New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-11-04

for tie first time in all my hfe armed this hand !
nouIned when the court house was hung IN cnains
when ThomAs Sims. from his dungeon. sent out his pc
ton for prayers, and the churche- did not dare 10
pray. mournad when married William and Ellen
Craft and gave them Bible for their soul and sword
to keep that soul living and IL aving frame mourn
cd when the poor outcast in Wonder dungeon sent Tor
me TO visit him, and when took him BY the hand that
Daniel Webster was claiming in that house. mourncd
for Webster when we prayed prayer and sung our
pam On Long Wharf in the morning. grey mourn
ed thon shall not cease 10 noun. The fsgs viii 0e
removed from the streets the will sound their
other nCtes Of JOY; bu, for NE shall 70 mourning al
my days. shall refuse TO be oOmforted. and al last
shall ley down my grey hairs with weeping and WIN
sorrow in the grave. Oh Webster Webster would
Gcd that had died for thee
he was grelt man, man Of the largest mould
great body and grest brain he seemed inside to last
hundred years Since Socrates there has seldom been
head 20 massive huge-seldom such face since the
stormy features ofMchael Angelo.
ne h'ad tlst ui.d Peter. DONE
srd groned the Ai.le. Of Christian ROM"
he who scupturcd Day and Night into such besutlful
foTms-he looked them in his fsce before he chiseled
them in stone Dupuyren and Cuvier said to be the
only men in day that have had brain vast Since
CkLrlemlgne think there has not been such grand
figure in oil ChristeRdom. A large man, decorOus IN
dTess, digned IN department he walked a. II he ieit
himseli king. Men from the country, who knew him
stared a; bin as he passed through streets The
CotlhesveTs snd porters of London looked on him ~
Of The great forces Of the globe they recognized
native king In the Senate OF the United states he look
cd an emperor in that council. Even the majestic Cal
houn eecmod common compared with him. Clay looked
vulgar, and Van Buren, but fox What mouth he had!
Il was lions mouth Yet there was sweet grandeur
III biz smile and wOmans swee mess when ne would.
What brow il What ewes like charcoal fire in
tie bottom OF deep, dark well His face was rugged
with volcanic hres great passions and great thoughts.
"Th-frou, o. Iovr hi-.-f
An eve IKE Mar. 20 ;hrcsi~- ard command"
Divide the faculties. not bodily, into intellectual.
moral ahec,ions and religious aud try him on thst
scale Hi. late lie shows that he had little religion
vNF1F-r
foImaiy OF pravcr "the ordinances OF religion but
lie hsd not grea, mans al-conquoring LOOK 10 tod
IL il easy TO be "dcyout The pharisce was more so
then The Pubic:r Il is hard 70 DO moral "DeVout-
ne,." took ,he Priest snd the feve to the Temple;
Morality the Samaritan TO the man fallen among
thiovcs Men tell Us nc wsa religious ana III proof de
clare that he read the Bible thought JoD SSa, epic
pcem quoted ITabhakuk from memory ana kne"
ivmns by heart and atteTly agreed with New lamp
shire divire in ell the doctrines OF CHRISTIAN NE.
Ofthe affections he well provided by nature
thouch they were little cuvatelVery sttrartlOie IN
few Tho sc who knew him loved HIM tenderiy snd II
he hated like giant he loved also Ike king. VI IN,
ntassionod and unrelated love there are TWO chiei
forms: Friendship and Philanthropy; triendsnip ne
surcy had All along the shore. men loved him Men
in Boston loved linn; even Washington held LOVING
hearts that wOrshipod him. - ,
OF philanthropy, cannot clam much Tor hn nni
IL not OF conscience II seemed to me he m lute
in lis later lie exceeding littlc his moral sense seemed
hong besoed almost though not wholly gone Hence
though he often generous, he was nor Just rrse 20
give 10 grasp. he was charitable by instinct Aol u
icrettcd On principle. -
Ills strength sy not in the religious in the aTac
ont nor in the moral part of mnn. Hls intellect was
inmen.e His power Of comprehension wa vast lie
obcdizcd swiftly But if you look at The forms OF in
tlectual action YOU may distribute them into three
creatmodes offorce, the UNDERSTANDING the
ard the Reason the understand n dealing ~tn C.
tall and methods imagination y III beauty, - Pc" "a
to create reason with first prir pies and universal
laws. >,
Weuust deny 20 Mr. Webster the great reason. He
does not belong to Tie great men OF taat 1eptl.hen
the Soclntes Aristotle, Plato, Leibnitz Newton, Des-
cetcs and the other mghtio tie seldom srasps uni
ve,sslaw His measures Of cxpedioncy for today are
seldom botomed on universal principles OF right which
last forever.
| cannot rssru to him large imagination. He was
notcreaye of new forms Of thought or OF beauty 40
lie lacks the poetic charm which glafdens me 1iu'~t
elcquCnce. Rui lis understanding was eNcecdln sly
arest He acquired readily and retained wen arranged
wifi es.e aud skill; and huenily reproduced As a
scholsr he passed Tor learned in the senate, where
scboArs are few; for q universal man win entorS o!
political and commercial pnnts. But his learning WA
narrow In it, range and not very nice in II accuracy
Hi reach in history and literature was very small Tor
great man seventy of age always a'socating with
able men To science he to have paid scarce any
attention IL all Ii is short radius that m'asures the
arc OF his historic realm few Latin authors whom
be loved quote, make up his meagor classic store.
He was scholar and Is idle to CLAIM great scholar
<, statcsnan hia lack of what coll the hi ghost
reason and Imagination continually appears 10 tAe
matt, mi stOck lie added new idea. cteateu GUY Oh
new thought; no great MAXIM created out 0i human MS
ard old thought The great ideas oithe time were not
horn in his bosom lie organized nothing There were great
idehs # pra,c value seeking lod. nent Ia the Doiyi
he aided them not. -,.. 49,.
enc al them Ills best ill the specie bill OF lolo
which sed payments 10 be made IN national currency
He did rot administer eminently well. Tue affairs 81
Crl last year and ihis the affairs OF the tleres ana
the IoIos IIands are ltle hs credit The appoint
ref . made under h administration had beter nor DC
lo ked sttoo closely The treaty igned at washington
in 1912 he managed well, win all ltS lh'flcace
c.use in poltcs wac crooked. Now Tor Free Irldh
hon fot iofeciion now fOr Specie then Tor Bui' hrs
Gr n Bunk then tor IN "obsoe,e idea row Tor fre''
dom and agnn.i Slavery, then for slavery ana ashmt
Freedom; now Justice l. the Object oi G)'efheh ~"
money Now what makes men Chi 'uens, MAKES men
ncod citizens next religion is good every hut IN
pol tics there il makes men mad Nv" reD-on j. tle
only ground of Government; next thoeE no la" n5het
than the oct OF Congress eEd ne hOoIs az cOh-ceuV
nd vcnd not reenoct the law Of God. Dc tackled ana
wore chip nsny time In his e, awaysin bad aathef,
and never came round but he fell OF from the popular
wind. Perseverance makes the saint ne al~aysior-ooS
lis idea lust his idea waa about 10 make ms fortune
In liz NCyt 2ing for the Prcdtncy he was always TOO
late fer H. tide embarked the ebb, and WIS iet a.
tie stream run dry. The Fugitive slave La" mas nohc
the South good, save to reyeL tue seeretS o. ner
rrist nhcusr the cabin Of Uncle Tom, and make the
Nouh hate slavery with teniolt hate. 80 lar a.
he "Wehstelized" the Wing party, ne has done 20 10
it, ruin. .iA.
he was q great advocate; gcest orator u 7ad rue
grelfcst in the land and do not doubt INT tns true
surely he was immensely great Yet he has let no
uerect suet linen of great orator. h. had Lot the III
s,.nc,ve genius which creates a beautiful whole by Ma
ture ns mother bears a con the wide knOwedge Of
deep philosophy the plastic industry which cFcaes
beautiful whole by sI;, No the sculptor chle" l,e ia
be boy SO his greatest and most dehDerate eo.s ~
oro,ory viii not bear comparison with me great eio
quer Of nsiure that born nor the gTea1 eoqeHce %
art that's msde Compared therewth, his mighty "of.,
arc rs Hercules compared with Apollo. II u sn 0ll
world and excellence in oratOry i diicut ye, ne has
f,niencee and paragraphs that think un5urp a.l
urequaled and do not see how they can ever Ade
Hs uCt Nile OF eloquercei ne was NAgarA
9s ,xle was s,nple the business style of strong
nan Now and then il sweled into beauty In litter
yasrs he seldom touched the conscience the Affection
or the sou except alas 70 sInite our sense OK usce
,Is under.t,pang: not the reason-Calhoun an that
the more not the lmsginafouin bic speech there wa