The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-30
HONOR TO THE DEsERv1Na.-U. .. SENATE.

Mr.. Editor: 1t is better to de-
serve than to receive. The full
grown Roman was asked why a
certain token of honor had been
withheld from him. "Better far
for me-" he replied, "that one should
ask why they had not than why
they had conferred it." Yes, that
is so. And yet due honor withheld
from the deserving may fill the
breasts of the actors with lifelong
regrets. alt might have been," is a
refrain full of grief. alt should have
been," full of shame.
In selecting a future standard
bearer let us not open the way for
any such after strokes.
Col. w. H. Met !ardle's name has
been most worthily suggested for
the Senatorship all over the State.
Even aspirants for the place have
pronounced with generous enthusi-
asm their desire to see our old friend
thus honored. This gentleman is
thoroughly posted in the politics of
our state. His head is magazine
of political statistics, historic lore,
and personal "reminiscences which
go into the warp and wool of the
rise, growth, and development of
our state for the past seventy years.
Himself just in the prime power of
cultivated manhood, with a burnIsh-
ed pen, clarion voice, and stores
of statesmanlike knowledge. Few
possess greater advantages or can
promise more usefulness in a wider
or higher sphere of political &C
tlvity. Some persons deem him at
times a little rash. The wonder
rather, is that with so much of pub
lie wrong, plumber and shockingly
bad Government, he has been so
cool, and if rash, who has not him
self felt rash, or spoken and acted
rashly? But it is often just that
class of men that fully appreciate
opportunity, rise to its opening, and
meet its great demands.
Col. McCardle would make him
self felt in any position to which
duty might call him, or his fellow
citizens might elevate him. His re-
are not half disclosed. He
needs a suitable field, and in that
field he would make proud name,
and leave on it no soil of the school
of modern political traitors. He is
o proud man too Romanly proud
to stoop to the mean measures and
vulgar men, and polluted poltroons
who disgrace the walks of political
life without an impulse or senti-
ment of manhood, patriotism, or
philanthropy; and are equally de-
void of culture, foresight and states
How tho higher paths
of official labor demand stern, un-
compromising mon. How Congress
needs n few more men who fully |
the necessities of our
country and can neither be bent,
nor bowed, nor bought.
At any rate wo should regard it
an irreparable loss to the common
wealth if tho experience, attain
and public spiritedness of
one so capable as Col. McCardle
should fail of their highest utiliza-
ton for lack of the proper theatre
for their employment, and the door
TO that arena be barred by the
hands he has so efficiently strength
ened and sustained.
Let our fellow-patriots consider
what they owe to the hard-worked
brain of the consistent, self-denying
men who think and study and wear
put their best days and energies in
he public service the unofficial
and uncompensated toll that de-
wolves upon the chief journalists of
our country. Let them show, when
hey can do SO without damage or
1etriment of the public interests,
heir honest, grateful estimate of
such services, and raise them, If
worthy and we'll qualified, to still
higher and wider paths of useful
ness IsGEQUENA.