Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-02-12
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Millburn is an educated man and a
gentleman and would soon take high
RANK in Congress as a man of ability and
would be an honor to the people he rep
resents. Talk about it as you please the
educated gentleman, in a body of intel
ligent men, like the American Congress,
will always have more influence and
can accomplish more than an uneduca-
ted man.-Morristown Republican.
Well here it is with three P's-plump,
pat and puissant.
"The educated man" is the man who
knows that he knows infinitely nothing
and very little of that, and he is very
reticent and un~obtrusive about the lit
tie knowledge he does possess. He is a
disciple of Newton in this respect. He
is aware of the fact that this great phil
osopher discovered in his closing wears,
that all a man has the opportunity of
doing in this world is to pick up a few
pebbles and grains of sand on the shore
whilst the vast ocean lies UNEMPLOYED
before him. College education is a good
thing as far as it goes, there is nothing
better, but when it leads a man to be-
lieve that he is superior stuff and worlds
are waiting to be conquered by him he
becomes an intolerable nuisance and an
illimitable fool.
We shall see how the matter stands
Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson and
Abraham Lincoln are leading characters
in American history, with butfew equals
and in their special roles without a peer
Gen. Jackson was probably never in.
side of a college. His dense ignorance
of the rules of photography and construc,
ton of language was proverbial in his
day, and he was ridiculed withoutmercy
by the intellectual gentlemen who had
the polish and refinement of the schools
As a jurist, warrior and statesman he
was, what would be called in this day, 9
magnificent success. With all his foibles
eccentricities and mistakes his was {
hero's and patriots part and hero's ant
patriots service that made a dee,
and lasting impression for good upor
the progress of our national acumep
untiring energy and business methods
and these, and these alone, made "Olt
Hickory" He had the education tina
makes the MAINLAND not the dude.
Andrew Johnson was another charac
ter who was singularly unfortunate re
garding educational advantages, and We
in many periods of his stormy politica
life no man eXerted a more commander,
influence. He met in. many fierce con
ilicts "the educated MANI and in tn
windup was victor of the fields. Al
familiar with the history of the lat
civil war, both North and South and tn
world over regard the defence of tn
Union cause and his argument agains
secession in the Senate chamber as on
of the grandest forensic efforts eve
made in the worlds forum. That speecl
electrifying the loyal people of tn
country, was worth an hundred thou
sand men on the field of conflict an
contributed in no small measure to tn
determining of the status of foreign ms
tons favorable to the Union Cause. ]
was not Mr.. Johnson's education in tn
school for he had none of that-but h
thorough education in the school of tn
world that bore him from the humble.
o~bscurity in an nIhroken series of hig
political honors to the chief magistrat
Of the Republic.
And what of the immortal Lincoln, tn
idol of his people, the loved of the worlC