The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-07-01

heart may have been equalled lhe iron WILL the un,
bending hrmDess the fearless courage, which marked hs
character, may have been shared By others But where
shall go TO md all those qualities unted concenra
ted--blended into brilliant whole--and shedding a
usre upon single head, which does not dazzle The
beholdcr only because 1t attracts his love and demands
his Worship
| scarcely know, sir, how far ii may be allowable
upon an occasion like this refer TO party sr,gg es
which have leit wounds moi ye entirely healed will
venture, however, TO suggest that should be
OF consolation TO his friends that be lived long enough to
The full accomplishment OF The last great work OF his
life. and 10 witness the total disappearance OF that
ional tempest which threatened 10 whelm the repub
lc IN runs Both the great parties OF the country have
agreed TO stand upon the platform which he erected. and
both OF them have solemny pledged themselves TO main
tain unimpalred the work OF his bands doubt not the
knowledge OF this cheered him in his dying moments,
and helped 10 steal away the pangs OF dissolution.
Mr.. President, II knew anything more that could
say would gladly utter il. 10 me he was something
more than kind and am called upon e mngle private
add to his fame But he built for himself monument
Of immortality, aud lett to his friends task but that Of
soothing their sorrow for his loss. We pay him
the tribute of our tears More We have no power to be-
stow. Parotism honor, genius, courage have al come
TO strew their garands above his tomb and well they
may, for he was The peer OF them all.
Mr.. COOPER, Mr.. President it is not always by
words that the living pay the dead the sinceres and
most eloquent tribute The tears OF a nalion, flowing
spontaneously over the grave OF public beneiac'or IS
eloquent testimonial of his worth and of the afec
tion and veneation OF his countrymen than the most
highly wrought euoglum OF The most gifted tongue
The heart Is not necessarily the fountain OF words, but
is always the source ot tears, whether they be OF Joy,
gratitude, grief But sincere. truthful and eloquent,
they are, they leave permanent record of the vr
tues and greatness Of him whose tomb they she'd
As the dews Of heaven falling al night absorbed by
the eaIh or dried up by the morning the tears OF
people, shed for their benefactoT, disappear without
leaving 10 tell the future generations Of the
vices, sacrifices, and virtues OF him to whose memory
they were grateful tribute Bat as homage paid to vr,
tue incentive TO it, right that the memory OF
the good, the great and noble OF the earth should be
preserv ed and honored.
The ambition Mr. President, Of the truly great is more
the hope oil living the memory and estimation of fu
ages than OF possessing power in their own II
is this hope that stimulates them to
enables them to encounter disappointment, ngattude,
and neglect and TO press through oiis prvaiions and
perils the end II not The hope OF discovering
world, which be should himself exercise dominion,
that sustained Columbus in ali his trials. II not for
this he baved danger, disappointment, poverty, and
proach iwas not for this he subdued his native PRIDE
wandered from kingdom kingdom, kneelng at the feet
of princes suppian for TO prosecute his sublime
enterprise not for this after having last secured
the patronage OF ebea that he put oil his crazy and i'll
appointed fleet into unknown seas, to struggle with
storms and empess, aud the rage OF mutinous crew.
Ii another and nobler kind of ambition that stmn
lated him 10 contend with terror, superstition, and
despair and press forward his perilous course,
when the needle III his compass, losing ITS polaIly,
seemed unite with The fury OF the elements and the m
subordinaton OF his turning him back from his
perIous bat glorious enterprise Ii The hope which
was realized al last when his ungraleful country was
compelled 10 inscrbe as an epItaph On his tomb
" Columbus ha. given world to the kingdom Of
CASTLE and Leon"
that enabled him al fret to brave so aany dsappoint
mens and at last to conquer the multitude OF pcrs tha,
beset his pathway the deep. This, sir, is the ambi.
ton OF tile truly greatno to achieve present lame, but
future immortality This being the case il is behuing
here TO day 10 add 10 the life of Henry Clay the record
of his DEATH sgnaizel as it is by nations gratitude
and grief Ii is right that posiey should learn from us,
the contemporaries Of the lustrous deceased that bis v
and services appreciated by his country, and
lodged by the of his countymen poured out
upon his grave.
The career OF HENRY CLAY was a wonderful one.
And what Illustration OF the excellence OF our lnstltu-
tions would retrospect OF his life afford Born in
humble station, without any of the adventious aids OF
fortune by which the obsruciions the roal to fame
smooihed, he rose not only 10 the most exalted
eninence of position, but likewise 10 the highest place
in the affections OF bis counirymen. Taking into
view The disadvantages of his early posltion-dsad-
vaniages against which he had always 10 contend
his career is without parallel in the history OF great
men. To have him youth, without friends or for
tune, and with but scanty education, who would have
venturcd 10 predict for him brillant and
ehcent, and fame well-deserved and endurlng
Like the pne however, which sometimes springs up
amidst the rocks on the mountain side, with scarce
crevice in which tx its soil 10 nourish them,
but which, nevertheless overtops all the trees oil the sur
rounding forest, HESRY CLAY by hs own inherent self
sustaining energy and genius, 10 an altitude oil lame
almost unequalIed in the age in which he lived As
orator, legislator and statesman, be bad no superior
All his faculties were remarkable and IN remarkable
combination Possessed OF brilliant genius and Ter
tile imagination his judgment was sound discriminating,
and emnenuy PRACTICAL OF an ardent and impeuous
temperament he nevertheless pcrsevering and hrn
OF purpose Frank, bold, and intrepid he was cautious
in providing against the contingencies and obstacles
which might possibly rise up in the road TO success;
Generous, liberal and entertaining broad and expanded
views OF national policy in his legislative be
transcenled the limits OF wise economy.
But, Mr. President, OF all his faculties, that oil making
friends aud attaching them to him the most remark
able and extraordinary. In this respect be seemed 10
possess a OF fascination by which all who came IN
to hs presence were attracted towards and bound TO him
by ties which neither time crcu instances had power
10 dis solve or weaken In the admiration Of his friends
the recognition OF the divinity oil intellect in their
attachment him confession Of his generous personal
qualities and social virtues
or the public services OF Mr. Clay, the present occa
sion afford. no room for sketch extended than that
presented Ii s however sufficient TO say, that Tor more
than forty years he has been prominent ACTOR IN the
drama OF American affairs During the late war with
England his voice more potent than any other IN
awakening the spirit OF the country, nfusng confidence
into the people, and rendering available the resources Tor
carrying on the In domestic controversies
threatening the peace OF the country and the integrity OF
The Union he has always been first TO note danger as
well az To suggest the OF avertipg IT, When The
waters OF the great political deep were npheaved BY The
tempest OF dscord and the ark OF The Union, freighed
with the hopes and dcstnes of freedom tossing about
on The raging billows and drifting every moment
to the which threatened TO swallow up, was
his clarion voice. rising above the Storm that admonshed
the OF impending peril, and counselled the way 10
safety.
But Mr. Pfesiden, devotedly as he loved bis country
hs aspirations were not limited TO its welfare alone
Wherever freedom had votary that votary had mend
In HENRY CLAY; and in the struggle OF the Spanish COLO
for independence he uttered words OF encouragement