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axiom; and in its latter sense all men 

 may claim a right to apply it to their 

 own immediate associations. It has been 

 and is practised, in the court and in the 

 cabinet, in the camp and in the cockpit, 

 on the bench and in the senate ; and 

 many of our great men owe their ele- 

 vation and possession of power by steadily 

 pursuing it. 



If this be the truth and our history, 

 as well of to-day as of yesterday, gives 

 irrefragable proof that it is so it must 

 equally apply to the different grades that 

 make up this vast and varied community. 

 Its principle relates as much to the 

 man who could raise himself from the 

 box of a stage-coach to be at the head 

 of an extensive railroad company, and 

 afterwards to be a Member of Parlia- 

 ment the highest honour, we are told 

 from the hustings, an Englishman can 

 aspire to as it does to that minister 



