The imperial highway : or, the road to fortune and happiness ; with biographies of self-made men, their business traits, qualities and habits . nt band,marching with cheers into the principal streets, andswelling into an immense and furous mob, assassi-nated Chief Justice Kilwarden, who was passing by inhis carriage; but they hesitated to follow their en-thusiastic leader to the castle, and dispersed at thefirst volley from a small party of soldiers. Emmettescaped to the Wicklow mountains. After the failureof the first blow he checked the other movementswhich had been projected, husbanding his
The imperial highway : or, the road to fortune and happiness ; with biographies of self-made men, their business traits, qualities and habits . nt band,marching with cheers into the principal streets, andswelling into an immense and furous mob, assassi-nated Chief Justice Kilwarden, who was passing by inhis carriage; but they hesitated to follow their en-thusiastic leader to the castle, and dispersed at thefirst volley from a small party of soldiers. Emmettescaped to the Wicklow mountains. After the failureof the first blow he checked the other movementswhich had been projected, husbanding his resourcesin the hope of soon renewing the revolt. He mighthave evaded the pursuit of the government, but anattachment for Miss Curran, the daughter of thecelebrated barrister, induced him to return to Dublinto bid her farewell before leaving the country. Hewas tracked, apprehended, tried, and convicted ofhigh treason. He defended his own cause, deliver-ing an address to the judge and jury of remarkableeloquence and pathos, met his fate with courage, andwon general admiration for the purity and loftinessof his motives. 360 SELF-MADE SELF-MADE MEN. In the nations proudest annalsIn the peoples warmest hearts,Great in courage, noble in truthPure as the sunlight in soul,Dead, but imperishable ! IS example is more powerful than precept,and si etches of self-made men are sure toleave their impress upon the thought ofthe reader, we propose in this chapter tofurnish a few facts concerning some ofthe great and self-made men whose namesadorn the historic tablets of this and other America, Franklin, Rittenhouse, Patrick Henry,Clay, Webster, Jackson, Douglas, were all the sonsof poor parents. Senator Wilson, who was for along time a shoemaker, said in one of his addressesto the people of Great Falls, N. H.: I was bornhere in your county. I know what it is to ask amother for bread when she had none to give. I leftmy home at ten years of age, and served an appren-ticeship
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