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he was a heavy loser by the Southern raid.
From his first appearance in public life he became
marked as a man of extreme views and unconquer-
able resolution, and the Pennsylvanian Legislature
was shaken by the bitterness of the warfare he in-
troduced. Such a man is eitherleacler, or nothing;
and he was quickly at the head of the Whig party
after he appeared on the scene. One of the most
relentless wars lie ever waged was against the Free-
masons
of Pennsylvania, and he actually succeeded
in bringing Mr. DALL,IS, the Grand Master, known
in England as the American Minister fro:n 1856 to
1861, before a Legislative inquisition to compel him
to disclose the secrets of the order. lie split up the
State Government, and carried on the contest known
as the Buckshot War. On the formation of the
Republican party he joined it, and although his
course in the Legislature of Pennsylvania had been
so generally condemned as to lead to his withdrawal
from public life for many years, the weakness of a
new party at the outset, and in the face of a power-
ful opposition, made them welcome this doughty
recruit. When fairly again on the scene, in 1856
he began that career which has made his name
known throughout the world. Such was his nature
that, wherever he appeared, he exercised a supreme
control, for he was thoroughly in earnest, knew his
own mind, and relied implicitly on himself. The
idea that he could be wrong seemed never to cross
his imagination ; and holding, therefore, that he was
absolutely right, he allowed no consideration
to turn him from his purpose. He was ready
in debate, and overflowing with sarcastic humour.
This he mercilessly used against all who even
momentarily crossed his path ; and as men deriVe
pleasure from the pain of others, when he rose the
House filled, the rush being to the galleries, to the
seats of the Representatives, and even the Senate
came pouring into his Chamber. While his words
thus rung out to listening ears, his personal appear-
ance was the reverse of commanding. his voice was
weak and shrill, and he sputtered when speaking.
eagerly ; his yellow, heavy, massive head was sur-
mounted by a wig strangely out of keeping with his
age, and generally awry. his frame was thin and
weak, while his natural deformity still more de-
tracted from his physical power. Yet his strength of
mind surmounted these disadvantages, and lent an
energy to his oratory that penetrated every brain,
and grasped every heart. To the last, when almost
sinking from weakness, a light woall suddenly
gleam from his eye and his whole fratne would
brighten into animation. Ills voice would ring
clear and shrill ; with outstretched arm and long
shaking hand he would hurl on the party or the in-

dividual denunciations and scorn till he sank ex-
hausted in his chair, his mind still fiercely
blazing though in so weak and sickly a
case. Sack was his earnestness, such his per-
severance, coupled with a courage that knew
uo fear, that he attained a position no American
had ever before held, or is likely again to hold.
He led a great party, but in an extreme to which

that party did not always choose to go. Then he
would turn as fiercely upon his followers as upon
the opposition, and actually throw himself into the
ranks of the enemy. It was a marvel how the party
endured him, for never was there a man of more
independent action ; and it is asserted, and with
some truth, that an American politician must merge
the individual in the party. Yet, leading, he
opposed it—opposed it in caucus, in the Halls of
the Legislature—in the columns of the Press.
Without real culture, physically unfitted for the
battle of life, without friend,;, without wealth, this
strange man rose from his yeoman home on
the green hills of Vermont to sway the destinies
of the mightiest of nations, in the very crisis of that

nation's life. And he did this by sheer earnestness
of purpose, for never did there live one who passed
through life with fewer personal friends and more
enemies. During the period of the greatest trial,
when men faltered before misfortune, and dis-
ruption hung over the Union, TIEADDEUS STEVENS
was the soul of Congress. II?, seemed to be
possessed with a strange spirit t) raise up the faint
['cartel, to animate the wavering, and to deride
with an almost unearthly power those who dared
to think of peace. Ile was the first to offer the
resolution proclaiming freed:y:ll to slaves who took
up arms for the North, an I it was owing in no
small degree to his persistent efforts that slavery
was finally abolished. But such a man, however
fitted to lead lin times of revolution when at all
hazards one end is to be attained, is ill adapted for
the after period of reconciliation and concession,
when the passions still rage though the st rife has
ceased. No man can be a statesman who knows not
how to concede ; no man is fitted to lead who re-
cognizes in his own notions the decrees of Provi-
dence. Though wholly ignorant of the science of
political economy ho did not hesitate to form opi-
nions and sketch plans regarding the financial
position of the country, and he was prepared to
follow out these as he had done his other schemes.
But the influence he had gained during the war was
at its end rapidly wasted, and the memory of this
American statesman would have been held in
higher esteem had his life closed with the
triumph of the North. He could hate with a
fervent energy, but we do not know that he
could love. The beautiful country of his birth
knew him as a sullen boy, but it knew him no
more. When his name rang over the world, on
the green hill sides of Vermont the story of his life,
though as a stranger, was often told with pride in
his fame. Thousands visited the cottage where he
was born ; but his own foot was never again
planted on his native soil. At least, so says
rumour, and if true it is a striking fact, and
one which more than aught else illustrates the
character of THADDEUS STEVENS. -WASHINGTON
ruled when he was born, and his span embraced
every President from the great Virginian to the
little Tennesseean, the period of his life being that
of the Great Republic.

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messages each. On the following Tuesday the same
young ladies sent and received over 3,000. The well(
was done well, neatly, correctly, and to their very great
credit. With such a record there is no use in doubting
the capacity of ladies for this service. The daily number
averages about 2,200." _

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