Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-11-26


inences. Those wings unfeathered in his fight.
For and thirty mon,hs he fell, until at last he
reached the tomb. There, on the sullen shore, q
mighty wreck, the great Webster lies
"Is this the ran In Freed on's cause approved
The man 30 grest so honored, so beloved?
Where IS the heartfelt worth and weight of soul,
Which labor could not stoop, nor fear control?
Where thc known dignity, the stamp of awe,
Which. half abashed the proud and venal SAW
Where the calm triumphs of an honest causef-
Where the delightful taste Of just applause?
40. lost alike to action and rspose,
Enwepi, unpited In the worst woes;
With all that conscious, undissembled pride,
Sold to the insults Of foe deied;
Win all that habit Of familiar fame,
Doomed 10 exhaust the dreg5 Of life in RhaDe"
o, what a warning was his fall!
To dash corruption in her proud career
And teach her slaves that vice was born 10 fear"
Had he been faithful to his own words, so oft
repeated, how he would have stood How differ
ent would have been the aspect of the North and
the South, and the press, the pulpit, the forum
and the court
Had he died after the treaty of l842, how differ
ent would have been his fame!
Then had he lived and labored for Freedom as
for Slavcry-nay, with half the diligence and half
the powcr,-to-morrow all the North would rise
lynpan brow the wreath of honor from peoples
heart. Then he would have left a name like Ad-
ans, Jefferson and Washington, and the tears of
every good man would have dropped upon his
tomb! Had he served his God with half the zeal
that he served the South, He would not thus have
left him in his old age, naked to his enemies !
But he did not fall Jail at once. No man ever
does. Little by little he came to the ground
Long leaning, he leaned over and fell down. But
shall he bear the blaine alone! 0, no! Part of
it belongs to this city, which corrupted him, tempt
cd him with price, bought him with its gold -
Daniel Webster had not thrift Poor Richard
was no saint of his. He loved luxury and was
careless of wealth Boston caught him by the
purse; by that she tied him to his mortal doom
With her much fair speech she caused him to Weld
with the fattery of her lips she deceived him
Boston was the Deilah that allurcd him but Off
he broke the wythes of gold, until at last, with
pension, she shore off the seven locks of his head
bis strength went from him, and the Philistincs
took him and put out his eyes, brought him down
20 Washington, and bound him with letters of
brass And he did grind in their prison-house
and they said, Our God, which is slavery, hath
delivered into our hands our cnemy-thc destroy
er of our institutions, who slew many of us
Part of the blame belongs to the New England
church, which calls men saints who only pray, all
careless of the dead mems bones which elut the
whited sepulchrc The churches of New England
were waiting to proclaim slavery and renounce the
law of God. His is not all the blame. No, his is
not the greatest part. He suffers for the iniquitv
of US all.
His calling a lawyer somewhat danger
Gus, leading him, too oft, to look at the expcdi-
ent end not to inquire if his means be also Just
10 look too much at measures, not enough at prin-
eipleS. His Intercourse with politicians full
of moral peril. How few touch politics and arc
thcnceforward clean
Boston now mourns for him She is too late
in her weeping. She should have wept her warn
ing when her capitalists filled his right hand with
brides. She ought to have pat on sackcoth when
the speech of March 9Th first came here She
should have hung her flags at hafmast when the
Fugitive Slave Bill became law; then she only
fired CannonS, and thanked her representative
Webster fell PROSTATE. but Boston more in |
nocent than he Remember the nine hundred
and cighty-thrcc men that thanked him for the ,
speech, which touched their "conscicncr A." and
pointed out the path of duty! Twas She that
ruined hun.
w nat Il Sti lie was us AT portsmouth, his !
house burned down, all uninsured His wife di-
rd-a loving woman, beautiful, and tcnderlv be-
loved OF several children, all save one have
gone before him to the tomb. Sad man. he lived
10 build his childrcns monument DO Won re-
m amhrr the melancholy spectacle in the street |
when Major Webster victim Of the Mexican war, |
was by his father laid down in wonder tomh-a /
daughter, too, but recently laid low! How poor
seemed then the CHASTITY pageant in the street !
empty and hollow rs the muttlcd drum. For wears
TO me has seemed like enc of the tragic heror, of
the Grccian tale, pursued by fate and latterly,
the SaddeSt sight in all this Western Worldwide /
owed of so much he loved, and grasping at what
was not only vanity, but the sadlest vcxation of
n" heart. | have long mourncd for him. rs for
no living or departed man He blasted Us with /
Scornful lightning; him, if | could | would not
blast, but only bless continually and evermorc
You remember the last time he spoke in Dos (
ton-thc procession. last summer, YOU remember /
it we'll. What a sad and care-worn countenancc
Was that of the old man, welcomed with their
mockcry of applause You remember when their
orator, wise-hcadcd and friendly hearted came 10
thank him for his services, he said not word OF
saving the Union of the compromise measures
vet 4 word; but for his own great services he
thanked him.
And when Webster replied he said. Here in
Boston ! am not diSOwnCd-lt least. here | am
not disowRcd.' No, Daniel Webster, YOU are not
disowned in Boston. SO long as | have a tongue
No IeHCl' htdFt 10 iccl, YOU Shau never be DIS
owned. 1t was by our sin, by Boston's sin, that
the great man fell! l pity his victims YOU pity
them, too. But pity him more. O. flr more -
Pity the oppressed, will YOU Will Won not also
pity the oppreSSor in his SIN
Look there See thar face so manly strong.
so maiden meek Hear that voice! Neither do
condemn thee! Go, and sin no more Listen
10 the last words of the Crucitcd- Father, for
give them, for they know not what they do
The last time he was i'll Faneuil Hall, -. it was
FaneuiI Hall open ; once it had been shut)-it
last June--the sick old man--you remember
the tcele hook and the sad face. | felt then that
it WAS has last time. and fOrehore to look upon
tsat SaddcueA countcnance. The last time he
was in the Senate il was 70 hear his successor
speak. lie Staid ali hour aud heard Charles sum
Rer demonstrate that the Fugitive Slave Bill was
not good religion, nor good Constitution, nor good
law.
lie came home 10 Boston, and went down TO
NarShticld TO die An old man, broken with the
SternS of State, went home-to die To him, TO
die was gain life was the only loss. His friends
were ahest him his dear ones-his wife his son,
1.-THE last Of 81 children he had loved Name by
name he babe them all farewell and all his friends
man BY man Two coored servants of his were
ehere-men that he had bought out of slavery and