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The Daily Dispatch: September 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Combination against Lincoln — a account Hartford Convention . (search)
Carlyle on America.
Thomas Carlyle, in his quaint, characteristic style, says of the American war that it is "the dirtiest chimney which has been on fire this century and should be permitted to omposed.
We are therefore disposed to regard with composure the hyena-like grin with which Carlyle regards the horrible sufferings of humanity upon this continent.
But whilst applauding the hon n nature in general, and British human nature in particular.
The North was settled mainly by Mr. Carlyle's countrymen, the Puritans, of whose valor and virtues he has been an ardent enologist, and t that moment, when it seemed in the best condition, it began to become foul, for reasons which Mr. Carlyle ought to understand as well as any man. No one knows better than he that the abolition crusad war in the United States.
The eternal agitation of slavery was the instrumentality by which Mr. Carlyle's country made our chimney "the dirtiest chimney of the century;" so dirty that now that it i