odium " Among innumerable false, unmoved Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified.
His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal Nor number, nor example with him -wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind."
Surely there must have been some potent principle of action which impelled him to pursue a path so diverg- ent from those usually selected by political aspirants, one to all appearance leading him far from popular ap- plause, and yet in the end conducting him to the very pinnacle of fame. There was such a principle, and it is shadowed forth in the moral with which Mr. M'Dowell " adorned his tale." " His life," said the Virginia eulo- gist, " has been a continuous and beautiful illustration of the great truth, that while the fear of man is the consummation of all folly, the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom." Unhappy is it for our country, that the re- verse of this truth forms the maxim, by which so many of our public men apparently govern their coflduct. But what was the secret of the great strength of this moral 320 REVIEW OP THE MEXICAN WAR.