Grant County Herald

THE LOFTY AND THE LOWLY.—The Washington Union indulges in the following sensible remarks: "Who is he, no matter how exalted his position, who has not relatives in the humblest? The writer has himself seen members of the immediate families of two Presidents of this Republic toiling for their support in the severest of employments; and it is probable that no man has occupied the White House who has not been aware that many of his kindred, unless relieved by himself, were reckoned among the poor, if not the honest of the land ? The only brother of Clay was a cabinet maker; Webster, the giant of statesmen and the ornament of his country, had a brother-in-law who never learned to read until after completing the period of three score and ten, and a majority of the first statesmen of the present time are the energetic and ambitious sons of "poor but honest parents." Everett (who will never blush to hear it) was discovered in his younger pursuit of knowledge under difficulties—the difficulties of poverty—though they presented to him but slight impediments on the road to renown."