Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1860-09-28
A Statesman and a Politician

The true statesman, We overheard Il ieetur
CT remark, Is no more ike the Politician, than
the Cdpitoine dove = like thampanzse.-
Nor WIS itan extreme comparison. Al that
the statesman and the politician have in con-
mon their occupation. They both busy
themselves with the political aifairs Of nations
but they do 50 different principles, and
with distinct and different ends The states
man, from Il large survey OF the Feeuliarities
OF his country, her people, her resources, her
relations, and her probable dcstinies, pro-
notes such measures VI policy as will procure
To that country security at home and respect
abroad. lie will try to develop its wealth
and power, but he viii regard public virtue
as u higher aim than either wealth or power.
lie will act with party, but only 50 far as
the views Of that party are conducive TO the
general good But the politician never has
large or general views; tie horizon Of his
purposes Is the horizan Of party success; and
even that success is dear to him rs means
OF advancing the principles Of justice OF Truth
it my represent.
We have an exempliGca:ion Of taesc diifcr
cnees, we think, in the present attitudes re-
spectfully OF two dlstingu shed senator's Of
the United States, one oil New York and the
other oi Illinois. Both Of them are on an or
atOrical tour ; both are making elaborate
speeches to the people; both are urging the
CLAIMS OF different political parties 10 public
eoah lenee and yet the contrast between
tAem is obvious as well as immense. MIR.
Seward, ii he consulted his private feelings
al me, has many personal reasons why tie
should remain idle, il not Indifferent. IA the
present controversy. Bat he does not allow
that to coatrol his public action. SGperse-
ded, as tina candidate of his party tor the
highest office in the gift OF the people, by the
superior fortune Of another, he throws him
self in the canvass for that other with all the
ability and earnestness that he can command.
Mr. Douglas who Is candidate and who has
many reasons Of honr and delIcIcy therefore,
Why he should remain silent, trayerses the
land from Que end to the other, traduclng his
opponents and pleading hi own cause. Ills
main topic is himself and his services to the
commonwealth. His principle object, the
formation Of "A great party on which he may
ride into higher power hereafter. Seward
speaks for Il cause Douglas for Douglas.
Ia their intellectual merits, we may observe
in passing, the Efforts OF these gentlemen are
d less strikinsly cDntrasted. Seward has
made half dozen ad lresses to the people OF
the West. all OF necessity upon the same top
irs, yet each tried lrou the other in the de-
tails .. logic ana rhetoric. lie docs not re-
p at at Mt!wlnkle the PHRASES which he us
ad al D.truit. nor at NJ alison the phrases he
used ut Miwaukie. His mini is full OF his
aabieet, bar his Imagination suggests thaas-
AMI changes Of tr0pe lad expression in which
10 present It naw ldels came u light at ey-
cry new phase; new arguments enforce the
main proposition and new illusions, histO-
ricd, literary " local, lend y'vacity to the
styie. DJuglls, ia the other hand, dlScours-
ias Of D1u5l4s asa his wonderful Fanaeaa Of
sqattter sovereignty alone, hts D9u- LIS and
sqalttar sogersi ,uty for his beginning middle
anl md. re only variations like the va
riltions Of p..g lnai on the lid.iie--are Of one
STING. ~ Concord his eX1rdiam WAS Dong
las. and his per1ssti1n sqaatter sever jgaty :;
bat At Newark the ezorIium was squatter
sovereignty and the peraratIon DJugLss. In
the ans, rp5lon Of his iteulti in this sublime
theme ho cannot even unbend to more than
one Joke. Like his arguments, his fun is
...,.s ,aoas lie is worse than J1e Pent-
land, TIE clown II the circus, who has at
hest d,1el thi1gs ins'ndsd 70 be witty.
wn.sA he repAtsln all the cities and villages