Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-11-03
nElTH ne MIR. WERSTER.

THE rival of the wondrous three the great compeer
of CALHOUN and McDUFFIE and CLAY, is no more.
Within the same arena, where while living he had
engaged Gladiator like with the immortal trio and
where he had lived TO the mightest spirits foil like
leaves Of the same tree, the "Godlike DANIEL" has
at length fallen.
On last Friday the remains of DANIEL WEBSTER
were consigned dust unto dust to its mother earth
On that day America received within her soil ashes
which make it holier, dust which like that Of Nc
DurFIE, CLAY and CALHOUN, is even in itself an
Immortality, names which like the four elements Of
old might furnish forth creation
First McDUrrIr, the voice Of empire and of MAR,
of the law and Of the State, instinct with the spirit
of nations and the passions Of individuals, stamped
with the mark Of an imperial and indignant declnma-
tion-sounding with all the thunders Of The Godke
CICERO, and kindling with the Promethean fire Of
DEMosTmENEs-passed away, bowed, bent and ghast.
ly whitening his lime how and why We know not,
"Nor can trace
Hume to its cloud the lightning Of the mind
But feel the shock, nor can ctiace
The blight and anguish which it leaves behind"
Noxt fell CALHOUN, the very embodiment of the
genius Of his country, the grand Oracle Of the Amer.
lean Senate the great revener of the secrets Of futu
rity. He that hath fingered where "calm a slum-
berng babe old ocean slept until the orb of Heaven
seemed resting on the FURNISHED wave and watched
the sinking sphere as it calmly disappeared had seen
the death Of CALHOUN.
Within short time after, America was again hears
ed IN misfortune by the death Of the "Great Ken.
,uckian" To her the lines Of YoUSG were then no
fiction.
F" Insatiate Archer! could not one suffice
Thy shaft flew thrice and thrice my peace was sain."
Last week announced the death Of the last Of this
giant race--WEBsrER the admitted Proteus of the
talents of his illuslrous compeers.
lie was being Of no common order, his knowledge
and power and will, as far rs is compatible With the
clay which clogs our ethereal essence were such ns
man hath seldom borne. His aspiration and ambition
were far beyond the dwelers Of the earth, hence he
struck less often than his great rivals the electric
chain with which We are bound and seldom touched
the heart of the nation. That EBsTER felt this in
his declining days is evident. His heart lone mur.
mur of its bail-d ZEAL, proved it but too plainly.
OF him may it not be said:
This should have been noble creature: he
Hath all the energy which would have made
A goody frame Of glorious elements,
Had they been wisely mingled
Peace be to his ashes.
When contemplating the death Of such men rs
these, how nnumerable the thoughts TINT throng the
busy mind. The first grave dug for mortality could
not have been more pregnant with lessons Of moral.
ty nor taught plainly the utter worthlessness Of
man. At such time we nre indeed taught that
=" Pada mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum ,abcrnas
regum queturres'-that they who know the most must
mourn the deepest DER the fatal TRUTH that knowledge
is not happiness, and that
"When all is won that all desire to WOO,
The patty prize Is hardly worth the cost"
But their names are such rs cannot pars away, nor
must their deeds be soon forgotten-ahough dead
they "the sscep,red sosereignsa who sriIl rule
ottf spirits from their urns."
Hard by the tombs Of McDUFFIE, and CALHOUN,
and CLAY le, the mighty WEBSTER sleep. Beneath
the soil which they loved well let them we'll
haluwcd by all that is elllearng in social domes-
tic charities, immortal with virtue and genius, and
blessed with public reveration md impershablc re.
nown. OF them let the line "Thc evil which men
DO lives after them, the good is inferred with their
bones" be reversed. Let their turf be ever green
let monuments and heaven directed spires mark the
spot where lie their moudcring bones upon their las,
sad resting place, let the refreshing dews of
ever descend while mourning youths and lovely mai
dcns deck with weeping flowers and votive Cypress
wreath the lone couch Of their everlasting sleep. II
the death lof CARO- was called mobile lethum" and
BRUTUs and CAssiUs were honored rs ulfimi Ro-
manorum," let America hallow we'll the spot where
the bones of her mighty sleep, let patriotism wreathc
the laurel around their brow, and genius rase its
monument over their ashes.