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Show 264 '1'\IE J,lBf~RTY BELL. tariff policy of Cla.y ; and he was n double tl1ief from Calhoun- first of the Free 'fradc principle, which he nbnndoned just when all else saw it about to triumph, and second, of the . Sb.vc policy, for which he died. Tho great statesman sinks to be the mere Swiss of politics, without even the usual shrewdness of his rncc at a bargain. W c argue greatness from :1 man's aims. This man aimed to be President ; and died, as his most intimate friends say, broken-hearted because he failed. H ad he followed his in stincts and led tbc ·nm of American ideas, he ba(l been tenfold more than President. 'Vas it great to miss seeing this? 'Vns it great to sacrifice one's whole past, one 's deepest convictions, to lust of office? Did it show an able statesman to do all this in vain ? Great men never die broken-hearted. That disease killed Wolsey, not Milton or Columbus. Still, in justice to Mr. Webster, it should be said that no single mind, however able, can exert as much influence in this country as it bas been DANIEL WI:nsnn. 265 the custom to ascr'b Ideas rule a tbink'I e to such in other lands. is I b mg people like ours, and it on y y incarnating some eat that any intolloot gr popular idea 1 or even any , ·n America. Baptised i t h . v~ I can govern . n o t e spmt of the rt wh10h no single mind aoc, can greatly influence h . much less control a. . ere, 1 ' . ' great man may become the peop o s tdol : his solf-forgotf I . . u consecratiOn shall gtvo him tenfold manhood ' an d even tenfold m ' and from his position he shall . . . gam an mfiuenc tenhmes greater than manhood c or mind could together bestow. After all th . ' e only leadcrshi J posstble with us is best expressed in the war-er I of La Roche .T acquelin, the V ondean chief:- y Si j'avnncc, Buivcz moi . Si je recule, tucz moi . ' Si je tombc, vengcz m~i. If I ADV.A NCE ' FOLLO w me. rr I ltETREAT, be true to your Idea, and sacrifice EVEN ME. How sad tho wreck of such a lifo ! Consum- 23 |