The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-04-18

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practical craftsmanship. And these, with
our national honor, peace, union and justice,
will long endure as MONUMENTS Of your glo-
~, or perish only in realization of your pro-
phetic warnings. The land which your tolls
and aspirations have blessed-ihe paradise
created from wilderness and from waste un-
der the legislation which you suggested, d.
rected and aided-tbe very streams CONVEX.
Ted, in the grand movements of art, 10 the
employment, support and happiness of mill
iOns-the splendid fabrics and stately struct-
uTes Of harmonious wealth and labor-the
winds which wait, over the seas whose free
dom you vindicated, to every shore. the pros
ducts Of our PROTECTED industry, under the
flag whose rights you first asserted and
maintained-shal all attest your worth, and
shall prolong your unfading glory beyond the
skies.
Of those who in the classic ages have thus
served their country and honored humanity,
and have fallen in the protracted struggle
with malignity, reason, folly and tyranny, it
has been well said. in terms which richly ex.
press our sense of your claims, that
'sThsy fell devoted but undying:
The very gales their names are signing;
The silent pillar, lOne and gray,
Claims kindred with their sacred clay.
Their spirits wrap the dusky mountsin;
Their memory sParkles DER the fountain;
The meauest rlI, the uightiest river,
Roll mngng with their fame forever"
With such already your name is recorded:
for to such, by your works and fate alike,
you are truly assmilated. With those in all
ages who aevotedly labored for their Coun-
try, and departed without earthly reward
with those ''of when the world was not Wor-
Ithy"-we enshrine you.-Solon, Dsmosihe-
nes and Phocion, with the Gracdhi and Cic-
zero, with Barneyelt and Dewitt. with Hamp-
ldem, Vane, Milton and Sydney,-Withtheln
attesting at once the glory of liberty and
the unworthiness of mankind, and shining
as stars for the guidance and consolation Of
the faithful who labor for the freedom and
good of their race, in other times, in other
4ianAs-
There are those who under you, and in
the hope of your election, have given TO this
great cause the best energies Of their best
ldays; but they do not regret the bestowal-
They would not recall those years of toll,
even did they overlook the permanent good
; accomplished. the truth diffIsed, the pTinei-
pies inculcated, and all bv which the way
has been prepared for future success, and i'm
pediments have been created to the consum-
nation Of the destructive policy. The wears
, thus passed are no inconsiderable portion of
an ordinary active life. Their vivid impress
sions can never pass away from the characA
, tiers which they have formed OF modified
The hopes, the purposes, the tolls cannot be
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object and director must ever remain promin.
. ent in interest and memory. Such attachl
: ment is not transferable; and whatever
changes come in the movements of future
Years, however occasion may present new
measures and new men, still this devotion
will exclude all rivalry, and can, ''oWn no
second loves
i And therefore, we femember you. HENRY
/ CLAY while the memory of the glorious OF
! the senseaof the good remains ia us, with a
! grateful and admiring affection which shall
4 strengthen with our strength aud shall no
= decay with our decline. We will remem
! lber you il all our future trials and reverses
4 jas him whose name. honored defeat and gave
= it glory which victory could not have bro't
;. We. will remember you when patriotic hop,
of iaAltGa otSAtO SuGCCSStul Contest WIN the q
,. IgencIes Of corruption and ruin; for we vii
:, never know triumph which you do not shart
i in life, whose glory does not accrue TO yo
HI in death. We will remember you while tn
u national peace and prosperity continues; an
= when the war.ciUuds nov darkening and mui
teTing over the horizon have risen to ogeFcat
= the clear and placid sky yet above US. an
a have burst over the whole land, the peopI
= will remember you when the blood.houdd
= SO long baying on our track. and the Woive
nc nov bowling around the fold, shall have reI
0I- the prey, where The vultures are alread
o. screaming Cor the offal. We viii rememb,
q you, whenever we meet again in the might
e. e gatherings of fhe faithful, and IN the soci
=. circle, and in The happiness OF our homes
9; We will remember you ihFough life. and y
~ will not forget you at the gates of death
re thus everywhere and ct all times, IN eur mo
=. ne sacred and solemn moments and ia our pu
- est thoughts gratefully cherishing your nan
iea and deeds, and. az now and here, invokil
en blessings on you and yours forever.
81 BIZ resolution Of the Committee,
~ regularly and fully convened
~ D. FRANCIS BACON.
~ Corresponding Secretary.