The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-28
MEMORY OF THE GREAT STATESMAN.
The Funeral Selemnitlcs ut Marshii cid,
re-. &o., SO.
MIR. Webster and MIR. Calhoun.

! MIR. Webster and MIR. Calhoun.
Prom the Journal OF Commerce, Oct. ~ /
In the notices of Mr. Webster the remark is made
that neither Of the weighty trio who long Occur
pied the attention and attracted the admiration oil
the country, reached the Presidency. AS long ago
as the secord term of Mr.. Monroe, the last of tue
revolutionary line of Presidents, the cynical John
Randolph predicted that no great man would ever
again be elected President. Mr.. j q. Adams, the
successor Of Mr. Monroe, though conIesssdly great
man, was hardly an exception to the remark, as he
was not indebted to the popular choice for his eleva
ton. This exclusion OF great men from the first
ONCE In the country arises partly perhaps, from the
inability OF the popular masses TO appreciate greas
capacity for civil Services and partly from the
eanizatioD OF parties, which interposes between the
people and their sufrages the will of irrespon-
slble and packed body Of interested and selfish par.
tizans and Office seekers. But, from whatever
1t may arise, the fact is SO. MIR. Calhoun within
the last few weeks before his death, recognized tns
fact, and made an application Of it to Mr.. Web
lowing statement Of remarks made by Mr. Cal
houn concerning Mr. Webster, which show
not only the high esteem in which he held
Mr.. Webster, but his regret that Mr.. Webster
would not be the next President. Mr.. Calhoun was
deeply concerned and agitated by the dark clouds
that overhung the Union, daring the session of $780,
and had often, both in private and public. express
sed his fears as to the result Though holding life
himself by very fra tenurs he felt deeply for che
country, and in his private conversations, spoke
constantly Of the subject one Of these conyersa
in WEs5Iaay $50 friend
snergeticaly replied, "He will do all that states
man and patriot can do. Ny hopes rest upon Mr.
| Webster. He alone can save this Union" He nd
ded, 81 have known Mr.. Webster for nearly thirty
years, and he has always acted from conscien-
tious regard to the welfare of the whole Union"
This was prior to any conversation between Mr.
Calhoun and Mr.. Webster, in regard to the course
The day following Mr.. Webster's speech of the
It'll Of March. another familiar friend of Mr. Cal
houn was with him. and the subject of conversation
was Mr. Webster's noble effort in behalf of the Con-
stitution ind the Union Mr. Calhoun spoke in the
most decided terms of admiration Of the Speech and
ofgratitude to its author for his patriotic aud self
sacrificing course. He then said, II see ne reason
why Mr.. Webster should not be the next President.
He ought to be. But, he added, asifsoiloquizng,
'He is too great man ever to be made President.
! Mr.. webster and his great compatriots are now
beyond the reach Of the applause or the envy Of
their countrymen, and We SEQ no men rising in the
East, or the West, or the South, who will ever be
able to take their places in the public councils,
able, IS they were, to hold decided mastery over
It does not follow that because these men have
not filed the Presidency, they have not welded i'm
mense influence in the country. They have, per-
haps, hold as much power in public affairs while in
Congress and the cabinet, a. if they had, each in
turn, filled the executive chair Merely to be Pres
dent without having rendered such civil services as
these men have done, is lower henor.
Mr.. Webster indicated tho Constitution in 1880
from the notification heresy, and was hailed by the
American people the defender Of the Constitution
He twice rescued the country from the peril of war
with Engand, growing first out Of the Northe .ern
and next Of the Oregon boundary. He placed on
secure and inmovable basis the immunity of the
! American commerce, and tho invislability of the
American flag. He did more than any other man
sonal popularity, to stem and roll back the torrent
Ct sectonalism, which, in 1850, threatened to over
throw the pillars of the Constitution and Union
Such great tions as these are the glory Of states
n,IAh n I,of. nArr, 1sa1,
add little to Mr. Webster's fame or usefulness to
have filed the Presidency.
\ The Religious Views OF Mr.. Webster.
Mr. Webster died in the fruition Of Chrtian faith,
and in full communion with the PrOtesta Episcopal
4 Church. Syracuse Star
/ 1t is well known fact that Mr.. Webster is Uni
tartan : Syracuse Standard
1T is well known fact that the Standard dis
plays great Ignorance in regard to most subjects
about which it talks Mr. Webster, ut the time Of
his death, was u communioant Of Trinity Church.
Washington. We can give the Standard editor the
name Of lady now in this city, who has par Of
the Lords Supper in company with Mr. W., at the
4 Church ofthe Epiphany, Washington. Perhaps this
viii be no evidence to the Standard man --Syactse
Star.
/ a few evenings since, sitting by his own Preside,
after day of severe labor in the Supreme Court,
AR Webster introduced the last Sabbath's sermon,
and discoursed in animated and glowing eloqlence
for hour on the great truths of the gospel / can
not hut regard the opinions Of such O man in some
sense rs public property This is my apology for at
tempting to recall some Of those remarks which
we're uttered in the privacy of the domestic circle
Said Mr.. Webster:-''Last Sabbath listened TO
an able and learned discourse upon the ev.
dences Of Christianity. The arguments were
drawn from prophecy, history, with internal evil
dence.. They were stated with logical accuracy
and force but, as it seemed to me, the
clergy man failed to draw from them the righ. con-
clusion. He came SO near the truth that was as
tonshed that he missed it. In mining mp his ar
49, 49, IL l.
these evidences is this Either Christianity is true
or it is delusion produced by excited insignia
ton. Such is not the alternative, said the critic;
but it is this The gospel is either true history,
it is consumroate fraud; it is either reality
imposition. Christ was what he professed to be, or
he was an impostor There is no other alternative.
His spotless life in his earnest enforcement Of the
truthhis suffering in its defence, forbid to sup
pose that he was suffering illusion OF heated
brain. Every act of his pure and holy life shows
that he was the author Of truth the advocate OF
truth the earnest defender of truth and tue
pr, missing sufferer for truth Now, considering the
purity of bis doctrines the simplicity of his life, and
the sublimity Of his death, is it possible that he
would have died for an illusion In ali ais preach
courses were al dire ted to the individual.
Christ and bis apostles sought to impress
upon every man the conviction that he
must stand or fell alone he must live for
himfef and die for himsslf, and give up his
account TO the omnscent God. as though he vera
the only dependent ere ature in the universe. Tne
gospel leaves the individual sinner alone With hi
self and his God. To his own master he stands OF
falls. lie hes nothing TO hope from the aid aud
sympathy Of associates. The deluded advocates of
new doctrines do not so preach Christ and bis
apostles. had they been deceiyers, would not have
30 preached. IL clcrgymen in our days would re-
turn to the simplicity of the gospel and preach
more TO individuals and less TO the crowd. there
would not be so much complaint Of the decline If
true religion MANY Of the ministers of the present
day take their text from st Paul and preach FROM
the newspapers When they do 30, prefer TO en-
joy my own thoughts rather than to listen | waat
my pastor 10 to IN the spirit OF the gospel
saying, You are mortal! your probation is brief;
your work must be dooe speedily; you im Drtsl
tco You are fastening 20 the bar Of God; tho
Judge stapdetb before the door" When am thus
admonished. ] have disposition 20 muse or 10