Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-11-30
From the Halifax Novascotian.
HPLFNTY ABOITT Mel ,TOD -

We were sitting In stage coach at an inn door
in Montreal last spring, when little news boy
up to the window, with his little bunJ lie under
his arm and exclaimed, ''buy the Courier-buy
the Transcrlpt-penty about AcLeod' A few
DAYS since we were rambling In some of the re-
hottest settlements In this country, when almost
every man we met inquired if it was true that
McLeod had been released. The queries put by
the latter recalled the lnducement to purchase held
out by the news boy and set US reasoning upon the
kind of fame, rather notorety, that this indvid-
ual has acquired Bacon says that 'some men
are born to greatness-some men achieve it-and
others have it thrust upon them Mcleod ap-
pears to be one of those who have it thrust upon
them. Without his own consent and gulltless of
any extraordinary achievement he has been sud-
denly raised from the level of a Canadian deputy
sheriff, whom nobody knew or cared about out of
his own district, to that of great political MARTYR
whose name was In every body's mouth upon
two continents and whose sufferings were cause
of exultation to half of the world, and of SYM
pathy to the other.
He may, indeed, say, what Byron said of him.
SELF that he went to sleep, woke up and found him.
self famous. He has been the theme of statesmen
orators and editors of newspapers, for an entire
year, Nobody ever seemed to be tired of talking
or writing about him. Truly the world has had
"plentv about McLeod.' Battle murder and
sudden death hung on the breath of his nostrils for
all these we would have had, had his breath been
stopped Had hair of his head been touched
there would have been a war, consequently his
head was of more consequence than that of Samp-
son. He would have thrown open the portals of
the temple of Janus wider In death than that great
leader did those of GAIA when he carried them off.
Henceforh whoever may be the chief of the
clan he will certainly be ''Ihe LcLeOd." Men,
women and children will walk miles to see him
when he crosses the Canadian border, and any
body who would undertake show him round
Europe would make fortune. We have not a
doubt that long ere this Madame Tassaud has got
a full length figure of him in her collection of wax
work and that he is to be seen side by side with
Papneau and Mackenzie In the exhibition of her
wax figures back of Coventry street. Well as he
is not be hanged after ALL and we are no to fight
like warriors of old, over his dead body, or to re-
cover possession of his tomb, we presume that the
newspaper theme will be changed-he will proba-
bly, soon get pension and be torgotten-the whole
world turning by common consent to some
topic of excitement, and agreeing in the opinion
that they have had % Plenty about Mcleod"
HOPE AND CoURAGE.-True hope is based on
energy of character A strong mind always hopes
because it knows the mutibility of human affairs
and how slight a circumstance may change the
whole course of events. Such spirit too rests
upon itself; it is not confined to partial views or to
one particular object. And if at last, all should be
lost, it has saved itsef,-its own integrity and
worth
Hope awakens courage, while dependency is
the last of all evils; it is the abandonment of good
the giving up of the battle of life with dead moth
ingness. He who implant courage in the hu-
soul is its best physician.
To seek to govern by their fears and their
wants is an unworthy purpose; to desire to rule by
means of cowardice is itself cowardice. Love in
spires courage and hope, and thus is doubly the
giver and preserver of life.
Whatever teaches US boldly to combat the mani
fold doubts and assaults of life enables us to win
the crown OF victory Special care ought therefore
to be taken in education teach what true courage
is,-as well in social and domestic, as in public af-
fairs,-and by what means it may best be sustain
ed.