. The fact that during this season the planet looks rlddier than usual in sOme degree corresponds with this theory. But 1t is much better explained, to my mind, by the greater clearness of the Martian air in the Sum mer time. That would enable us to see the col or of the soil better. If our earth were looked al from Venus during the Winter times the snOws covering laEge narts of her ailface, and the cloude and mists common in the Winter months, would hide the tints of the surface. whereas these would be very distinct in clear Summer weather. I fear my own conclusion about Mars is that his present condition is very desolate. look on the ruddiness of tint to which have referred as one of the signs that the planet of war has long since passed its prime. There are lands and seas in Mars, the vapor of wateRis present inlnis air, clouds form rains and sa0Ws fah upon his surface, and doubtless brooks and rivers irrigate his soil and carry down the moisture collected on his wide
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