Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-07-27

for he had earned by the devotion OF his trans
eenden abilities his whole public life to the inter
ests and the policy New England and the rest OF the North
whenever and wherever these interests could he maintained
consistently with the higher duty which he owed to the con-
sutlon, TO the Union, and to his own conscience. Q
need speak of the value o the services thus rendered
there living the North who ignorant OF them
there living who could have performed them in his
absence We prefer speak of the still greater occasions on
which he has appeared he appears not as the cham
pion Of State yet New England, OF the
whole North but in the broader and glorious character
OF an Ameican statesman acting for the whole people, de-
tending them against foreign encroachment and internal dis
senson or interpreting and vndclting the instrument which
is the charter OF their liberties and the safeguard OF their
periy In many fearful crisis of this Sort when all these
interests were mpered he has been pot who wealth
cred the Storm. When the grand attempt made ln
1883 to nuly the constitution and the laws he bore the
brunt Of the battle n the Senate concurng for that purpose
with President whose policy in other respects both before
and AFTER he uniformly and srenuousy opposed; when by
the rash experiments of the Presidents who took the
responsibility OF ampeng with the currency and the public
und every bank in the country had suspended specie
ments and commercial bankruptcy overpread the land the
weight OF the contest still rested his broad shoulders and
still later when with England seemed imminent, as
Questions were at issue with her which stirred up public feel
ing from Its very depths in almost every State OF the Unon
then, breaking loose again from his former political
IONS he appeared the paccaor between two mighty
tons, and preserved the peace Of the world And so has
been through his public Whenever the clouds
have bacened the whole heavens and the winds have ashed
the ocean into oam and the ship seemed surrounded by the
breakers the trumpet tones of his commanding voice have
been heard above the Of the tempest rebukng the spirit
Of mutiny cowardce in the crew, while his firm hand has
seized the helm and guided the vessel safely into port
In the same spirit which moved him these grand oc-
casons, he has again forth, time equally big
with Domentous results to stand between the excited North
and the angry South messenger Of peace to rebuke the
spirit OF intolerance and fanatcism either side and to
teach both parties the respect which they to the constu
ton and their pghed faith II the fault Of his
New England, if that ebuke has fallen heavily upon her in
the ardor Of her sympathy with the fugitive slave and with
the cause OF freedom the Territories she had forgotten the
terms OF that solemn compact with her sister States, which
she Is not at liberty TO violate in respect, if she does not
consent that should be binding in all There is
moral grandeur in his position upon this subject which ought
to be admired and respected by those who cannot fully
understand it. He of the first sound the alarm
against the proposed annexation of Texas and fought
fully against it. when half of the North receant to its
duty upon the subject and his native State voted against
him but that the act has been consummaed, and the
compact executed he declares that its conditions bind
ing, and tina, the public faith pledged to their strict per-
formance He declares that he will resist to the last the doc
trines OF ratification whether they advanced by South
Carolina by Massachusetts, Equally esoute to oppose
the extension of slavery into any Territory where does not
already exist he declares that he will vote for the Will
mot poviso for the purpose of insulting the South or
advocate It's enactment for region where has been already
enacted and engraven the rock by the finger Of God His
doctrine and language upon these points in strict accord
ance with the noble and appropriate motto which he has cho
for his speech, and inserted in the dedication of it 10 the
sco; sed pro gratis Lgu, esi ngenium
nioeret, necesstds cogit Velem, eqdem vobs pacere
sed nuo ma salros esse, quaHcmque rga amino
uturt estS Wo to the people whose love OF freedom, or
of any thing else, blind and furious allow them to
heaken to words like these, the statesman
who utters them
sThs is not the time, is not the country, where we
afford greatest whenever they sre TO-
follow their convictions Of truth and night at the
pense Of cherished preudces The canker which threat
away all noble sentiment and upright conduct in
public affairs cowady reference public opinion, to
the supposed will of majority of the people, place OF an
mmutabe standard of right and wrong and the laws OF God
support such statesmen Clay and Web
ster in breaking away times from this pfu slavery to
their constituents the doom of public virtue under such Pot
cal institutions sealed shall be than the
A,henians, who banshed Asides and Demoshenes, and
raised such Ceon and Chares to the head OF affairs
On this OCCASION if the people of the North wish their South
e brethren support Mr. Clay in the generous declaration
which have quoted from him. they must set them an ex-
ample by finchng in their adherence to MIR. Web
ste poor business search the former speeches and
writings of like these the hope of finding scrap
fragment which may convict them Of inconsistency Their
present doctrine is avowedly of Cancellation and compro
mise, portion of which is probably dictated not by their
best Judgment but by the magnitude Of the present
lion and by the pressure Of circumstances The debt of grail
ude that is due to them for their past services be repaid
nly by having confidence in them and by trusting all
their management, firmly believe that the country would
est consult its own interests"