Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1858-06-22

youthful nallon insufg gent against oppreSs-
ion, and fighting for the right to govern
themselves, took possession of his imagi-
nation. He enquired; he grew warm
with enthusiasm; and before he left the
table, the men of Lexington and Concord
had won for America a volunteer in La
fayette.
HAMILTON.
1t has been kept in memory, that on
this occasion young man from abroad,
SO small and delicate in his organization
that he appeared 10 be much Younger than
perhaps he really was, took part IN the
debale before the crowd. They asked
one another the name OF the gifted stran-
ger, who shone like star first seen above
haze, of whose rising no one had taken
note Ife proved to be Alexander Ham
ilton, West Indian. His mother, while
he was yet child, had left him an or
phan and poor. A fathers care he seems
never TO have known. The first.written
trace of his existence is in 1866, when
his name appears as a witness 10 a legal
paper executed IN the Danish island of
Santa Cruz. Three years later, when he
had became "a youth" he " coutelnned
the groyelling condition of clerk" fret
ted at the narrow bounds Of his island
cage, and 10 friend of his own years
confessed bis ambition. {" ] would vii
lIngly risk my life" said he, Though not
my character. TO exalt my station |
mean to prepare the way to fu'urity; we
have seen such schemes successful when
the protector is constant" That he pre-
pared 10y integrity of conduct, diligence,
and study. Aftvr an education as a mer-
chant. during which he once at least con-
Quoted a voyage, and once he had the
charge of his employers business, he
found himself able TO repair to New York,
where he entered the college before the
END of 1873. Trained from childhood to
take care of himself, he possessed a man
ly self-reliance. His first sympathies IN
the contes, had been on the British side.
against the Americans; but he soon
changed his opinions, and IL July, Iva,
cosmopolitan New i York, where he had
neither father, nor mother, nor sister, nor
brother, nor one person IN whose VEINS
ran the same blood as his own, adopted
the volunteer from the tropics as It's son.
JOHNSON.
While such was the state Of angry on
position between the citizens and soldiers
at Boston, Lord Howe al London finally
broke off his negotiations tsith Franklin
and the Ministry used he pen Of Samuel
Johnson to inhama the public mind
johnson was r0or man 5. sou. aud had
himself tasted re bitter cup Of extreme
indigence. HIS father left no more than
twenty pounds To bury his mother and
pay her iiule debts, he bad written Ras-
selas. Fo.' years he had gained a pre-
carious support as an author lie had
paced the streets Of London all night
long from not having where to lay his
head be had escaped prison for a triiie
he owed by begging an aims of Richard
son, had broken his bread with poverty,
and had even known whatIt Is from sheer
want TO go without dinner. When better
DAYS came, he loved the poor as few else
love them; and he nursed IN his house
whole nests of The lame, the blind and
the sorrowful. a man who had thus
strduIv battled with social evils, and was
so keenly Touched by the wrechedness
of the down trodden, deserved to have
been able to feel for an injured people
but be refused to do so. Having defined
the word pension as =" pay given to State
hreling for reason to his country" he
was himg slf become a pensloner; and al
the age of treescore and six, with a small
hire. ike a bravo who loves his trade, he
set about the task Of his work -rnasters.-
In a tract which he called . Taxation no
Tyranny" he echoed 10 the crowd the
naughty rancor, which passed down from
the King and his court, TO his council, TO
the ministers. to the ariaocrace, their par
asites and followers, with nothing remark
able in his party zeal. bat the intensity of
lis bitterress: or IN his manner, but its
UNPARALLELED insolencei or IN his areu-
ment, bu. Hs groiesqae extragagance-