The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1850-07-24
DANIEL WEBSTER.

From an eloquent article in the Cleveland True
Democrat, we quote the following:
These who proclaim has the giant intellect of his
age and country, have cast out from their reckoning
the laws of human nature, the facts of history and
the existence Of righteous Moral Governor Of Ma
tlons,the ceaseess love of Freedom, the hatred Of
injustice and expressions, instinct In the nature OF
man,-the sublime but terrible fact that the desoa
ton OF States and Empires, through the history of all
time, are but the footmarks of the Omnipotent. as
He has trod in His wrath over the monuments of hu-
man oppression and injustice. Egypt, Assyria,
Chaldea, Persia, Greece, Rome, all had their Web
sters-men who were the giant minds of their day
and country, and who were regarded as the ar
chtects Of national greatness. The glitter of their
snowy monuments, as they rose on the sandbanks of
folly and injustice dazzed the eyes of the thought
less multitude, and 10 ! they shouted "Behold a
God p But the work and the workmen have been
swept with the bosom of destruction, and the fate Of
these demlgods of old will be the fate of our Web
ster and Cass, Calhoun and Clay, and the host of
lesser lights who reyolve around those splendid mock
suns. 10 talk of the greatness of that statesmen
who raises a superStructure of government without
digging down to those primeval rocks, Liberty JUS
tice, and the Government Of God, why the very
baseness Of those who bestow such praise, is in it.
self the most whitening OF all the irony heaped upon
SAiS "ONiu-DS-S
Greatness cfmnd The great Webster who is
now torturng his intellect to save this young repub
hc only seveny-four years ofage from premature de-
structlon, by giving full and unrestrained SWAY to
that terrible moral disease which has brought on it
the WEAKNESS OF age, now, in its very infancy
lie, the wise man, the great statesman, the Bonar-
ges OF America, who would antidote the poison Of
the Republic, by increasing the dose of which it is
dying May merclfu God in his infinite goodness
grant to our country this favor and deliver it from
the sad tnkering of all such God-ile statesmen =
God-like in intellect! Why there are in our land
thousands OF men, and women too, who never
dreamed that they were elevated above the common
level OF humanity able to instruct this poor, inflated
mortal, in every thing that pertains TO the higher
walks Of real craftsmanship
A God-like intellect truly to proclaim in the face
OF all experience, that by an ordnance of Providence
by law OF God, slavery cannot 90 into New Mexi-
co and California--that ''physcaI geography will
prevent this !'--that a country of mountains and
valeys,o be cultivated by irrigation, is incompati
bic with the existence of savery-that slavery can
not entera country similar in its characteristics 10
the countries of Asia A mighty intellect, truly,
which Is so high above the common level to talk like
an IDIOT himself, and yet take the rest Of mankind
for idiot.
God-lIke intellect, and yet ignorant of the fact
hat slavery, IN spite OF Gods law, in spite of phys
zeal geography, IN spite Of the shallow specuations
OF pseudo-statesmen, has spread sefove every foot
OF American territory where it has not been prohibit
ted by positive law God-like intellect-ianorant.
utterly, of the nature Of sayeryignorant Of its eau
seslgnorant Of its remedy-ignorant Of the obvious