Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1840-09-24

Icere man, as ssrnly honest as Cato, as scrupu-
lously jus; as Arstdes Full we'll do remom-
Der that solemn and imposing scene when he
made his reply, in The Senate Chamber, to the
Instrucing Resolutions, and took his leave,
forever, ofthat body, of which he had been
bright ornament for many wears He stood
erect, with his old locks flowing over his shout
Iders, and calmly but s;ernly performed his du-
Ivy. All was hushed as still as death. ISwas
Ia scene which filled the beholder with awe and
4 yeneration. When he was on the point of lea
J wing Washington, TO return to his home |
Istrove to deiain him. | sought him for that
purpose, and found him, not in his carriage, but
on his horse. told him the winter was cold,
that the SHOWS were bleak and deep, and he
had better not depart at such an inclement sea-
son. His reply, so simple and characteristic,
| shall never, never forget. Said he, "IenneS
see recalls me, and must go~ No human
power could have swayod him. He loved his
State, and when she spoke, that venerable
man was ready to obey He did return to
} her bosom, and now lies buried beneath the
green sod in her eastern mountains. He died
a martyr to that bill which the partzans of
the Administration so loudly and vehementyI
condemn. Yes they condemn and denounce
Hit! Well, let them! Jefferson proclaimed it,
Harrison maintains it, Clay is for it, and White
died martyr to it!
/ Mr., CRITT ENDEN said thatthe terms he ap-I
piled 10 Van Buren, and his pleading partizans,
he applied not to the great body Of the party,
that from one cause cor another, suffers itself
| to be led by them. Van Buren, calls himselraI
Democrat, and |, said Mr., Crttenden, call N.Y.
self Democrat He maintains that it is iiust
and right for him to possess the powers he
claims-l maintain that it would be unjust
and wrong. He pretends his measures are
Republican, contend that they are ultra Fed
eral. He usurps the name, for by it he thinks
he can carry out his ultra Federal doctrines,
and yet get his Oflice-hoders to deceive the
People into the belief that he is a Republican
IA pure Democrat. Van Buren, Democrat!
Great God, what a pedigree for Democrats
hereafter to-refer 10! BY ,creepinn about its
legs and knees. he has got the start OF Denoc-
racy.
lie asked il his hearers were willing to con-
fide in such a man, in such President! He
wished TO eXtenua,e nothing nor set down
aught in malice. If he had not painted Van
Buren's character fairly, he wished his hear
ers to add what they might, and just for the
! Harrison, andthen say which they would Sc
eot, the cologne whiskered Democrat, or the
, plain clear headed, substantial old resident OF
the West, The latter was an honest man
the testimony Of the numerous old soldiers
then seated near him guaranteed it. He knew
something himself of Harrison in the field,
though nothing to speak of. The testimony
.Iofothers proved enough. He referred TO the
many Offices Harrison had filled, when if he
had been 50 disposed he could have enriched
himself, lived in a costly mansion, and drank
wines, as well as Van Buren,, from the south
side Of Madeira But he was content 10 per
form his public duties faithfully, and then re-
tire to his farm and till the same, residing in
his plain, substantial and questionable house.
lie asked il they would have such man.
He iold what Van Buren, and his advisers at
Washington, probably were thinking about
Oh, these conventions and cxcitements oftho
Wings are all very foolish indeed! They'll
, stop by and by and things will all go right
again! Such, he said, he doubted not, were
their Explanations. Their long enjoyment OF
public Office and long plumber Of the public mo-
ney had made some ofthcm grow really classi>
cal. They say-Oh, you've begun too soon!
You'll get tired before November!
f Mr.. CRITrENpEN was inimicable upon this
branch of his subject. Thus, he said, Power
was hatering itself. But he could tell the
!; Spoilers that the enthusiasm which is now in
I'M ion would not subside until the Goths were
fIdriven from Rome and honest men put in their
places The passion which his auditors saw,
was not ephemeral. A spark Of the Revou-
ton is blazing. II is not going out. 1t burnt
! then for several years. land it will now burn on
landlgrow hotter and hotter until Freedom shall
again conquer oppression! The Spirit Of Lib
! erty, he would tell his hearers, was burning eve-
5 rywhere, throughout the whole length and
, breadth o.! this vast country. lie had seen it
up in the North The Aurora Borealis was
| nothing to it. lie had seen the people there
!, with uplilted hands, pIedging themselves not
to lay down their arms until the nation shall
, again be restored TO their just rights. lie re-
minded his hearers Of Commodore Hull's talk
to his men on board the Constitution just before
going into action with Guerrero, when, after
picturing the consequences of defeat to them,
and telling them they could conquer if they
/, would, he exclaimed, sciH ye do IL? And he
told them in the language Of Hull, that if they
) would they could conquer. VIII &c do ap he
exclaimed. He asked them not to let tho pre-
dicions Of the President and his olficehoders
fproye true. lie portrayed, with thrilling Of
! feet, the consequences Of defeat, and declared
: that it would be better that we should fall bo'
/, fore some Caesar or Napolean with our faces
: to tho earth, looking up 10 Heaven from the
/ deothbcd Of glory, than 10 be conquered by We
nality and corruption.
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