Smyrna times., 1871-02-08
The Men of Mark.

Rev. Robt Collyer, of Chicago, in his lee
ture on Clear Grit" in New York, recently,
used the following language:
We say that we have in Chicago 300 900 in
habitants-we claimed 100000 before the CEN
sus was taken. Now among these there are
not few hrst-rate men, and good many that
think they are but amt. Laughter. Now,
! every man in Chicago that is somebody is a
poor mans son. Every man who is doing any
sort OF work In Chicago to day was raised
poor mans son, and had to fight his way to
his place not one of them, as | can ascertain,
was rich mans son, and had good time
when he was boy, except that all boys should
grow as strong as steel bar, fighting their
way to an education and then, when they are
ready, plunging into life with that traditional
half dollar and little bundle tied up in a red
handkerchief, as [ have observed all rich men
start. Laughter. tell you that in FIVE and
twenty years, when most of us that are now 10
our middle ages have gone to our reward or
our retrbutiOn, the men of mark in this coun
try will not be the sons Of those whose fathers
can give them all they wish for, and ten times !
more than they ought to have, but will be those
: who are brought up in farm-hOuses and Gotta
ges, cutting their way through thick set hind
. RANGES Of every sort and all the brown-stOne
houses Of this metropolis, and all the white
!. stone houses in our metropolis, will be as notn-
! ing to bringing out the noble man. l do not
II who was not the son Of some man that had no
e fortune to give him, or very little. Taylor,
h Fox, Bunyan, Wesley, Parker, the two great
). BeecherS, Bellows Applause none of these
n were rich mems sons. They had this fine
n hardness of grain to begin with, and tell YOU
D the reason 50 many noble vessels DRIFT on lee
/ shores is the want of hardness and compact
AZ ness.
/ fl will have clear grit and hold my own
n. for all time, | must commence by eating my
a porridge Franklin said, 80 long as | can
as subsist on sawdust pudding, you may stop your
ly subscription to my paper any time. The sub
sr, scription was not stopped. Now this was tru'
IN of Sydney Smiths noble and beautiful career
=. | He went into the solitude of Salisbury plain
l." and dincd on potatoes day after day, and weeI
np after week, rather than barter a single atom o
m his manhood The down-trodden masse
1g- found in him a champion to fight their battles
ew and he stands to-day as one of the nOblest Iii
lar gllshmen of the last generation, because, whe
his he was young man, he could be content wit
oe- his pOrrldge, and this, as we can easily gather
nm must BE- one true reason why Mr. Greeley, Ion
SON years ago. was able to establish his great jou
ars mai and become the power he has been and
his to-day in the nation. To exchange his porrdg
lge for chicken in those times, suppose, va
wn never allowed to come as temptation undt
wv that old coat of his. Applause. l remen
an. ber that John Bryant of Princeton, llllnci
ler- told me that When MS Drother, lIllam Culie
and Bryant, adopted Spartan habits-omitting,
few course, stealng-he would take a piece
at bread and cheese with water for his breakfas
tes, 90 something tnat had WORK ln II OelorG
city came down to his newspaper Office, work
ate his office all day. and then go back at night
rue the same sort of supper. have no doubt tn
,ext William Cullen Bryant owes his long life
= in being contented with his porridge. Said Ii
,ble coin TO friend who came to the White llous
by . should be glad If YOU would stay and di
IA, with me, but have no idea OF what we a
ring gong to have Tor dinner because "1en "
tory Lincoln is away just browse around A
had so, turn where you will, you encounter Il
cter truth, that to make much or sure of yOurse
, le you must make sure that you are clear gr
,nu- first OF all, in being able to say no to the
Eu- good servants but bad masters, your passiC
, by and appetites, and it is not hard to see ht
re- again the Hue DeI"eeh tue Iaise anu Ihe u