Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-11-03

State We presume that this was Mr.. Hers
man Travelling Agent for the Fire and Life In
s,,rance Companies of this place. Gov. Morehead,
President of the North Corolina Railroad Com
,,onv has also been in the field for the Scott-Sew-
ra candidate but we are consoled by the fact that
-.ho cause of both these dignitaries was laid out
cold ON Yesterday by the sovereign people OF these
States.
n1s- We learn that the Democrats of Chatham
1o6 large and most enthusiastic Mass Meeting at
ZONES Mills on Thursday last. The Hon. James
g Dobbin, the State Elector, was present, and
smoke at length with his usual eloquence and eff
feet.
The battle in Chatham has been warmly waged
on both sides but we have an abiding confidence
that the sterling Democracy of that County have
fully maintained their ground.
Mr.. Webster, without doubt, possessed the most
massive and vigorous mind that ever vouch-safed
to auy one man in America. His speeches will ever
he REGARDED as the Pures specimens of American elo
ouence, and as among the richest treasure of his
countrymen. They have been carefully preserved,
and so far they are concerned, 1t may be said OF
them as he upon another occasion sald the past at
least is secure.'' But it is not altogether in his
evinced the vast powers of his unsurpassed intellect.
Mr. Webster was never seen to more advantage than
within his own household, the family board, or in
strolIipp with him over his farm at Marshheld, or
standing with him upon the sea-beach and looking
out upon the before us, which, like the scope
of his intellectual vision, appeared boundless.
We have enjoyed these things, and there are no
events in our life in which have experienced more
pleasure. AS write they involuntarily rise up
before u.s. like blessed visions of other and better
DAYS. To hear him converse upon the past, the pres
eni the future, in familiar, coloquial manner-to
listen his great thoughts expressed in the Purest
words of our language, and wonder how he could
thus speak and think-aTe Joys which we can find no
words 10 express. 1t our fortune to pass seve-
raj days at his home in Marsh6eld some six eight
years age, and well remember one beautiful night,
when the heavens seemed to be studded with count
less myrads of stars, that about nine o'clock in the
evening we walked out, and he stood beneath the
beautiful weeping elm which raises its majestic form
within few PAGES of his dwelling, and looking Up
through the leay branches he appeared for several
minutes to be wrapped in deep thought and at length,
as if the scene, so soft and beautiful, had suggested
the lines, he quoted certain verses of the eighth
Psalm, beginning with the words When / coAsid-
err thy heavens, the work of thy fngers-the moon
and the stars, which thou hast ordained-what is
man that thou mindful ofhim and the son of man
that thou vsitest him! For thou hast made him a
little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him
with glory and HONOR &c, The deep low tone in
which he repeated these inspired words and the deep
the branches of the elm, struck with feeling of
greater and solemnity than we ever felt, when
in year two later we visited some of the most
magnificent cathedEals of the old world, venerable
with the ivy of centuries, and mellowed with the go-
ries of daily church service for thousand years.
He thinking then of that far-distant world,
wherein it is promised that the good of this life shall
live forever and We remained out benea II the
tree for hour, and all The time he conversed
about the scriptures, which no man has studied with
greater attention, and of which no man whom we
ever saw knew SO much, or appeared to understand
and appreciate so well. He talked of the books OF
the old Testament especially, and dwet with unaffec
Ted pleasure upon Isaiah the Psalms, and especially
the Book of Job. The Book of Job, he said, taken
as mere work ofliterary genius, was of the most
wonderful productions OF any age or In any language
AS epic poem, he deemed ii far superior to either
the Iidd the Odyssey. The two last, he said,
ceiyed much of their attraction from the nara
ton of warke deeds, and from the Perilous escapes
oil the chief pers0nages from death and slaughter but
tbs Book of Job was purely intellectual narrative
Its power was shown in the dialogues of the charac
ters introduced. The story simple in its con-
sruction, and there little in it to excite the
Imagination or arouse the sympathy. 1t was purely
an Intellectual production, and depended upon the
power OF the dialogue, and not upon the interest of
The story, reproduce its effects. This was conside
ring it merely as an intellectual work. He read it
through very often and always with renewed delight
IN his judgment, it the greatest epic ever written
NEWELL remember his quotation of some of the YER
So III the lnlIty.elghth chapter: Ihen Lord
swered Job out of the whirwind, and said Who is
mis- that darkneth counsel by words without know
leoge! Grid up now thy loins like man; for
VIII demand of thee, and answer thou me. Where
vast thou when laid the foundations of the earth
declare 1t thou hast understanding" &c. Mr.. Web
ser was fine reader, and his recitation of particular
passages to which he felt warm surpassed,
and were capable Of giving the most exquisite light
10 thoae who appreciate them. Boston atlas.
ANOTHER STRONG WHre WITNESS AGAINST GEN.
SCOTT. We publish at length the sensible and con-
eluslVe letter OF Mr.. T. L. Cngman, who represents
n Congress-, the strongest Wing district of North
carolina, assigning reasons why the South should
tepudIate Gen. SCOTS nomination, and should sus-
sln Gen. Pierce. 1t is another barbed arrow drawn
rom the culver of Whggery, and shot into the ranks
III 9eWaIdlsm Its effect cannot but be considerable
no" Is IL possible for the Scott ticket 10 maintain
any stano al the South when the Democracy is uni
@u, anu When SO many of the abIest and most nfu.
tn'lai leaders OF Southern Whiggery are abandoning
Me cause In disgust, and proclaimng unanswerabie
edSons why Scotts election would be disastrous TO
"' "0u'n ano 70 mo Union Rich Enquirer.
SKIES BRIGHT" The National Intellipencer in
s attempt to put good face upon the present pros
prct, makes some ausion to the opinions of the VEN
NSidoie exedlt1r of the Union. Thomas Ritchie ESQ
wv We happen to know that this sagacious reader
vi me signs OF the times is perfectly confident of the
electIon of Gen. Pierce, and would, were he bet
"ng man, wager any amount upon the general re-
Iu. and $4,000 democratic majority in Virginia The
Ter. Wa.I:I No'neI quar-
Wdsh'ngton Union.