The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-08-06

mr.. Yead0n, Of South Carolina.
The following philosophical and patriotic tri-
butte to the services Of northern statesmen was
pronounced at the Plymouth celebration For It's
truth eloquence' and lberalty, it deserves Pc
rusal.
Mr. YEADoN continued:
Before closing my remarks, SO INADEQUATE To
this great and interesting occasion cannot for
bear doing reverence to the name and the shade Of
the illustrious Webster, for his constitutional
fidelity to the South. II sprang from prnciple as
well as feelings imbbed from parental instruction;
and it is wonder that the boy who first read and
studied the Constitution Of his country on cotton
handkerchief, should have been answering and
faithful in giving the full benefit of that Constitu-
ton to the cotton States of the South and West
1t was under this hnllowed influence that at Rich
mond, in 1910, he made the memorable declara-
tion that in the capital of Virginia, under the
light Of an October sun, he gave it to the wings of
the wind, and wished it borne to every corner of
the Republic, that Congress had no power what
ever, directly indirectly, to interfere with the
institution of slavery in the several States;' and
it was in the same spirit that he took that noble
stand in 1850, which saved his country from inter-
nal strife-the Union from dissolution. Kisses
and applause And while thus a southerner
rendering homage to the illustrious dead, let me
also do homage to the illustrious living, and re-
turn my grateful thanks to the great speaker of
the day---the gifted, the glorious Everett-( Web
ster' worthy successor i'll the Cabinet and in the
Senate chamber,) for the declaration and senti-
ment uttered by him in Congress many years ago,
but still indelbly impressed on my memory:
| There is no cause in which would more readily
| shoulder musket than to put down servile in
surrection in the South (Applause.]
"Let me here, too, narrate an anecdote, or an
incident, connected with the great Caronan,
and his love and admiration for Massachusetts and
Boston, 1t was in my last conversation with him,
just before he departed from Charleston his last
mission to Washington, that he broke out in
warm, glowing, and loving eulogy Of Massachu-
sets and Boston, referring to the time when joy
siah Quincy came as a missionary from Massa-
cusetts to Charleston and South Carolina, to en-
| list the descendants Of the Huguenots with the
descendants of the Puritans, in the Boston tea
party, in the coming struggle for American inde-
| pendcnce, which then cast its great shadow be-
fore, dwelling with evident pleasure the an
cient ties, political and social, which once united
the two sister commonwealth and the two sister
cities, and discoursing eloquently on the afintes
which yet obtained between them, in converse
ton, in hospitality, and in social elegance and re-
| finement.
s'Let such principles and feelings-such as ami
mated the bosoms Of the dead Webster and Cal
houn, and such as yet animate the bosom Of the
| living Everett--be cherished and initiated, and
the Union will be indeed perpetual-realizing the
loftiest and happiest destiny for itself, with the
two oceans for its longitudinal, and the North
Pole and the Isthnus Of Daren for its latitudinal
Notwithstanding, outstanding, and peo-
ping the American continent, and by their glo-
rious example and influence regenerating the hui
man race In the language of the Union anthem
Of gifted of New England, who has made
the sunny South his home would say, this day,
! from full heart s7a
| Dear to us the South's fair land
Dear tho central mountain band
Dear New England's rocky strand
| Dear the prairied West'
Gin conclusion, and in renewed reference to the
great and lamentcd dead, ] would suggest that a
common memorial, in the shape of work Of art,
so perfect in design and creation as to challenge
and command the admiration of the world, should
rise to perpetuate the memory, worth, and SER
vices Of the ustrious trio, so alike in life and in
death, emanating either from the nation at large,
| or from the three States more Immediately con-
cerned, as alike honored and alike bereaved-I
would, therefore, propose sentiment
ssCLAY, WEBSTER, CALHoUN--Let a group of
statuary, chseled in Paran marble, perpetuate
| their memory at the National Capital; or let
| Kentucky, Massachusetts,, and South Carolina,
pile common monument to the illustrious three,
| at Ashland, Marshfeld, or Fort Hill, to awaken
the admiration and kindle the emulation of pos
terity, till suns shall set to rise no more"
| Applause.