Show Some Moderate Statesmen One day during a session of congress nearly 50 years ago William H Seward and Robert C WInthrop were talking about men and thing in Washington Moderation rarely succeeds in this world remarked Mr S ward sententiously senten-tiously I touII jnav do better In the next rejoined re-joined Mr WInthrop and then he quoted from Vordsworths Happy Warrior as Illustrating the statesman of true nobility VAho If he rise to station of command Rises by open msand and there will stan On honorable terms or else retire And In himself possess his own desire Seward took a long whiff at his cl rand I r-and after a pause said I see now why Gresley no longer considers you a practical politician I Mr WInthrop was distinguished for his moderation selfcontrol and selfrespect traits which wore asconspicuous In his public as cf1 his private life He was ambitious but no station no matter how amblouR lofty could retain him for a moment If It re < iulrd him to sUfI his convictions or to depart from that golden mean of patriotism commended to him by Washington Wash-ington and John Jay runs the story as t to In the Youths Companion 11 Seward on tne contrary was a diplomatist a politician that Is I a man nfjr of men and secondly a statesman Ho could when his humanity was aroused for he was one of the most humane of msn defy public opinion and stand alone while withstanding friends tr anti foes He thus stood when he defended de-fended the poor Idiotic black murderer at Auburn though tho community cried Bang him Hang him But Mr Sow nrds human nature Ilk the nature of most men and women was mixed and he undid himself on being a master of the art of managing men He found at laSt one man ho could not manage Abra hiiin Lincoln another moderate statesman states-man and his relation to the martyred arftanuensls president became almost that of an LI T |