Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-11-27


0trWe are indebted to Col a. X. M'Clung, fer
pamphlet copy of euIogy the life and services of
Henry Clay, delivered in the Hall of the House of Re-
personalities, by himself, last October. We thank
the Colonel most heartily for the copy and to say that
have read it with pleasure, conveys but poor i'm
ression of our feelings. AS whole as a finished,
u and rounded portrature of the great Kentuckian,
his is, beyond comparison, the most perfect we have
cen Its style is strong, nervous, rich and purely
Saxon. The marked features of that great man are
brought out with vivid dstinctness, and no one can
fail to that the author with clear vision had meas
ured the intellectual capacity, also appreciated the
idosyncrasies of his subject We regret our want of
space for we had marked two or three passages for
sertion, and must ourself with the following
"His dying rung with the applause of his coun-
try, and the hosannas of nations gratitude. Death
has given to him the empire in the hearts of his
tIymen, not fully granted to the living man-and al
though it not decreed that the first honors of the
nation should await him, its last blessings will cluster
around his name. His memory needs no monument
He wants no mausoleum of stone or marble to i'm
prison his sacred dust Let him amid the tokens
offreedom he so muchloved Let him sleep on, where
the whistling of the tameless wnds-the ceaseless
roll of the murmuring waters,-the chrping of the
wild bird and all which speaks of Liberty NAV chant
his eternal lullaby Peace be with thy soul, Henry
dying laurel OF glory grow green over thy grave"
OTAccident has thrown into our hands a funera
sermon on Daniel Webster, delivered by the Rev
Theodore Parker, of Boston. 1t is remarkable pro
ductiOnthe most striking in style, and sngulary in
teresting in Development of any funeral Grafton tina
we have met with. DR.. Parker is, perhaps sine
the death of Claiming, the most eloquent man in tn
pulpit in America. A ripe scholar, profound reason
err and fully versed in the theology of the schools he
some years snse, opened church Oh his own hook
in Boston, and has gathered around him congrega
ton of near four thousand souls. Such man is Dr.
Parker But, of this funeral sermon, we are withou
language to express adherence of some its parts
and too deficient in forms of expression convey GU
admiration ofthe wealth of ansion, the grandeur o
its sweep, and the harmony of its language DAME
Webster, as Boy and Man as Lawyer, Diploma
Statesman and Orator, sweeps in before the reader
all the magnifcence and imagery that the power
genius can command Upon each of these character
as illustrated by DIR. Webster, DR.. Parker comments
With portrait, perhaps, his friends find any sc
rious fault, if we except that of Christian Man.
is the province of the Pulpit, doubt to hold hig
the moral standard and to unmask the evils incident
humanity but it may well be questioned whether tn
pulpit is the place in which the lash of the scorpion
to be twirlled over the carcase of the dead We ca
never admire the moral of that idea which claims
the hands of the minister, than the generous
stincts of mankind warrant; and when we see mil
lister protesting Christs doctrine Of charity, turn
position into means of exhumng dead mems bone
and tossing about the shortcomings of the deceast
as though they the feathered ball of battledor
an involuntary feeling ofhorror rises within US.
Parker may have believed that he was serving Chri
In his labor, but most men will say that whatev,
were the private faults of Daniel Webster as ma
thatthe grave, when it closed over all that was cart
" ofhim, should have entombedhi his faults, ALSO H
political acts whether wise unwise, are the prope
ty of the Nation, and such, subjects to be sea-
ed and criticised So far as those acts may have i
fuenced public opinion either for evil or good.-sof
as the impress Of his towering mind shall control Il
Future these are subjects for legitimate criticism,
no man canobiect to DR.. Parker on this ground. B
ministerial hyenas are no raritiss. nOw-a-days.