The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-07-30

an advantage OF HIM tor this while he lived let the
dead have just praise to day. Our public life s
long electioneerng, and even Burke tells you that
Mt popular elections the most rigorous casusts would
remit something Of their severity. But wherever do
you find him iattering his countrymen, indirectly or
directly, for vote On what did he ever place him.
felf but good counsels andiusefu service His arts
were manly arts, and he never saw day Of tcmpta-
ton when he would not rather fall than stand any
other. Who ever heard that voice cheering the peo
pie on TO rapacity, to injustice, to vain and guilty
glory 2 WHO ever saw that pencil of light hold up
picture Of manifest destiny to dazzle the fancy
How anxiousy rather, in season and out by the en-
ereeiic eloquence Of his youth, by his counsels lie
queathed on the verge of timely grave, he preferred
10 teach that by all possible acquired sobricty O.
mind, by asking reverenty OF the past, by obedience
to the law by habits Of patient and legitimate labor
BY the cultivation Of the mind, by the fear and wer
ship of God, We educate ourselves for the future
that IL revealing. Men said he did not sympathise
with the masses because his phraseoogy was rather
OF an old and simple school, rejecting the nsuseous
and vain repetitions Of humanity and philanthropy
and progress and brotherhood, In which may Turk
heresies so dreadful, Of socialism or anti-socalism,
or disunion or propagandism in which o selfish,
hollow, and shallow ambition masks tself-the syren
song. which would lure the pilot from his course
tccsute he did he came TO them not with aduls-
don, but with truth not with words to please but
ritb measures to serve them; not that his popular
ynpathies were less, but that his personal and in
greater.
And OH the 18th day of March, and down to the
final scene, might we not still say ever before
that all the ends he aimed at were his country's
bis Gods, and truths" He declared, az speak TO
day for the preservation Of the Union. Hear me-
for my cause. / speak to-day ont Of solicitous
snd anxious heart for the restoration to the country
Of that quiet and harmony which make the blessings
Of this Union 80 rich and so dear to us all. These
are the motives and the sole motives that influence
me-" If In that declaration he was sincere, was he
not hound in conscience to give tho counsels of that
day What were theyi What was tho single one
for which his political morality was called in ques
ton Only that provision Of the federal constitu
ton, ordaining the restitution Of fugitive slaves,
should be executed according to it's true meaning
This only. And might he not in good conscience
keep the constitution In this part, and in ALL for the
preservation Of the Uni0n2
Under his oath to support IT, and TO support Il all,
and with his opinions Of that duty SO long held pro-
claimed unift rmly, In whose vindication, ON some
great days, he had found the opportunity OF his per
sonal glory, might he not in good conscience. sup
port it, and oil Of It, II he could not, and II
human intelligence could certainly know that the
extreme evil would follow, in immediate eonse-
aocnee, its violation Was IL 10 recent doctrine