Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-08-04
SKETCHES OF BRITISH MEN AND MAN
NERS.
WILLIAM LOVETT.

| now lar nOOler IMAM IL was ! II DAY OF ola.
The chivalry of the past was an apparent,
outside thing, that caracoled upon a galy
caparisoned horse, in gay Haunting attire
and was sustained and encouraged by the
enthusiastic acclamations of spectacle
loving throng. The heroism of to- day does
not terminate amidst the lofty excitement
of applause. and the glowing radiance of the
midday sun. 1t struggles in obscurity,
with dauntless energy, against the wearying
heavy cares and trials of everyday life
uncheered, save by the light within-un-
sustained, save by the hopes that come
from above-unrecorded, save in the remem-
brance book whose pages are OF eternal adj
amant-unapplauded, save by the angels,
who write down in heavens chancery the
record. of humble hcroism, with the plumes
of their wings. Ideas change the signii-
cance of words and the word herosm has,
therefore, now changed sides. Formerly
in meant daring aggression, and iooI-hardy
territory now il means intrinsic power,
and sel.sustaining endurance!
If we had been asked to name a man
whom we believed to have eXemplitied, in
the highest, most consistent, and most stead
fast degree, through life, the quality of NOR
al courage, we would almost spontaneously
have uttered the name which is written at
the top of this column. If we had been
asked to name the Nenophon of the British
operative cass-ils legitimate leader and
elegant histOrian-we would have assured
~ uttered the words, William Lovett."
Lovett was born in the year 1900, in a
little fishing village i'll Cornwall-was taught
to read by his Observation-Disclosures write
and :ypler by the village schoolmaster ;
and was sent to work at rope-makng at the
age OF eleven years. His father, who was
master of a small trading vessel, was drown
ed before he was born; and his mother,
who earned her bread and the bread Of
her son by the sweat of her brow, could not
afford his opportunity for acquiring any
more scholastic attributes than the three Gle
mcntary ones. LOvett, at the expiration of
his apprenticeship, found that he had been
dcvoting his talents to the acquisition of a
most Improbable calling. He found that
he would never be able to earn above eight
shillings a week. So, without more con-
sideration or regret for lost time, he left
hemp-twisting, and took to the fishing
he was consttutionally qualified, however,
from following this new prolession-he
could not stand the rocking motion of his
boat in a storm; and so he took to terra
TRINA again. Possessed of fine mechan-
zeal taste which he had cultivated secretly,
and confident of his powers a! handling the
tools of carpentry, he APPLIED for and obtain
ed employment i'll that art.
The exclusive cgotstcal principle, in a
4 i Of,
cs or orders of men and the truth OF this,
William Lovett was fatcd to experience, up
ron his assumption of.the saw and plane
Several Young men who had been apprcn-
ticcd seven wears TO the trade which he had
adopted as if by intuition, did not see the
right he had to exercise his faculties in this
way, or in any way he pleased; and so they
looked upon him as an uSur2er and an m
terloper, and they very generously "scnt
him to COnventrv," which may be mterpre-
ted, treated him as an alien and an enemy,
threatening him with condign punishment,
and his employer with diverse direlul con-
sequences, until the poor lad was again
cast out of employment. EXpending his
little capital upon some pieces of wood and
vcneers, he manufactured at home some ar
tccs of use and fancy, and realized as
much money as would carry him to Lon
don, where be hoped to find employment as
a rope-makcr. Alone in the great Babylon
of London, with only few shillings in his
pocket, he set himself to canvass lorcmploy
mcnt, but was fated only TO meet disappoint
ment. Having lived for several weeks up
on penny loafa day, molstened with wa
ter lromlthc pump, it REQUIRED TO him 10 seek
employment again as a carpenter, III which
he was successful, ard in which vocation
and th2tof cabinet-maker, he has been sub
scqucntly employed. Having placed him
self, at last, in a position whereby he coul,
gain his daily bread, his mind began to st
within him, and to carve some ailment.
The European war was finished. Peace
and sober reflection began to succeed lha
period of martial insanity. The roll o
drums, the roar of artillery and melluou.
chantngs of "Tc deum laudamus," had SUM
with signs upon the bloody plains of Wa
terloo; and the aristocracv had come home
to worship their stars and diamond-hIltCt
swords, and to count their golden gains an(
the people had hobbled to poor houses ant
hospitals and begging stations on the hiCl
roads, to exhibit their stumps and woodeI
limbs and tattered rags, and to form the cen
tres ofgroups, who begun to ask questions
and to look grave, and shake their heads.
When the physical force campaign was
finished at Brussels, the moral force perme
alton Of healthy political ideas began in Eu
rope. The loyal artizans, who had suffer
ed yelIs of frantic JOY, and tricked them
selves out with party ribbands, and 90
. themselves made Loyalty and gloriousl,
drunk, on the news oteverv famous victor,
4 began to see that they had been use,
; up" by the poten,ates, and that they hat
!, been forging chains TO bind themselves. -
r Pot house clubs for toastlng King George
and chanting the British grain-dears, wer
eschewed by many of their vice president
d for political clubs, in which TO discuss tn
e principles which the lips of Pitt and Burk
Il had decried, and the sword of the duke O
al Wellington played pnafo and rcrerso with
4. Loyett joined one of these clubs, and he de
IS clares that by this procedure he was slimu
4. lated TO an activity of thought which seem
J. ed a new life TO him. He studded gram
,s mar and composition: in order that he nigh