Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1849-08-08


Ties and his love for all that is gond. USE
full, and patriotic; above all, his honesty
and incorrupIbiIi'y or his sasacIy-his
long experience Of forty years in The high
psl seats in lhc councils Of the Gniun-and
his deep thought aud foresight, which all
make him what he is. the greatest man III
the federal Union-bnl for this. the people.
as one man, would have arisen and placed
him a, the head Of affairs IL, Washington
long ago. aud he would have stamped The
impress of his mighty mind, for years TO
come. Enr good. With so pure, so lufy
and patriolic President, how would our
government n"w stand before the s:rug-
Cling European NATIONS? He would mark
his administration by acts and policy that
would cause il 10 be blessed for century
to come. AS il is, what has he no, done.
for the last twenty years only! lie has
originated and carried more measures.
which have become law. and Defeated mnrc
which he believed to be bad. than all the
Presidents during that period. Is it not
true, and are not the people Of the United
States fully conversant with these facts J.
lie has no press 10 trumpet forth and bla-
Zon his great actions, as every other little
great MAN has. and who consequently be-
come quite honored and caressed. These
men, and that class IF men, every one of
them. know what John G.. Calhoun is, and
what he has done, and feel that 10 him
they are The pigmy to The giant. Mr.. Cal
houn stands alone. lie is like The mighty
chain Of the AIIeghanics, which loom up
nnto the clouds, 40 or 20 miles from his
mansion. When time has passed with
him, when 40 or GO years intervene, then,
and not ill then, ~ill The people Of our
country look back, and ihen in that dis
tancc-above al. will tower the memory
of the acts of Calhoun. lie is like the
mounlain-,he grandeur Of his mind and
its conceptions cannot he srcn hy lhnse Iii
his time. Distance will maxi his outlines
with disIinclness and do him juslicc-bct-
ter lnr hitn-to0 late for us.
long and how varied Six years mcm-
her of the lower House of Congress. eishl
years Secretary of War. seven years Vice
President, one year Secretary Of S,aIe,
| eighteen years Senator in Cnngress For
furly years. without in;ermisson, in The
public service; and during periods frausht
with the greatest excitement, aud iuteres,
ltu-,he Union. thSSgHrTwFIal burning
-sTame that party subscrviencv should be
able To obscure in our nwn land an intellect
which would shine brilliantly in any 9th
er; and the sage 0! experience never occn.
py his true position in our esrimarinn unlil
after he leaves us; and what does he think
nj this or o( the Presidency? asked
him, ami as near as | can reculIecl ! will
give his reply:
"WhM could I gain to be President ?
Care and anxiety, thai am free from now.
am not ambitious. The only reward
seek is the appreciation of my own con-
science. neither ask nor desire any 9th.
er reward than that. ! would not accept
the Office of President on any other terms
than the most enire recdunl to RETURN
abuses, abolish this system nf removals,
and break up lhe spoIs aud plunde1 sys-
tern, aud restore the government 10 a
healthy and vigorous action, and this with.
oul any trammel or pledges, except those
which The constitution imposes upon the
| PreSidenl.'
4 PRAYER By KossUrn.-The follows
ing prayer offered by Kussurh will be in-
teres'ing to onr readers. II was offered
by him kneeling amid The multitude. at
The grave of the Magyer heroes who fell
in The battle Of RnpoyIna, and was orig
inally published in the Opposition Il jnur-
nal of PesIh. We lransIale from The Ger.
man:
Almighty Lord God Of The warriors
Of Arpad! Look down from Thy starry
throne upon Thy implorins scrvanr, from
whose lips the prayer Of millions ascends
to thy Heaven, praising the unsearchnble
power of thine O'nnipotence. o God.
over me shines thy sun and beneath me
repose the relics Of my laIca heroic brc.
lhren, above my head The sky is blue and
under my feet the earth is dyed red with
the holy blood Of the children of our an.
ccslors. Let The anirnaling. beams Of Thy
sun fall here that flowers may spring up
from the blood so that these hulIs Of de.
parted beings may not ,uolfer unadorr ed.
God Of our fathers and God Of the uations
hear and bless The vuice of our warriors in
which the arm and The soul of brave ma
lions thonder 10 break the iron hand Of
tyranny as it forses its chains. As free
man kneel on these fresh graves, by The
remains of my brothers. BY such sac.
riice as theirs Thy Earth would he con.
secraled were it all stained with sin. o
God on this holy soil above these graves
no race of slaves can live. o Father!
Father Of our Fathers! Mighty over my
riads. Almighty God Of The Heaven, the
Earth aud the Seas! From the bones
springs glory whose radiance is on The
brow of my people. Hallow their dust
with Thy grace that The ashes of my fall
ell heroic brethren may rest in peace -
Leave US not, Great God of battles In
tho holy name Of the natious, praised be
Thy Omnipoiance. Amen.
The REMEpY.-"Oh, Doctor sail an
elederly lady recently 10 DR.. H. The
celebrated bone. seller, in describing the
effects. of diseased spine, ~ can neither