The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-06-03
The Mighty Three--C1ay, Calhoun, WEBB


The Mighty Three--C1ay, Calhoun, Web.
! The Washington correspondent of the Charles
ton Mercury, in his letter of the 9th instant
writes as follows:
4 '.Another of the great lights of our genera
alton is fast passing away to the land of shad-
ows. Henry Clay is dying, and thrill must
pass through every heart at the announcement
of the fact. Though his decline has been grad
ual that the public mind should have been pre-
pared for it, still, like Calhoun, Henry CLAW
seems to possess so unbounded vitality. the
spirit seemed so much stronger than the flesh,
that the tidings, come when they might, would
| give shock and excite surprise. Of the Nigh
ty three who have so identified themselves with
the history of this country since the war of 1912
down to the present hour, Webster will be the
sole survivor. But their works will survive
them, anu the angry storms of passionate con-
troversy and party hate ragged and roared around
them during their political pilgrimages, vet,
when death has set it's seal upon them, their
countrymen must award to all of them the need
of high intellect directed to high aims and
prompted to lofty aspirations When Calhoun
died; a revulsion of feeling took place through
out the whole country, and a tardy recognition
OF the true majesty of his character, and
the beauty of his whole life, was wrung
from those who had most bitterly reyiled him
while living. Honors such as never had been
paid before to any citizen, where accorded to
his memory, and his remains were in the midst
OF general lamentation. Similar will be the
sensation when Henry Clay passes away, and
his death will be like the fall of the mighty oak
amid the stiffness of the wood The deep sha-
dow which has SO long rested on the solemn
countenance Of Webster, the shade of which
deepened as he pronounced an eulogium on Cal
houn, will catch another and deeper tint when
his last great rival passes on before him to that
bourne from whence no traveller returns
Wnen he spoke of Calhoun in the Senate, and
came to the passage where he says 'tHe was my
own age none who saw him will forget his air
and aspect. His head dropped ON his breast
he stood musing for moment, as though there
were warning, and summons for him in that
fact, and felt that his race too was nearly run
lie will not be in the Senate to pronounce a.
mother eulOgium ON his next greatest competitor
IN that arena, but the same thought must be
AOAN 81 AEA4AoAg pISScHG 10 MIN WDen he stands
by the bier of Clay. Looking at these three,
and contrasting them with those who fill their
places, we must admit that there were giants in
those days. But the breed of noble bloods is
not yet extinct, and powers yet slumbering or
undeyeloped must exist in some quarter, need
ing only the stimulous of opportunity and ex-
cltement to blaze forth into splendor equal to |
that of the meridian of these great men now
passing away. Since the commencement of the
session 1t has been obvious to all of Mr.. Claws
friends that his end was near He has sunk
down suddenly in the last few months, like some
old tower which presents a frowning front ofI
massive strength, until it suddenly crumbles
down into mass of ruins from turret to found |
aton stone, undermined by the wasting infu-
ence of time. Though wasted to the last de-
gree, and reduced to the extreme of physical
teebleness, Mr.. Clay's mind still continues as
vivid and vigorous ever, and his firmness is
still unshaken. Differ as men may as to the no.
htical or personal attributes of Henry CLAY. no i
one can deny that he has obtained deep and |
strong hold on the affections of the American
people, and possesses some traits which even his
enemies may admire