Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1845-06-07


ileges Of an Office which has been disgraced
by the incumbency of some Of the worst
and meanest of men. The treasures Of
an empire and the dominion of throne
could not have brought TO their possessor
honors so noble, offerings so precious, or
devotion so faithful and enduring. The
statue and the column will less firmly and
ioftily evince peoples sense of your
merits and achievements; and the emilia
zoned page of history, which would be in
complete without the commemoration of
your patriotism, wisdom and eloquence.
will but impcrfectly express the strength
of devotion with which you inspired the
wise and intelligent of the age, The mon-
umental marble will be cold in its testimo-
MES of your greatness and renown; but
our glowing spirits and burning words shall
bear you better witness. The granite
shall sooner moulder than these living me-
MORALS shall fail; for the warm hearts in
which our blood will beat, shall swell and
thrill in other ages at the utterance of your
name, with instructive emotions of graft
tude and affection derived with life from
US, and inherited while any remain worthy
of America and Liberty.
The history Of our country and your
life will warrant these impressions of the
Importance and grandeur of the services
which you have rendered to the nation, of
the good which you have actually promo
ted and accomplished. To you, to your
fabors and eloquence, TO your counsels and
influence, extending in their consistent and
beneficial operation through more than
forty years, we owe the enactment and
maintenance Of the present Tariff law by
SOUTHERN votes. To you we owe every
national measure of relief protection and
harmony which NC have been permitted to
enjoy. TO you we Justly ascrbe the merit
of purposng and effecting that great pros
periiy and honorable peace, of which our
country, for time, yet retains possession.
The whole land is bright and vivid and
vocal with the tokens of your wise policy
and active patriotism; and the movements
of enterprise in art and traffic bear wit
ness Of your foresight, judgment and prac-
teal craftsmanship. And these, with our
national honor. peace, union and justice,
will long endure as monuments of your
glory, or perish only in your realization of
prophetic warnings. The land which your
tolls and aspirations have blessed,-the
paradise created from wilderness and from
waste under the legislation which you sug
gested, directed and aided,--the very
streams converted in the grand movements
Of art, to the employment, support and hap.
piness of millions,-the splendid fabrics
and stately structures Of harmonious wealth
and labor,--the winds which wait over the
seas whose freedom you vindicated, TO
every shore, the products of our PROTECTED
industry, under the flag whose rights you
first asserted and mantained-shall all at
test your worth, and shall prolopg your
unfading glory beyond their being.
OF those who in classic ages have thus
served their country and honored human
ity, and have fallen in the protracted strug-
gle with malignity, treason, folly and ty-
ranny, it has been well said, in terms which
richly express our sense of your claims,
that,
"They fell, devoted but undying
The very gales their names are signing;
The silent pillar, lone and gray,
Claims kindred with their sacred clay.
The ir spirits wrap the dusky mountain;
Their memory sparkes DER the fountain;
The meanest rill, the mightiest river,
Roll mingling with their fame forever"
With such already your name is record
ed; for to such, by your works and fate
alike, you are truly assimilated. With
those in all ages who devotedly labored for
their Country, and departed without earthly
reward--with those "of whom the worlC
was not worthy"-we enshrine you,-witt
Scion, Demoslhencs and Phocion, with the
Gracchi and Cicero, with Barnevelt anc
Dewitt, with Hampden, Vane, Milton ano
Sydney,-with them attes,ing at once the
glory Of liberty and the unworthness o.
mankind, and shining as stars for the guild
ancc and consolation of the faithful who
labor for the freedom and good of theil
race, in other times, in other lands.
There are those who under you, and il
the hope of your election, have given to
this great cause the best energies of their
best days; but they do not regret the be-
stowal They would not recall those year!
of toll, even did they overlook the perma
nent good accomplished, the truth diffused
the principles inculcated, and all by which
the way has been prepared for future sue
cess, and impediments have been created
TO the contamination of the destructive
policy. The years thus passed are no in
considerable portion Of an ordinary active
life. Their vivid impressions can never
pass away from the characters which they
formed or modified The hopes, the pur-
poses, the tolls cannot be forgotten. Blu
above all things their great object and di
rector must ever remain prominent in inter
est and memory. Such attachment is no
transferable; and whatever changes come