New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-25

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:. t. rrobDern. Given his head,
,-..nd abdomen, and we know the rest. now
e. e. are properly made up! Hence the io'ics and
1900 of mankind. The world is full OF
80. ,v;tbout the first just idea running beyond
.;rc.mferencs of their dinner-plats. VAN,
S'.A.ot sons Of women are they all. One OF the
~. of the greater portion is man-worsh'ping
$50 -. are be-dc,ilsd by great men. human
':,r.,cule makes stout argument, or gathers up
n,,utifuI bouquet of the flowers OF rhetoric from
-. ,.rtene Of his imagination, and, forthwith, all
an. .,n.,er snmalcula about him switch their
III. ..ls and strain their little eyeballs, and cry
!. p:hsd God" Pardon our heresy, but great
-, do deal of harm. They have be-deviled the
-o,h from the beginning. We used to regret that
Al. term of human life is so short. We have grown
User. and rejoice that people die so soon. If we
can. without being irreverent, intimate such
ching we should say that the original desi IN of
the Creator in allowing men to live FIVE hundred
and a thousand years was found to be great
mistake, which a very early occasion was taken to
rectify. What upon earth could we do now with
a marcel OF political Methuselahs How woald
khey complicate affairs till they became tangled
In inext,icobe confusion Nay, if we were TO
propose any change in the term of human life, 1T
would be TO shorten the threescore end ten, so as
to make it even score.
Great men What do great men do but mis-
chief, There is here and there an exception ou'
the history of this country, and OF all countries
As.r us out in the declaration that the Prncpa
roblic acts of the greatest men have been pre-
s,n;u, utly mischievOus. Let US bear In mind that
:, xas the rtrtue rather than the greatness OF
washington that saved us in the Revolution
Since that era, all the salvation the country has
had from its great men has been in such precious
devices az the Missouri Compromise, the South
Carolina Compromise, and the recent Union Saw
;or Compromise. If such are to be the fruits of
salvation. who would not choose to be damned
2 There is a State in the East called Massachu-
setts. Let that great and 1ourishing Common
wealth illustrate in fact, our meaning and position.
We need make no catalogue of her thrifty cities,
der busy and happy villages, her factories, foun-
dries, shops ships and railroads. OF her schools,
colleges, benevolent institutions her asylums and
her prisons. In all she is the acknowledged model
Commonwealth Of the world. And in no respect
is she more elevated than in this that she has fol-
lowed the convictions of an memorable sense OF
duty and ,epudated the apostacy of her greatest
man and fsvcrte son. And now, let us ask, who
has created this Massachusetts, Is she the OIL
spring of any one, two, or three great minds Has
any one man elevated her to her present proud
position? If Mr.. Webster had been born and al
ways lived in the Fejee Islands would the Massa-
chusetts of to-day be any the less the Massachu-
setts she isl Ne, she is not the creation of any
great man, or great men. On the contrary she is
q living illustration of what the people themselves
can do when their faculties are allowed free
scope, and their powers permitted to expand and
strengthen, under free institutions. She is
standing monument of what all the world may be-
como under selfgovernment, when the nation
shall be rid of their selconstituted rulers, get out
of their leading strings, and have learned SELF
reliance. In this country, especially, we should
and must depend upon such men as have made
Massachusetts what she is--the great class OF
middle men. 1t is they who are the all i'll all.
Give us men of sense, sound Judgment and hon
ssty " gil public stations, but the Lord deliver us
from famous men, and especially from those who
have made their fame by their much speaking.
Indeed, nineteen times in twenty, the most mis-
cradle men for affairs the orators. How easily
could We illustrate! Both in Europe and in this
country how many names spring to our lips But
10 do il here would be to tread upon toes that we
are not disposed to tread on. As G6RcEY says OF
KossuTH, the orators always display prodigious
contrast between what they sag and what they
do II is notorious fact that the most attractive
speaker that perhaps the North ever sent to
Congress, was not worth three skips of a louise as
legislator, and would have been still more useless
az an administrative officer. Affairs of Govern
ment are emphatically affairs of business, and are
best done by purely business men. And whenever
this idea shall get fairly beat into the heads ofpeo-
pie, the days of the orators will be over, except as
ornamental uppendages to the legislative depart
ment of the Government. J.s.P.