wistfully upon the ocean's changing wonders; on its fair
sails, whitening in the morning light; on its restless waves, rolling
shoreward, to break and die beneath the noonday sun; on the red clouds
of evening, arching low to the horizon; on the serene and shining
pathway of the stars. Let us think that his dying eyes read a mystic
meaning which only the rapt and parting soul may know. Let us believe
that in the silence of the receding world be heard the great waves
breaking on a farther shore, and felt already upon his wasted brow the
breath of the eternal morning."

We regret that we cannot give our readers the full speech here also, but
it is sufficient to say that it was a masterly production. We give these
three extracts from speeches to show, and enable the thinker to read and
study the characteristics which make Mr. Blaine the great and renowned
man that he really is to-day; an honor he has earned for himself.

We do not desire to be regarded as a personal admirer of Mr. Blaine. We
are not, but his ability we are in duty bound to delineate truthfully.
Our readers will observe the description Mr. Blaine gives in his address
on Garfield, of the qualifications necessary in a parliamentary leader.
We will say nothing as to our opinion of some enterprises in which Mr.
Blaine has engaged; and we will not ask him to explain, what he has
never satisfactorily explained, in relation to some transactions, nor
will we try to explain, in our short space, his skillfullness in
parliamentary practice. As before said, our readers have read his
description of a parliamentary leader, and we will further simply say
that Mr. Blaine is one of the most skillful parliamentary leaders in the
country. He is generally recognized as such by all parties. His canvass
for the presidency is well-known to the people. Had he been elected he
would, undoubtedly, have made a very satisfactory president, probably
one of whom we would long have been proud.

SAMUEL J. TILDEN.

In 1814 there was born at New Lebanon, New York, an infant son to Elam
Tilden, a prosperous farmer. His father, being a personal and political
friend of Mr. Van Buren and other members of the celebrated 'Albany
Regency'; his home was made a kind of headquarters for various members
of that council to whose conversation the precocious child enjoyed to
listen.

Mr. Tilden declared of himself that he had no youth. As a boy he was
diffident, and was studying and investiga