The North-Carolina standard., 1843-12-06

telling by which the attention of his hearers, re-:
freshed from the parenthesis4 thus created, might
have been more completely won, could have been
successfully introduced BUTT Hlustabe reuleTn-
bered that the neglect Of imagerySthe freedom
from personal CONTROVERSY, the absence OF appeals
to the personal taste or the political preudces OF
his hearers the utter disuse of the engines of rdi
cule or sarcasn-it mustbe rerneInbered we say,
that the. freedom from unnecessary depression, and
the earnest Yigor with which the argument is pur-
sued, tends to he ghten, the mind of the student,
the conviction which the power Of reasoning pro-
duces. Weare sensible that we have been work
ed upon by no inferior appeals to our personal
tastes or party associations, and that neither our
sense of the ridiculous, nor our sense of the sub
lime, has been tampercd WITH in order that our
reason should be betrayed. 1t must have been
impossible to have listened to MR. Webster's won
derfll speeches during the debate -ons MIR. Foots
resoution-it certainly is impossible to study them
as reported-without rising with a deep sense OF
admiration for the splendid qualities which have
there been introduced into action We are car
ried away by the impetuous eloquence there dis
played-the Mohawk onslaught,a as Mr.. Randolph
called it and we feel that same enthusiasm which
we feel when we witness the Italian campaigns of
Napoleon. We are made partsans at once by the
feariessness of the attack; and as we witness the
guns of the enemy turned against himsclf-as we
observe the most fearful odds overcome, and see
the weakest points in the whole field chosen, al
most because they are the weakest, and then made
impregnable we enter into the conflict
without knowing any thing mouethan that we are
enrolled under the standard of the eagle; and we
takespart in the triumphal procession, without feel
ing clear whether we are celebrating any thing
more than the personal triumph of the chief
There are many who cannot read Mr.. Webster's
replies to Mr. Hayne without being thrilled with
enthusiasm, and yet who, were they asked what
conclusions had been left on their mind, would an
swer, ike the grandfather in Southey's poem on
the battle Of Blenheim+ =r
''Why, that cannot teIl," said be !; ...
But 'twassa famous victory"
If the feelings of personal sympathy are called
i,ss frequently into play by Mr. Calhoun, itcan-
lo' 5z denied that the deficiency thus created is
-ar compensated by the interest which the ar
NJ itself arouses. There is passion, it is
.. 2ut it is so we'll trained and kept under; that
-a 'escrve it like the steam in we'll regulated
f,-S rather in the methodcal and rapid action
-.. -1ac5inery-it influences. than in the wreaths
-: 5!ftfs of vapor which occasionally escape.
E'a..e no intervals for us to stop and cheer;
- no resting places by which we can get
>: = freshmen; but we-are carried onward inl
-ce automatically straight to the place ofdes-
{;.:l. Il is in this very freedom from digreS- |
.a~- Ill kinds that Mr.. Calhoun's title to the |
....lo6 Of posterity will in a great degree resi-;
=. ~" have no doubt that in future periods when
Illusions and personal retort have lost their
- "vif.n the reader seeks to trace ont not so
-...-. ne private skirmishes of statesmen them
-. the general character ofthe measures
.'ont which they have struggTed-the chaste and |
s-2:itiFu augmentation which distinguished him |
r':i nace him On level with the few great minds |
30 asVe been able to instruct the reason, without
3 ing to please the fancy.