LEADERS OF THE PEOPLE.—Certain persons profess to be our leaders;
ail who are to tell us what we ought to (hi, if not they? Suppose the Earl of Durham were a general, awl it were proposed to him to leave the "initiative " of all his military manoeuvres to the soldiery ! Suppose he had the enemy be- fore him, and were thus to harangue his troops—" Gentlemen, I see you are not ripe for attacking the foe ; and far be it from me to lead you, instead of
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being guided ; for be it from me to thrust my opinion upon you. I have ob. served in the history of all wars, that victories have always been prevented by officers taking upon themselves to,inticipate the judgment of their rank and file, and not waiting till they were forced into action." The great teachers of maw. kind, Socrates, and a Diviner name, did not talk thus. They did not wait for opinions, which it was their business to produce—for declarations by Greeks and Jews, which they themselves were to teach them to declare. The lesser teachers, the Hamptlens and Martens, did not wait fur other people to be stirring and witty, in order to get justice done them—for long intervals, and lucky mo- ments, and mighty occasions, and tearhings of the teacher. They gave us what we wanted. their better knowledge—considered us, daily informed:us, incessantly acted for us • and the consequence is, that they are great names, not merely at court, or lor a day, but in the hearts of mankind, and for all ages.—.Mouth/y Repository, by Leigh Hunt.
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