The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1857-03-17

BY violent swiftness that which we run at,
And lose by over running

in some half defined purpose.
Precipitate haste, inconsiderate rashness
too often mark the proceedings of the major
tiy whether in the social circle, or the crow
ded era of business. Deliberaton and Judi
cious foresight have given away to impulse
and rashness honesty and integraty, to craft.
ines and calculating poicy. Blinded by a
love of gain, of rule and power, there is no
check to the pace inconsiderately kept up un-
Ill the goal in won. The calm, steady per-
severance that once was most lauded is sneer-
cd at by Young America as old fogyism, and
at variance with the spirit of the age. This
is not true alone Of one calling, or of one class.
Like an infection that knows no bounds, it
has spread every where, and again and again
we pause to ask, is truth forever disowned,
and all natural growth repudiated as too slow
for the present progressive age.
Success is the mammon clung to with that
devotion as an African TO his fetch. Success
is written upon the lintels of our doors, and
framed about our couning house desks. AS
any price so that it is quickly, let it come.
Successful fraud is glorifed and the honors
merited by a nations noblest, and her best
are paid by geat city to the memory of the
prince of defaulters.
1t is to be wondered at that men, weak in
moral strength, should barter their souls for
gold when such things are of good report;
nay, even praiscworthy among those whose
opinion are most courted? Our modern AL
ladin makes his royal road to wealth; he
| spreads his tables with massave gold and sill
vir plate; his plainest meals are sumptuous
feasts sweet music distilled, like rich fra.
grancc, through the air; carpets of oriental
softness and splendor echo back no tread here
are stately mirrors, costly paintings and we'll
| filed libraries; statutes, pusts and elaborate
vases surprise you with fresh delight in every
quiet niche. The equipage of the modern
rabob, this republican prince is in keeping
with his mansion and its adorning, and he is
the "beheld of all beholders." The finest
products of the looms of all countries are
sought for that they may grace his person;
his coming is hearaldcd upon Wall street, and
the monied aristocracy are obsequious in do
ing him reverence. Bank stock, and city
stock, and government stock rise and fall with
a mcrcura accuracy as his brow clouds or
brightens; he seems to hold the reins of pow
or and WELD them at his will, but he draws
them too tight; they break, and with the
and station he sinks to poverty; and worse
the brand Of criminality is affixed, and AL
ladn or Huntingdon, stands at the workbench
of Sing Sing He asprng from nothing to
notoricty and interest in monied community,
and no question were asked so long as lie
l!adthc almighty dollar; now words are lack
ing TO speak their adherence, and sneers at
lIis alleged insanity take the place of the for
mcr smiles at his approach. Who is most to
blame Huntingdon or the class of society of
which hc was a member? The latter calls
for success, demands imperatively that man
sahll get money-get it honestly if he can, if
not, Mt all hazards he must get it.
Money is the magic wand that opens the
doors of fashion and upper-ten respectablity;
that buys the favors of Mrs. Potophar TO in
vite YOU to social game of whist, and to call
you the prince of good fellows. For this,
Huntingdon bartered his principle-for this,
he became bankrupt of honor. Giving so.
ciety its due, teaches us leniency toward
him. He is but one among thousands, and
simply marked example of the price paid
for success in that direction. For every ad-
vanccmcnt in worldly or pecuniary interests,
there is price to be paid, and tho case lays
open whether it will be paid in advance, and
to the product enjoyed er taken first, and
amount, with compound interest, paid at some
indefinite future time, happily postponed to
the last extremity.
If we anxiously seek riches, and long for
magnificent establishment and turn out, for
all the appliances that follow and surround
the possessor Of great wealth, there are two
paths by which 10 reach the same hight
One is slow, laborous, tosome, but steady
and sure. The other is swift, hazardous, but
often brilliant. The first, attained honestly,
prudent by and fairly, has no heart -burnings,
no sleepless nights, no constant dread of i'm
pending storms to mar its rational enjoyment
The other is as the foam upon sparklin cham
pagne enchanting to the senses, but with
death and destruction at its dregs
The same, if we enter the gladiatoial field
Of politics rs combatants for its vascillatng
and trcacherous honors Unswerving integ-
rity and constancy, of purpose, though at first
unpopular, will with true honor and renown,
while bending to the beck and nod of the
surgy, noisy mob will undoubtedly yield, as it
should do, an after disrespect and contempt.
Great men sometimes purchase transitory,
fading success at the expence Of true, divine
ly radiated glory. He who worships at
shrine only for selfish purposes, however he
may turn his Tyre to lofty themes and inspir-
ing strains ever fails in influence, and in
awakening confidence.
Milton whose very name comes to as bathed
in halo of true poetic inspiration, was to
England old blind John Milton, great only to
few who thought the caskct, saw the wealth
ofthe jewel.
That success is greatest and most grand
which is made by conquorng self. Hero is a
field broad enough TO work upon, and with
able "foemen worthy ofour steel" To bring
into subsection the passions that else blackcn
and desolatc the soul, to "rule the empire Of
himself is worthy all the conquering strides
OF Caesar. Alexander, or Nepoleon. The
outside worldly advance Of three-fourths Of
our great men, so called, is falling from
truth, and soul integrity; and every day we