The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-15
Great Msn-Eow Manufactured.

advantage in the cause OF humanity aud religion.
Great Mrn-Eow Manufactured.
Oboquy is ofon the snress road 20 fame On
this Interesting road, Winfield Scott and franklin
Pierce, rs Presidential candidates, and, by way of
novelty, James Gordon Bennett, as = newspaper
editor, in full drive, covered with tao dirt and
dust and filth OF the party press. Most great men
have risen to eminsnce en- ladder Of abuse. They
have first earned the uE-easoning hatred of their
citizens, and afterwards, as The mist of pre-
judice cleared away, have been exalted as eagerly
IS they had formerly been debased. The old rule,
that nothing thrives without persecution, is peou-
lary true of great men To some it has been a!lot-
ted to witness the revusiOa of public feeling during
their life time; but most die ere The world has done
them Justice, and reap no fruit from their labors
rave the Consciousness tia. one day their memory
viii be horored, and respect paid to the descendants
ofthose who, while living, were Pariahs Envy aud
Jealousy fratias which cannot be eradica.ei from
The human heart-are generally the risin4l source
Of the prejudice; created, it takes fast hold
mems minds and years OF mertctous services cannot
always wholly eaaceit. So nvdrisbe this rule, that
when tie world obs.inatsly hates mao, it is safs
20 conclude that there is something IN him which
viii some day strike the public in new light, and
NC shr AhcGAc VI LAS eAetasltH W limo uUlLlS
or render his memory i!lustrous after death. We
6ndit to lave been the case in former times, and
couple Of Thousand years have not altered the p.in-
cipis.
Confuciuswaa unknown otherwise than as a skill.
fu Jealous minister, until he was forced to exile
himself from court, and had become the butt for
the jests Of the capital. It was while the emps-
ror and his an1a-ns were teaching the populacs to
IL "a L. L.
perishatle fame. Nahomet was nobody until forty
sworn men-one oEt Of each tribe-Were commia-
stoned by ar indignant people to do justice on
the impostO-, and satisfy the public antioathy;
then he became the Prophet OF God. The
history Of Greece aao.Is a striking iIlus.rs-
ton Of the process Of refining in the
crucitle Of unpopulacity, by which heroes were
manufactured Arissides was ostraeised, ard the
next day Atbenians bethought themselves &C him,
who WIS the pavest model OF integrity produced by
the republic his country refused to render justice
to Thsmis:ocles, until be had beea once ostrassei
and finally driven to ssek refuge among tn, Per-
slams Cimoo, oIs Of the greatest generals Athens
ever produced vlliieja nootad out Of thaia:
four years afterwards the highest honors the State
coad DtstoU were lavished on his head, and tho
glorious arpsllstion Of Father Of his Country was
teDlered for the acceptance OF the exile Tae rule
was the same, whether the hero vas genuine or an
mpostor. II was the taunts Of the aristocracy and
the vituptraion Of poets which raised Cleou to the
chair Of pericies. IC to the violent reoukes and
fcathiDg censure Of the old republicans that the
hckle Alcibiaaes owed his astonishing popularity
So in Rome. 1t was necessary to be well abused,
and thoroughly hated by large and influential
class, before success certain. TIE name of the
Gracchi would not now have beer inseparably con-
nected with democratic liberty and agrarisn reform,
had not the wealthy citizens of Rome banded them
selves together TO put them down; nor would Marus
have attained the consulate had been less obnox-
ous to the a-istocracy Other men, with less claims
to celebrity gladiator, like Spartacus-a bold
aepagogua, like Clodius-.ho wealthy Crsssus-
were raised in like manner to the summit Of fame
by tie snsers aud abuse 0: the multitude
Nor does modern history belle the proposition. Ia
France, in Britain, in Germany, in this country, the
psh 70 greatness has always lain through tbiekot
Of abuse Everywhere, those who rise above the
common herd aud who, by the novelty of their
opinions, tteir energy, talents, or coura ge, have
shown' themselves entitled to the frat rank, have
been marked out as fitting targets for the poisoned
shafts Of malice and slinder Some, with perhaps
nc less real merit. have passed through life uua.sal-
Ell and uDmolasted: those IRE they wnon modern
historian. philosophers agree TO cali unsuccessful
greet men. Those who, by common consent, are
81. led heroes, have, If thsy were sensitive, invar
ably passed life Of misery, owing to the constant
81 d unsparipg yituperstion which was showered up
on them. What was ever more perseveriogiy
ssnderec than Napoleon whose share Of abuse was
larger than lord Brougham's! 4 man who, by the
yastness aud scope Of HE varied powers is well en-.
titled to the drtt place among tho men of the time;
ard yet, to-day, to one half the world, he s rs we'll
known hy tao attacks Of the press By his splendid
schiev ments in letters and science His FIRST ssep
in tne ladder nay be fairly assribed to the
bitterness with which he was assailed by Mr. Can.
ning's friends. The burst Of grief which announced
TO France tnat Armand Carrel was no more, was a
poor compensation for the ooloquy which had been
hesp ped upon him during his life; and when the doc.
tripaire chief reaches that bourne whence mono re
turn, few will envy his detractors their feelings
Like their predecessors the heroes Of the revolution,
:heir statues would nsyer have occupied niche in
the temple Ct fame, had less vigorous and system
attic attempts oeen made TO consign them TO igno
minous tbscurity. "You heap infamy on my
head" saii the youthful Camille Desmon.ines to
his eauppistoys, little knowing how so,n his stir
rig le vas 10 snd-"you IRE but laying the corner
stone OF ny triumphsl arch y
IT, not necessary 70 remind our rsndora Of tho
process by which oof gr6as men eearDed tae title.
Jackson, Madison, Jederson Clsy-names in which
America viii ever glory our honor among foreign
,atoLs, the cindu9 Of our American househ DID,
can LOOK back Oh their career without phAne aud
unblushipglJ recall tne tAtsesaess With which their
every act assAied l. it a sufficient excuse TO
plead that the very iugratitada OF their fellow oti-
gen ther passport TO grsataesl-tha. shoy only
fuAlled the common destiny
Tt qusiqae ia,se u Grand hornue
II nest grand horDie qua "a mort?
The people 81 this ccoutry are aow making fresh
great men little mcre flenier from the shgs,
al Pieree's fame VIII hs estGhli3ae1 ho ia already
nnn az ihn MnsL ranaN ahe sonn Of Ito con afrv ;,