, 1874-03-07

wagos. What viii M n market-bnstfet, olotho
tha children, and mako It possible to close oyory
will not depreciato when savod Ia bottor etnitl-
ard Of both currency and wages than tho added
idoas Of fnanoier wllose life has been npent
carrying conventions and disgutHng tho iaBuoH
on which tho poopla aro to voto.
T.inB, tho Weird asRtora riBo aptly to tho
vision Of man aa unscrupulously ambitious Us
Mr. Morton, Whose life iB spent consulting thon,
for personal ends but not vi th tho choot, Of lle
may lin1, Of making him King horeaftor. Ills
tllustration shows tho worry cloheRt he can como
Of tho most .weakly ambitions OF gil PUBLIC ca;
reors wlorofn, II I remember woll, tho Weird
Sisters came ont ahead and Mr.. Afaobeth-hfor-
ton lost tho throne lie us,1rpad.
sonunz HAMILTON, AND 9ALLAT1S.
Tho fansark OF Senator Morton, that ae}iurz
doos not understand tho country, and partiou-
1arly docs not understand It's curronoy y-syaton.
Inns not ovo!l the 1nert Of novelty. Tho two
Secretaries ct tho TroasurY who wore most Illus.
trioua in tho management Of curroucy and
finance woro both foreigners, nna arrived in tho
United Statoa somowhat ncar the ago Mt which
schurz settled amongst nB, Hamilton md Gal
latin wore, respectively II mud 18 years DID,
the one native ct tho British Wcat Inties. tho
whom ho arrived, although ho had been MI cxile
from his nntiyo country since hlH 20th yoar. In
other respects, they have had parallel careers,-
al bong colleEe.mon college. Sob sohurz educated
.ho IT, 4fn,vsra,tr ~ no, " oopn, Haa.M ~
nt Kings or Columbia College. Neitl,or Of Them
hnd my great ability for what is oaileJ stpraott-
ca" business, any more than Morton, WHO can-
not earn a. much rnonoy, md could not at his
tost health, as oithor Of ehcm. All three woro
aoldlorly mon, as Mr.. Morton nsvor was, discon-
neotea from political oommanJery. All throo
came to Amotich with liko impulao,-for tho
careor afforded by 4 nov aud FREQ country; and
tho lifo OF Hamilton is worry nearly a oouutor-
Tprf In Aortn1 1ffnrnrv nn1 rY{1ffn nvf
OF Schurx's careor amongst ua. Tho grovol-
tug career OF ccrk" ho described a. ropllgnant
to big foclinga; and his facility at milking a
speech boforo public audience whom boy, In
1774, may have boon Morton's inoitomont whom
he said to schurz TINT no know sone mon wholly
impotcne in politics who could mako great po-
litical Bpeoeh.
For twenty ycars Gallatin was derilod for his
french pronunciation and foreign BIRTH Ho
was woli caflod an adyot,,rer, because no had
pursued fortune In tho three States Of Mainet
Virginia, md Pennsylvania; but, with coBmo-
politan indifference. ho added two moro rosi-
doncos to the list In later life, and hocamo citl-
zen Of Maryland, and Mt ]ast OF New York. Like
all mon of any soundness in finance or public
Bcienco,- ,-liKe Salmon r. Chaae nnl Robert ].
Wall1or,-llo was educatcd to begin with. Thero-
fore hiH lilo showed mono OF tho vagarious, hap
hazard, smnttor fashion Of speech on real tbipgg,
like money, which in somo mon accommodates
moral uncertainty and consistent mopgre1
Hatnilton, was described by Judge Story as a
truly great atatesman, to 10 ranked side by
side with Alexander Hamilton, and with 9 pu-
rity Of character as valuable In politician ~ 1t
ia raro."
This man organized the original Ways and
Means Committee, caxriel tho measures to pay
of tho public debt, croatod American fiscal
literature, and made tl!s noble answor to tho
banker Daripg when asked to accept tho prof
for Of q part in tl.o French loan Of 181s:> ~
will not accept your obliging oifor, because a
man who has had tho direction Of tho lnancos
Of his country as long as T hage should not die
rioh,"
NOT nEn1RD~nANp.
With all this Baid for Gallalin and Hamilton.
1t is to tho tame Of Carl schurz lint, with more
purity Of hoart than one, and equal purity ol
example with the other, his public career hae
boon more brilliant, up to Lis time Of life, than
line Of q staff-ofioer, liko Hc5aco Porter and
Mai. uonoison. Sohurz novSSf had patron
but his conpatrlot BA1onB in America lie was 8
Foreign Minister ut tho ago Of 81 Drlgadier'
Genoral at 33, aud a Senator ut 40, with repu
ternationxl. qallatn was SIS when ho ca'no te
Congress, and his uuflincling caudor d
onco drow upon himself tho attacks ol
tho supporters OF Adams Administration
Us schurz Of Grants mon. da!latin novol
language with the exquisite fnency and spirit 0!
Schu-z but he made Ills public caraer memor
able BY adopting the course Carl schnrz bas fol
lowed: bauoming authoritative and accurate II
anapcial subjecta.
And th,a is tho only true course for = foreign.
born A1nercan OF high ambition in public lfe tt
develop in tho direction Of executive usefulness
particularly toward the Treasury. There ho CHI
occupy with propriety aud stability rank alway
precarioua III tie disponBation Ut tho people
many Of whom, with moro exeuso than Coy
Morton, have a prejudice ngainst man hccaus'
Lo has some education and ia ia Dutclmau."
Earn.