Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-11-02

essentially great in his department. u VIII De long
ere we find his equal.
Mr. Clay resemb,ed bnth Pitt and FOX. Whiie
he was the equal of the former in hatresisle tor
rent of eloquent invective which swept down op
postion as the rushing tornado, while he equalled
him in that force and energy of character and in
that individuality and boldness in advocating pop
pIar rights which eneared them alike to the hearts
of the people, he surpassed him in the enlarged
and liberal spirit with which it was ever his habit
to examine all questions which might be proposed
10 him, and in this he resembed Mr. Fox ss-ag,zgs
Pitt, Burke and Fox have long since passed
away; Clay, Calhoun and Webster have followed
them The great Triumvirs OF different ages 'hef
will ever be gaZed at by an admirlng world atu' il
not very similar in their minds, will at least reseil
BILE each other in the holiness Of the intellectual
cminence, from which the s'wondrous three" OF
two continents will gaze down upon the world OF
pismies beneath them. sas Ha5E
we have said that the great Americans could not
be compared. Each Of them stand alone, sole
monarch OF his sphere, unapproachea anu uhap
proachable Still we may examine their spheres
and see how they compare. What have they DONE
for nv their works they should be known! This
however is question which we may not answer,
posterity, removed from the influence of predilec-
ton or prejudice, will decide impartally upon their
claims, while their contemporaries may mourn their
loss. Clay, Calhoun, and Webster! What Amer
| lean whose heart does not fill and overflow with
feelings of pride at the mention OF Their Names ana
of grief at the recollection that they have passed
from us forever! What page of American history,
in the present century is there, that Is not llustra-
| ted and made great by their services in the forum
and in the Senate House! Who is there, familiar
with the faces ofthe American Senate who will not
feel when he looks around that chamber, the pain
| full vacancy before him. Where, he will ask him
self, is the tall, commanding form OF the kentuck
ian, the eagle eye and the clarion notes. upon
whose mellfluous tones we were wont to hang,
entranced as if by the wand of the enchanter =
Where is the ardent son of Carolina, and where the
gigantic brow of the descendant of the Pilgrims
| Echo only answers and the sad beholder will feel
indeed that three great luminaries have vanished
from our horizon. Yes, they are gone forever, and
the void thus created will long remain unified -
They died, but full Of honos as OF years, and while
we cannot complain, we may sorrowfully reflect
that eve ne'er may look upon their like again."
| They are dead, all of them that can die is min
gled with the dust but there was little OF them that
could die. Their names, their tranScendant intel
lectual power, and the great services, which they
have rendered to the great cause of humanity in
which they were engaged, will forever survive
them, cherished legacy to the of freemcn ovei
the world, and though their forms are no more seen
amongst us. though their words of burning elo-
Guence will no more be heard in our councils, Vi
brating through nerves, and thrilling us to pat
rotism and noble emolution, still they amongst
us, and in the dying words of the great Webster
| Hthey still live"