Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-07-24
NO. As.
Letter from Parker PillSbury.
HENRY CLAY AND DANIEL wEBsT

DEAR MARius Henry Clay is dead, every
one says. And he died without being Presi
dent Of the U. States, the great object Tor which
he lived. He therefore in an important sense
lived to no purpose-mght as well not have
lived at all.
But there is another sense in which no may
be said to have done even worse than merely tc
have lived for no purpose. In his relation tc
his fellow men, IL had been better that he had
never been born, or that mi,lstonc had been tied
about his neck, end he drowned in the depths
of the sea, on the day in which he was born,
Noman is,or ever was TOTALLY depraved, and
60 Henry Clay was not. Still, it is we'll for
Humanity and Justice, for the poor and the
oppressed, when such alarming approximations
TO IL. are removed out of the way. Even his
very virtues, were poison to the thousand darts,
by which he did his work of death on the lives
and liberties of man. His influence was un-
bounded almost, in his immence circle, and as
as fatal as il was boundless. Like the dragon in
the Mysteries of Patmos, he drew third part
OF the stars after him down to Perditon.-
With such an archangel of wickednoss, bclch-
ing out his pcs,ifcrous breath upon its air, for
half century, no wonder that Kentucky with
all the natural resources possible, for becoming
the very garden of the Continent, is morally and
mentally, :" Great Dismal Swamp" where
Mob and Misrule, like huge snakes and croco.
diles, hold almost undisputed sway.
Henry Clay will be, should be remembered
through the long conflict now waging in behalf
of humanity and liberty, by one single utter
snce, because it was so wide an opening through
which to discover his whole interior soul and
character. In the Senate of the United States
he said, "Diseussion implies deberation deii6er-
alton IS preliminary TO action. The people Of the
North hare no right TO act on Southern Siarery
and therefore they haze no right to deliberate
no right 10 discuss r.
What tyrant could desire greater security
No tyrant sure, ever in this country, will long
enjoy it. Men may silence agitation in the
moral world when by act of Congress, or Con.
stitutionul provisions, they can chain the char
lot wheels of Aurora or forbid the gentle
dews which lay the dust in her footway. But
not before.
For AL important purposes, Daniel Webster
10 dead also. Indeed he too, had better never
have seen the light. The gods kindled vol
cano beneath his fearful brow: But he made
its lava, running rivers of destruction. All the
greatness of the former Presidents and all their
prime ministers. was garnercd up in his single
self AID all that greatness has been offered in
voluntary sacrifice TO deity more loathsomc
than all the Fiends Internal" whose yells
forever shake the walls of hell with shuddcrug
horror. Henry Clay was the real author of
the Fugitive Slave Law. But Daniel Webster
claimed the hideous loatl ing. as his own begot-
ter and dearly beloved. Who but he would
not gladly father such a satyr off upon any
monster whom it rcsembled, or who would
acknowledge it. Henry Clay, to his infinite
credit be it spoken, never disputed one word
upon the question of its paternity He would
have yielded the point to any ambitious clai-
mant, all the way from Bel to the Dragon"
down to Daniel Webster.
And now "thc godliko" asks to be made
presdcnt,-not for any worth or worthness
there is in him but only for and through the
all worthy name of this his bon. o the ages
which it will require, to unfold the deep dam
nation implied IN such q demand.
Bus the people south and north, have decided
the question. Daniel Webster is not less dead
than Henry Clay. lie is more so, and it seems
to me he is already suffering the torments he
deserves. will give you specimen; from
the like of which may the good God ever keep
Jou aud me. The Rev, the rery Recerend
Hubbard Wnslow, famed orthodox minister,
in Boston, delivered a long written address the
other evening in Faneuil Hall, at an indignation
meeting on account of the rejection OF Daniel
Webster by the Baltimore Convention, The
address is to be printed, VIC are told. in pam
phlet. 1t will be then scattered by troop of
electioneering colporteurs. over the land, as
means Of making first the scaling" and then
the selection" of "the godlike" to the Presi-
dency "sure." That address contains the fol.
lowing:
We now propose, gentlemen, to fall back
Mpon the Constitution aud TO abide strictly
by il: TO eschew all party; aud to appeal
boldly TO the free aud independent citizens
Of the Republic. This appeal is without the
knowledge of Mr.. Webster. lie may not
like il. That cannot he helped. lie Ins 50
loug and earnestly taught us TO obey the
Constitution that lie ought not to complain If
we have learned the lesson and are ready to
recite II. He has become the property of
the nation, and must submit TO its disposal.
Perhaps he deserves some rebuke for his
seeming Indifference 10 our anxietes. That
he could he slunbering so soundly through
she night, to be prepared rs usual, to - learn
the morning hour from the considerations, aud
10 spring upward with the lark 10 greet tho
purpling east with blith and jocnnd spirit"
while we were in wakeiul agony of slIs-
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