The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1852-07-10

OF the departed statesman this day dis
tinctly stand A nations mighty heart
throbs against this capitol and beats
through you. In many cities, banners
droop. bells toll. cannons boom, funeral
draperies wave. In crowded streets, and
on surrounding wharts, upon steamboats,
, and upon cars in fields, in workshops,
in homes, in schools, millions of men,
women and children have their thought
fixed upon this scene, and say mourn
fully to each other-"This is the hour
in which, at the capitol. the nations
representatives are burying Henry Clay!
Bury the records of your country's
history-bury the hearts of living mil
lions-hury the mountalns--the rivers
the lakes-and the spreading lands
from sea to sea-with which his name
is inseparably associated, and even then
you would not bury Henry Clay-for he
lives in other lands and speaks in other
lands, and speaks in other tongues and
TO other times than ours.
A great mind, great heart, great
orator, great career, have been con.
signed to history. She will record his
rare gifts of deep insight, keen discrimi.
nation, clear statement, rapid combina-
ton; plain, direct and convincing logic.
She will love to dwell on that large,
generous, magnanimous, open, forgiving
heart. She will linger with fond de-
light on the recorded or traditional sto-
res OF an eloquence that was so MASTER
full and stirring, because it was but him
self, struggling to come forth on the
living words-because though the words
were brave and strong, and beautiful and
meodious, It was felt that, behind them.
there was soul, Drawer, stronger, more
beautiful, and melodious than language
could express.
She will point to career OF states
manship which has, to a remarkable de.
gree stamped itself on the public policy
Of the country, and reached in beneti-
cent practical results the fields, the
looms, the commercial marts and the
quiet homes of all the land, where his
name was with the departed father, and
is with the living children, and will be
with successive generations an honored
household word.
feel, as a man, the grandeur of this
career.-But as an immortal, with this
broken wreck of mortality before me,
with this scene as the tend all" of hui
man glory, | feel that no career is truly
great but that of HIM who, Whether he
be illustrious or obscure, lives to the flu
ture in the present, and linking himself
to the spiritual world, draws from God
the lite, the rule, the motive, and the
reward of all his labor. SO would that
great spirit, which has departed, say to
us could he address us now. So did he
realize in the calm and medltative close
of life.
feel that but utter the lessons
which, living were but his last and best
convictions, and which, dead, could he
speak to US, his solemn admonitions,
when say that Craftsmanship is then
only glorious when it is Christian, and
that man is then only safe and true to his
duty and his soul when the life which
he lives in the flesh is the life of faith
in the Son of God. Great indeed is the
privilege, and most honorable and use
ful is the career of a Christian American
! Statesman. He perceives that civil
liberty came from the freedom where
with Christ made its earliest martyr and
defender free. He recognises it as one
OF the twelve manner of fruits on the
tree of life, with which its lower branch
es furnish the best nutriment of earth;
hangs on its topmast boughs, which
wave in Heaven, fruits that exhilarate
the immortals. Recognising the State
as Gods Institution, he will perceive
that his own ministry is divine.
Living consciously under the eye and
in the love and fear of God, redeemed
by the blood of Jesus, sanctifed by His
spirit, loving His law, he will give him
self in private and in public to the SER
vice of his Saviour. He will not admit
that he may act on less lofty principles
in public then in private life, and that
he must be careful of his moral influence
in the small sphere Of home and neigh
borhood, but need take no heed of it
when it stretches over continents and
crosses seas. He will know that his
moral responsibility cannot be divided
and distributed among others. When he
is told that adherence to the strictest
moral and religious principle is inc m-
patible with successful and eminent
career. he will denounce the assertion as
libel on the venerated father of the
Republic-a libel on the honored living
and the ilustrious dead-a libe! against
a great and Christian nation--a libel
aginst God himself, who has declared
and made "Godliness profitable fo' the
life that is" He will strive to make
laws transcripts of the character and in