The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-06-02
From the Detroit (N,ch } dduuhso
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~ =. p, the Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune, serves to Daniel Webster the
same purpose for which certain hero of antiquity
kept special pngc-fo remind him hat he NOR
tai Pike il grutui,ous--tho pngc was paid; the
page worked for money-Pikc to crafty a very
small malice; Pike hes never been ndmrcd--why
should Webster be? Pike never sent electric thrills
through great bodies Of American citizens why
should Webster? Webster commenced life n poor
boy upon rocky New England homestead. ny
his own cscrtions, aided by the genius, power and
energy with which IL pleased God to invest him,
he now stands frat among iiring Pike com
mcnced life, in his own estimation, about where
Webster lcnvcs of II will be n pleasure 60 hi.
an xous friends If he cnds where Webster began
Pike delights in the purlicu, Of Billingsguto-
hence his dcrieion ia excited by Wobstcr's FsneuiI
Hall speech, (Which hns purity, majesty, and clio.
qucnco,) in tho following ,crms:
~ human nnmalculc makes n stout mr. gumcnt
or gathers W beautiful bouquet OF the flowers of
rhetoric from tho partcrrc Of his Imagination and
forthwith oil the smaller nnimalculU about him
s~tch their little tas, and strain their little eye.
bale, and cry Behold God"
Pike gencrnlizcs. Now he uscs Webster only ne
the type Of the Glars Of great men, of which all
who read his letters will ocquit Pike of belonging
to, whatever bis post aspirations may have been.
lie sny,
''Grcr mem What do great men do bu, mis-
ohiof' There is here and there an exception; but
the history Of this country, and Of all Countriee
BOAR va out in tho declaration that the principal
public acts of The greatest men have been prc.crui
ncntly mischicvous."
Pike graciously compliments tho old Bay State,
her schools her prospects, her wealth, her refine.
mont, her progress in scicnco nnd the arts, her
munihoence. But he nance her greatness only TO
show by comparison the httlcncss of Webster lie
says
III Mr.. Webster had been born md always lived
in the Fcjcc lslands, would tho Massnc husctta OF
to-day be apy the less the Massachusetts she isi'
Pike is shroud fish, and knows by instinct his
natural enemies lie is also n devout fish. for he
says
"'rho Lord deliver Va from famous men, nnd CO.
pecislly from those who have made their fame by
their much speaking"
Pike ndmito that Webster 10 whale. but lac oh.
jeets that uhnlcs do not work according 90 their
strength. One thing more Pike must ndmit--tLa
they furnish great light for others to work by.
II is clear that whore such coiaccm swim, Pike Ia
Of little Hcc,unt---in short very small fish; Pike
Ia Esox, fish of proy-rav in propcnsitcs- n
great terror to lesser fry. lie lie SO described by
Wcbstcr--not DANIEL, but Noabi
Pike ia not rumindiing animal n he wero he
would not have been led 10y hs anxious desire TO
depreoieto Webster, whom he affects 10 dcspisc be.
cause he IA nm orator, TO make remarks which rc.
hect alike upon kossuth, in whose wake he has
b@n swimming for eight months past lie snys
CAS- GorEcy says Of kossuth the orators slwaya
display prodigious contrast between what they
say and what they DIR
Pike IL wall eyed lie can look asknnco upon
bigger fish around him, but takes no note Of thing
behind and forward; his vicvs do not reach the
length Of bis own snout Pike is evidently death
upon fninnowsj but VIC would humbly suggcs that
the whales are little out Of bis line. Pike has
NIL Of the nmiNbo characteristics Of the shark. 10
which ho bcofs whimsical resemblance, md VI
which fraternity he would hnvo been crcditnblo
member, bad he been spawned ''in lhet station Of
life "
Pope sung pike, the tyrenl Of the noyd'"