The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1852-10-04

rock mine, but from the more precious treasures
of wisdom and eloauence. Then thousands of
hearts were wrung with anguish as cold, relent-
less and blaspheming, those apostate doctrines fell
from his lips / say bosom save now perhaps
his own, was ever more deeply saddened at the
spectacle of that m,ral ruin, than mine. AS
think of him now ever recurring and dirge-like, do
the elegac strains written for the occasion by the
great Poet of Humanity, wake their mournful
echoes in my breast -
q So fallen so lost the light withdrawn
Which once he worei
The glory from his gray hairs gone
For everniore.
Revile him not-the Tempter hath
snare for all -sz..-r. --.-
And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath,
Beft his fall!
Oh! dumb be passions stormy rage,
When he who might
Have lighted up and led his age, -..
Falls back in night.
scorn. would the angels laugh to mark
bright soul driven
Fiend-go down the endless dark g
From hope and Heaven! --
Let not the land once proud of him,
| Nor brand with deeper shame his dim,
| f 'f9 Dishonored brow. p
| But let its humble sons instead
From to lake,
| Al long lament, for the Dead .-.-.f-=-
In sadness make. 5a.=sl. s..a.
| OF all we loved and honored naught a- EE-
Save power remains s5=z go. -z 1sEe
|. fallen angels pride of thought, ..-.
Still strong in chains.
| All else is gone: from those great eyes
The soul has fed; . 20
When faith is lost when honor dies
The man is dead!
Then, pay the reverence of old days
l. To his dead fame:
Walk backward with averted gaze.
And hide his shame ~
Still, should leave this part of my subject in
complete should forbear to draw the moral which
the fate of this eminent impressively
teaches. In the history of this world it is mex
pressively sad that offences should come. 1t
would be still more sad if we could not use them
to warn others from offending. Besides the drama,
in one of whose scenes we were brought together
upon the stage and enacted part, has now been
played out, and | am now able to establish by his
tory all the positions then maintained by argu-
ment i1i-- i-tl ~ sz--7 '=
The grandeur of Mr. Webster's jntcIlect-thc
first point always made in his defence-I readily
admit On this pointI give his friends carte blanche
of concession and agreement-the whole argument
their way.
| But. on the next point, claim to have the whole
concession and argument my way:-that
though his intellect were fitted to fill &c Dome of
Thought" ".bvast as those Egyptian statues that
have been lately found on the banks of the Nile,
from whose craniums the natives have long been
in the habit of cutting milIstones without sensibly
diminishing their bulk, yet if he could exchange it
all to blot out the history of the 7th of March
speech, he would make divine speculation.
For proof of this might cite volumes. 1 might
reply to Col. Hayne, and select something from
almost every page of those volumes of eloquence-
beautiful as painting, and grand statuary-
whose appeals fell upon mems hearts like affa
tus of the spirit of God. With all this, l might
| then contrast what he has written and spoken
since the day of his downfall, pictorial as it is,
| with embems of whips and chains, of auction
blocks, and shrieking fugitives, fleeing from the
| bloody lash and the lecher's arms, and finding no
protection in the sanctuary of Faneuil Hall, or
| under the shadow ef Bunker's Hill, or by the
! sacred monuments of Lexington and Concord.
But will confine myself to a single item of
| proof, irrefragable and conclusive = .
! The Buffalo Convention of 1S4S, proclaimed its
determination to maintain the rights of free labor
against the aggressions of the slave power and to
/ secure free soil for free people,
Il Itdeclared its independence of the slave power,
and its fixed determination to rescue the Federal
! Government from its control"
/ 1t declared that the provso of Jefferson to pro-
hibt slavery all the territories, and the ordinance
of 1857, excluding slavery from the Northwestern
| Territory clearly show that it the settled
policy of the nation not to crtend, nationalist,
/ encourage but to limit localise, and discourage
have been departed from the government ought to
return" ...
It declared ST that it is the duty of the Federal
Government to relieve itself from all responsibility
for the existence or continuance of slavery wher-
ever that Government possesses constitutional
Il
| responsible for its existence"
/ It declared that the only safe means of prevent
/ ing the extension of slavery into territory now
free is to prohibit its existence in all such territory
| by an act of Congress. '
| It declared 'tthat accept the issue which the
slave power has forced upon us, and to their de-
mand TOR more slave territories, our calm but final
/ answer is, no more slave states-no slave
1 territory .,--
/ And what did Mr.. Webster say of this platform,
/ within one month after it had been adopted! This
is his language -. ...----.
i az have said, gentlemen, that in this Buffalo
platform, this collect of the school, there ii
nothing new. There is nothing in it that all the
Wings of the northern and middle States may not
adopt. Gentlemen it is well known that there is
nothing in this Buffalo platform which, in genel al
does not meet the appreciation of all the Wings OF
the middle and northern States. Suppose now,
that all of us who Wings should 60 and Join
the Free Soil party, what would be the result =
i Why SO far nothing would happen, but that the
4 Wing party would have changed its That
4 would be ALL Instead of being the Wing party, it
j would be the Free Soil party We should be all
there, exactly upon the same principles upon
which we have already stood.''
4 Now, contrast this full, explicit, comprehensive
and apparently ingenious subscription and adhe-
sion to all the doctrines and articles of the Buffalo
platform, in 1S4S, with the 7th of March speech r
1885, and with all that has since followed it from
the same source
Surely, if General Jackson, in 1886, in order tc
obtain third election, had courted and defended
the United States Bank, written and spoken
through all the Eastern cities in its behalf and
made James Watson Webb and Nicholas Biddle
g his bosom confdants and counsellors; surely, i
Mr.. Clay, in 1s4s, had declared for free trade
against all tariffs against river and harbor improve
e ments, and against all the policy that had mos
slgnalzed his life; surely if Mr.. Calhoun, during
the controversy respecting the new territories hat
e suddenly avowed himself the disciple of CIarksor
d and Wiberforce, and had raised the standard o
immediate emancipation surely, say, neithe
n of these events would have furnished such ampl,
t material of contradiction and amazement as arr
: supplied by the melancholy case l am now con
Il sidering Alter having nurtured, tutored and Lei
: the anti7slayery sentiment for thirty years. afte
: having claimed the patented thunder of th
, Wilmot proyiso; and after having discovered th
g North star, in single day, without premontiol
!. or cause of change, Mr.. Webster espouses doc
trines more Southern than South Carolina, an