Statesmen . sketch I have presented such traits ofSumners character as will enable the reader toform a tolerably intelligent and clear estimate ofthe man, his worth, his services, and his placein American history. His faults, of which suf-ficient mention has already been made, were notserious; they were personal and were due toSumners strongly marked individuals v. Inconsidering his commanding talents, his eminentpublic services, these defects will sink out ofsight and be speedily forgotten. But a man 254 STATESMEN possessing such immense vital power and somany individual peculiarities cannot
Statesmen . sketch I have presented such traits ofSumners character as will enable the reader toform a tolerably intelligent and clear estimate ofthe man, his worth, his services, and his placein American history. His faults, of which suf-ficient mention has already been made, were notserious; they were personal and were due toSumners strongly marked individuals v. Inconsidering his commanding talents, his eminentpublic services, these defects will sink out ofsight and be speedily forgotten. But a man 254 STATESMEN possessing such immense vital power and somany individual peculiarities cannot be fitlydescribed without some mention of the minorflaws of character that were apparent to thosewho knew him well. Whether he entered thefight for freedom from the highest motives ornot, none will gainsay that the war for the de-fence of the Union was more vigorously prose-cuted and the cause of human liberty morecompletely successful because of his ardent, con-sistent, eloquent, and effective Samuel J. Tilden.(After a pastel by Sarony in the House at Gramercy Park.) J. TILDEN. A young man who at the age of eighteenshould compose a political address directed tothe people of the great State of New York, andby this means should break or weaken a power-ful party coalition, would be regarded as a mod-el of precociousness ; and philosophers, shakingtheir wise heads over such an example of earlymanifested genius, would be very likely to pre-dict a barren future for the boy who should be-gin life with so much apparent maturity of men-tal power. But this is the way that Samuel started out in a career which certainly wasnot unfruitful of important results—important tohim and to the age and time in which he lived. This is how it happened : In 1832 there was ahot political contest raging in the State of NewYork. There were three parties in the anti-Masons, who had been very nearly suc-cessful in the contests of previous years, hadnominated Wi
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