The Height Of Honor: Silas Wright

The poskion of Mr, Wright ís a most remarkable one. He is a plain man, with nothing of the courtier about him, and nothingoftlie peculiar social atlracliveness which adorns Mr. Clay, and which is so efficiënt in creating personal frièndships and working out political strength. He has no children, and is in no way the inheritor of fame. He has nevev sought office, and we do not believe he has ever desired it. Át any rate, he has never been so excited about politics, in any way, as to" Ióse his temper, or resort to any one of those tricks so often tícfunted the essential machinery of political men. ín the agitatioïïs of debate he is always calrri and courteous, and never, in all his Hfe, was guilty for a moment of tíiose persohalities which so often dishonor public men, and the people whom they represent. Calm, urbane and dignified he is aíwayg, however violent may be the storm. Mr. Wright carries on an immense correspóndence with his own hand, and with s-ich indusiry as never to1 fflw the business of one day to lie over for the nexf. He will not go to bed until the business of the day is done. Whoever writes him a letter on any matter, is sure to get an immedlale answer, written in a plain round hand, short, but containing all that there is to say;It is honorable to the American char acfer that such a man should rise high ir public esfeem. We speak now, not of his political views, but of the man. But the elevation to which he has risen is eerlainly remarkable. Within a hundred days he has been fèndèred a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, to which he would have been confirmed by the uñanimoüs voice of the Senate and of the country. He has been offered the nomination of a great parfy to the first, and then to the second place of executive office in ffrè nation, nñd now the same parfy tender him the chief magistracy of the Empire State. All ihese stations have been tendered to him and urged upon him with a unanimity amóng his own party broken only by the fear of removing him from his present place asa Senator- and tbey have all been declined. not by way of finesse, but because he ïs unVilIing to fill positions so little suitcd to his taste. What other man in our country has had the opportunity of rejecting