Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1839-01-11
FRIDAY, JANUARY 1880.

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worbed--the clearest and quickest appre. |
hensloD, The power of intense application
the capacty of complete abstraction from |
all interrupted IDEAS, the complete and |
most instantaneous crcums pection Of all |
difficulties, whether on one side, or even
provldentiy seen IN prospect. the intuitive
Knowledge Of men, and power Of mind and |
tongue to mould their will to his purpose
with these qualities, which form the char |
actcr held greatest by vulgar minds, the
panegyric OF Napoleon was close. He |
uas q conTuerOr; he aoas tyrant. TO
CRAFTY his ambition, to Stake his thirst Of |
power, to weary lust Of dominion which |
no conquegs could satlate: h6Nrampled on |
Liberty when his hand might have raised |
hert a SECURE place; and he wrapt the |
wo DIN Names, which the blood Of millions
alone could quencb. BY those passions, o
mind not originally upkiDdly, was perverted
and deformtf, till humap misery ceased to
move ii, md honesty, and truth and pity. !
The duties Ne owe to God and man, had
departed ffbn one thus given up to single |
and selfish pursuit. "Tantas animi vlr.
cutes ingentia vita mquabant inhumaua
crudelltas;f perfidia plusquam Punica; nj
nollum jusiurardum, nulla rellgo."t The
death o! Enghien, the cruel sufferngs OF
Wright the my sterious end of Plchegru,
the punishment of Palm, the fortunes Of
FoussalntI have all been dwelt upon as the
spots on hl5fame because the fortunes of
individuals presenting a more definite OBJ
jet 20 the mind, strike our imagina,lons,
and rouse our feelings more than wretch
edness in larger masses less distinctly per-
ceved. Bat to the eye Of calm reflection,
the declaration Of an uuins,lfabe war, or
the perslsi.ng in it day longer than is ne
cessory, presents more grevoUs object Of
con'emp 'a'lon, implies a disposition more
pernlclons % the world, and calls down u
reprobation lar more severe.
WASHINGTON.
How era eful the relief which the friend
of mankind, the lover Of virtue. experiences
when turning from the contemplation Of
such a character, his eye rests upon the
greatest man OF our own or any her age;
the only one upon whom an epilhet SO
thoughilessIy lavlsbed by men to foster the
crimes OF thcir worst enemies;may be inno.
Gently and Justly bestowed. In Wash.
ing on VIC July behed a marvellous con.
trast to almost every one Of the endow-
men,s and The vices, which we have been
contemplating; and which are so well fitted
TO excite mingled admiration, and sorrow
ond abhorrtnc With none of that bril-.
; liant genius which dazzles ordinary minds:
with not even any rsparkable quickness
of appel nsi.n; with Knowledge ess ,hG a
almost all persons in the middle ranks, and
many well educated Of the humber classes
posses, this eminent person is presented tC
our observation clothed with attributes a:
modest, as unpretendlng, as little calcula.
ted to rkG or astonsh o S if he had passed
through some secluded region of private
life. But he had q judgment sure ant
, sound steDdness Of mind which DeveI
, suffered any passion, or even any feeling L
/ rutlle lis calm q strength Of understanding
, worked rather than forced its way through
all obstacIe s,-removlng or avoiding rathe
than overlapping them. His courage
whether in battle or in council, was as per
feet as might be expected from this pur,
: and steady temper Of soul. A perfect,
just man, with thoroughly firm resolution
never to be mlsIed by others, any NOR
, than by others over awcd; never to be Sc
duccG or betrayed, or hurried away by hi
;, own weakness or elf.delusons, any NOR
= than by other mems arts nor even to b
4 dishcarlened by the mos, complicated diff
y cuItics, any more than 10 be spoilt on TIT
y giddy heights of foriune-such was thi
grea, mnn,--whe,hcr we regard him sus
lanlng alone the whole weight Of cam
:, paigns, all but desperate, or gloriousl
terminating Just warfare BY his ce
: and bis courage-preslding over the jarin
n elements Of his political council, alike dcl
,.,a -. Of Il ia,
;, the fol nation Of new government for
- great people, the first time that so vast a
y, experiment had ever been tried bv man,
iS or finally retiring from the sumprem
=, power TO which his virtue had raised hlI
"a over the nation he had created. and who's
70 destines he had guided as long as his al
=, was reGuired--retired with the venSra 10
h Of all parties, Of all nations, OF all mankin
=, in order that the rights of men might b
n conserved, and that his example new,
oi might be appealed to by vulgar tyrants.
This is the cOnsumale glory OF the grei
50 American; triumphant warrior where tt
40 most sancune had rlgh, to despair;
- ouccessTul ruler in all the difficulties Of
q course wholly unlried; but warrior, who's
:, sword only left its sheath when the fir
Of law OF our nature commended it to be draw
a. and ruler who, having tasted Of supren
II. *l'he kindness of his nature will be denied
st some the inhuman cruelty by others but DO
an are correctly tue. There is extant, letter viii
,st we have seen, full of the iendcrest affection
an wards his fayorie brother, to whom it was add,e
H. sed, when about to be separated from him, 10
-, after he had entered on public lie. II is in pa
I" bloued with his tears, evidently shed before I
'ss ink was dry. AS for cruelty, they only can de
n who think it more cruel for a man to with,
nd lorments which he has ordered or to commit butte
nu cry with his own hand than to give The comma
% which must consign thousands 10 agony and dea
TO- II Napoleon had been called upon TO witness,
Je with his own hand TO inhict such misery, he wo,
ed have paused at Grst-because physical repugnar
Die would have prevailed over mental callousness /