The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-03-05


Michael Angelo he had his model in his mind only in
the Clayas formed by divine hand For all that is dis
kable Tor his perfect Amercanism and
embodyng and combining in a wonderful degree tbs
great traits Of the whole American mnd-presentng
every side e characteristics Of every grade and section
Of his country This the Of his power and
that strong smpathy and mpassioned enthusiasm which
cret of his genius lie is not only American but Ameri
Ca itsef-the republic personhed He has MADE ma own
character the character age Washington did in
princped and patriotic but the whole rather wan me-
gative qualities But the man of our time came to give
the nation additional traits OF positive and active ch
racter to make while yet retained all those Washing
tonian virtues still enterprisng bold energetic ar
dent enthusiastic, aspiring selimproving anu sepio
tective. His early lie OF poverty and adventure fitted
him emnenty to appreciate this purpose He knew the
provement in the rising Of the democracy grow
ing with him and after him. He knew that the Ameri
can democracy must be progressive, and that the unc
tons OF government were not complete until 1t had
given aided and perfected that and upward move
ment And this in sublime faith and with exalted &C.
nius and neverfang energy, he went to that work, and
called forth from future time that weconceived form
the great American nationality IN perfect
action. Stand forth to the World-young America! up
tight bold, noble, powerful, jnsthe perfection OF po
htica creations the respect and concii,a
world Stsnd forth to all time monument glory and
apraise to liberty Democratic America. 80 iorh-go
rs the strength Of independence and freedom with the
panopy of righteousness the ganture OF Justice the
of good iahso that when that consecraied host
ends othe earth when they that dwell in the wilderness
shall bow before them "beautiful may he their feet
upon the mountains Of the farthest northwest as they
were Of old upon the rocks and sands Of the east
what noble faith that in which that Young patriot
mat boy statesman" begun his work. and in which I'M
changed, he labored through forty years to its
begun year of its final triumphant accomplishment! The
ia that great schemes and he worked till ge
neaton should arise to take their places he had to wait
for to be bornus the democratic Clay boys who
in cradles ten years after he begun his political ca
reer The generation Of fathers could not fully appre
cate him, but now their children rise up and call him
bessed and their chldrens children shall be OF
generation has passed away Their fell in the
wilderness OF that forty years wandering And this is
the great political lesson Of patriotic virtue inculcated
every young American politician by that long and bril-
liant life II is the lesson Of ia h. political fath-fah in
the people, confidence in their ultimate justice and wis.
dem This is great truth which that life teaches in its
forty years of steady courage and public virtue with It's
faithful to those who have been faithful to them"-tha
they will at last unite to honor him who has honored
10 right rather than him who has dshonored them by al
ways acting the belief that they would always do
wrong Yet remenbr-wth all that high respect for the
peopehc battered the people for moment,
yer nsued their better by nglng in their ears the
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many have counted amusing and cheating the people
as babies sted and soothed with rattle to take
their attention from things that they desire He has al
ways respected them too much to do it. He has left them
TO derive their Proudest reflections from the silent
| is implied in that whole public life. Why lin
ger on the vast details Of that splendid historyi-
It is househould book Children have made themselves
familiar with it; and sages have philosophical upon it.
Take up at any pointyou will find him every where on
side Of justice and courage and against tyranny aud
wrong See him contending in the House Of Representa-
lives against British aggression and maintaining the
Of Free Trade and Sailors Rights" before the
Free Trade had been taken in vain and basphemed and
perverted by pedans and smuggers and smaerng part
ANS SEQ him in the sa.e arena procaiming liberty to
all the word-to South America and to Greece and de-
handing them place among nations of the earth
seehim guarding the national rights securing our wide
borders and negotiating for privileges to our in
of our foreign affairs in lS2olS29. And remember who
aerward came into that department and betrayed us by
dshonorable and unpariotic concessions to British
claims baseiy declaring himself friendly to
| Britain than his immediate predecessor who had
| always resisted and bafled that grasping power.
| See him in the Senate when that great measure
which the heart of the whole system and scheme oi
his patriotism was suddenly brought to the verge of
of that scheme in and exalted devotion stood
forth to show that triumph oil that great cause must De
the boodless triumph OF peacethat by violence and
legal murder should that immortal cause he vindcated
The time is passed when swords subdued' The time
has when the eternal principles Of wisdom and JUS
tice exemplifed and realized in shall be
maintained only by the words CT truth and peace and by
feel and rightly He had faith in the people still
and with faith patience must have her perfect work.
the laures Of whole age of victory still fresh green
upon his noble brow-when that awful gulf opened in
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still threatened the destruction of the Commonwealth
there the field of his fame in the of his latest
national glory sacrificing the results OF thirty years OF his
best energies like Curtius mounted and with his
on, he leaped into the gulf and closed There was he
backed by relentless and imperons tyrant prepared
| sustain him and that with sword that
vas turned from an enemy, and who was supported by
| an unscrupulous host that knew no other law or
changing faith he trusted that h,ugh that age might
away and the honors of the might never be
indicated in him, yet the the of the Amer
Republic must triumph at last Others might gather
he records of his long life for it. Its trophies might be
reared only his grave but he resolved that the oun
ations of this nations prosperity should not be laid in
kindred blood e that ruleth his own temper greater
Of oak leaves which in Rome was given to him who had
aved the life Of citizen. lie has saved the lives Of thou
sands The first drop Of blood has not yet been shed in
our land for political offences. And now, behold :
who comes to hail him The Caroiinas-both the
carolinas and Georgia brings the civic chsple
Of her living oak to wreathc his honored head =
| The time when the triumphed without the
but there he, still in his place, above all the
honors of place-the man with the same purpose
those strange and dought scenes of the trial OF
between the democratic and the monarohical principle
who watched him with curious, but not partial eyes
those who had learned to doubt and crcse the claims
popular avorites and partisan leaders, and who though
hSs by nature and education, and familiar with the his
oy oil that great statesman we're vet cold to the sense
his vast relations to the time and its purpose and in
lined TO RANK nm only as one among the creates. men
whose time was passed, and who must soon lie dis.
| placed by the new men of new times Such men sat
there looking on determined to make up their own
opinions of him and Of others, and not disposed to
take him on the score of any popular outcry or
partisan support. They watched him and noted
down his words and actions, day by dsy, week after
week and month after month, crcisng his style and
his words, comDarng his eloquence with that of more
finished and polished orators and better ogicans With
all his great eoquence Ora.ory Is not part of that
character 1t is but weapon in his hand; and if there
is enemy to he destroyed it matters not whether he
be scientifically pierced with polished blade crushed
with an iron mace. Great orators are commonly very
ment Demosthenes was-Cicero certainly was-and so
we're some Of the greatest Of the British Orators
|-Bolngbroke, Burke, Sheridan, Brougham and
others But when the time brings great purpose to a
great capable oapprecatng and achieving 1.-THE will
fail to express and vindicate it in the right way if he
have energy, enthusiasm quckness, courage and self
possession. Such the eloquence Of our II was
the eoquence Of the time and the purpose torrent de
LUCE that swept away all the ances of logic and all the
ornament taste And critical observers looked
and noted and marked till the dark hours and
their criticism forgotten for all felt that they want
ed not a great orator, but great man for the
time, and a man to the purpose The crisis came
Clouds rising. We looked up to the frmament oil
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