Year: 1878

comfortable appointment from Burke, when yio-
lent party dssensions forced the loyal Tory either
to take sides against his sovereign or his benefactor
In great trouble he appealed apOlogetically
to the latter, who replied 4" God forbid that worthy
men situated as you are should be made sacrifices
to the miuuter part of politics. when we are far
from able to assure ourselves that the higher parts
can be made to answer the good ends have in
view ] You have little OF no obligations to me; but
If you had as many as really wish it were in my
pOwer-as it is certainly in my desire-to lay upon
you, hope you do not think me capable of con-
ferring them in order to subject your mind your
affairs to a painful and mischievous servitude"


81 am too Young to be supposed capable of enter
tanning any personal enmity against the Earl of
Sandwich" said William Pitt loftily, and trust
that when shall be less young it will appear that
have early determined, in the most solemn man
ner, never to allow any private and per-
sOnal consideration whatever to influence my public
conduct at any one moment of my life" From that
stately sef-respect he never swerved From the
promise of his youth TO that sad hour when the
silence of death was broken by his last eager cry
"Oh, my country how love my country % the
passion of his life was love of country. "Piit,"
says his lifelong intimate friend the devout VIII
berforce, Pitt is the most upright political char
acter / ever knew or heard Of"


III Is under the banner OF these glorious spollsmen
and partsans that Mr.. Dorman b. Eaton and his
cOnfederates have the effrontery to range them
selves. 1t is the slanderers of Burke and
Pitt whose black flag is their real stand
ard. Exactly such railing accusations of part
isanship and corruption, of selfish scheming
and political jobbery, of pecuniary dishonesty
and personal treachery the selfstyled reformers
bring against party leaders to-day wero brought
against Burke and Pitt by the slander-mongers of
their own time. There has been no charge of dis
honesty against any member of Civil our Con-
gressiOnal Service that was not laid against the
most honorable and right-minded members of Ad-
mnstTaion and Opposition during the life of Burke
including Burke aud Pitt themselves while the
amount of truth in these charges during-+I will
take the refOrmeTs' crying era of corruption
during Grants Administration, was proportion
ately far less than during BuTkes and Pitts
Administrations. Tho ISLANDERS and the slander-
ers of Burke and Pitt have so utterly
passed away that no man knoweth of their sepul-
chre to this day. The fame of these great statesmen
is far from being marred by contemporary malice
that / venture to say the greater part of Young
America does not SO much as know that il was ever
blurred. So will the great-hearted public men of
day, in spite of the petty malice and sander of
men who have no other weapon than SANDER in
spite of the fatal detection here and there of
weak brethren from their own ranks-which
gives color and form and substance to slander-so
will they fight the good fght-sometimes winning.
sometimes losing sometimes weary, sometimes de-
spending; but always with the mind conscious to it.
self of right; conscious of serving the Republic ;
conscious of being on the nOblest battlefield earth
has to ofier confident of the appreciation OF the
wise and good and of the next age.


GAIL HAMILTON.