The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-03-14

'hee. Here, now, is purely intellectual
man. He worships his faYorite studies;
cares nothing for the fesiiye board; eats
sparingly; and iuxuriates either in eluci-
dating some difficult problem, or in speak
ing TO chosen friends of his darling South.
her duty and her destiny. Mr.. Calhoun's s
conversational powers are extraordinary.
He talks easily, elegantly. and with ex-
quisite clearness. His friends love him
not SO much for his cause, as for the man
ner in which he sustains his cause. He
is an unexcePtionabIy moral man. His
severe tastes and stern example have
a school of somewhat ascetic politicians
in South Carolina. They are certainly
disinterested. They are unquestionably
Independent. And they are notoriously
brave and thorough going in whatever
they undertake. We do especially admire
their examples, but we should like TO see
the North initiating South Carolina in
two things, at least; and those are, in sem
ding none but her best men to Congress,
and in keeping them there until they are
no longer fit to reflect credit upon them
selves and their constituents. This is the
secret of southern ascendency at Wash.
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politicians in the North.
Since the assembling of the present
session of Congress. each of these aged
men has spoken of the slave question
Mr.. Webster and Mr.. Clay have taken
high and patriotic ground for the Union,
at all hazards. and under all circumstan-
ces. They spoke like men who felt that
| they had but brief time to live; and they
pleaded for the continuance of the bond
which unies these States with the inn
passioned eloquence of auld lang syne.-
Mr.. Calhoun paid all unusual tribute TO
the Union, by rising to disavow suspi-
cion to the effect, that he favored disunion
which is unhappily too often the ten
dency of his strange philosophy. When
his speech was concluded, the veteran trio
met in front of the Vice Presidents chair,
and Joined hands. What a moment that
for the artist What different emotions
must have agitated them! How, as each
scanned the worn features of the other,
their minds reverted back to the scenes
through which they had passed, and for
ward TO the Future, in which others would
be called to fill the perilous positions from
which they are about to retire! No three
4 iiiCii CFCI SO
ted the affection of their friends, or WELD.
ed SO much influence upon the nation a
latge. They have seen the country in It's
early youth, and have assisted its growth
to prosperity, with the jealous care of con-
fiding parents. Two of them a least were
foremost in support of the last war with
Great Britain; and Mr.. Webster sealed
his devotion to the country by his memo
rable speech against notification in 1888.
They have often diflered-and sometimes
harshly and vehemently; but age has calm
ed their passions, and diminished their
prejudices; and they now stand upon the
| verge of that bourne whence no traveller
returns, and look with just pride upon the
great country they are about 10 leave to
Freedom and TO the world-the bond of
whose Union is strengthened by the attri-
ton of opinions, and so enabled to defy
the attempts of its opponents to weaken
or 10 sunder it. May these veteran states
men live many years, to see all their hon
est hopes fulfilled and all their honest
fears sdisappointed.-Pennsylvanian.