The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-09-12
Wendell PHILIPPE On Thaddsus Stevens
A Farm Appreciation.

| 4 Earn Appreciation.
1t was this old and long familiarity with
the whole question which prevented the war
from taking him unawares, or putting him to
+; school for a 7nlicy. All these, TO other men
new, problems had been TO him subjects OF
patient thought and earnest discussion years
befure. He met rebellion fully prepared for
| all its issues. This e1plain> not only the
pr"mprne>> of his decision, but the >yste-
war record is Of piece no hesitate n, no
going forward and back. He the whole
epoch in lis germ, and the end frum the be-
ginning.
He believed in doing what you saw to be
right, NOT liz bringing Your action down to
the level Of the thousand blind Iurn ana the
ten Thousand selfish nIse> WHO hang "u your
skirts, m"aning t" steal rtp'te from as>"cia-
ting with yuu; AT the sane time cTipplln9
your action en- ugh TO save their own fears
and their own interests. Such men we're th.
Load that his energy took TIP and earned
through he war. Ard now such men, pro-
tected by his sagacity and c,u'a.e. are fuse-
most 10 ,iti'i>e his tirele>S activity and
strenuous leadership.
Other canses-Aa,I Masonry for instance
had share in i'll his lite. But the que 'tinn
which won him frnth the Courts into politics,
and the one for which he lived. the ab"l-
iiion Of American SLAYER, Ever, drop Of
his blood va, hot for liberty. Everything
that crippled or endangered iioeTty was his
foe.
When we saw him at Lancaster. in De-
crmber, 1857, he hid decd, d for his heaith 5
sake and to recruit his ntgl cteti e>tatr-to
retire from political life aud devote himself
wholly to his proft ION prudent r"S"l'e,
which the bugie note OF REBELLION scattercd
TO the winds.
Daring the whole war we remember no
single instance in which his sag city MAS at
fault He saw Lincoln. his rit> and his /
defects, cieart, as an, American. He led
the nation and Congress Oh all the war |
measure>. AID if OutlIvc this present |
peril and ride safely into another Admins |
tration. loyal and Northern, his polio. of
will ne one great source of our
safety. The Suuih longs to bnly and over
ave, and johnson would gladly help i, III its
purpose to make intrigue exc cut weakness.
But that grave at Lancaster reminds all the
rebel herd of a purpose which "nr brave sui
planted III thu nations hreast-and even vet
the finger of Th.ddeus Stevens aHriehts the
white into submission. Long may the effect
endure Long may the old man rule our
spirits from his urn,
A clear. broad comprehension a long,
sure foresight; a soul that knew not the fear
of men; fearless to attack, and with faith
that no defeat could tire out; ut er di-inter-
e>tedne>s; entire loyalty TO justice; great
knowledge of men; rare power /" mould
them-surely these are the qualities that
make great man. Stevens adds one more.
His whole life was Of piece. Beginning,
middle and end were one harmonious whole.
Our " Great Commoner's" hfe was not patch
work. GiddingS must yield I" him III intel
ectual ability and The qualities a a leader.
Adams life was patchwork Of S.lf>hneSs
and servility crowned With ten years-ending
he eiehty-when his soul rose to serve his
country and his race.
But the Great Commnner won his title by
The simplicity Of his life. the Wilderness of
his devotion, his unmatched ability and the
proud success heaven accorded him. II in
1861 he had been fifty years old, instead of
close on seventy, the war would have had, we
hink, different complexion. We should
have had, at the start, what we have lacked
Ill through, leader, whom Congress would
lave been willing to follow. With Presi-
lent who sought only TO follow, and Con-
,reSs Of jealous equals. the nation drifed on
ike ship with no wind in the sails and no
land on the helm. Encountered with years,
worm out with long and weary conflict, Ste
enS could put forth but half his power. But
or this burden Of wears, his name would
and far above most of his contemporaries
IS CLAY, Webster or Calhoun's above theirs.
Is it is, no single mind has done more to
hape this era. WENDELL PHILLIPS.