The Portland daily press., 1873-05-13

the President, there will be Sherman, Sheri-
dan, Hancock, Terry, Mcdowell and Joe
Hooker. Hancock and Hooker got off the
track politically awhile ago, and the latter es-
peclaliy did say some of the most FOOLISH
things imaginable about Grant and the adj
mlnlstration, proving that good hghter may
be a very poor talker. But l fancy that when
these gallant comrades in arms ges toSetner So
cially, and the memories OF the heroic days
of the Republic are revived, they will frater-
Mise perfectly Magnanimlty us IS t natural at
most y;ctors of the Rebellion illustrate the
fact by their example. And now that each
of them has reached the summit of an honor
able ambition, it is pleasant to know that
their names are held in grateful reverence bv
all the loyal people of America.
Neurology has been busy with the names of
prominent men of late. Brooks and Ames.
both chronic invalids at the time when the
terrible Indictment of the Poland Investigat-
ing Committee was presented to the world.
have no doubt been hurried to their graves by
the censures visited upon them in that scath-
ing State paper. Both were men of marked
power, in their respective lines, and so great
has been the laxity of public opinion hereto
fore in respect to the obligations of official life,
that neither of them probably had any ade-
quate sense of the intrinsic improperly of
traficking in shares the value of which was
largely dependent upon the legislation in
which they bore part. They were the earli-
est victims of that awakened sense of public
virtue, which is gradually leading the nation
up to higher plane of purity and rectitude.
Of Mr. Brooks it may Faithfully be said in
eXtenuation that he lived in the city of New
York, and was a trusted chief in that party,
which has prospered too long by the disgrace
full motto that ALPS fair in politics; which has
recognized and practiced venality as means to
an end; and that having learned in his posi-
ton as an editor to palliate and defend local
delinquencies, familiarity with them weaken
ed his sense of their enormity and caused him
to swerve from those puritan rules of recti-
tude, which were taught him in the days of
his New England childhood and youth.
& Mr.. Ames, accustomed all his life to great
enterprises, reared in that political school
which has always recognized the right of gov
eminent to exercise a paternal control over
the minutest affairs of its citizens, bent all the
energies of his nature to the construction of
the great highway to the Pacific. He deem
ed all measures laudable which tended to pro-
mote that end. What seemed corruption to
men OF nicer perceptions, appeared to him on
ly as a legitimate mole of accomplishing
desirable object. While it is impossible to
withhold condemnation of the processes by
WHICH ne S0ugnC 10 acnlcVe us purpose,
there is abundant room for charity in con-
sidering his motives. He will always be re-
membered by his neighbors and personal
friends, as generous, kindly hearted, unos-
tentatious gentleman, never grasping or ava
rcious, whose ambition was always directed
in useful channels, and whose purse was open
as day for the advancement of every scheme
that promised to increase the comfort and well
fare Of his race.
Besides the great names of Orr and Chase,
which will always have an honorable place in
American history, there is to be added in
obituary chronicles that of John Stuart Mill,
one of the most thoughtful and intellectual
publicists of Great Britain. Mr.. MilPs pen
and voice have aided largely in furtherance
of the new ideas of popular liberty, the cham
plonship of which was espoused so warmly
and sustained so effectively by Golden,
Bright and their colleagues quarter of a
century ago. The progress they have made
is observable not less in English politics than
in English literature, and the world owes a
debt of gratitude to every one af these apps
ties of reform who have helped to enlarge the
power OF the people and to give new safe
guards to human rights. YARMOUTH.