Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-01-24

taught carefully studied and considered
That great moralist and poet-Pope-say
that 8 the greatest Stutly. for meuthin0 is man.
With him without an exception all agree
Ii we exclude frequently from our heart
and mind every other consideration,
and there in congress with those passions,
with those caprices and pecularities, calm
ly deliberate on our innate nature, for
what it was given us, and what it was to
make-not to make us-but what we are
endea7oring to make IT, Il better under
standing would be attained, and q more
lasting peace secured. When we deliber-
ateIy reason that,
81 In every breast there burns ali active flame
The love of glory, and the dread OF shame
the charity of religion will wind itself in
meek folds about us, and rather beam forth
a face of peace be with YOU" than permit
one shadow OF scowl OF scornful contempt
or one GESTURE or attempt which tended to
the trampling of the rights of men.
A French author has somewhere said
that glory likes c3'0rns. Whether this be
true or not, one thing is most certainly
true--man loves glory. The love Of glo-
ry, or the passion for glory will be very
naturally the first to which youthful as
pirant to honors will ardently attach him
self. But glory should be based on honor.
There is no t''ue glory where there is no
honor. It should be the princiDiuno ct
fons of all glory and renown. The
success of q young man wholly, if
not absolutely, depends on this
first step taken on the road to ascend to
the "oliffs of fame" and this, too, must
be logical sequence flowing from his no.
ton of Right and Wrong, Of Honor and
Dishonor. We should never undertake
any enterprise in which the germ, at least,
Of Justice does not exist. # not perceived
by all. it should be seen and felt by our
selves Though it may be concealed for
moment, like the grain of mustard seed, it
will soon shoot forth its little head, and
grow up, and bud, and bloom and blossom,
admired and esteemed by everybody, by
friend and foe. A good man in obscurity
we may compare to light that shineth in
darkness. In the fitness of time be will
emerge from his obscurity, and in the
radiance of his purity he will receive the
just eulogiums OF mankind. No matter
h0,c poor; no matter h0,C o6ject; no matter
how forsaken and despiscd, envied or 9th
erwise-so long as he IS not poor in integ-
rity, abject in the scale Of rectitude, he
who thus acts, and keeps before his minds
eye conscious tenderness for every point of
manly honor, and for every desire - to do
unto others as he would be done by" will
at last spring into the sphere of bis onnbi-
fined and congenial manners.
Ambition Is IL one of the evil passions
of mans nature ? Positively, no. The
author of all goodness implanted that in
the human heart, and He never gave any
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gift, and IN Sc is good, is enrolling. Pro
perly used it impels man on,gm'd to the
pinnacle of greatness Improperly, it hurls
man from his native throne, from the
sublime hei glt Of i,inity shaped origin
ally for him, and makes him d slave to the
Vllest, the bhse8t purposes. Look around
our own land, this State, and SEQ to what
depth OF meanness 1t can drive it's vOtaries.
We see cOrmorants greedy for every thing
save honor ; tllirsting for every position
where the Ego-SeJ>is predominant !; CON
cocting all manner of petit debasing
statutes for party SELF and party design |
ignoring the very dictates of plain and pal |
pable teaching of now covering honor. It |,
has left the breast Of many who are now
seeking through a false ambition to further
degrade, further impoyerish q brave, a
generous people that has hitherto entrusted
w uAC1l hC0plI!3 IiiS SttCICu lOuutd1u Vi Il10
honor of their State. That man, and others
of his class, who could sing, Men. perhaps
with faithful lips, non with treacherous,
d. ceitful, cowardly
The voyager on the Southern MAN,"
in honor of one of the brightest peers
among the orators and statesmen of his
tory, cannot, and never can be trusted |
In this instance, indeed, we can say that
-" Ambition hath ono heel naiI'd i'll hell"
and under that heel will be crushed the
rhyming demagogUe. Such ambition as
that is no impetus to honorable renown
such an ambition will never impel any
body to happy destiny. Noble ambition
makes great souls. We should not make
it our idol but we should make it our
day-star; must point to the topmost step in
the ladder of honorable fame. Such we
must cherish, God-like ambition, pure and |
fair for it