New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-23

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slave power startled the dormant manhood OF tho
North and Of the country.
The North hain't kind Of business with nothin',
An you've no dce how much bother 1t saves.
We Amt none rllcd by their frcttn' and fIothn,
Were used to ayin' the string on our slaves;
SCI John c. Calhoun. SCI he.
SEE Mister Foote
should like to shoot
The hull gang, by the great horn spoon. SCI he.
"The mess ough' to labor an We lay sor.s,
That's the reason want TO spread Freedoms 1ree.'
II puts all the cunningcst on us In oficc
An reoHes our makers original Idce,
SCI John G. Calhoun. se7 he.
That's pain. ser Cas-,
that ones ass.
It's ez clear as the sun is at ser he
.'Yow don't 60 To say I'm the friend OF oppression
But keep oil your spare breath for ooolin your BROTH
For / alters hey (at least that's my mprcs'lon)
To make cus-ci free with the rights Of the North.
Sez John c. Calhoun. sez he.
Yes. says Davis OF Miss,
The perfection o. bliss
Is I'm SHINING that same old COON SET he"
Such lines ~ with stroke Of lightning. burnt
into he hearts and Conscience of the North. Read
TO-DAY ihcY recall - hoihhg 'isr ca. r''iii .ue ~
tenSty Of the feeling Which swiftly named iht' civil
war.
ESSENTIALLY And PURELY AMI mCAN.
Apart from their special impulse and influence The
Elglow n,pcr, were essentially ard purely American.
II /, sometimes said that the best American Peuy Is
only English poetry writ en- on this sde OF the ocean
Ent the Biglow Papers are dtunctivcly American as
Tam o'Shanier T. scotch the Divine Comedy ltaImh
They could have been written nowhere else but IN
Yankee New England ly New England Yankee
Wih Uncle Toni Cabin they are the ch'i literary
mcmo;l Of the contest. memorial when ~ literature
and for their delight. our chihrns onutvn W" w.
rcad a, We read to-day the satrrs that so2nsse 'hc
long shed Rome which JuvennI knc" ara t'c oir
ticns of Burke ,hat discuss long lsr.-hN P, nrouaiv
identified himself with the Abpliuonkts. himul.
inncously with the publication Of ,he III rnrnd
Paper he became corresponding citIr Win tn,u w.,
oi,cv 81 The Anti slavery standard, the organ OF ,ie
American AMI slavery Soclay; ara ~ " ,e ts utper
he SAYS was not OILY willing but DESTROYS ui,t ny
should appeal bcGc 'r CO, nS,IoSy 10 INV
aioliiiGnlsm vi hout mourning ut The saue tlme What
ton with boiy Of heroic inch ana women ~"D , az
10 love and admire would prove me 10 be ul"'T ,n,
cnnsIitutr. truc manhood and womonho1d believe
never existed ... To- ,.,,, ho,g his
soI'. and absorbing Interest and activity Lowell
.tndics more and nor, various and nce-sant; wcr
- comprehensive that II not hkc i'hcoh az hIoNI ,
cdge vct he took all literature foI his province, anu
in ISIS h. wa, appointed &, The chair o. mcl.rh
lcc,Iing Lonercilow ard ncknor an illu,rlons
prpup of American scholars when gives 10 wa" '"'.'
distinction unparalleled In onr echooI' MS ln'" niu
tory 81 l. fs were extraordinary. and his d'votnn
10 study 20 RELENTLESS that IN those cIuer Nc'tN ~,
studded
rord over hook until hi, sight ccncd To dccrt Nm
Int il was no Idle evancsccnt r'ihiuf TIpp'p,,
French romance none knew Dhnte nn1 thc Italian,
more profoundly: German literature WI, 'nr.t' 1 -,
Am and perhaps even Tlcin0r IN lls own domain n!i
S"nni'h lore wa, not more master than Lowell.
The whole range Of English htrmiurc not ohN u,
noble EHzalctian heights. but dchght'Ii r,",m -.
,irt,re-ouc and uufrr1ucutcd paths. wer' hs lAmhf
park Of plc,sanc" Vet he WI, NOS 4 s,ho',n wn
mo- les 80 acute and trained an observer OF nature
- sympathetic friend 81 biri' aud Hover, :" NJ
tbst ae Charles Briggs. with singular insight San
tiat be wins meant for politician. 80 Darwin, VII"
frank admiration. eald that h. wns born '" uc n'
mraist lie VA, rs much the cCntcr"d comIntion ~
I1eaI Walion and White of .olo7c. A. Of Dome
,-,,c iisn rs fondnc,S for Judy md he was N"
most fasoinatinr of comrades. III cAtr"o'nAnnarS
o,d ,io rncy Lumor IN which hi knowledge wa. fnsed,
overlooked his conversation. Thrrc J. NM n..pl
Circle Oh % w I%H na"y aE"pec Sat- nor Popc
nor Drvden's nor Addson's. DR.: Johns m; club
r rm a study. to Which Lowcrs abundance would
not have contributed golden drop ana ms RIa ni
merely it, was Of the reading of n man Of Lowell.
intellectual power and resource, that Bacon s'hh
reading mahch full man"
THE PROSE or POET.
lie had said I'm 1916 that II was as poet That nc
could do his best work. But the poetic temperament
md faculty do not exclude prose, and Hike MlionS
swain lie touched the tender stops Of various pl'iis
The young poet early showed that pose would be as
obedicnt familiar TO his genius rs The tilcksy Arirl
II verse Racy ard rich. aud often OF the most sono
rus or delicate cadence is stu The prose OF poet
and a master Of the difference, Of form. His prose
indeed Is often profoundly poetic. that T.. quick with
Imagnation but always In the form If prose not of
uoctry Il Is 80 finely compact u Illustration, OF
thought and learning, ~ wit and fncy ana perlncat-
Ing humor that his prose page Splrkl"s ana SWANS
like a ulos phOrescrnt "Dblvipn, ne SAYS, looks
In thc rncc o. the Grcclan and iOrgcts her
orrands And again: 1.-THE parners OF sicily are
empty now, but the bees from all clmes sui fetch
honey from The tiny garden Hot Of Thcocrtns' such
concentrated sentences mnrvels OF Felicity ana, al
though inInctIrd exquisite rs songs.
Charles Emerson said Of shakespeare he sat above
this hundred handed play Of his Imagination peislve
and conscious and Lowell is remembered by those
who knew bin we'll Literature was his earliest love
and his latest delight. and be has been OFTEN called
the first man Of letters Of his lime. The phrase Is
vague bni IL expresses the feeling that while he was
n poet and n scholar. and II humoris, and critic: he
was something else and something more Ihe feeling
Is perfectly inst Living all summer by the sea we
watch with fascinated eye the long-howng lines The
cash ard CLEAN ~ mltiiudnOus waters, bnt beneath
Them al i the mighty movement ~ uHfithoned cream
ON whose surface only these undnoting sp"idoiS play
Literature. whether IN prose verse was Inc iorin ~
Inwell's nc,lviiv but It's master imrilse was not
esthetlc BIZ: moral. When the activities OF his We