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Show 372 WjlJiarn A. Phillips. be expo ed t 1l l.o ng1 l tl t 0 medium of Anror lo-S. nx.> on, e•r.e ;i;t se~Ie' ks through the blu . et Il e\i . .JrO t• tltc \'('l'l)(ICU• in. r of I • Hl'UUI~C . . • . he mm. d 1.: 3 bewd.< . 1c 1. 't1 a ttl1 e, tre·•1 ~urc of mn.:nt.1 o•n pou. t ed .1 11to the human Iup. 1~' n cyc Io pedi·•ts. ' ocr ivill<oT a bn ·{ outlme of nll the great wo1 ·I <1. o f' f'·, \C t ' .u_ nd science' and a.rt, have become too '\"Oluminous to read. . . . And yet t Il CI.C 1. ,s a certn.i n shallowness . .m . .a l.l th1s J>w. 1,d e ocean. A ten d cncy to flimsmess and f;Oplnsti C~ttlon. .tstc and glass crow d <.l .t amot1 ds aml cm.c rald:-3 .o ut of th. , m. arke.t . There arc conn t ertCr·J t~· 1•11 cv rJv t}1111.c.., r,-m thc ::uts,m poll- 1.1 e~ m. mot .., tI s-. 'l'l te• I>uritani5m that king~ could. not COIH]UC' r l\loAlo' C'h 1. · t t·y.m g t 0 c ru ' h · l\lonC'}' ' mon ey I ' the ma~tcr sp.1 n.t o f t 11 0 wo1 ·I t 1• Ilow mnny :tre • ti. t .• r.e w. ho hav, e .n o_t bow c d t I1 c I". n c e' to this, ~a rch Dwnr on of CJ\'tltzn.tJOn. C t> Jlllt.::•;, lab01·, po It. tl.c s, bc·· tutJt·' reliccor ion ' arc in t•h e• mark<·t , and Jf V.I rtue may n o'1.1 be botwo ht with monc·y, It IN too oft ' II sold for it. · f b Yet how hidt:ous i pov rty. T:dk a~ tlwy wtll o rcpu - licani:'m nncl equality, most men hate pon.! rty as they do the itch. Choose two men for the wor .. ~ lti p of the m.:ts:"<'::-. Let one b ~ l'J·C 11 , COlli ' 1) ·, cb rorcrcou,.;; in 'IJll)arel- W(' /l-fuusltarl ns a 0 · • • . tailor, a barber, and a pcrfumc·r cnn nwk' him. Let h1rn Lc able to utter th<~ fit::;hionab!c trifies of the moment,- be, ~tay be destitute of brain, with a homroopathic <.lose of soul. I hen take a rng-gecl, poverty-stt·ick en man, with bronzed fcature::J, and hard hand. lie may have un,::; ltakcn int<"grity. :111U h:l\'C an inte11ig<.>nt mind. Place t hPsc men before the p<.>ople, and Fiay, "Choo:-;c ye!" nnd like the Lewitchcd Hebrews they bo.w down to the golden calf. Has it not become notoriou~, in many parts of our country, tl1nt honest men arc . carcely evc1· eho .. ;;en to fill high places ? Political <..lee<•ption has Leen refined into a , ystem, and cleYated to the rank or a virtue. l\I<!ll C~lll it diplomacy. ~ man who . ho\\'s that he i gllitled by general principles of right and wrong is scouted as u impracticable," and adjudged a William A. Phillips. 37.3 "fitnatic," witiJOut furtlwr c vidPJJC'<'. S<'lfishn <.'. !:-1 has u, urpr cl tlw powers of' out· govcTn nwJJI. l t <·ontrols puLiic Reotim ent, and own.-., Olll' halls of' Jeg i:·da tion. Our poli ti<'al partit>o:-:, jn making tlwir plat forms, . tri ve not to mnke them rig ht. be fore God, bu t nn ol)j ectionahle to the mo:::t viciou.-., man tl1at ('an be itHJJHl in tl1e party. Tlw more of elfish interest, and the less of' lnll1t:lllitarian principle tiH·y J1avc in them, the be tter. lt is told of the UIJi11e: • tha t tl1ey submit to the mi:--nde and rapal'ity of the mandnrins, ea('h man hoping to b' a mandarin one day hiJII ~·wlf: wh<~n hi:-; titnc will come. And RO we IJ<l \ 'C l)('<'Omc a nat ion of' oiJice, eeket·-.. 'Vlt cu obtai11ed, men do not ~qua re tlt<·ir ofTi('(: by th •it· prineipl t.' , bnt their prin cipl •s l.Jy their ofii C't'. Nl'nrly all of our public men arc of the ~hark, hy •tw, and buzzard order. TIH·ir doctrine i. .: :, " <·nt - or be eat en." Tltey prey fir::;t on each other, a JJd then on the pc·ople. 1 n ·ut emlwr a story of a certain prime minister of Charles lf.'s tim e, who, on a certain O<'casion, in a fi t of rc·cntment !'(~signed l1is po:ts and r etired to the C'Oi ill try. Not quite weaned from ambition, l1e ~en t his S< 'l'va nt to the capital to see how the courti(·r...; \\'ould take l 1 i.~ r<·:-~ign ar i on. On the me1-isenger' - n ·tur11, lte impntit·nt ly a.:-ked him if there w:ts any com111otion :Jt court. "Ay, marry, sit·,- a g rcnt commot ion." "Ah, indeed,- I knew my fri end:; wotJ icl mnkc a bu tie. All petitioning the kin~ for my reMora! ion, I pre::;ume?" ''No, ir,- th"y arc :1ll JH' titioning him for your place." The strikin,g rc:-;embl:tn<·e IH·t\\'ecn tlte court ' of Charlc · li. nnd Jamc Buchnn:m wil l be at onc·e s(•en. Th<·rc i ' one di!Tet·cncc worthy of not<", however,- the hitter politi('ian ne,·cr rnn·y tlJeit· 'resf!lltments qu ite so f:n·. It is specially ~o with the wor:t of our pnLiic men, - they ra n!ly di<·, during tl1 cir t<·rm of olnl'c, and neocr re:sign. 'V c !teat· a great d<~~tl about the Constitution. Some f~dlaciou~Iy suppo ... ;e that ti JC country is ruled unJer it; it is ouly by dejim'tt'ons of the Constitution. 32 |
