The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1843-07-15

times when the light which flashed from
them as they passed, glanced like mir
ror in the sun, only to dazzle the behold
err. Engrossed with his subject-care-
less of his words-his loftiest flights Of
eloquence were sometimes followed by
coloquial or provincial barbarisms. But,
though often incorrect he was always
fascinating. Language, with him, was
merely the scatlolding of though!-em-
ployed to raise a dome, which, like Ange-
los, he suspended in the heavens.
CLAY.
II is equally impossible to forget, or to
omit, gentleman from Kentucky, whom
party has since made the fruitful topic of
unmeasured panegyric and detraction.
OF sanguine temperament, and impetuous
character, his defamation was impassion-
ed, his retorts acrimonious. Deficient,
rather than in strength, his style was less
elegant and correct, than animated and
impressive. But it swept away your feel
ings with it, like mountain torrent, and
the force of the stream left you little lei
sure to remark upon its clearness. His
estimate of human nature was, probably,
not very high: 1t may be that his past
associations had not tended to exalt it.
Unhappily, it is, perhaps, more likely to
have been lowered than raised by his
subsequent experience. Yet then, and
ever since, except when that imprudence,
so natural to genius prevailed over his
better judgment, he had, generally, the
good sense, or good taste to adop.a lofty
tone of sentiment, whether he spoke Of
measures, or of men, of friend or adversa-
ry. On many occasions he was noble
and captivating. One, can never forget.
1t was the fine burst of indignant eo..
quence with which he replied to the
taunting question, "what have we gained
by the war9"
WEBS1 Err.
Nor may ] pass over in silence ire
preventative from New Hampshire, who
has almost obliterated all memory of that
distinction, Uc the superior fame he has
attained as a Senator from Massachusetts,.
Though then but in the bud of his polti-
cal life, and hardly conscious, perhaps, of
his own extraordinary powers, he gave
promise of the greatness he has since
achieved. The same vigor of thought;
the SAME force Of expressions; the short
sentences; the calm, cold, collected man
ner; the air of solemn dignity; the deep,
sepulchral, unimpassioned voice; all have
been developed only, not changed, even
to the intense bitterness Of his frigid iro-
ny. The piercing coldness Of his sarcasm
was indeed peculiar to him, they seemed
to be emanatons from the spirit of the ice
ocean. Nothing could be at once so nov
ell and so powerful-it was frozen mer-
curry, becoming as caus'ic as red hot iron.
THE ARREST OF JOE SMITH.-Grcdt
Excitement at .Nauuoo. The arrest of
Joe Smith, the Mormon prophet, has cree
ated an immense excitement at Nauvoo.
The St. Louis New Era, of the Goth ult.,
says:
The steamboat Osprey arrived at this
port last evening from Galena. While
lying at Nauvoo, her officers understood
that Joe Smith had been arrested at O,ta-
wa, an the Illinois river, ON requlsilion
made by the Governor of this State: that
he had informed his followers OF his sit
uation, and that he was to be taken before
Judge Cation on a writ of habeas corpus.
In consequence of this information, a
number OF armed men left by land for
Ottawa, and about Is men started in the
Mormon boat, Maid Of Iowa. for the
same place. Their real object is con-
jectured to be, to rescue the Prophet,
should he not he discharged under the
habeas corpus. 1t was furthermore said,
at Nauvoo, that this requisition was
founded Oh information derived from
Rockwell, now in Jail at independence,
and charged with attempting to murder
Tx Governor Boggs, duplicating Joe
Smith in that outrage.
"Laier.-The steamboat Rapids arri-
we'd about half past II o'c'ock from the
Upper Mississippi. She reports that great
excitement existed in the Mormon region
in regard to the capture of Joe Smith.
There were rumors in circulation, and it
seems to be very difficult matter to ar
rive at the truth in regard to them. There
is no doub. that largo numbers of armed
men had left Nauvoo for the place of the
Prophets confinement. When abort
thirty miles above the mouth of the
Illinois, the Rapids, met the Maid of
Iowa, on her return from the Illinois,
but her officers did not hail her, and know
nothing Of the result of the investiga-
ton"
GREAT DEspATcH.-On the 25th ult.
negro man at Henderson, Ky. attempted
to commit a rape on child OF nine or
ten years, but was prevented. He was
arrested, and Judge Calhoun of the Dis
trict Court Immediately ordered special
term, at which he was tried, convicted
and sentenced to be hung on the 25lh in
slant.
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