Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-07-10
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to fair trial according to law. The
office Of the advocate is to aid the court
and jury in ascertaining the truth ac-
cording to law. Duty never conflicts
with this. The great commentator on
tne English Common law, Sir WIN.
blackstone faithfully expressed the
lawyers duty when he said.
ITO virtue aud her friends a friend
Still may my voice the weak defend:
Neer may my prostituted tongue
Protect the oppressor in his wrong
Nor wrest the spirit Of the laws
To sanctify the Villains cause"
George Canning was conscious of n
truth when he said: s.My road must be
through character to power. Twill try
no other cOurse---and 7 am sanpujne
enough to believe that this Course.
though perhaps not the quickest is the
Surest."
Another element of success is---IN-
DUsTRY. William Writ has Justly said
that Sin morals and intellect we give
the final shape to our characters and
thus become emphatieally the archi-
tees OF our own fOrtune." This is true.
not only "in morals and intellect but
in every vocation of life, excellence ia
the result of patient long continued in
duStry, and this is made duty by the
law OF our being. These lessons were
taught In the Garden of EdeE--s'in the
sweat of thy face shalt thou eat breadu;
they were reiterated in the decalogue---
''six days shall thou labor; they are
recorded in the Pr0verbs-s'the hand
of tho 1ilf bot r.A ..
enjOined in enthusiastically whatsoever
thy hand findeth to do, do with thy
might: they are sanctified in the new
dispensatiOn-"I must work the works
Of him that sent me while it is day";
and Paul enjoined upon the Romans
that they be ''not slothful in business" !"
but be "fervent in spirit" When
Ptolemy Philadelphus went to study
geometry, he sought for an easy way
but was reminded that ''there is no
royal road to learning" Nearly CEN
tury before Christ, Cicero proclaimed
the great truth ''siile studio niLii g,sie-
guam egregi,an memo ,1aquam assegue-
tar. DE. Or. 1-3O.
Horace perused the thought and en-
balmed it in immortal song:
"Nil sine naagRo
Yita lahore dedI 0aortali6els.
1t grew into maxim "non excellentea
sine lahore"
On the subject of perseverance the
Latins have given US this sentence:
"He will never enjoy the sweets Of
the spring, nor will he obtain the honey
combs If Mount Hybla, Ia mountain
of Sicily famous for bees) if he dreadS
his face being stung or is annoyed by
briers. The rose is guarded by Its
thorn and the honey is defended by
the bee."
Horace, know tells US the post Is
born, not made. He is right when he
recognizes innate differences in ca
pacity, but he equally taught that each
man must cultivate the talent he has
by assiduous industry. If the poet i
not made, he makes success. Success
was never born, it is made.
Byron tells the decay which results
from inactiOn when he makes the pris-
oner of ChlllOn to say
"He nested with a vile repoee."
VIM. Writ, as if inspired by the pol.
ished eloquence of Cicero, the terse
didactic muse of Horace and the gram
der, sublimer words of Gods eternal
truth, translated all into the pathos of
his own majestic utterances when he
said-"And of this be assured, ! speak
from observation certain truth: there
is no excellence without great labor. 1t
is the fat of fate, from which no pow
er of genius can absOlve yOu.'
If genius be desirable at all, it is only
of that great and magnanimous kind
which like the condor of South Ameri-
ca, pitches from the summit of Chin
bOrazo, above the clouds, and sustains
at pleasure, in that empyres,l region
with an energy rather ihvigOrated
than weakened by the effort.
1t is this capacity for high and long,
continued exertiOn, this vigorous pow
er of profound and searching inyesti-
CATION, this careering and widespread
ing comprehension of mind, and these
long reaches of thought that
'.Piuek bright honor from the pale faced moon,
Or dive into he Lotion OF the deep.
And drag up drowned honor by the locks;
this is the prowess, and these the hardy
achievements which are to enrol your
names among the great men OF the
earth."
Closely allied to industry, but differ
ing from it, in essential features is an
Industry is habitual diligence, the
correlative of idleness. But energy is
force, vigOr, life, spirit, power. There
NAV be Industry without energy, and
energy without industry. Energy may
be fitful, irregular; it may exist at in
tervals, and like recreant soldier 0e-
sert in the hour of greatest perii-it
may abandon victory when already
- - sk, nouacfnr,olly
of splendid powers and attachments
may dazzle the world with a single
achievements and for want of continu-
ed perseverance sink into utter obscur-
ity. Then another moves on with con-
tinuous diligence, but fails for want OF
that energy essential to overcome the
obstacles he encounters.
But energised industry, or diligent
energy is that grand quality which
yields to no pressure, pauses, before no
difficulty, quails before no storm, sur
mounts every obstacle and strikes for
victory in every contest. A great In
tellect has said: "It Is the true pris'uns
real handspring ofall great
ness and eminence among men. With
out it all the rarer and higher powers
of our nature are useless or worse than
useless.
The genius Of a Milton, a Newton, q
Locke, or Franklin would have Ian
guished and expired without achiev-
ing anything for them, their country,
or the human race, but for this pecu-
liar ris a tergo-this active, operative,
and impulsive ingredient in the human
sustained and impelled
by this impetus or power, endowments
very moderate may accompiish-nay
have accomplished more for human
kind, than the brightest parts have
ever done without it. That power or
of nxanSfifnfiOIl hlnh