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46 THE STAB OF FREEDOM. Atoust 28,1852.
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The Blithedale Romance. By Nathaniel Haw...
liatiat dark and thrilling " Scarlet Letter ; " and he exercises lis is force of fascination with such ease and mastery , as calm radiid quiet all the while , as the deep , dark , lonely waters , that mmm $ imes seem to woo and hold us , like a glittering spell . Lincmct be . has so nuich sweet and delicate human tenderness ^ trithai , with a most etherial playfulnes of spirit . One gets aarare . draughts of the wine of beauty , and glorious glimpses of if i loveliness from his pages , fragrant as the clew , ancl rres * esh as the face of Nature in his own land . He has the
Dfbftiest ideal" of love , and the most perfect type of feminine >> u » nrity and loveliness ;• and over all he writes there broods a tilailacid grace , that glorifies , like a tender smile upon the i imimnan countenance . We find in Hawthorne a collosal calmueaess , and a noble dignity , which no other transatlantic writer ttaaas attained , save Emerson . There is in Mm a subdued lerense of power , a nonchalance of inner might , which reminds its is somewhat of Wordsworth and G-oethe . It is akin to the )> raratory of Pericles , who produced his effects without the sdcloqnence of action , His writings are gemmed with beautiful ihchoughts and golden ideas as thick as the night-sky is studded
; vivith stars . He is exquisitely learned in the lore of love , and can ;? munningly produce those touches of sadness which enhance i & eauiy like the , bloom upon fruit . Beside various writings , ijoeriodical and otherwise , he has written the " Twice-tolcl T & ales , " " The Snow Image , " " Mosses from an old Manse , " : uu The Scarlet Letter , and tlie "House of the Seven Gables . " AAny of these may be purchased for One Shilling , and wc laadvise our readers who have not made the acquaintance of so xiricli and or iginal , national and universal a writer , to do so at oonce ; they will be amply repaid .
His last , and to our thinking , one of his very best works , ias the BlithedaU Romance . It is a work of mournful interest . lit tells of broken hopes , shattered purposes , and blighted eenthusiasm . ' It narrates the failure of a social community , aand the sacrifice of three lives , who staked and lost their all . * $ en years ago a number of persons , full of aspiration for the tbetrerlife , formed an association , and took up their residence gat Brook Farm , Massacuhsetts , II . S . Among this company , were Ellery Channing , a nephew of the Charming , Dana , the jpoet , Ripley , Dwight , Parker , and Hawthorne . There were
ialso several laches , most of whom have since become cele ibrate . d . They went forth from the world of competitive strife , ] resolved to live ancl labour together , ancl endeavour to weld the principles of Brotherhood and Equality into their lives . 1 The scheme did not answer , however and the band at length dispersed . Out of these materials Hawthorne has created the Blithedale Romance , freely admitting , that in addition to the Fact , which is the living pulse of the work , it is essentially
a Fiction- It is full of intense character , vital interest , and rare excellences . ' Although it chronicles tho failure of the Communist experiment , the author does not pronounce upon Socialism , nor condemn the principles in theory or practice . The principal characters are " Miles Coverdale" a Poet ; ^ Holnngsworth , " a philosopher ancl philanthropist ; " Zenobia , " a gorgeous beauty of imperial queenliness ; " Pviscilla , " a somnambulist : and old ' < Silas Foster . " Here is
THE FIRST SUPPER . Well all sat down—grisly Silas Foster , his . rotund helpmate , and the two bouncing handmaidens , included—and looked at one another in a friendly but rather awkward way . It was the first practical trial of our theories of equal brotherhood and sisterhood ; and we people of superior cultivation and refinement ( for as such , I presume , we unhesitatingly reckoned ourselves ) felt as if something were already accomplished towards the millennium of love . The truth is , however , that the labouring-oar was with our unpolished companions ; it being far
easier to condescend than to accept of condescension . Neither did I refrain from questioning , in secret , whether some of usand Zenobia among the rest—would so quietly have taken our places among these good people , save for the cherished consciousness that it was not by necessity , but choice . Though we saw fit to drink our tea out of earthen cups to night , and in earthen company , it was at our own option to use pictured porcelain and handle silver forks again to-morrow . This same salvo , as to the power of regaining our former position , contributed much , I fear , to the equanimity with which we
subsequently bore many of the hardships and humiliations of a life of toil . If ever 1 have deserved ( which has not often been the case , and , I think , never ) , but if ever I did deserve to be soudly cuffed by a fellow-mortal , for secretly putting weight upon some imaginary social advantage , it must have been while I was striving to prove myself ostentatiously his equal , and no more . It was while I sat beside him on his cobbler ' s bench , or clinked my hoe against his own in the corn-field , or broke the same crust of bread , my earth-grimed hand to his , at our noon-tide lunch . The poor , proud man should look at both sides of sympathy like this .
Here we have another glimpse of then
LIFE IX C 01 IM . UX 1 TY . On the whole , it was a society such as has seldom met toge ther ; nor , perhaps , could it reasonable be expected to hold together long . Persons of marked individuality—crooked sticks , as some of us might be called—are not exactly the easiest to bind up into a fagot . * * The peril of our new way of life was not lest we should faS . in becoming practical agriculturists , but that we should probably cease to be anything else . While our enterprise lay all in theory , we had pleased ourselves with delectable visions of the spiritualization of labour . It was to be our form
of prayer and ceremonial of worship . Each stroke of the hoe was to uncover some aromatic root of wisdom , heretofore hidden from the sun . Pausing hi the field , to let the wind exhale the moisture from our foreheads , we were to look upward , and catch glimpses into the far-off soul of truth . In this point of view , matters did not turn out quite so well as we anticipated . It is very true that , sometimes , gazing casually around me , out of the midst of my toil , I used to discern a richer picturesqueness hi the visible scene of earth and sky . There was , at such moments , a novelty , an unwonted aspect , on the face of Nature , as if she had been taken by surprise ancl seen at with
unawares , no opportunity to put off her real look , and assume the mask with which she mysteriously hides herself from mortals . But this was all . The clods of earth which we so constantly belaboured and turned over and over , were never etheralised into thought . Our thoughts , on the contrary , were fast becoming cloddish . Our labour symbolised nothing , and left usi mentally sluggish in the dusk of the evening . Intellectual activity is incompatible with any large amount of bodily exercise . The yeoman and the scholar—the yeoman and the manof finest moral culture , though not the man of sturdiest jerise and integrity—are two distinct mdividuals , and can never gemelted or , wejded into one substance .
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The following , with which we must conclude , is lull of tliriUjng power , One , of of the coinmunjty is missing , amc ] a clarjs forboding hangs over Zeiiobia ' s fate . " The shadow of s ? reat woe , like comiug night , Lays its hand daddy on the face , of things .
th ; e search fob the lost . « When our few preparations were completed , we hastened , by a shorter than the customary route , ' through fields and naatures , and across a portion of the meadow , to the particular spot on the river-bank which I " had paused to contemplate in the course of my afternoon ' s ramble . A nameless presentiment had again drawn me thither , after leaving Elliot ' s pulpit . I showed my companion where I had found the handkerchief , and pointed to two or three footsteps , impressed into the clayey margin , and tending towards the ' water . Beneath its shallow
verge , among the water-weeds , there further traces , as yet unobliterated by the sluggish current , which was there almost at a stand-still . - Silas Foster thrust his face down close to these footsteps , and picked up a shoe that had escaped my observation , being half embedded in the mud . ' There ' s a kid shoe that never was made oa a Yankee last , ' observed he , ' I know enough of shoemaker ' s craft to tell that . French manufacture ; and , see what a high instep ! and how evenly she trod in it ! There never was a woman that stept hanaomer in her shoes than Zenobia did . Here / he added , addressing Hollingsworth , 1 would you like to keep the shoe ? ' Hollings worth started back .
' Give it to me , Foster , ' said I , I dabbled it m the water , to rinse off the mud , and have kept it ever since , IS ot far from this spot lay an old , leaky punt , drawn up on tho oozy riverside , and generally half fall of water , It served the angler to go in' quest of pickerel , or the sportsman to pick up his wild ducks . Setting this crazy bark afloat , I seated myself in the stern with the paddle , while Honingsworth sat in the bows with the hooked pole , and Silas Foster " amidships with a hay-rake . ' It puts me in mind of my young days , ' remarked Silas , ' when I used to steal out of bed to go bobbing for horn-pouts and eels . Heigh-ho!—well life and death together make sad work for us all ! Then I was a boy , bobbing for fish
and now I ' m getting to be an old fellow , and here I be , groping for a chad body ! I tell you what lads , if I thought anything had really happened to Zenobia , I should feel kind o ' sorrowful . ' -- — ' I wish , at least , you would hold your tongue / muttered I . The nioon , that night , though past the full , was still large and oval , and having risen between eight and nine o ' clock , now shone aslantwise over the river , throwing the high , opposite bank , with its woo . \ s , into deep shadow , but lighting up"the hither shore pretty effectually . Not a ray appeared to fall on the river itself . It lapsed imperceptibly away , a broad ,
black , inscrutable depth , keepingits own secrets from the eye oi man , as impenetrably as mid-ocean could . ' Well , Miles Coverdale / said Foster " ; ' are the helmsman . How do you mean to manage this business . '— ' I shall let the boat drift , broadside foremost , past that stump / I replied . « I know the bottom , having sounded it in fishing .- The shore , on this side , after the first step or two , goes off' very abruptly ; and there is a uool , just by the stump , twelve or fifteen feet deep . The
current could not have force enough to sweep any sunken object , even if partially buoyant , out of that hollow . '— ' Come then , ' said Silas , ' but " I doubt whether I can touch bottom with this hay-rake , if it ' s as deep as you say . -Mr . Hollings worth , I think you'll be the lucky man to-night , such luck as it is . ' We floated past the stump . " Silas Foster plied his rake manfully , poking it as far as he could into the water , and immersing the wholelength of Ms arm besides . * * Once , twice , thrice , I paddled the boat up stream , and again suffered it to glide , with the river ' s slow , funereal motion , downward . Silas Foster had
raked up a large mass of stuff , wnicn . as it came towards the surface , looked somewhat like a Rowing garment , but proved to be a monstrous tuft of water-weeds . Hollings worth , with a gigantic effort , upheaved a sunken log . When once free of the bottom , it rose partly out of water—all weedy and slimy , a devilish-looking object , which the moon had not shone upon for half a hundred years—then plunged again , and sullenly returned to its old resting-place , for the remnant of the century . "
46 The Stab Of Freedom. Atoust 28,1852.
46 THE STAB OF FREEDOM . Atoust 28 , 1852 .
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LOUIS KOSSUTH . ( Concluded from last Saturday ' s Star of Freedom ) . In 1841 , the county of Pesth returned . Kossuth as its representative to the Hungarian Diet , and now , for the first time he was in a position to cope with Austria successfully . He was welcomed there by the liberals , as one of themselves , a , compact was formed , and even before the opening of the Diet he had so
united and organised the opposition , that when the session commenced they faced the government in a phalanx , such has had never before been witnessed . Kossuth at once drew up a " programme , " which won the heart of the people and smote the Austrians with dismay . Kossuth ' s next grand stroke was to frame that important measure , one of the greatest in the history of statesmanship , which gave the Serfs their freedom , and made them master of the soil which they had cultivated as slaves . This was carried through the influence of Kossuth with his
omnipotent eloquence , and thus the horrible massacre of Gallicia were prevented from being repeated in Hungary . The abolition of this serfdom was one of Kossuth's proudest achievements . It stands alone in all history as the finest and completest reconcilliaciou of antagonistic interests . The nobles magnanimously giving up the property they had held for centuries , and the serfs willingly forgetting and forgiving all their sufferings in the past iu their boundless hope for the future .
It was owing to this magnificent remrai that nobles and peasants were found fighting side hy side on the same battlefield ! roasting their food at the same bivouac fire—side by side on the same scaffold , joyfully sharing tho same captivity—and glorying in their lot of mutual co-operation , mutual triumph , mutual hardships , and mutual death . At length the news arrived at Pesth of the revolution in Paris , and the sullen murniurs of political discontent assumed a more audible and definite voice—agitation increased , and spread throughout Hungary . ' In March , 1848 , Kossuth , with a select deputation , accompanied by numbers of young men , went to Vienna , They wore the Hungarian tricolour , and bore a banner on which was inscribed—'•' Equal Liberty for all Peopled
Kossuth delivered speeches in Vienna , which fell like fire on the minds of the Viennese , and aroused them to the loftiest enthusiasm . He returned to Hungary with certain concessions and promises from the Austrian Court , which were speedily broken . An Hungarian Ministry was formed , and Kossuth took the portfolio of Finance . He now put into oneration his famous plan of a paper currency . He issued the " celebrated Hungarian Bank Notes , which very soon obtained greater credit than the Austrian ones . This paper-money proved to be
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one of the greatest aids to the revolution . Hungary now bei » » to enjoy a short season pf repose and happiness , such as she } L ] not known before . The people accepted their young libew- ^ with a demeanour as noble ancl . calm as though they had sh ared its blessings for centuries . But the perfidious court of Austria , and its vile Camarilla that is backstairs government , could not bear to see the pe 0 nil happy . Besides , they felt they were fast losing ; their hold of Hungary , and at once they began to ply their machinations to upset this state of things and regain their tyrannical p 0 W ( iv There were no serfs in Hungary to incite to rebellion , hi 00 ( /
shed , and pillage , so by aid of gold , false promises , lying a & 1 sations , ancl " the vilest artifices , they began to stir up ' the neH ~ bouring tribes , the Serfs , the Wallachs , and the Croats , aiul provoke them to a war with Hungary—all the time hypo ' crfo ' , caily pretending to be its protector . When these tribes began seriously to menace Hungary flle new Ministry convoked the Diet at Pestli , in July , 184 {) ' ai ][ i in this Diet the nation for the first time was truly represented
Kossuth saw through the intentions of Austria , and accord ingly summoned the representatives of the people on the Stli of July , to vote for the defence of the country 200 , 000 sohlie ^ and a qredit of four millions and a half . This occasion evoked from his Ups one of the sublimest and most memorable address ever delivered . After his appeal , the . Diet rose as one man and voted the soldiers and the credit for the defence of the Fatherland .
The Cabinet o ; f Vienna now thought that the moment had arrived to put their plan into execution and invade Huno-arV Jellachich was sent to invade the country with 40 , 000 Croats ' advancing at once on the capital of Hungary . The Hanoi l'ian ' s were not in the least prepared for this , the country having been drained of men and money to feed the armies of Austria . In the midst of almost universal panic , there was one who
man did not despair , he never lost faith in the heart and energies of the people , it was Kossuth ! He poured forth one of those magnificent and soul-stirring orations which have so often made Austria tremble . He inspired the gallant Magya rs with a sublime and all-sacrificing enthusiasm , and theywer exalted into a nation of heroes . The Austrians were beaten back , and there the execution of popular justice on the persons of Lamberg- and Latour , Both Austrians and Hungarians now strained every energy for the inevitable , conflict .
VV e nave not space to follow the . several events of the strangle which must bo painfully fresh in the minds of all . Who does not remember how gloriously that gallant nation fought for life and liberty' ? That all-conquering- ¦ valour—and deathless enthusiasm—those marvellous traits of patriotism—that national sacrifice on the altar of the world ' s freedom . They will all he found chronicled and treasured up in immortal glory , when the History of Heroism shall have been written , and will form one of its sublimest chapters . Through all that tragic strangle Kossuth was to be found , cheering , directing , organizing % d inspiring , being most efficiently supported by Bern , Perezel , and others , and thwarted more especially by fieorgey . What
followed , we know too well . We have not forgotten the hano-in ^ s and floggings , and murderous martyrdoms that made up that inghtful tragedy . Poor Hungary lies hushed as in the silence oi the grave , her martyrs are sleeping in their gory shrouds but her wrongs are not forgotten , they are treasured up for the day of reckoning which will inevitably come . Hungary is not dead , and , has not said her last word . " Kossuth still lives ! and there is hope for her future . Grand and clear does the character of Kossuth shine out in the expiring glare of the Hungarian revolution . ' Looking upon his past , who can doubt but that there is in store for him a great future ? We have , heard from Kossuth ' s own lips , the history of that proud stru ^ te how
valiant , and now righteous it was ; and when the torch of liberty wnich he had kindled in Hungary had been quenched in the dark waters of the Danube , and he came to us , a wanderer from exile , how our hearts leaped up to greet him ! It was a nroud day for us , when our welcome to Kossuth made the Despots gnash their teeth in impotent rage , and sent the thrill of hope through the crushed and stifled heart of poor Hungary . In conclusion we would say to Kossuth- "Courage great hcsirt ' come what may—still fight on and let not the faith die within you . Courage ! for Martyrdom and Victory are twins . " Gerald Massev .
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UivOrowxim- a Kim . — " Doctor , don't you consider yourself a very bad subject of our dear king ?" . sa ' id a lady to Wokot , one evening at a party . " I don't know anything about that madam ; I only know he has been a very good subject to me . " —Letter from Cyrus Bedding in the Aihenceum . Acrostic ox the Napoleon Family .-The names of the male crowned heads of the extinct Napoleon dynasty form a remarkable acrostic :
N-apolcon , Emperor of the French , I-oseph ,, King of Spain . H-ieronymus , King of Westphalia . I-oachim , King of Naples . L-ouis , King of Holland . TT „ , From " Notes and Queries . " Hem Soir qui Maly Pense .-Loius Napoleon is doing his utmost to bring into popularity the Bee , as the emblem adopted by his uncleUnfortunatel
. y for M . Louis , the Bee may ha suggestive pf the sting as well as of the honey ; and as a svmbol of Imperial power , the Bee may be looked upon as Bnzz .-Puvel Something- looming- in the Frexch Future . —We see that the name of the French Minister of the Finances is Fould . F rom this name we augur that the French will shortly be presented with an Income Tax , considering how deliciouslv the English in that respect have been Fooled . —Ibid .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 28, 1852, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_28081852/page/14/
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