The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-11-25

anu poSioithyi Ut olA sencIatiVns
has held him IN reverence asa patriot.--
4 finch, hing James the Seconds Attorne,
General, procured the conviction and dealt
OF the pure and virtuous Lord Russell, as
conspirator against the Government; bu
eight years aiterwara, when he would hay
relieved himself in Parliament from the odi
um OF the act, the indignant clamor of th,
whole House iorced him, in shame and cen
fusion, to resume his seat; and Russell still
lives in England and America as a martyr 4
liberty.
Your courage, your fortituds, your man,
hood. will also some day be severely tried
But then remember Curran, whose fame
brightens just as the memory Of the yenal
placeman and barrister around him rots
with each revolving year. and who, when
menaced in court By file Of soldiers clat'
tering their musksis as he addressed the
jury in defense oi one charged with treason,
exclaimed in manly defiance: "You may as
sqssinate, but you can not iatimidate me-
Read, too, the speeches and admire and imi-
tate the heroic Erskine the greatest OF Eng
lish barristers who against the whole pow.
er OF the Executive in time OF both foreign
war and rebellion maintained for years the
rights and liberties oil Englishmen, with un.
daunted ntrrpidity. Prepare yourselves, by
continual study OF the characters and noble
emulation Of the example OF these and other
great and good men OF the past, for like
scenes in your own day. Nerve your hearts
now for the struggle. But, remember that
ability, however eminent, and intellectual
discipline, however exact are not enough
Without pure morals, correct habits and fix
ed integrity, you can not sndure the trial.
! Be virluous. Be pous. | use the word IN
no narrow secthrian. or theological sense;
but in that which Virgil means when he
calls EDeas 'pias'--a piety which belorgs
to no one Sect, nor CLINE, nor time, nor cOun'
try, but which every where, and at all times,
renders to God and self and man whatev yer
is due and does it in the very spirit OF the
Sermon on the Mount.
But, young gentlemen, while have thus
addressed you as students preparing your.
selves for the ordinary business and probes
sions OF life, we'll kaow that at any time
many OF you would be, and in times of such
! tremendous import as just now are upon us
in our country, all of you are profoundly in.
terested IN politics. Probably you give to
thematnore Of your thoughts than to any ot
your collegiate or professional studies.
know, too, that many Of you even now, look
eagerly forward to the time when you will
pass from your professions into political life
That is the goal Of your ambitious longings.
Your hearts are fixed upon it. 1t is an hon
orable, holy ambition; an ambition not to
be extineuished, but to be regulated. He is
false teacher who would tell the ingenious
virtuous, and public spirited youth of the
country, that the political service Of the
country is fit only Tor the vulgar, the impure
the corrupt. As there are hypocrites in the
pulpit. empires in medicine, petti'oggers at
ct the bar, ami pretenlcrs everywhere, so
there are demagogues in political lie. Bus
there is as well morality AZ a PHILOSOPHY
q scci ce in politics far above the circle OF
these reptiles. Unhappily the low standard
OF capacity and morals set up end denounced
by those who decline public life, and Fracti.
cally but too often acknow lodged by politi>
clans, is another OF the evil potents which
i'm pede our country. OF the corrupting in
tiuences OF avarice, at all times, need no.
speak. But more debasing and dangerous
still in seasons of great public commoton, is
the eyecrsbIe vice Of fear. All these com
bined make up that most loa ihsome Of all
the objects OF reproach and scorn, "a sour
politician" lie has born the same odous
character in every country and age. Among
the Greeks, he once courted popularity or
place. by pointing out the smuggers of figs,
and was cursed as bo h spy and in'ormer,
and thence gave them name to the whole
class OF demagogues. In Rome, he headed
every petty popular popular tumult and
iieicely for n division OF lands and
goods. Curran described him in his day, in
(elicitous phrase, as zone whb buoyant by
rises as he rots." lie is the
vermin, t be insect OF politics, and amid the
heats OF civil war and convulsion, teens in
10 life thick as gnats in tho summer evening
ilr. II any one among you-and | speak
20 those who would aspire to- be leaders
among their countrymeD-hav neither the |
capacity nor the ambition to b:a statesman, |
et him OF least not stoop to be u a.demagogue
preach. heal, try causes, work. but scorn to
20 one Of that number who know nothing Of
politics, except the passions and personalities
which they excite. II not able to argue up
m principles measures politics, debate not
It all. II you can not soar. do not Creep
Whoever discusses only mon in politics. is
Ilways largely u slanderer. Principles, not
men, is not indeed, altogether sound max
m; though little liable to be abused--since
personalities always make up 50 large and
controlling an element in mere partisan po
lIics. Better say principles and men. 1t is
asy to be q poliioian or demagogue--s
With the wind; float with the current; look
lot to the compass, neither lift up your eyes
o the Heavens where the constellau,ns and !
he pole star bright, glorious emblems OF
iod and truth AMI right--still shine, stead
ast, nnuopable, just as they shone in the
'eginning of time. Poeta nascitW. 30 it is
With the demagogue. But tho statesman
uust be made as we'll as born. His voyage
) through mid ocean and in storm. He
ails under orders. His port is ascertained
nd prescribed before he sets out, and it is
is duty 70 reach it; and so like the majestic
csan steamer, he sails on, and
"Against the wind "a gainst the tide
Still steadies with an upright keel"
Demosthenes, more than two thousand
ears ago, in his great grafton for the crown,
7ell distinguished between these two char.
cters. declaring that while they were alike
J nothing, they differed chiefly in this--that
he statesman boldly and honestly proclain,>
his opinion before the event, andl thus
lade himself responsible to fortune, 10 the
mes, to his countrymen, to the world while
1e sycophant or demagogue was silent till
ne event had happened, and then governed
is speech and his conduct accordingly.
And now allow me to add, that though !
ou may be patriots and yet not statesmen,
le great statesman is always patriot. His Z
we OF country is as we'll principle as an {
notion. Duty enters largely into it;sshence
IS stable, enduring. It is not sensational. b
'rtalnly not o mere feeling OF gratitude; |
ast Of ALL in the meaning OF that word as r
sfned by DR.. johnson: "a lively sense Of
vors yet to be received" lie loves his
l.