Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-07-10

tered. aud the house was called to OF
der, Mr.. Adams was better regpla
tor than the clock, 4ur the latter prove,
to be three minutes TOO fast"
4 Here IS an example worthy the im
litatiOn OF all. lie who sleeps at tit
I post of danger, or Is absent when duty
calls, is no less deserter, than ne VIII,
flies at the approach ofdanger, or Whei
an emergency demands his presence
Go read the history of battles lost, tht
I wreck and ruin of fire and food, tht
! iailure of commercial enterprises, and
of disasters in every form, and though
not all may be traced to some want ol
1 punctuality, yet this will be found tt
be by no mems the least OF the causes
OF those great calamities which have
lscourged Individual men, and nations
through all time.
| have attempted to enumerate
some, not all the elements of success.
can not now speak fully or at large o.
| the necessity or value Of any of these.
But l affirm the truth that the price
! less boon of success can never be reach
ed without them. i
Motives of interest and ambition
often prompt men to study and pur-
| sue the means of success, but the higher,
hOlier sense of disty, love to God. and
love to man, should point the way to,
"Noble ends by noble means at
tainel." ......
And shall not patriotism too, as part
of this duty help to make its measure
full? As the rain drops mingle and
form the mighty ocean, SO do organ
lied combinations of men compose So
ciety, the church, and the State. The
Qualities which give personal success
to individual men, are therefore ele-
mentS of grace, and beauty, and
strength, and safety in these
If we would preserve and continue
the Great Republic in more than pris-
tine purity and capacity for good, we
must demand the cultivation and prac-
tice of all the elements of Individual
success.
There is a gloomy but mistaken APP
prehensiOn prevalent with many, that
the elements of success in our national
life has commenced to decay-that
there is a decline in the standard of i'll
tegrity and patriotism of our puhlic
men. / only ''vindicate the truth of
history" when I deny all this, and af-
tirIn that we have no reason to "de-
spair of the Republic" The National
Government has more than sixty thou
s;ind officers, Legislators, executive and
judicial; not one in five hundred Of
these has ever been suspected OF any
official delinquency Can higher IN
tegrity be found in an equal number
of men engaged in any pursuant oflife?
During the war of the rebellion our
army paynlasters disbursed more than
a. thousand million dollars, and the
lost less than q quarter of
a million. In the meagre disburse-
mentS of the war of 1872 the govern
ment lost two million. The late Sec
retary of the Treasury in his st. Louis
speech of October 5, 1872, stated the
gratifying fact that in three and half
years the government had collected
six hundred million dollars of customs
and had not lost . dollar. The collec-
tions of internal revenues in the same
time were ma,le with almost equal
honesty. tI--...- -.-
For any public officer who may have
been faithless to his trust, make no
apology, | should hope for absolute
purity and perfection. But if any one
W
.yancing in the high-toned morality of
cur public men, and in the progress of
L public sentiment which gives no tol-
erance. TO official delinquency, let him
reid Sabine's sketches Of the LoyaliStS
o. the American Revolution,1 - and then
study public sentiment and official
character ROW, and his deubts will bel
dfspelled. Let him remember that ;iI-
most without exception oar National
Judiciary, and that OF our own Ohio
have been Unspottcd, and without re-
i'Teach. Let him remember that GuIingi
the lust session OF the Ohio LEGISLATURE
u Cnuimil1ee, impartially selected and
Of able men, after Il most careful and
searching investigation reported unan-
imOuSiy THAI the present and recent adj
Of our State affairs bear
no evidence of fraud or want of fidelity.
There is safety in that grand pre-
vailing public sentiment which rescntsj
us an indignity to the whole people.
and demands rs an evil to be Temedied
and Il crime to be punished, every
Wrong in private or business lite. every
abnse in government, and every Off
eial delinquency. Let this continue.
and as one by one men are elevated tOI
high official position, we may conf
dentIy hope that the people will
realize in each the answer to that
prayer which Wolsey uttered when in
formed of the promotion OF Sir Thomas
Moore to the place of Lord Chancellor:
IN ho 90 ojusiice
80 For trHth'S sake, and his conscience"
Gentlenen--Tn whatever depart
ment Of life you may choose, you have
your part to perform III achieving sue
cess-success for yourselves, success for