loftiest integrity ? Ought not his entire conduct to be governed by moral principles that cannot be bought? Is any man, whatever his learning, what- ever his talents, whatever his legal ability, fit to be, for an hour, granted a place at the bar, whose maxim is not " Fiat Justitia, si mat cselum?" The Statesman, too, occupies a position of great responsibility and commanding influence. The peace and prosperity of the nation are in his hands. Millions of money are at his disposal. Thousands court his favor, cringe and crawl at his feet happy if he smiles wretched if he frowns. His words are carried on the wings of the lightning to the 100 A Busy Life, remotest corners of the land multitudes weigh them as the utterance of an oracle, and learn from them what to believe and how to think and act. He has access to springs of influence that control the mill- ions. Surely here, if anywhere, the highest results of the purest morality ought to be found. The Statesman should be planted so firmly in the right, that the combined influence of Gold, Power and Fame could not swerve him a hair's breadth to the right or to the left. There is no place for a corrupt Statesman in a republican government, though, it is to be feared, he is in fact too often found in high places. And his influence, so extensive and so pow-