Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-03-13

ed the whole current OF popular passion in of
those quarters where il has seemed widest This
is the conduct-and not the sycophant swftness
TO run before every public humor as soon as it can
be guessed--which will where the people are wise,
command their confidence and love- No man, as
to all his public purposes, better deserves it than
Mr.. BERRIEN. There is none whom men can less
approach with any unworthy expectation, any pro-
position that does not belong to his duty. His
bearing and manners, like his oratory, are highly
elevated pure and finished, but seem the result Of
reason rather than of passion; SO that he COM
mands esteem and attention more than he excites
feeling: yet, in private, man merits it more,
by every personal virtue, and heart as kindly as
it is just.
JOSEPH CILLEY
| Mr.. CLLEY is too recent as Senator, too quiet,
modest and SILENT to have permitted us to learn from
personal observation much more of him than we
knew in advance, through the concurring voice of
all repue. His demeanor has been most unexcep-
tionable, his political conduct irreproachable To
speaking without need, eappears to have all sol
dier's antipathy. We doubt not he is, for that,
none the less working in all those things
where silent people tel, to the quiet preparation
of business in the committees. On his fellow-Sen-
ators he has made, we know, the favorable i'm
preston as to soundness of sense, purity and firm
ness of principles, and amenity of manners. His
patriotism stands but too plainly written upon his
disabled limbs, and face ds6gured with scars, for
any man to doubt it.
| THOMAS CLAYTON. a....
| Mr. CLAYTON is another of those filter to do
things than fond to talk of Them For this reason,
all that we need say of him can be put into words
as concise his speeches and as strong as his ac-
tons. man he is, apparently, of sort marvel
lousy still taciturn the floor gentle and urbane
in his manners; seldom heard but III an aye " or
"no," always at the right place; but ever true as
steel to public duty, especially when others might
fater. He is, in short, that kind of person who
might be relied upon to mount breach alone, or to
defend bridge by himself against an army. Mel.
ther Executive nor multitude, coaxng nor threats
Establishments terrors, the strength of the adj
versary nor the wavering of friends, ever shook
Mr.. CLAYTON; no ambition affected and no inter-
est could tempt him. patriot sterner, but vet less
seeking to decorate himself with the honors of pa.
trotism, we have not known; and, indeed though
generally passing unappauded, zoe had learned to
look upon him as the Aristides of the Senate He
proved himself to be superior to all temptation
where his sense of duty interviewed, by his vote las
May against the bill adopting the Presidents wal
against Mexico. s,
GEORGE EVANS. '...a*
The brilliant and powerful abilities of Mr. Evans
have made themselves so conspicuous in those
branches Of public counsel to which he addicted
himself as really to shed a ustre-we might almQs
say charm-upon the ungrateful and dry subjects
of Finance and Imposs. Great as was the ligh
which his talent threw around them, yet we are
far from believing that he would not have shont
quite much Except that this talent of Finance il
very rare one) in almost any other part of poll
tics. BE this as il may, we do not believe that
since the days of Alexander Hamilton, the country
has possessed man so able as the real, the pracfi
cal Political Reconnaissance the thing Of books ant
theories-as is the late Senator from Maine. He
is man, in such things, of the sort that Themsto
Giles called himself: one that could not fiddle
nor philosophize, but who knew how great city
was to be made out of small one. His useful.
ness stands written in all that Congress has, for six
years, wisely done combated, as to currency anc
tariffs. Even of late, and especially in the las
session, when, through the common Injustice Of
party, only subordinate in his committee, we have
thought it obvious that the Administration could
never have got through its own indispensable APP
preparation bills, had not Hercules been there tc
lift them out Of the mire. As an orator. Mr. Evans
is remarkable for the little use he makes of orato
ry; but, as parliamentary speaker, debater and
expounder of practical measures-a business speak.
er-he is probably the best we have; wonderfully
Clear concise and forcible but sngularly agreeable
and interesting In devotion and fidelity to public
duties devolving upon him, and in the tenacity with
which he maintained whatever he believed TO be
right, no man within our knowledge has ever ex-
ceed him. One of the oldest of our active public
men, the distinguished Senator from South Carolina,
(Mr. CALHouN,) having listened to Mr.. EvANs's
discussion, toward the end of the last session, OF
the origin Of the present war, in Speech which
has never been fully reported spoke of it, in rising
himself 10 address the Senate, as an effort of
" consummate ability"
| SPENCER JARNAGiN
Mr.. JARNAGIN has been an industrious and vigil
liant member of the Senate. In the resistance of
that annexation" which has brought lamentable
war and disastrous public debt in its tran-opposi-
ton to which measure was highly perilous to him at
home-Mr. j. bore an effective and honorable part.