Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-01-29
RaoGRAPh.
For Good LATHE Boys.
Nashville American.

of little boys, the biography of /
great man, hoping that they may
profit by his example.
Horace was born in the town o
Gansette, in Massachusetts. fOul
years subsequent to the flood. He
was not only a good little boy, but
also wise and witty one. But he
was unlike many of the boys you
read about; for while he was good
he was not soft by any means. He
was never a member of the school
of goOdy good boys. He did not
always do upon the spur of the mo-
ment that which appears noble and
generous and good to the callOw
authors of Sunday-schOOl stories
for Horace was not fiaXen-haired
and rosy-cheeked and blue-eyed /;
and his wisdom taught him great
contempt for the cheap nOtoriety
which seems to fascinate boys of
that complexion. While he. has
great respect for that kind of good
ness which is to be paid for here
after, he was not unmindful- of an
other sort which claimed its reward
in this life. He was somewhat like
the wife of a good old preacher in
Nashville. They lad the misfOr-
tune to have their house burned,
and as the smoke still assembled, the
brother knelt down and thanked
God that "they still had a mansion
i'm the skies" The wife, who was
little too exasperated to feel very
thankful just ut that time, said to
her husband, "That may suit you,
but just at the present / prefer a
shelter in this sublunary sphere"
Horace had an idea that what was
best for himself was also best for
Others, and this saved him from do
ing many things which would have
looked very silly to. him in after
years. If his mother gave him APP
Piles or candy to divide with his
little brothers, he always kept the
best apple or the most candy for
himself. This, at first glance, does
not look generous, and the blonde
boys in books would have done
otherwise, most likely. But don't
you see that it was a lesson to the
brothers? 1t taught them not to
always expect the best things in
this life, and made them unselfish
and humble; besides, candy is not
always healthy. And Horace knew
that his wisdom would resist the
evil consequences of apparent indul-
gencies, and that his stomach could
stand the candy; but he did not
know how it was with his brothers.
The names of his brothers were
Alvin, ROderick, Arch and Horace,
Jr.-Horace was a family name and
a favorite one.
The peculiarities l have mem
toned in the treatment of his BROTH
ers clung to Horace throughout all
his subsequent career, and made a
great man of him, as you will see.
When Horace was grown up he
burned to do something for his peo-
pie, to benefit his race, and he
started out as a missionary to a very
Enlightened people who dWelt away
south of where he was born. These
south people accused him of coming
from Gansette, and knowing their
prejudice against that place, he re-
piled, "Na'Fy Gansette.n This
made him very popular with them,
and they ever after that called him
Mary Gansette."
Horace had wit as well as wis
dom. Some boys, like G. W.,
would have "OWned up' and got
laughed at.
He began his missionary work by
teaching school, and if he had stuck
to this might have accomplished
more for that people; but Horace
soon discovered that they needed
wise laws more than they did knowl-
edge. These people were also semi
barbarous. and owned what they
called in their native tongue mig
gers" This practice was very
much condemned by the people
who sent Horace to enlighten them.
Weak-minded persons would have
demonstrated at once with the ma
tiveS, and told them that the prac-
tice was wicked (; but Horace knew
better than this, for he was a wise
man; 81. he bought him ''nigger"
and went to making laws for the
natives, for which purpose he aban-
doned his school and its immense
revenues.
Long years afterwards the people
of his native town, in his own
refused to allow him to par
take of the holy communion, be-
cause he had traded in human souls.
They said that ignorance might eX-
cuse to some extent the natives, but
Horace was raised in a different at
This shows how ignor-
ant some wise people are, as if Hor
ace could ever have done as much
for himself, if he had refused to hui
NOR the natives! No man can man.
age cannibals without "giving in"
to them to some extent.
Horace, now, only SojOurned with
the natives long enough to misun-
derstand their condition, when he
removed TO a town called Washing
ton, near his native place, and sent
out laws to the people to govern
them. This he did for nearly twenty
years. He also made laws for his
native country; and he sometimes
got the two mixed, and gave his
native people the best laws-which
shows how hard it is to break away
from old habits.
But Horace did not entirely forget
the natives he left his brothers AL
win, Roderick, Arch and Horace,
Jr., among them. He allowed all
of them to "play judge" for time
to the amusement of the natives
to keep them out of political mis-
chief.
When the condition of the people
was somewhat improved, they took
a notion that they wanted to be gov
erned by natives-nearly all half
civilized people do this-and for a
long time rulers were selected from
among their own people. This they
were allowed to do by the home |
Horace became very angry, and |
tried to get the home government
to put the natives under military
rule, but for some reason failed. !
His brother Alvin-whO was acting
as judge-declared that the natives
had no right to govern themselves /;
but a native chief named Senter |
armed the people with ballots-a
kind of war weapon used by civil /
lied natiOns-andS successfully estab- /
lished their claims.
Horace, with his temper some-
what soured, then went as mis-
sionary to land called Turkey, and
had great power and influence in
that land.
1t has been sometimes said that
he was a cold, calculating, unim-
pulsiVe man; there never was
greater mistake made He was