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POLITICAL FAME.

CHAPTER I.

RIGHT AND MIGHT CONSIDERED

HISTORICALLY.

ENGLAND! beautiful island, birthplace of the sage, the scholar, the bard, where genius finds the inexhaustible garner of laudable ambition; England! towards whose shore the ambitious Corsican turned his thoughts in vain; England! from thy throne the sceptre of justice is wielded by a womanly, but a Christianlike power, and albeit the sovereign holds most marked supremacy, each British subject is lord of

England's destiny, and the architect of her

fortune.

The warrior buckles on the sword, the sailor ploughs the deep waters in England's defence, but the civilian is equally brave when honour and integrity "keep the weather of his fate," and law-not law in all its petty tyranny, but law restrained by reason—is the bulwark of our country and the defender of our rights.

If historic revelation has as much truth in its composition as we are bound to believe it has, we may easily satisfy ourselves by roaming amidst its pages, and perceiving that law is the foundation, the protection, the upholding of every government, and therefore the politicians of a great nation hold a most high and sacred calling.

When Jacob took refuge in Egypt, the hierarchy was established, and although the chariots of war of that age are so highly

vaunted, it was at the bidding of their commanders that the men advanced to action, and these leaders received their first impressions of the necessity of marching to the combat from the Magi: Law, therefore, at this early period, asserted its power. Is there an abuse in the army, to the civilian belongs the task of considering the question, as in the late case of military punishment: the commander has one cruel, difficult rule of conduct to go by; it is for the politician to consider how each law's severity can be softened.

At the period when Sesostris had brought Egypt to a high pitch of civilization, Europe was a barbarous chaos; and why? the men warred and strove with each other, but there was no law.

The civilian had the hardest duty to perform when Europe began to civilize. There is a sort of brute courage in man, inclining him to fight,

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