Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-09-02
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and their partsans, affect extreme contempt for
what is called the. 'availibilaty of military chief
| tains.'
Now, whence that despised qualify Availability,
| or Popularity, in a successful commander!
| If we look behind the fact we shall find Avaia-
bility to represents in the of Washington,
Jackson, &c. &C., mighty deeds OF v;.lor and pa,
trotisin performed i'll periods OF deep gloom ana
peril when only the great in soul and the great IN
the ability TO command can
sRide on the whirlwind and direct the storm;'
men who sin the iron harvest of the field know
how to conquer peace, and through the resora-
ton of thai blessing,
,sIo scatter plenty round smiling land,
~ And read their history i'll a nation eyes, -s=sz
Such is the mission of patriotic leader of ar
mics: n mission requiring combination oil rare
virtues, gifts, and talents.
A recent British historian, (Roebuck,) III refer
encc to Wellington has said:
sNo man can be great soldier unless he pcs.
sesses great administrative talent: and this talent
is more likely to be brought forth and foStercd by
the business of war than by the management OF
cases at nisi prius; yet, because OF the haoit Oh
spea king the lawyer is deemed capable OF govern
ing while the soldier, whose life is spent In action
and not in talk, is considered unversed III what are
called the affairs of State
The same thought is developed and powerfully
enforced in speech ION the floor OF the House OF
Representative by the late John Randolph, IN
the session OF 1S27-'2s, i'll support of Gen. Jack
son, then a candidate for the Presidency.
Il deny, sir (said Mr.. R) that there IS any IN
stance in history, of man not having iniiltar! ca,
pacity being at the head OF any Government u,
advantage 10 that Government and with creait 10
himself There is great mistake on tins snpJec'.
1t is not those talents which enable man 10 wt'e
| books and make speeches that quallly nm 10 pre-
side over government ,,,,
| And then, after referring 10 the iii'"1'
&C., he continued: - ,-,,,,,,, ~, IN
"These men (said the orator. We're Drought up ~,
| the cloister perhaps but they were endowed WIN
| - ,,1 If
| LA men whether in the Senate or TIE field SIT,
II is one and the same faculty, and It's successful
| display has always received and Always VIII ic
ccivc the highest honors that man ca pestow' anu
mis- will be the case do hat you will, cant what
! Won NAV about military chieitains and military
| domination. So long as man is man, the victori-
GUS defender of his country WILL and ought, TO re-
ccivc that countrys suffrage Tor all that the forms
of her government allowed her TO give y friend
| said to me, not long Siucc why, General Jackson
| can't write. Admitted, Dir,
| the Duke of Marlborough, the greatest captain and
negotlator of his age, (Which was the age OF LOUIS
the Fourteenth) and who may rank with the great
est men of any age; whose irresistible manners
| and address trunphed over every obstacle III the
council, as his military proves and conduct did
in the field; this great man could not spell
TO udge men by their books or then
speeches, is deceptive. not only consider the
/ want of what is called Learning, not 10 be dis
qualification for the COMMANDMENTS Met III civil
or military life, but do consider the possession oil
TOO lniic learning 10 DC OF
sequences to such character, who IS 10 draw from
the cabinet of his sagaclous lnlnS ana 10
make the learning of others, or whatever qualities
they may possess, subject 10 his own enlarged ana
vigorous views. Such man was Cromwell; such
| n man was w Washington; not learned, but Wise
\ man may be capable of making
an able or ingenious argument on any subject
| within the sphere of his knowledge.
| But the talent which enables n man to
write a book make speech has no more relation
tn the lending Senate IMAM IL has
10 the dressing of dinner. The talent winch fits
man for either Office is the talent for the govern
meat OF men, &C.
Mr. fandoph's leading ideas, in that effective
Speech fall within the views OF PlutGrch Ill his
Dcmosthcnes and Cicero Compared:
! .DcmoSleneS, (Says the great biogIapher) when
he touches upon his praise, does II with an IN
offensive delicacy. He never, i'll fact, does II at
ALL but when he has great point i'll view, and
upon all other occasions he is extremely modest
But Cicero, in his OratlonS, speaks III such h!gh
terms of himself that it is plain ne had mos! IN
temperate vanity. Thus he cried out:
.Let arms revere the robe, the wreathed brow
| Yield to the tongue
at length he came 10 commend not only his
own actions and operations in the Commonwealth,
but likewise his oratiuns, as well those winch
he had only pronounced as those which he had
committed to writing; as If, i'll juvenile vanity, he
were wing will. the rhetorician lsocrates ana An
aximenes, instead of being inspired with the Lofty
ambition of guiding the Roman people
Fierce i'll the field and dreadful to the foe
After renarking that st is mean and illiberal to
rely SUCH qualification, or 10 hunt alter praise
| in that quarter Plutarch proceeds:
'.ln this respect DemoSthenes behaved with
more dignity, with superior elevation OF SOUL
He said, .hS ability to explain himself was mere
acquisition, and not SO perfect but That IL required
great candor and indulgence on the par! OF the au
diencc.' He thought it must be, as indeed 1t is,
only low and little mini that can value itself up
on such attainmentS."