New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-04
"SELEh4DE8 MEN AND WouEN.

Col. T. ". Higginson in The WoD,Gns Journal
Self-made men Of President Gariieids type are
often Justly claimed as being omOng the finest fruits
of our institutions. There is her class who also
deserve well our piaise-those who have had 10 over
come not 30 much their early disadvantages. as
what many people would consider their early adj
vantages. They did not have TO SurnOunt poverty
but TO surmount wealth-Dot TO rise OF adversely
but above prosper ". They have had TO learn TO
sympathlZe with those in need without ever having
shared their necesstous condition; cspouse radi-
casins when they had everything 10 lose b. change.
1t hard at amy rate. 10 get good out Of those
who are born u inherit what Others have earned by
working; how much harder when their career Is
destined TO involve not mcrc work but the loss of
early friends and perhaps Of all the special delights
of the society in which they were born. To accept
these conditions, and 10 do IL knowingly and cheer
fully, Is 10 be a self-made nan woman indee:.
rich young lawyer was once told bv an Older
one that the way 10 success this: To spend hIs
fortune; then 10 marry and spend his wifes: after
which he could hope to succeed al tie lar Rnf 10
achieve really lndepcn cnt moral pOstion-tO be
indeed self-m de man or true man al all-implies
more than success the bar for il needs not only
pllsh this IN spite of early advantages is in many
respects harder ;han rise out OF what is called OBJ
security. 10 begin with, II wins far less sympathy
during the process. Everybody is interested m The
Romance of Poor Young Man" Those of the class
from which he came, whatever IL be, apt cheer
INN on and 10 rejoice, WI almost urcsone repetl-
ton. that he was once Ta-splittcr or q tanner or
once begun, ne mas every lnducement 10 make the
most of these circumstances in his career they are
counted 10 HIM for merits, and he = tempted 10 ex-
aggerate tnen, Ike the character IN Dickens Bleak
House, e. Hard Times , whose main stock in trade
lay IN his early struggles aud was put To shame at
last by the discovery that he came OF worthy and
well-to-dO parents. Bun the " no tries to ele-
vate himself into lndep ndcnce OF character out of
fortunate surroundings l. apt 70 lid himself un-
Tor innate. lhusr OF the class he D. leaving 10 not
urge hlm IN. hui are morr apt TO cen>ure him OF
satlriae hi u and where this is rue of a man in is
twice az true Of the other rene ubcr one Oc-
cason when lecture was TO be delivered In New
port, by one OF the most accom- lisisd women IN
New England. An! now / have named her N hIch
i did not mean 10 do as Warrington once said
OF the person. after applying to her ,.,. hat
similar ep liot Only thinhW said OF the lit
tie queens 81 our LITTLE society. As she read the an
nounCemeHt, that woman a Ia ) ouCein
well remember when boy. To have only heard
of Lothrop Motley as the handsomcst fop and f0kcT
the leader Of thu dance Wendell Philips in his
Cambridge Grafton the other day, described the pro-
cess OF change which transformed Motley into an
author ano ihcn INTO reiOrmcr; ana MADE his pen
worth deem ulplOlnatlStS 10 his country tho
opening of the war found the United States almost
without a Friend in Europe. OF Mr. Plnli;,s's own
career need Ia dly speak nor OF that other charm
lug orator, who with his new Harvard hOuOrs npon
him. praised Phillips al the PIN Beta Kappa dinner in
words almost as eloquent a his own. ~ A2geNer be
their errors OF shOrj comngS never tbiaa OF Iaen
ami women such rs have named-:tnd the list might
easily be made longer, without recalling that me
paSS: IN wills George COlman, IN his famous
LooAeT-On." desc .iheS Sir Phillip Siiuey-guttRg
the angua %, BE- il observed into the mouth of a
woman. Ins is the closing paragraph:
" ms bright and accomplished cavalier might, IL
he pie sod, his day. have the fashion Of shoe
tie or altered the shape OF any mans peruQuc IN the
manhood and his greatness of soul, TO hold out "A
brave example of virtue and religion. While all
were looking up to him as the sample OF courtesy,
of elegance and galiantry, he bethinking him
self bs Parap of the Psalms. He fell fight
ing for his country, and died in an act of Christian
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