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HOUSTON STREET PUBLIC SCHOOL. 233
and on the whole presents many of the elements of
an estimable character. The combination of great
Cautiousness and Secretiveness, however, with Conscientiousness
and Firmness relatively less, will produce
a tendency to prefer indirect to direct means of
accomplishing an end. In difficult situations dexterity
and address will be more relied on than open
manly courage, and an apparent expediency will
sometimes be preferred to justice. The intellect is
capable at once of managing details, and taking in
comprehensive views, and if, as is affirmed, appearances
of mystification occasionally present themselves
in his public conduct, they are not owing to imperfect
intellectual perceptions, but are designed to serve a
purpose. The combination of the whole organs resembles
that which one would expect in a dexterous
and successful courtier in an absolute monarchy, rather
than in the President of a democracy.
It is impossible at present to obtain an impartial
account of Mr Van Buren's character in America.
His political enemies ascribe to him the worst and
meanest qualities, while his political friends confer
on him every virtue and accomplishment. Judging
from his head, I should be inclined to anticipate that
posterity will probably not approve of all the means
which he may have used to obtain and to preserve
power, but that it will recognise him as having been
actuated essentially by a love of the real good of his
country, and having pursued it, in difficult circumstances,
with no mean talent.
Houston Street Public School.--This school-house
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Combe, George, 1788-1858. Notes of the United States of North America, During a Phrenological Visit in 1898-9-40: Volume 1, book, 1841; Edinburgh, Scotland. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1028/m1/273/?q=%221838%3F%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.