Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-07-03

said: am willing to abide the will Of Heaven, and
ready to die when that win shall determine it,"
He gone sir, protesting the humble hope Of Chris
tan. That hope alone sir sustain you or any Of
There is lonely and crushed heart that has bowed
before this affective event Far away, at Ashland, o
widowed wife, prevented by feeble health from attend
ing his bedside and soothing his painful hours she has
thought the electric speed Of the intelligence daily
transmitted Of his condition too slow for her aching
ious bosom She will find consolation in his christian
submission and will draw all of comfort that such
the kindness of friends which could supply her place
May the guardianship Of the widows God be her protec-
ton, and His consultations her support!
Mr.. BROOKS, Of New York. Mr. Speaker, | rise to
add my humble tribute the memory Of great and good
to be gathered to his fathers speak for and
from community in whose hearts is enshrned the name
Of him whom we mourn; who however much Virginia,
the land of his BIRTH Kentucky the land Of his adop
tion may love him. is il possible loved where live yet
II doatry had been christian, allowable even,
hew ould have been idol but as il is for quarter Of
century now his bust his portrait some medal Of him
has been Of household gods gracig alone the
saloons and the halls of wealth. but the humbest
workshop of almost every mechanic laborer Proud
monuments Of his policy as statesman, as colleague
has justly said are all about us, and to him. in
good degree our growth greatness prosperity
and happiness q people. ,@@ ~.
The great field of Henry Clay, Mr. Speaker has been
here the floor Of this House. and in the other wing Of
the Capitol He has held other posts of higher nominal
distinction, but they all ecpsed by the briliancy Of
his career Congressman What of glory he has ac-
qured what most endeared him to his counymen have
een won here amid these pillars under these domes Of
the Capitol 81 querts m0numentum, circu1nspice.
The mind Of Mr. Clay has been the governing mind of
the country less since he has been the
stage Of public action. In minority majority
perhaps in minority than in the majority, he
to have had commission, divine it were, to per-
suade to convince govern other His patriotism,
his foresight his grand conceptions have created
sures which the secret fascination Of his manners in
loo
him almost always to frame into laws Adverse Admin
istrations have yielded to him. been borne down by
him, he has taken them captive leader and
red the country and Congress with him. This power he
had welded for nearly half century, with nothing
but and eloquence to back him and yet when he
came here years ago, he from then frontier State
of this Union heraded by loud trumpet Of fame nay
quite unknown unfort6ed by any position social
pecuniary To quote his words, his only heritage
had been infancy, indulgence, and ignorance"
In these days, Mr. Speaker, when civil quafca-
tons for high public places when long civil training and
practical craftsmanship held subordinate most dis
couragng prospect would be before rising young
it not tor such names Lowndes, Crawford,
Clinton, CASTOR Calhoun and Clay scattered along the
pages of history as stars consultations in cloud
less sky They shine out and show that if the Chief
Magistracy cannot by qualifications memory
among can be-a hold upon posterty firm, as lus-
trous, nay, mperishabe. In the Capolium of Rome
there long of marble Slabs which record
ed names Of the Roman Consuls but the eye wanders
die upon some Cato Cicero To win such fame, thus
unsulled, Mr. Clay has won is worth any mans ambi-
ton. And how it won? BY counting the shifting
gales of popularity? No, never BY trucking to the
schemes, the arts, and seductons Of the demagogue
Never, never! His hardest battles public man, his
greatest most usious achievements have been against
at first, adverse public opinion To gain an imperish
able name he has often braved the perishabe popularity
of the moment That sort of courage which, in public
man. deem the highest of all that sort Of courage most
necessary under form of government guide well
to State, Mr.. Clay possessed of than
any public man / knew. Mere physical courage,
valuable indispensable though it be- share but with
the brute but the moral courage to dare to do right
the very highest Species the nobes herosm, under in
stuons like 81 had rather be right than be Pre-
sident" Mr. Clays sublime reply when pressed to
refrain from that would his popularity
These lofty words clue to his whole character the
secret of his hold upon the heads well the hearts Of
the American people-nay the key of his Immortality
Another Of the keys, Mr. Speaker, to his universal
putation his intense nationality. When tainted
Gently almost within hearing it were the floor
Of the Senate, by Southern Senator being Southern
man. unfsithfu to the South his indignant but patriots
exclamation WAS "I know South, no North, East
Vest The country the whole country loved adored
reverenced such man The soil Of Virginia may be hi
birth place the sod OF Kentucky will cover his grave
the mortal remains belong to them but the spirit, the
SOUL the genius Of the mighty man, the immortal part
belong to his country and to his God.
Other gentlemen also addressed the House in remarks
euogstic of the deceased statesman, viz Mr. CHAND
LER, of Pennsylvania; Mr.. BAYLY, of Virginia Mr.
HAVEN, Of New York Mr. FAULKNER, of Virginia
Mr. BOWIE, Of Maryland and Mr.. WALSH, Of Mary
land but correct copies Of their remarks not pre-
pared inItime for to-day's paper.
The resolutions Of Mr. BRECKENRIDGE were Their
unanimously adopted, and the House adjourned