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Mr. Blaine as a Statesman.
Speaking of the brilliant and magnetic
leader ot the nation, the Lewiston Jour
nal says:
The popular instinct, which is otten
quicker and sharper than the perception
of partisan leaders and pretentious pub
licists, keenly discerns the strong qual
ities of James G. Blaine as the presiden
tial candidate to lead the Republican
party to victory tu the approaching na
tional contest. His clear comprehension
of the national duties and necessities*
his thorough appreciation of the vulner
able points of the enemy, and the (ear
less directness with which he Aims his
blows, have awakened the popular enthu
siasm to a degree that is disturbing the
nerves of sleepy conservatives, and ex-
oiting the fears ol the confederate pol
iticians of the south and their democratic
allies of the north. His rising popular
ity has a substantial cause, which timid
politicans do not seem to comprehend.
A certaiu class of individuals, of limited
numbers, while admitting that the pop
ular tide is rising in his favor, try to
break the force of ihis fact by saying
that the masses are incapable of correct
ly estimating him,—that he is a saga
cious politician, but no statesman.
Men's staudard of statesmanship va
ries greatly according to temperament
and moral and political education. That
of some persons, assuming to be judges,
is very peculiar. There have beeu Eng
lishmen who have regarded Sii Williun
Temple as a wiser statesman than Lord
Chatham. Oflheiormer Macauley re
marks: “We must own that many states
men who have committed very great
faults appear to us to be deserving
more esteem than the faultless Temple.
For in truth bis Uultlessness ia cheifly to
be ascribed to the dread of all responsi
bility. He never put himself prominent
ly before the public eye except at con
junctures where he was almost certaiu to
gain and could not possibly lose.”
But to all seusible minds the placid,
cautious timid statesmanship of Temple
seems diminutive in contrast to the bold
measurres and rugged, aggresive parlia-
raeutry eloquence ot Lord Chatham.
Not uiifrequeutly in our political history
hava these assumptions of superior
judgment been made by certaiu professed
teachers of the people. When Daniel
Webster, with the massive force of his
logic and eloquence, crushed iuto im
palpable dust the errors in political
economy and the heresirs of state rights
of Calhoun aud Hayne, he was declared
to be no statesman, but merely a dis
turbing agitator, a New England politi
cian, not to be followed.
When Johu Quincy Adams boldly de
fended the sacred right of petition iu the
national house of representatives, where
it had beeu repeatedly trampled beueath
the despotic heel of the southern and
northern democracy, he was declared to
be merely a noisy demagogue who was
re-opening unprofitable questions and
exciting unpleasantness among .southern
brethren to the general injury ot the
country. In the eyes of these good-
natured quierists, Edward Everett, utter
ing his polished, elaborate platitudes,
which carried with them uo lightnings
ot heated indignation agaiust national
injustice, was thought to be more states
manlike than the hold and scorching
words of Charles Sumner on the bar
barism ot Americau slaver , and the
stroug and fearless denunciation bv
Henry Wilson and Salmon P. Chase
against the fugitive slave law. The
calm, noble declarations of a “higher
law,” by William H. Seward, were re
garded as conclusive evidence of his uu-
titness lor whig leadership, while his
bold announcement ot the “irrepressi
ble couflfct between slavery aud free
dom, aud its indorsement by Abraham
Lincoln, in the debite with Stephen A.
Douglass, showed these two Republicans
utterly destitute ol statesmanship. Men
uuaocustomed to the stubborn work ot
genuine public life pronounced Millard
Fillmore,4iIohu Bell, Horatio Seymour,
and other men of mere platitudes, the
most pacific aud wise national leaders.
S’auding uow the most influential
member of the Republican party of
the uuion, Mr. Blaine holds a leader
ship he has fairly won after 20 years of
manly, vigorous effort, growiug in wis
dom aud strength with each succeeding
year, equal to every occasion on which
he is called to play a part. Yet there
are those who coucede his popularity,
and the consummate ability aud tact
with which be confronts, outgenerals,
aud defeats the Democratic majority,
and is leading the Republicans to suc
cess, yet insist that he is uo statesman—
that he is only a politician. Very sin
gular ideas these wonderful critics have
of statesmanship. What do they really
mean by their use ot terms? Webster
degnes r statesman : “A man versed in
the arts of government ; oneemla«»r for
political political abilities.■’ Brought to
a pratical test, we doubt if there is
another man in the country more
thoroughly acquainted with all the
forms, methods, and workings of the
state and national government of this
country than J; G. Blaine.
There are men who in action and
available power ate much less than their
written aud spoken words. There are
others whose speech is less than their
deeds. The latter have a reserved force
which words do not measure, but is al
ways made to tell when the hour ot effort
anil trial comes. What Mr. Blaine has
accomplished, when brought to the test,
shows that he does not belong to the
former class. He was eariv in life n po
litical student of remarkable iusight and
application, then an able aud popular
journalist with rare opportunities for po
litical culture and experience, repeated
ly the Speaker of the Maine House ot
Representatives, 14 years a Member of
Congress, 6 years Speaker of the Nation-
ol House of Repreaentalives, with a suc
cess equalled by none siuce Heury Clay
GO years ago occupied the position, and
not suipassed, by the great Kentuckian.
The scope, the power, the success of
Mr. Blaine’s present leadership of the
Republican minority the country now
scans tor itself and can make up its
opinion. With a remarkable memory of
all salient facts iu the political history
ol the country, with a knowledge ot men
of the different sections of the uuion
surpassed by no living American, wiih a
persoDul magnetism rarely equaled, he
gathers men quickly arouud him, and
holds them with great tenacity. His
administrative qualities are of the high
est order. With an astouisbiug capacity
for work, aud his powers under thor
ough discipline, with a complete m ;8i-
ery of all uecessary details,few men can
accomplish so much. A boru leader ot
meu, buoyant, resolute, indefatigable,
he always proves equal to what is ex
pected of him. If chosen President,his
administration would be oue of the most
able and successful in the history of the
government. He would prove by prac
tical, comprehensive, sagacious states
manship, how utterly mistaken ha\e been
the comiueuts of a special class ot crit
ics that he is a consummate master of
political tactics, an able parliamenta
rian, but uo statesman. Fortunate will
it be for the country aud tor the Repub
lican party it he becomes the next na
tional executive.
[Communicated.]
Editor Colored Tribune:
As there have beeh anil are now heated dis
cussions on Bible reading in the Public
Schools, I am credibly informed that in one
of the rooms at the Beach Institute, one of
the Publie Schools in this city and county,rule
3d is grossly violated,as that room opens with
out reading of the Scripture or the Lord’s
Prayer as is required. Can you Inform the
publie why this is done? and oblige,
Captain Jack.
The rnle in question is very plain, and
mandatory. We leave to others better in
formed upon the subject to explain why it is
not observed in the room rlluded to-—[Lo.l *+
