Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-09-24

| presidency, his parttHiAis Neft iine NuAeAe ~
One Of them IL said to have died OF grief.
He was ardeutly patriotic, after the war
| hawk fashion. but the presidency was al
ways In his thoughts, and its attraction ac-
counta for the perturbations Of his political
orbit. He said that he would rather 10
| right than be president. but 1t has been too
| truly remarked that even at the moment
I OF that memorable utterance he was think
ing more Of being president than OF being
| right. His policy and sentiments were In
tenscly American and by the oosmopol-
/ itans would now be designated as jingo."
wRnsTER's MAJESTY OF INTELLECT.
Goodwin Smith does not deny Daniel
Webster the qualities that have made his
name household word:
ellis character was cast in the Puritan
mold and formed by the New England
school system. under which he had been
teacher ms we'll as a pupil. He was grave,
staid, and In the cast Of his character moral
and devout. In his later years he was given
TO running earelessly into debt, and like
many other men of his day too fond OF
| wine. Az an orator Of reason he has no SUI
perior, II he has an equal, in the English
language. II Is difficult at least to say
what political speech can vie in logical
force and impressiveness with his speech
defending the Union in reply to the south.
ern separntist Hayne, or what forensic
speech excels In the same qualities his
speech for tho prosecution In the murder
case OF White.
"His style has been compared to the
strokes OF trip hammer, which his SEN
fences resembied in measured force, but
not in monotony. The majesty OF intellect
sat on his beetling brow, and he had the look
and port OF Jove. lie was and felt himself
king. 1t Is told Of him that when one of
his notes had fallen due he majestically
waved his hand aud said, Let IL be paid
All men bowed down to him; all men
crowded TO bear him He swayed the opin-
Ions Of all men, but he did not, like Clay
win their hearts. He never was n great
party lender, nor was he ever hopeful
candidate for the presidency. 1t must be
added that his moral strength was not
equal to his power OF mind"
THE BLOOD RID STAR" OF JACKSON.
What Goodwin Smith picturesquely calls
"thc blood rcd star" OF Andrew jackson
was now in the ascendant:
jackson, though he had once been in
congress. as w0 have seen, and had vented
his Jealous spleen on Washington. was
fighter, with an iron will and great powers
OF command, III educated, destitute Of the
knowledge and the hnblts Of statesman
with an uncontrolled eenper and almost as
much swaycd by passion as any Indian
chief, though, like many an Indian chief,
he could bear himself when he pleased with
dignity and even with grace. That he had
beaten the British at New Orleans was his
title to the headship Of the nation, and he
had not lessened his popularity by the law
less execution Of two Englishmen, Ambris-
tam and Arlat flVtnH ItFa s.4t.r q
equally laTless aggression on Spanish ter.
ritory--ougrages against which u moral
minority In congress had protested in vain,
while John Quincy Adams, swayed prob
ably by bis dislike Of England, had for once
deviated from his moral course and helped
to whitcgRsh the man who was destined to
GUST him from the presidential chair"
LINCOLN A MARVEL or HISTORY.
Professor Smith now comes down TO more
coutemporaneous times, aud here he paints
his portrait Of Abraham Lincoln:
Abraham Lincoln is assuredly one OF
the marvcls OF history. holland but Amer
lea has produced his like. This destined
chief OF nation in It's most perilous hour
was the son of thriftless and wandering
settler, bred in the most sordid poverty
He had received only the rudiments of edu-
cation, and though be afterward read eager
| ly such works IA were within his reach 1t
Is wonderful that be should have attained
as a speaker and writer mastery of Ian
guage and pure rs well as effective style.
He could look back smiling on the day
when his long shanks appeared bare below
the shrunken leather brooches which were
his only neither garment. His frame was
gaunt and grotesaue, but mighty. He
stood G feet 4 and was eaid to have lifted a
| fu1 Of 20. a
the bunghole This mada him hero with
the Clary Grove boys.
HE had n strong and eminently fair un-
Outstanding, with great powers Of patient
thought, which he cultivated by the study
OF Euclid. In all his views there was a
| simplicity which had its source in the sim
| plicity of his character. His local popular
ity was due largely to his humor and the
stock Of good stories, always pointed,
though not always delicate, which through
liie II was his delight to collect aud
repeat. At tho same time he was melan
choly, touched with the pathos OF human
life, fond OF mournful poetry, religious,
though not orthodox, with strong sense
OF an oyerrullng Providence, which, when
he was out of spirits sometimes, took the
shape Of iGtalism. His melancholy was
probably deepcnod by his gloomy surround
lniss anu Dy mlSiluNehtuFeA IN love.
LINCOLN WORSHIP.
Admiration has risen 70 worship, and
Lincoln has, in the minds OF some Of his
enlogists, become the greatest statesman
and the master spirit OF his age He has
even become great strategist, though 1t
seems almost certain that he did harm by
interfering, or allowing his military coun.
sellers nt Washington TO Interfere, with the
conduct Of the war. He said himself that
he had not controlled events, but had been
guided by them. To know how TO be guild.
ed by events, however, II 1t is not imperial
genius, IS practical wisdom. Lincoln's
goodness OF heart, his sense Of duty, his
unselfishness, his freedom from vanity, his
long suffering, his simplicity, were never
disturbed either by power or by opposition.
1.-THE habit which he retained through all
the dark days OF his presidency OF throwing
his thoughts into the form OF pithy stories
aud Apologies caused him 10 DO charged
with lsvlty 10 the charge OF leyity no
man could he less open. Though he trusted
In Providence, caro for the public aud sor,
row for the public calamities filled his heart
and sat visibly upon his brow His state
papers are excellent not only as political
documents, but Gs compositions, and are