New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-09-09
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y ela9nght him cold, selfish, vindictive and re-
Rememb ering how bitter his hatred
Y t6e lion hearted but magnanimous Clay, and
hcW rndsly Ne received those generous APP
Il ohes from The great Kentuckian, prompted
Tho hottest inspira tons Of home affections
relative of Benton's}, we have never
abio % reconcile ourself TO sympathy in
4 NJ IL To Missouri Senator. N
u 81 e must confess that, forgetting the poll
N ~ hays come to look compassionately
u upon the man as upon man
& sclroxs. sitting down in loneliness, BY
hearth, political glories dim and
itical Atfugg les worthless before his vision
~ 70 and agony Of . grieved spirit Some
In his recent speech at st. Louis, now
g = the Lion Speech, z touched us sor.
W felt even pitiful for the mis-
TUNES of the great but bitter-spoken states
s1nan Some passages speak q mournful com
1s11entsfy upon the nothingness Of all earthly
z reAtness. and how the heart Of the most ex-
G Altea may b dark buried in the tomb of loved
y lear tho melancholy pathos which bursts,
atdsr 10 stroke Of the rod Of affection,
4 scanning rocky heart IF this strange,
,Al 55qlQ. Ma1.
xns AAsses md The repulse Of assailants have
E9EQrned 70 the eeclusion Of my house NV
teen that Of the sick on--sick at heart--repo
n ~ !a only leaving it when the hunters and their
t6o and then slaughter or disperse
4 then return again ID the sick bed
Y a, ssat 4 oongrsss e ne have sat thirty
which can expect to- add notbing-and should
enly Y snsona to save What has been gained have
Aatcttons sorely lacerated in these latter
y Wife whom / have never neglected. ana WIN
Seds attention now more than ever Children some
tfcl me NJ The vide Of oceans aud
BY the slender bounds which separate
sne from sternty touch the age which the Psalmst
or the limit Of manly life and must be Thought
snA pursuits Of this life, all Of which i have
seen ihe ysutt What my occupation ASK the nm
good Lynch whose face present on so
7sgs occasions, has become pleasant to ms
i1e knoxs Mhat thoughts and caresgather
fng f1e bones q TIE mothera sister-two sons
y-A grand OIL planting the cypress over assembled
and which making the spot where l. aud those
aFs deay 70 me- are soon be laid Ill the sunset
ea ore htnd the rolling stream Of the Missouri on the
Cnsf ma where cemetery Of argr dimensions to be
sSe my thonghts and cares and the undertaken knows
n all this mournfnlness and bitterness of Ian
4 guage, what "a picture is presented to thoughts
eye, hy the Statesmen g broken with the storms
/ s0f fate the strong, proud Senator Of thirty
years etsnding y + hat is aseat in Congress
! 81 NJ wife sadly neglected for years , and
snok apcla painful bed Of sickness Ia house,
ilold into the silent cities Of the dead,
TERED abroad upon the face Of the earth -
Old age waning to its awful close land the most
familiar Of faces that of him whose professional
duties are the last till the sod is laid upon the
elrssry grave these are the scenes pictured
rlpcns the memory Of q man powerful and dis
tinguished for more than q quarter of centu-
~, and which make all political honors an un-
real mockery and d delusion!
! There sis touching, grand, melancholy and
eysn Awfnl eloquencs in all this, which sur
paasee The mere rhetoric Of words or ali refer
'enos Y modern Or classic agony. What was
Mskins, sitting amid the ruins Of Carthage, to
!the Old Senator, standing solemnly amid the |
graves q his desolated household, and mourn
laily and bitterly proud, and yet stricken to the
neart IN MS loneliness and desolation-ss sick at
heart in A afflicted home, and issuing thence |
only - 4 sick lion to beat back implacable I
ioss II Y this I. the end all " Of great political
lifsi-walks in the dank chill graveyard, where |
loved ones sleep without waking, tireless watch
ing by the bedside Of sick and dying wife, and
eernest warnings for the far distant but heart
cherished and all the sacredness Of private
grief 70 BE- broken in npon BY the hoarse outcry
q relentless and unforgiven foes! Toll and
trouble, bitterness and desolation, darkening
the path on which, again victor, the distin-
guished statesmen marches to the Capitol
hare often thought that even in the glow
snd brilliance Of bic triumph, the successful pol
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