New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-02-23

do they think forget a. and am not grateful for
1t, and cont love the country which showed its
love for me?
Then breaking off suddenly into one Of his
explosions of wild laughter. half pathetic. half
serious he exclaimed: Yes. ! angered You all
with my Ilias in Nuce but who shall say was
not right; or right then? But you were the
stronger at last; you conquered. and you know
people will have it | have said might is right.
suppose did say 1t? | knew what meant by u
not what they think meant.--there is real,
true meaning under IT. man is an atheist VINO
believes that in the long run what Goa allows 10
triumph Is not the right
There spoke the real Carlyle. Yet does il really
matter very much whether the great writer. VINO
belongs almost equally TO us and to Great
Britain. were or were not right about the CIVIL
War at a time when almost everybody IN
Europe and half the people of America were
wrong? Is that the true test? In Two ldi "oio
extreme cases we have shown ourselves forgiv-
ing and magnanmous; forsiving to the oou'"e'"
people and leaders and both forgving and mag
unanimous to Mr.. Gladstone, at that Time 'he ''0''
dangerous enemy we had. We have built affairs
to Mr. Gladstone and burned incense before
them and him. Shall we refuse even 10 40 so'ne-
thing IN nreserve as memorial OF Carlyle the
house in which he lived? II there be in these
,ast fev generations literary landmark In Lon
don. this surely is one
The American committee Is Itself the pest an
swer to such criticisms as have been consider-
ING Are these gentlemen good and representa-
tive Americans or are they not? The late Vice
President of the United States now Governor o.
New-Yorl-is he suspected by anybody of not
being good patriot? Are the interests OF
American Literature likely 10 suffer in the hands
Of It's oldest celebrity. the Rev. Edward Everett
Hale? on this American Committee are such
Americans as Mr.. T. j. Phelps, late Minister
to England. and now an ornament OF Yale Un!-
versity With him Is his former Secretary Of
Legation. Mr. Henry White. Mr.. Choates name
stands for learning and genius at the New-York
Bar. Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt is supposed 10
have some interest in things American. Mr. Pier
pont Morgan. who is banker to the Committee. Is
not entirely unconnec;ed with American finance
and credit abroad There is a United States
Senator from Massachusetts,. a State where
patriotism IL not Of recent growth. NJ Cabot
Lodge known in the Senate and elsewhere for
his Jealous vigilance toward England, and the
author Of the most intensely American life OF
Washington ever written. There Is NJ Chauncey
Depew, who yearly comes back from Europe 10
assure his countiymen that whatever Is best IS
American and whatever is American Is best.
There is the biographer Of the greatest Of Amer-
can Presidents since Washington the biographcr
and trusted friend OF Lincoln. Colonel John Hay.
There is Harvard University In the person or
Professor Charles Eliot Norton. and there Is
another American man Of letters, and OF vide
interest and experience in American literature
Mr. r. w Glider DO you, or do You not, think
that American interests are safe In such hands,
or that these gentlemen. or any of them. are
likely to be careless of what concerns their own
country bad judges of what concerns lis honor?
But Mr. Laurence Hutton tells us we ought
to subscribe to a memorial OF George William
Curtis With all my heart II Mr.. Hutton IL
not on my side of the Carlyle matter. am on
his In his desire to honor Curtis. ! hope he T.
no longer In the same mood in which he wrote
his not too generous paragraph In Harper :.
But will make him a friendly offer. lie Is a
rich man and am a journalist. But II he VIII
give us 500 for the Carlyle Memorial. | Will give
an equal sum to the Curtis fund And rather
imagine that America Is rich enough ana Amerl-
can enough TO do honor to both Curtis and
Carlyle. g. W. D