Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-10-02

Not only have the aCttonS '"
puished Statesmen been thrown mo tue sna"''
H. McDnaie affects also 10 disparage those
whom he is pleased 10 call controversial W.T.
tors. such inferior names, on his scale, as Frank
lin. Dickinson, Madison, Hamilton, oyahe!, "
M,l,on-,he great supporters OF liberty
To eomnare the effects Of their WTif'nSs, pro
ne ,v called their actions, with the a'tohs Oh
military hero, let a single instance sufnce.
In the year 1890, the popular opinion 10 .''ta'
Britain was decidedly in favor oil me fre"o"
Revolution. Tive partiZans oil re'o'ulio" ose,'
locked the tendency OF that ihhaen.y ~
was established by law, and OF lnat nee"''o",.
ness which, spurning tn restraints o, 'n''a'!
hurled under one rum the altar and lhe lhtohe'
While the Clergy Of England looked upon 'he
scene in silence; while Fox headed the party III
Parliament in fsv7r Of revolutions, ana frice ah'
McIn.osn lead The van of The Hefnh. ana pop
uiar sentiment relied IN i torrent "h,I" ~
Minister would have been ablr TO resist, II was
the d, s,iny Of one man, by the potency o. NE
genius, Ia fret a radical * important c"a"He.
| The thoughts of Burke upon the french A''o
| luton appeared. II i, the attestalioh OF il'S'o'
~ that this single work, exposing the hoE'"'s
Of anarchy and inhdrIity, changed the current
OF popular opinion, gave support TO 'o''rI'"f
Minister, and directed the energies al 1.-THE State
10 lne DEOSeIullOh ~ NV
in the re >establishment Of a pacific Govern
nfnt.
VIII this action of Burke, though less s'rik
!, in,r 10 the inconsIdcrate, appear less imporiah
IN its results than the splendid military achieve
mcn,s of the hero rfN Waterioo?s Burke, alone
: unaidcd produced the change i'll public opihip'
which led, necessarily, 10 The overthrow OF I'M
2 DYNASTY of Bpuaparle. The military Hk'ti o
: WELLINGTON would have been powcrlrss had n
: no, been aided BY officers and msn, thousands u
f whom Nigh, have egusilel him in.skill, and tx
cc!lyd him in bravery.
t 1t was observed. by the Emperor Julian, fiji
teen hundird years ago, that IA Phllosophc
h " acts no inconsid, rable pat. His action
: 8 not confined 10 thinking But if he conirr
s. his word by his deeds, aud appear such a
; {. he would have others to be, he will urge
IS * action with more persuasion and effect tha
u {" those who excite to itby command Bu
IS how much more exalted would have been h
estimate Of the actions of the philosopher ha
IF he seen him, like Burke, addressing. throug
: the medium OF The press, almost every BEN
vho can re- or think.
The success Of tue warrior may arise froI
tho exercise of that force which he inherits i
N comm n wi h the brutes; the success OF the ii
i a,or and writer must arise from the EXERT"
! Of tha, intel &c, BY which he is allied to SUPERB
t r inielIisenccs
In forming and directing public OPINION, tn
writer and o. ator move that power which {
all offers, next 10 dsily, is most omnipottn
and in .swayiag the Indications of ma kin'
y thsv achieve he mos glorious OF al con
d quests the conquest Of the mind
81 What benefit ha, resulted from the Nic,t
~ E%s~& roe"d sSfts"rTs~nf''
with the benefits resulting fron the moral il
" courses Of Plato, Socrates, ard Johnson. .
from The sublime disc ,verics Of Pythagora
| and Newton
The relative superiority of the Statcsma
who plans, o,cr the General who executes, i
II as great as he superiori y Of h. General him
n srlfover the most obscure of thu men by who's
bravery, toll, and blood. his la.rrls have bee
I won. PH}LO L0WNDES