Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1852-09-03


r stand 1T u cor2ery or visit L public place
: Who has seen that? No one. Who ha
i seen me talk to any individual to conciliat
/ hi, vote? No one What have | done
: Gone forth, when too much assailed t
= speak to the masses-thosc masses alway
/ honest, sometimes mistaken, but alway
+ ready to do justice. l have spoken tn
same language to all, kindly and deferen
r TALLY to the good and mistaken; proudl
and dcfyingly to the false and the wicked
: and from the Masses, and the repulse .
: assa.lants, have always returned to tht
scclusion of my own house. My worl
) has been that of the sick lion-sicl a
heart-reposing in his lair, only leaving
it when the hunters and their pack bayec
too closely; and then to slaughter OF
disperse the assailants; and then return
again to the sick bed.
~ have gone through contest to
which | had no heart, and into which
was forced 10y combinations against life
and honor, and from which | gladly
escape. What is seat in Congress to
ME? | have sat thirty years in the high
est branch Of Congress-haye made u
name to. which | can expect to add no
thing-and | should only be anxious to
save what has been s.incd. | have do
mcstic affections, sorcly lacerated in these
latter times; wife whom have never
neglected, aud needs my attention now
more than ever; children, some separated
from me by the wide expanse of oceans
and continents, others by the slender
bounds which separste time from eternity
| touch the age which the Psalmist as
signs for the limit OF manly life and
must he though;lcss indeed if I do not
think somewhat beyond the feeting and
shadowy pursuits Of this life, of all which
| have seen the vanity. What is my oc-
cupation? Ask the undertaken, that good
Mr.. Lynch, whose cace, present on so
many mournful occasions, has become
pleasant 10 me. He knows what occupies
my thoughts and cares-gathering the
bones Of the dead--a MOTHER sister
two sons--a grandchild-p planting the cy
press over assembled graves, and marking
the spot where l, and those who are dear
to me, are soon to be laid; all on the
sunset side Of the Father Of Floods, the
towering city of St. Louis on one hand,
the rolling stream of the Missouri on the
other; and where cemetery of large d.
mensions is to be the future necrop lis of
unnumberod generations. These are my
thoughts and cares, and the undertaken
knows them.
L" | have been recluse for many months,
and was called proud, because | was So
If by that term it was intended to say |
had the vulgar pride which treats with
contumely honesty in rags, it is false if
the lofty pride is intended which dospises
mcanness, though plated with gold, it IS
true. | love that pride. | never saw the
poor honest man that | did not respect
nor the rich mean one that | did not
despisc OF that kind of pride | have
some, something from it to be proud of
within myself, and more to be proud of
from the people. | am proud of the thir
ty years III the American Senate, which
the free voice of Missouri gave me, and
feel no degradation of being sold out of it
by traitors to the people. | am proud Of
the $3.50 votes which this fy and county
gave me on Monday before last; proud Of
the twenty counties which have made me
their representative; proud of the acres
of men who met me at the grand rally
the Saturday night before the election
proud of the thousands upon thousands
who are here at this grand celebration to
honor me this night. And | hope again
to be proud Of the State of Missouri but
it can not be until she has purgcd herself
of nullifcation, high treason, and vaga-
bond papcr-money.
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