The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1850-03-08
WAsHIyo1oS. Feb. 25. 1850.

Moral PhiloS0phy-JohG G. Calb0HH-His Mis-
guiaed Spirit The President's Trip TO Rich
moad-His Loyalty to he Union- VaiedietOry.
Tue books of the word are but the history of
man, and the lines of the Drama the Pencilings
of his traits. Men, who breathed liie's brief
day, and were busy, in the jostling pursuits aud
ambitious Of buried ages, were, almost exactly,
the patterns from which succeeding generations
have been formed and fashiouedi and what the
old portrayers of character wrote Of them is no
carricature of the youngest of the race.
The ruling passion is strong in death y is but
the graphic narrative of the heart,-peculiar to no
man. or age Of men. 1t is the law-the necessi-
ty-of its nature; and il is true Of good as Of i'll
passion. 1t will not be Under subjugation, and
one or the other W i'll have the mastery. Itwould
be prosy to ampliGy the obvious moral.
| OF whom was it ever truer than of Mr.. CAL
hounl Misguided or wickedly disloyal to his
country, he is little more than the automator Of
the Southern spirit-the machine of its errors
and arrogance. Admoni,hed by the infrmities
of age, and the wasting of disease, to turn his
heart to truth and wisdom, and denied, by the
same causes the physical ability to give utter
ance, in the Senate, to his pernicious arguments
Il can scarcely believe they views or opin-
liuns-he wearies aud wastes himself, on a sick
bed, in committing them to paper, and will send
them--bearing the melancholy impress of mental
and bodily debiity--to be read by his colleague il
the Senate Ambition has lit the torch Of sacri
lege aud it has glazed the eye in death.
The Presidents trip to Richmond was the oc
ca,on of the bursting forth of the gratitude auC
generous homage of his countrymen all alon;
the way. and at that city He made himsel quit
well understood, playing the orator so well tina
the first families proudly vaunted that he wa
born in Virginia. He spoke SO plainly about TN
schemes Of the Disunionists; that some faction
gentleman imagined they saw halter in ever,
word, aud gallows id every sentence. They
could neither fatter or feast. wine or wind hin
out of his devotion to his whole country, or the
sturdy utterance Of it, He learned it in tie
school of war and every scene Of havoc deepen
ed it in his heart.
And now the emotions--touched by the though
Of valedictory-- --aiect me. My duties summon
me to distant thea,re,--severing for time the
dearest conlederacies of life The retrospect o
good intentions is shaded only by the sefknowl
. edge that their fulflment has fallen far below
their aim But. having INDUCED rancor agains
no public man, my lines have not been emb liter
ed by malice nor have they purveyed to the Low
appetite for vulturism upon reputation. hav
dedicated few desutory hours to the effort t
amuse the generous readers of the little Daily
They were free tribute to their friendship. 1t
motive will save it from the criticism merited b
its blemishes. And now. N laying aside my ol
pen that has companioned ne through all thos
hours--longer aud more faithfully tnan man
friends--and it pains me TO part with i'll Civ
the patrons of the little morning visitor my hant
. --how much agitated by emotion will not tel
+; in token OF the pleasures OF realized and antic
. pated. UNION.