The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-09-07
.selGMode' Mem and women,

Col, 7, W. HigginAon IN tho WOman's Journal
self.made men Of President Garields
type are often Justly claimed as being
among the finest fruits Of our institutions.
There is another class who also deserve
well our praise-those who have had to
overcome, not so much their early disad-
vantages, us what many people would CON
slider their early advantages, They did not
have to surmount poverty but to Surmount
weaIth-not to rise out OF adversely but
above prosperity. They have had to learn
to sympathize with those in need without
ever having shared their necessitous con-
ditlon; to spouse ndicalisms when they
Ind everything to lose by change It il
hard, ut any rate, to get good work out OF
those who arc born 70 inherit what Others
have earned by working how much harder
when their career is destined to Involve
moi merely work, but the loss OF early
friends and perhaps OF all the special de-
livbts OF the society in which they We're
hSrn, no accept these conditions and to
do il knowing and Cheerlully, y to DO Il
self.made nun or woman indeed.
4 rich Young lawyer was once told by
an older ono that the way to success was
this To spend his fortunes then to marry
and SDend his wiie's; after which he could
hone 10 succeed ut tho bar but t0achieye
"A really independent moral pOsitiOn--to be
indeed a self.made man ora true man at all
implies more than success at the bar, Tor
it needs not only intellect, the highest aim;
besides, 10 accomplish this in spite OF
curly advantages" is In many respects
harder than to rise out Of what is called OBJ
scurity, To begin with, It wins far less
sympathy during the process. Everybody
4 Interested In "The Romance OF Il Poor
Young Man" Those OF tho Olnss from
which he came, whatever It be, Nre apt to
cheer him on; and to rejoice, with almost
tiresome repetition, that he was once rail-
spliter, or tanner, or y tlat.boatman,
After his career OF distinction Is once be.
gun, no has every inducement to make the
most OF these circumstances In his career;
they are counted to him for merits, and he
il tempted to eXAgRerRte them, like the
character in Dickens Bleak uousc, ("Hard
TimGsYiI whose main stock In trade
law in his early struggles, and was put to
shame ut last by the discovery that he
came Of worthy and well. tO-do parents.
But tho man who tries to elevate himself
into independence Of character out Of for.
tunato" surroundings Is apt to find himself
unfortunate. Those Of the class he Is leav.
inc no not urge him on, but Is more apt to
Censure him or SRtiriZe him; and where
this Ii true OF q man II istwiCe a true OF the
other sox, | remember one OCCASION when
A lecture was to be delivered in Newport,
by one of the most accomplished women
IN New England. "Ah! now have named
her, which did not mean. to do!'-i's
"WarringtOn" once said Of the same per-
son, after applying to her somewhat
similar epithet. "Only think" sNid one Of
tho little queens OF Our little society, as she
read tho announcement, "that woman was
u lady oncel"
/ well remember when boy, to have
only heard Of Lothrop Motley us the hand
soonest fop and fdneur In BOston-the man.
agur OF fashionable assemblies, the leader OF
tile dance. Wendell Phillips in his Cam
bridge oration the other day, described the
process OF change which transformed Mot
ley into an author and then intoa fetormer;
and made his pen worth dozen diplomat
ists to his country when the opening Of the
war found the United States almost with.
out friend In Europe. OF Mr., Phillips
own career need hardly speak, nor OF that
other charming orator, who with his new
Harvard hOnOrs upon him, praised Phillips
at the Phi Beta Kappa dinner in words
almost as eloquent M his own. Whatever
be their errors or shortcomings, never
think Of men and women such Us ! have
named and the list might easily be made
longer, without recalling that fine passage
In which George ColmHil, in his once tam.
Gus IOoker.On," describes Sir Phillip Sid
ncy-putting the language, be II observed,
into tie mouth Of Il woman, This Is the
closing paragraph.
"This bright and accomplished cavalier
might, II he pleased, in his day, have set
the fashion OF u shoe.tie or altered the
shape Of any mans peruque in the country;
but lie thought 1t more llCsccming his imam.
hood and his greatness Of soul, to hold out
brave example Of virtue and religion.
While all were looking up TO him us the
sample Of courtesy, Of elegance and gallant.
~, he was bethinking himself Of his Para.
phrase oithe Psalms. lie fell fighting for
his country, and died in an act Of Christian
charity. -. 80. aiH.a.H .tf
CenSuS for 1850,