Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1858-08-07


preacher, totally unfit for statesmen -
which couloDnding large things with little
things, ends with means. subordinate ends
with chies ends, ono mems sphere Of re-.
sponslbilItY with en0thor nen's sphere OF
responsibility, seed-time With harvest, Que
science with another science, one truth with
another truth, ono jurisdiction with another
Inrisdiction, the span.long doy Of life with
the duration Of States, generals With uni-
versals. the principals with the practice
the Apglo Celiic-Saxon Of America with
the PAYERS Of Paris cutting down the half
grown tree TO snatch the unripc frult---
there Is philosophy which seolds at this
even and cali 1t names
To such spirit have nothing TO say,
but have something TO say to you. II is
remarked by o very leading writer Of our
times, Lord MAcAuLAY--cnnobled less by
title than by genius, than by fame--"that
compromise is the essence Of politics. -
that which every man Of sense admits to
lie so true, as TO have become common
place of politics, is peculiarly true OF our
national politics. Our histcry is record
Of compromises and this freedOm aud
this glory attest their wisdom and bear
their Fruils But can these compromises
stand the higher test Of morality Con.
cessons for the sake of the nation conceS'
sions for what the general opiuinion o.
America has pronounced concessions foI
America concessions in measures con
cessions in spirit for such an end are they
q virtue
| ! hope it ia worth something, IN the 6rst
place. that the judgement Of civilization, col
lected from oil its expression aud all It's expon-
ents has rahked concession for the keeping aud
well being Of the nation among the whittier ar
tues. Starting with the grand central sal.
ment that patriotism is the noblest practical
limitation Of universal philanthropy; and re
serving its enthusiasm It's tears, for the mar
tyred patriot, and deeming his death, the mos
glorious of deaihs--it has given even the frs
place to him whose lrmness, wisdom aud mo
deration keep the State. These trails II hal
stamped as virtues. These trails IL has stamped
as great virtues. Poetry, art, history, biogra
ply, the funeral discourse, the utterance Of that
| Judgment, how universally have they so stamp
ed them He, whose harp, they said, attrac-
ted and fused savage natuies; lie, who gave io
his people, not the best Government, but the
best they would bear; be, who by timely adap-
tations, elevated an inferior class to equality
1 Win u superior GLASS; anu iiiduS JMO hdliOuS
] into one he, whose intolerance and compre-
henson, put out the Grcs Of persecution, aud
placed all opinions and religious on one plane
before the law; he. whose healing counsels com
posed the distractions of various empire; be
Is the great good man Of civilization. Ambi-
ton might have been his aim to some extent,
but the result is a country, power, law.
On that single title, il raised its statute, hung
on Il the garland that cannot die, kept the birth
day by the firing of cannons, and ringing Of
bells, and professions, thanks to God Almighty.
He maj not haze been fortunate in war he
may not have been foremost among men OF ge-
MUS, but what LuPENBouRG, what EpeESE, what
MARLBORO heaped on HIS ashes such monn-
ment, as the wise just cold Dutch derverer OF
England What GATES, what LEE, what At
ExASDER, what NAPOLEON won such honor, such
love, such sacred and warm-felt approval as cur
civil father WASHINGTON Does that judgment
the Judgment Of civilization condemn DEMosTHE-
MES, who would have invited Persia to help
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