Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1851-12-27
r. Marshall on Clay and Crlttondon.

I'll. r. Marshall on Clay and grittondoii
The celebrated but eccentric Tliofnal
II. Marshal Of Kentucky. has lately writ
len a letter to The Louisville Jotraz'
IN wbicts he takes occasion to speak MI
sentiments, hi regard to those illlrstricu'
STATESMEN, Henry Clay and John ]. Crit
.,enden. The following tribute TO Mr.
Clay, II III the true NnvshaH vein 2
'e~loanence;
] risk offending Mr. Clay's friends, %
seek TO add TINT influence, that command
ing influence, 70 give consistency, direc'
iioi,, dignity and force to the beggarly elc'
meuts Il work 10 ruin that man ID whom
/ am known 10 be devoted on personal ~
well as p~oIitical grounds, tolpvo as though
ie were my elder brother! ! said that
tho Adams administration had fallen, end
that Kentucky among others struck q fatal
blow. L. not this historically tr,ief Was
this statement, Under the explanations
which / have given In the House and here,
aimed liz ii sarcasm at Mr.. Clny, OF can
IL be wrcsted into an assertion that MIR,
Crittondun was tho author of his great.
.neesg Mi. Clay did fall IN 1888, and
nom Ii lofty height; but spraiig, az he al
ways spriegs, like The antique wrestler,
the stronger from his fall, more terrible on
the rebound, than lu was ere shaken from
feet. have heard him at the bar and in
the Senate. / have seen him ia iiis cor .
tcste with other men, when oil tile stor,i Y
PASSIONS of his temrestuous soul Wee
iaslied by disappointment and opposition
30 the foeming rage Of THO ocean, when
all the winds are unclaimed and sweep ID
full career over the free and bounding
bosom Of the deep. lie owes less Of his
greatness to- education or 70 art than amy
ii living. lie owes less of bis oonl-
~slanding influence TO other men. thnn any
great leader | have ever known, or Of
whom I have ever rcad. lie ~ccnsults
nobody, lie leans tron nobody, lo fears
nobody. lie wears natures patent OF
nobility forever upon his brow. He talks
amuhg lnpn with an annliswcrHblo and
never douhting mir OF command, dis
sweeping and imperial pride, Ills indolnit.
abb will, his nnquaiiing courage, challenge
from nli, Submission OF combat. With
dim there con- be no neutrality. Death,
sributo, or the koran Is llis motto. Great
in speech, great ia action, bis greatness Is
ail his own, He Is Independent alike
.ol history or The schools; he knows little
az either md despises both. His ambition
his spirit, and his oloquence aro MI great,
md entirely his own. RI BIZ il like ANY,
body, he does not know n. lie has never
studied models, and, If he had. his pride
would have rescued him from the hnst of
imitation. lie stands among men In
towering md ierbaric grandson, III all tho
hardihood and rudcness Of perfect origin.
ality, independent ef tho poolish and
beyond tho rracll of art. Ills vast outline
and grand but WELD and underlined pro-
nken him to a huge mass Of
granite torn ia some convnlHions OF natarc
from a mountain's side, which any effort
81 tho cliscl would only Asiigure, and
ne instrument in the soalptor's
studio could grasp Or comprehend,
Al the conclusion of his letter, IN al.
ading again 70 MIR. Cristenden. ho says
I called him Bayard. I bcliye tlat
,nglt net 70 have oaragod anybody. III
All him Bayard now. the Knight withoun
oar ami without reproach. Lie Is, as lsa-
'ard was. adorned with all courage aasd
III courtesy. lilo is Il love 10 praise a
,reat md good man)--he il u mirror ill
which The young cllivalfy Of Kentucky
nay glare and fashion itself 10 oil manly
and every gcntlcmally grace
There are examples enough m the history
4 heroes TO cheer Us on. We have rsn- ! !,
cred retreat impossible 70 bur clsicf.-ks
I~gashoclcs, iii ancient times. when Ire in
aaed Africa from Sicily. burned his ships
ia showed his troops tlielu was no safety I
ut ia victory. Cories, when he invaded !
icxico, did the same, and cast the wide :
.tlantic between him and safety. without
prow OK sail 10 bear hifn OH. Tho last
the great iNarons Of England, king-mak-
u Warwick. when pressed 10 his fail, :
to tho front Of his line the nolsle :
laa gor that lad borne him III triumph
YER a hundred fields. the good sseed beat s
II frontlet 10 his lord who kissed the fore y
rad Of the generous animal. shen plnng Z
tic dagger to Ills heart. Tie troops y
Nv that their header could not fly even
ere he.base eiloal:ghto attempt it Tauit Y
, ma mora. Our leaders ships are bnrnt Il
4 l.orse Is dead. He cannot III IL lie Y
snnll--1an would not liz As cou,d. Tha =