Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-11-20


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We have already laid before car reaiers the com
ments u tao u the respectable daily presses II New
York aud Philadelphia upon the outrage GA the
public feeling committed In the publication Of what
Is called Ssymca BY Theodore Parker GA the char
actor Of the late DANIEL wEssrR We now add
20 them an extract from the comments of the Now
ark Daily Advertiser ON the same performance.
When public preacher aims 1T gaining notoriety
by uttcring sentiments not merely Insulting 10 the
memory Of the beloved aud yenerated dead bat
wounding the moral sense of the whole community
by the grossness Of their calumues On the deceased
Just laid in his grave il Is but just that such an
pirant for fame should hear the reply a an indig
nant public
rlTK SKwaRK paIlY ADVERTISER.
The first thing which strikes the reader !. the dcu-
lous Of the preacher Ne Ia o. course 81
the selfsyed rdeemers % the black That IL not
remarkable because there IL snamher Of them bat,
what singular in persons Of such sensby the black
man, they mostly notorious for the VI their
natures and for the hardness Of their hsar There
few Of sufficient impotence and assumption 10 place
themselves cooly In the Office Of final judge o. fellow
creature and that one Daniel Webster Mr. Parker does
present charges at the bar public private prose
cutor; he leaps upon the bench, puts bis head the
cap used when the death Is delivered and pro-
nounces judgment. Here Is part Of III Webster In
vested son in the Mexican war" His late life shows
he had little religonsomewha Of its lower formseon
ventional devoutness Of prayer bu, ID Is easy
to be devout II is hard to be moral" His strength
lay not in the religious In the aeetions In the
moral part Of man."
We shall pass over his black uardism no better
Of Mr. Webster after his speech Of the 7h Of March In
he Senate Such phrases, for instance As "ay Of the
worst of men," tool Of shareholders" his the
boast of every vlest thing forefront Of Kidnapping"
"keeper Of slavery dogs" "assassin Of liberty" gone
to the grave with such reputation . would not
wish for his Interest foe, Lafayette, Washington
copying Arnold "could not have been than the
conduct of Daniel Webster" For shame man! Similar
abuse the public has been accustomed for the last
two years but not from the pulpnot upon the recent
dead from Of his truculent enemies but not from
dear friend such the smabs Theodore Parker Is. Not
from who In the beginning Of his DISCOURSE with
tears in his hard eyes-where could they from -
enreats the sympathies" Of his hearers who had no
doubt If they his parshoners great abundance
to spare He prays "for their ympathes, and Gays h
shall be tender in his Judgments Womans ioe" O. good
and mercifu fellowmortal how compassionate black
man. and black Dan No symptom Of hypocrisy In either
Hear this Theodore Parker friend Of the dead man. who
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for to say these things Ny mothers love swarm in
my bosom STILL and hate 10 say them" Then he has
had mother is mercifuly hoped that he did not feel
the love towards her which he does toward the great shade
Of Webster If So Heaven grant that he may never have
child to perpetuate hypocrisy Again. continues Parker
81 shall 90 mourning all my days, shall refuse 10 be
comforted and at last shall lay down my gray hairs
with in the grave. Oh, Webster webster would
to God that had died for thee!" whew Davids amen-
tation over Jonathan from which 1t is taken Is nothing
to this for 1t sincere How excessively modest is
his pity
The n6del preachers modesty is equal to his malice.
In his discourse he does little else than the d.
mansions Of webster's brains compute the power Of
each Of its faculties and weigh his heart and even
science in his abolition scales He gloats the cold
corpse with eyes suused with simulated tears and cuts
up composedy the dead subject with the critical scape
detect every lesion tendency to disease wrong
His post norton examination is finished and the Sc
raphic Doctor is prepared for Judgment All this has
Mr., Parker done, and yet he meekly says, ut takes
greatness greatness" but Mr. Parker has and
recognised greatness The inference need not be writ.
ten. "Any man." he adds, "can measure a walking
stick-so many hands wde and so many nails beside
but it takes mountain intellect to measure the Andes
and the Attain other words, Daniel Webster but Mr.
Parker has spanned him. The inference again illustrate
the speakers modesty Mr. Theodore Parker evidently
thinks very highly of the little monosyllable so con-
stantly vibrating on his tongue.
Mr. Parkers remarkable love for Daniel Webster con
ssts in Willingness to defy his intellect for the sake Of
damning his soul That seems to be his chief aim. Hav-
ing made that bargain in his mind he does not suck
to after all for, when he has put him by the side Of
Lucfer, Cardinal Wolsey and Lord Bacon for immortality
and meanness he feels he has been too generous and
takes back half the credit he has given him for his mind
" His intellect immense; his understanding en-
ceedingy great " but Mr. Parker is under the necessity
Of denying him "the great reason" We sorry he
cannot afford that favor doubt he would II he felt that
he could Mr. Webster win have 90 without imagine
ton too for 81 cannot assign it to him., says Theodore
Parker "nor any scholarship neither"
FUN-LOvING ANIMALS.
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