Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-01-08
1ns Esshsh Of Jassary.

I4o enelr great master, man. IL -
~ startling proposition that each
'3n1ividual In . community influ.
eneee, to some extent, the masses
4eat surround him. A grain Of
Gnxnine viii tinge = hogshead of
water. It may not be percsptible
- tAs naked eye, but the effect Is
n looo certain. The moral control
exortsd BY the old lion Of the Her.
uitngs, upon his fellow citizens. is
80 branch Of our subject. 1t is
hotter at the onset to contemplate
euf hero ~ = reflex or creation of
tho times in which he enacted Q
part now become historical.
a prominent man illustrates In
HE peculiarlties the character of
hls nation. He may manifest q
violence in the eccentricity, but
- germ and nutrition Of develop
1ent can be traced to the people Of
Ms chlldhood and maturer years.
Napoleon was the legitimate off.
spring Of . tumultuous and aimless
Ievolution. He was the arrow shot
1tom the bow Of daring anarchy
the mbodlment of French brav-
cry and French atheism and
French restlessness. The bold free
booteFs Romulus, was equally a
type Of Rome in Its vigorous and
lawless inciplency. as the Borgta OF
The corrupt effeminacy and cruel
lnesse Of the later days Of the
Roman Empire. The poet who
fought beside his chieftain and
BAng his rough epic full of martial
strnins. was type of the earlier
days Of Greece. The cowardly
songster, who fed the battle field
and attuned his harp to grottoes
and love plants, revealed the COW.
ardice and luxurious abandonment
- that land Of broken statutes, aud
woek men and abandoned women.
And then again, each nation
that history records, has been q
eeeaturs Of infancy, growth and
graduation; and equally so whether
percellsd from another natiJn OF
sprung from adventurous exiles.
The poor laborer with his large
hAnds and h0mble wife has q sorry
ttms Of 1t at first. His cabin is
small apd1rude. As thrift dawns
Ppm him, com forts are succeeded
~ luxuries. He tenants a proud
odi0ce. and becomes idle and corp.
ulent and gouty. Races of men
may glide away ere a nation be-
comes aiiluent and luxurious, yet
the poor man is q parallel of ma
tional phases.
What now constitutes the throb-
blng heart OF our vigorous Repub-
lilo . century or SO ago was q
waste, tsnanted by swart savages.
The European explorer leaped over
The trafffail of his big vessel, and
at once was heard the woodman's
axe (the forest clock)-was beard
the carol of merry ploughman-
was heard the sharp crack of
huntsman's rife. Strength of
muscls, frugality, fearlessness and
quick decision are the qualities
that . life In the wilderness engen-
ders. There is no time for the
slow assertion Of technicalities of
law, born Of laborious analysis.
We should say frontiersman diff
fsrs essentially from q metropoli.
tan. We should say that the in
fancy Of these United States, whose
lullaby was the war whoop and
howl Of wild beasts-whose toys
we're the dashing eteed and the
death dealing rifle, would
produce different order of men
than these same United States
an the strength Of maturity, and
peace, and plenty, and refined leis.
ues. The times create the man,
eud We estimate him In connection
With those times. A silly moralist
10 he who would weigh the Hindoo
In the same scales with the pol
lshed PArlsian.
II there were errors in tho career
q Andrew Jackson, we shall, as
our Argument intimates, seek q
palliation In the wild jostling of
our land In its early settlement, In
IT, bloody exodus from q revolu.
tlonary struggle, and in the hor-
rorD Of it, later Indian difficulties.
Those periods demanded different
souls and different deeds from the
psesenf, and would excuse many
% eet which seems rough.
Jackson was eminently . man of
oxtremes. We array his good ele-
nonts against HE bad. We have
- fsars for the moral quotient.
In l765 = vessel modsstly crept
inlo The harbor Of Charleston, hav-
1eG % board . Protestant family
fsu0 the north Of Ireland. Two
yoefs after was born to that family
eto su6ject Of our brief memoir. |
Ulp mether. . lady Of earnest re.
llcfeue principle, devoted her boy |
y ~ Church. We have reason to
boaleSe that Andrew never became
l'hegeld 81 the Cross. Staggering
l94ee . mu9ket at the age OF thir.
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