Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-11-26
VOL. XIII-NO. %.


for hiu,.
AS statesmen, his lack of what call the hi..b-
est Reason and Imagination continually aDpears
10 the national stock he added no new idea, Gre
ated out Of new thought; no great maxim. crea
ted ont of human history and old thought. The
great ideas Of the tine we're not born in his bo-
SON. lie organized nothing There was great
ideas Of practical value seeking Judgment in the
body; ne aided them not None of the creal
measures OF our time were hs-not one OF them.
His best bill was the specie bill, 1915. which
caused payments 10 be made in national currcn
cy.
lie did not administer cmincntly well. The at
fairs of Cuba last year and this the affairs of the
Fisheries and the Lobos Islands, are little 10 his
credit. The appointments made under his admin
istration better not be looked at too closely The
treaty signed at Washington, in 1912, he manac-
ed well with all its intricacics. His course in po-
tiles was crooked. Now for Free Trade. then for
Protection now for Specie, then for Bills; first
for Bank, then it is IAN obsolete idea now for
Freedom and against Slavery and against Free
dom; now Justice is the object Of Government,
now Money. Now, what make men Christians
makes men good citizens next, religion is good
every where but in politics, there it makes
men mad. Now, religion is the only ground of
government; next, there is no law higher than the
act of Congress, and he boots at conscience, and
would not react the law of God He tackled and
wore Ship many a time in his life, always in bad
weather, and never came round buthe fell off from
the popular wind. Perseverance makes the saint
he always torsook his idea just as his idea was
about to make his fortune In his voyagng for
the. sidcncy, he always too late for the tide;
embarked on the ebh, and was left as the stream
run dry. The Fugitive Slave Law has done the
South good, save to reveal the secrets ofhcrprs
on-house, the cabin Of Uncle Tom, and make the
North hate slavery with a ten fold haze So far as
he Wcbsterzcd the Wing party, he has done
so to its ruin.
lie was great advocate; great orator; it is
| said the greatest in the land, and do not doubt
that this is true. Surely, he was immensely great
Yet he has left no perfect specimen of great Or
ator He had not the nstictive genius which Gre
ates beautiful whole by Nature as a mother bears
a son; nor the wide knowledge or deep philosC-
ply, nor the plastic industry which creates beau
trtul whole by art, as q sculptor chscs n marble
! boy. SO his greatest and most deliberate efforts
of oratory will not bear comparison with the great
eloqucnce of nature that is born nor the great ell
oqucncc Of art that is made. Compared there
with, his mighty works are as Hercules compared
with Apollo. 1t is an old world, and excellence
in oratory is difficult yet he has sentences and
paragraphs that l think unsurpassed and un-
cqualIed and do ct &c how they can c, Il.
fade. He has not Nile of cloqucncc he has q
Niagara.
His style was simple, the business stve of a
| strong man. Now and then it swcllcd into beau
! ty. In later years, he seldom touched the con-
science the affections of the soul except, alas to
srnite our sense Of justice, our philanthropy, and
trust in God. lie always addressed the under
[ standing not the reason-Calhoun did that the
more not the imagination-in his speech there
was little wit little beauty, little poetry He laid
siege to the understanding. Here lay his strength
he could make a statement better than any man
in America had immense power of argumcata-
ton, making a causway from his will to the hear
er's mind. He gathered great mas of material,
bound it together, swung it about his head fixed
his eye on the mark, then let the ruin fly If YOU
want a word suddenly shot from Dover to Calais,
you send it by lightning; if ball Of a ton weight,
you get a steam cannon to pitch it across. Web
stcr was the steam gun Of cloqucnce. lie lit the
mark less by gunncry than strength. His shot
| seemed big as his target
This orator brings down his quarry with 4 sin
gle subtle shot of sixty to the pound. He car
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