The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-11

Browns enterprise had not been con-
hded TO him beforehand and he would
doubtless have tried to dlssuade Brown
IL II had been. When the attempt had
been made and frustrated Brown be-
came TO Emerson "thc rarest Of heroes,
n pure idealist with no by-ends Of his
own. He is, therefore, precisely what
lawyers call crazy. being governed by
ideas and not 10y external circum-
stances. He has afforded them the first
trait marked in the books as betraying
insanity; namely, dlsproportion between
means and ends" 1t was. however.
Thoreau who took the lead in Concord
and volunteered to make d speech "in
the Unitarian vestry" MS soon as the
news came. There was a memorial
meeting in Concord on the day OF
Browns execution at which Emerson
spoke. and he afterward made
speeches in Boston and In Salem at
meetings held for the relief Of Browns
family. His boldness does not now
seem extreme, but II cost him the with
drawal OF lecture engagements for the
following season.
Emerson's judgments about the SOL
diers Of the war are apt to be vitiated,
US 1t has lately been shown that those
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with military efy,c,oncv ana hv a,snor-
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which that astuto ncrson nrofe.sod On
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Er.mont had really become increIih,o
And This for M other reason than thar
Fremont had assumed to force the
Presidents hand. MS MISC did David
Hunter. by usurpIug executive preroC-
atiyes and issuing n premature proc
lamation OF emancipation on his own
account, a course OF action which en-
listed the admiration Of Ben Wade,
chairman Of the Committee on the Con-
duct Of the War; and made him an en-
thusiastic partisan Of Fremont's, as ap-
pears here from Emersons journal Of his
sojourn In Washington. There is rather
less OF the striking and memorable in this
department uf the journals than In any
other. In military affairs Emerson talks
like the ordinary civilian. Nevertheless
one Is encouraged by discovering that
} he considered there were things worth
fighting for. and he would hardly be
found on platforms at present urging
peace with ANYBODY at any price
Enough practically hothihg IL 80 I'M
probable or perhaps impossipie con-
unsehcy ior me, yet 90 not WISH 10
aodicate so extreme u privilege as inc
use OF the SWORD OF the Juliet for tne
peace Oh the man VINO ui'is iors"orh inc
use Oh TIC puie' seeH's W '"e hol quise
peace
! Really It is TO the purely Literary
parts OF the Journals tAat one turns
and returns with most satisfaction. Tie
earliest journals, indeed, those OF 1896
have their own interest In tie report
that the journalist has to make OF his
own experiences as n lecturer In the
middle West. we have nothing now
corresponding TO the "lyccum' OF those
days. In which "mcn OF light and lead
ing but above all OF celebrity or at
least notoricty. found their account In
gratifying the curiosity of their fellow
citizens In remote parts and Drawing
the discomforts OF m!dwinter travelling
and provincial hotels In order to minis
ter to the curiosity anu beguile the
tedirm OF their remote fellow citizens
In the long winter evenings. The ac-
count was indeed beggarly compared
|. with what is now charged by the Sec
rotary of State and other successful lee
turers for the entertainment and In
struction they afford In the summer
season. At the same time the lyceuu
, OF the days before the war was much
more considerable as means OF cul'
ture and u national institution than the
Chautauqua substitute OF the prcsen
time. Emerson's schedule took hin
, during the winter Of SO through Illinois
Wisconsin. Michigan and Ohio. which
were then further West to Bostoniar
than any part Of the country is now
: His interest in what TO him was move
. scene was keen, and his observations
/ correspondingly interesting. Il fine
5 we'll disposed. kindly people among
these s!newy farmers OF the North. bu
I, in all that Is called cultivation they ar
only 10 years old; so that there Is plenty
Of non-adaptation and yawning gulf
!. never bridged In this ambitious lyceun
oNE=t ON n n M