The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1852-12-31

J wppm Deloved to quote. make up bIl
,neager classic store. He was nat /
sclWler, and i is,idle to claim great schol
arship for him, .4a 6a-ss6slt
lsis As 4 statesman his latk of wha. cal
thcfighestreason and imagination com
tlrp9lly appears To the national. stock
he added no ne ". idea. created out ofnew
Istonehl;no great maxim, created oul d
human history and old thought. The
gsea IDEAS Of The time were npt LorE il
bis hopsom. lie gorgapized nothing. =
There were greatiideas ofpractical value
seeking lodgment in The bodg; he aided
theta not. ai,an ~ n ,,,s.sl d, .ssa (
None Of the great measures Of, oui
time we're his-rnot one Of them. His
best bill was llhe specie bill Of 1915,
which caused payment to, be made in
national currency, He did not administer
emipen,ly vel. The affairs Of Cuba,
last year and this, The Affairs Of The
Fisheries snd The Lobos Islands re.little
to his credit. The appointments, made
under his administration had better moi
be looked tat TOO closely. The treaty
signed a Washington, in lS42, be man,
aged well, with allls in,ricacies. Ills
,couEse IN, politics was crooked. Nov fol
FIee Trade, then for Protection; now for
Specie, then for Bills; first for Bank,
then for an ssobsolete idea;" now for
Freedom and against Slavery, then for
Slavery and against Freedom; now JUS
iices is the 1object Of Government, now
money, Now, whit makes men Chris
SlianS, makes men good citizens; Dex',
religion Is good everywhtre but in poll
lies; there il makes men mad. Now
religion is the only ground Of Govern
ment; next, there is no law higher than
The sci Of Congress, and he boots al con
science, and would NOT re-enacl the law
of Cod, He tackled ana wore ship many
q iime ip bis life, always IA bad weather,
and never came round but he fell off
from ihe popular wind. Perseverance,
makes The saint; he always forspok bis
idea Just as his,idea was about 10, make
his fortune, In his voyagng for The
Presidency, he. was always too late for
Tie tide; embarked on The ehb, and was
left jas the stream run dry. The Fugitive
Slass Law has done tho South no good,
save to reveal the secrets Of her prison
house, the cabin OF Uncle Tom, and make
the, North hate Slavery wilh,a ien-foId
hate. So far as he "Webs'crized'' the
Wing party, ne has done 50 to its ruin.
He was . great advocate; "a great
ora,or-it is said the greatest in thelaud
and | do not doubt that this is true,
Surely, he was immensely great. Yet
he has left no perfect specimen Of a great
orator, He had moi the instructive genius
which creates a beauliful7~whole by Ma
iure, as a mother bears son; the wide
knowledge Of deep philosophy, nor the
plastic industry which, creates beautiful
whole by art, as the sculptor chisels the
marble boy. So bis greatest and most
deliberate efforts Of ora,ory will moi bear
comparison, with the great eloqRence Of
nature that is born, nor the great elo.
quence Of art that is made. Compared
herewith, his mighty works are as Her
cules compared with Apollo. Il is an
old world, and excellence in ,ora,ory is
difficult; yet he has sentences and par
agrsphs shat / think unsurpassed and
uneqnaled. and ! do no, see how they
can ever fade. He was not a Nile Of
.cloquence; he was a Niagara.
I1is style was simple, the business
style Of Il strong man. Now and then
ii swelled into bearty, In latter sear'
he seldom touched The conscience, the
sa;ffsctiohs, or The souL except, ales, 10
smite our sense Of justice, our philsn-
thropy, and trpst in God. He always
addressed tbe understanding; not The
reason Calhoun did that the more; moi
the imaginaiion-in his speech there
was little Wit, lille, beauty, little poetry.
He laid siege to the understanding.
Here lay his strenglh-be could make
a statement better Than any man in Amer
Ca; had immense power of argumenta-
ton, making a causeway from his will 10
the hearer's mind. He. gathered great
mass Of material, bound il together,
swung il about his head, fixed his eve on
The mark. then let the ruin fly. Ii you
want a word suddenly shot from Dover
to Calais, you send i BY Lightning; i a
ball Of a ton weight, you get a steam
cannon TO pitch il across, Webster was
the steam gun Of oloquence: Ha hit
the mark less BY gunnery than stte ngibI
His shot seemed big as bis target.
This orator brings down his quarry
with single subtle shot, Of siyty 10 Tie
pound. He carries death without weight
in his, gun, as sure as fate. Here is
another, The tin n,pedlar Of American
speech. He is a snake in The grass,
slippery, shining, with baleful crest On
his head, cunning in his crazy eye. and
the poison f,the old serpent in bis heart,
and on his Shiny jaw, and about The fang
al the bottom Of his smooth and forked
and nimble tongue, He cohqiers By
.bewiichiag; he fascinates his game TO
death. 81