Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1848-09-08
From The Louisville Journal.
Speech Of the Hen. Thomas COrWin.

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Our readers will require but little urging from
US, to induce them to read the great speech Of
/ Mr.. Corwin, before the Senate Of the United
States on the Compromise bill. WeIhink there
are lew who commence il that will willingly
fail to give it a thorough pcrusal. 1t has been
apply called the speech Of the season, and we
are sure thai nothing equal TO il has fallen from
the lips of any Senator this season.
A leading feature Of Mr.. Corwin's character
is devotion to truth, aud he follows her paths
with the enthusiasm, the spirit and the iouilude
OF martyr. In the worship Of that heavenly
essence he discards all personal considerations;
he never seems 10 pause to ask what may be
the personal consequences of any thing he may
feel required TO dot is enough for him to learn
where truth makes the line Of duty to secure his
obedience.
This trait was emnently displayed by Mr..
Corwn on the Mexican war question. His u-
cid mind as clearly saw the consequences Of his
course upon thai question as his experience now
feels Them. He deliberateIy surveyed his ground,
and duty made him brave the fires Of persecu-
lion, aud The anathemas Of a party. 1t would
! be as easy to make slave of Mr.. Corwin, rs
it would to make him demagogue. He stood
up before his country as a man who dared to do
what he considered right. He made no appeal
TO the aura poru'aris; he felt The spirit of the
ancient sage expressed in the sentiment, ii love
Socrates, love Plato, but love ruth more than
either"
Whatever difference Of opinion may exist as
10 the policy or propriety Of Mr. Corwin's
course on the war question, all men must join
,ho loC
ned him in what he looked upon as his duly.-
His attitude in rabuking the war sTir, of his
country, WIS a nober one than was thar If The
elder Cha,ham, when he denounced the conLgcI
of Great Britain ID driving these colonies into
revolution; and posterily will honor Mr.. Cor
win for his course. In The progressive strides
of cvizuton,a love Of war will cease, and as
pure and undefIed religion increases in The
world, the distinction between true and false pa-
triotsm, will be felt and acknowledged among
men. The doctrine-''our country right or
wrong" never fell from the lips of the savior
Of the world nor from he heart of any one who
ever felt the benign influence Of Christianity.
If he only is free whom the truth makes free,
just in proportion as men made free by truth, in
, that proportion will patriotism in its ordinary
costume Of cant discarded.
Butwe are wandering from our subject, and
we return 10 Mr.. Corwin's speech on The Com
promise bill. We would like TO see an answer
to the logic Of Mr.. Corwin. 1t has been mel
in the Senate with nveclive and empty declam.
alton. Reverdy JOHNSON attempted 10 paraize
its power by insult, and Mr.. Butler of South
, Carolina, seemed TO think tha, he had demoIish-
ed Mr.. Corwin's speech, by declaring that when
slaves were made traffic, Yankees would be
The traders, thus endeavorng TO succeed in thai
everlasting faure-lhe effort al making"a righ
q out of Two wrongs" and lorgellu ol the fac
f that the more such material may be used the
I worse the chances are for success in manuiaclu'
!, ring right.
a While reading the debate, we could not bu
: feel that Corwin lowered in the Senate like q
+ ant among pigmes. Every one that couched I
b, lance against him, seemed TO be ridicuIousIy
G small. While following his great mind through
J. the intricaces of this subject, we felt that We
n were in a blaze of light, and we could not bu
f remember Ben Johnson's description Of truth
f We seemed 10 stand in the very presence Of tha
# glorious figure whose
II "Spacous arms do reach from east to west.
And YOU may see her heart shine thro her breast.
: Herright hand holds sun with burning rays;
4 Her left curious bunch of golden keys,
: With which Heav'ns gates she unlocketh and dis
: A chrysta mirror hanging at her breast, lPlays
S By which mems censCiences are searchd and drest
?! On her coach wheels hypocrisy lies racked,
'l And squint eyed slander, with vain glory backed
l. Her bright eyes burn to dust, in which shines fate
= An angel ushers her triumphant gait;
+. Whilst with her fingers fans of stems she twists,
\ And with them beats back terror, clad in msts;
4 Eternal unity behind her shines;
- That FIRE and water, earth and air combines
=" Her voice is like a trumpet, loud and shrll;
% Which bids all sounds in earth an Heav'n be STILL
y There is not man in this country who ca
>, strip subject of its verbiage more efectual
= than Mr.. Corwin. With keen and a Dol
III eve, and a steady hand, he dissecs the sophis
! trcts and false logic of the advocates of errol
!: and he follows Ialsehood through all its doublin
- r. and involutons with u practised skill whIch n
u ingenuity can eude.
r. Nothing seems to escape his eye in analN
II zing an unlenable position. His powers of sa
n' casm are great, and they sparkle amidst tn
- strength OF logic like gems that deck the bro
s' of purity and beauty.
II In the speech on the Compromise bill, M
on Corwn has displayed in an eminent degree, q
u0 the great features Of his massive mind. III
often repeated sophstries of slavery, the form
~ las that have passed from mouth to mouth
~ mong those who love to be deceived, those pa
III Try, rickeuy things that seem to be theit loor
OF perPetuulism, and mamPled into dust by n