The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-08-04

and worship of God, we educate o1rssI,. .ae ear
tue future that IS revealing. Men said bo ~,
not sympathise with the masses. becsnso 1ia
phraseology was rather Of an old and sro-is
scnool' rejecting the nauseous and vain rena,;
tons of humanity and philanthropy ana FeU'
gress and brotherhood, in which NAV lnrt bpI bpIo-
sizes so dreadful, If socialism OF anti-sociaI;sS'
or disunlon, or propagandism, in which a seIssL'
hollow, and shallow ambition masks itseIf 81
syren song which would lure the pilot from ~!
course But | say that he did sympathise w;,I
them and because he did hecame to them ~.
Wlth adniafion, but with truth; not with words
TO please, but with measures to serve them ~.
that his popular sympathies were less, bat tbot
ms personal and intellectual dignity and he
public morality were greater
And on the 9TH day Of March, and down IN tbo
final scene, might We not still say as ever ba'
fore, that ''all the ends he aimed at were bis
eountrys, his Gods, and truths" He decIa.
Ted, i speak to-day for the preservation of the
/ Union. Hear me, for my cause / sneak to-
day out of a solcitous and anxious heart for the
restoration to the country of that quiet and bar-
mony which make the blessings Of this Union so
rich and so dear to us all These truths are
the motives and the sole motives that influence
me-" Ii IN that declaration he was sincere was
ne not bound IN conscience to give the counsels
/ OF that dayI What were they? What was the
single one for which his political morality was
called IN question? Only that provision of
/ the federal constitution, ordaining the restitu
ton Of fugitive slaves should be executed accor-
ding to its true meaning. This only And migbt
he not in good conscience keep the constitutions
this part and in all, for the preservation Of the
Union?
Under hisoath to support it, and to support
1t all, and with his opinions of that duty so long
held, proclaimed uniformly, in whose yindca.
ton, on some great days, he had found the op
portunity Of his personal glory, might he not In
good conscience, support it, and ALI Of it, even
4 if he could not, and if human intelligence
could certainly know that the extreme evil would
follow, in immediate consequence, tits yioationY
( Was il SO recent doctrine of his, that the Con-
stiution was obligatory upon the national and in
dividual consciences, that you should ascribe il
! TO sudden and Irresistible temptation! WHY
what had he, clear down to the eth Of March
that more truly individualized him-what had
he more characteristically his own-Wherewith-
al had he to glory more or other than all beside
than shis very doctrine Of the sacred and per-
manent obligation to support each and all parts Of
the great compact of unior and justice? Hadnot
this been his distinction, his specalty-almost
1 the foible of his greatness-the darling and mas
ter passion ever Consider that that was
sentiment which had been part of his conscious
nature for more than sixty years-that from the
i time he bought his first copy Of the Constitution
on the handkerchief, and reYered parental lips
and beautiful things, along with lessons of re-
verence to God, and the belief and love of His
Scriptures, along with the doctrine of the cate
chism, the unequalled music of Watts, the name
| of Washington there had never been an hour
that he had not held it the naster-w0rk Of mau
Just in its ethics, eonsummate il It's practical
wisdom, paramount in its injunctions that every
year Of life had deepened the original impress
sion that as his mind opened, aud his assOcia>
tions widened, he found that every one for whom
ne felt respect, instructors theological and mo-
raj teachers, his entire party connection, the op
pOSite party, and the whole country, so held II
too, that its fruits of more than half century Of
union, of happiness, of renown, bore constant
and clear witness to it in his mind and that it
CHANGED that certain emergent and rare oeca-
sions devOlved on him to stand forth TO main
tam il, to vindcate its Interpretation, TO yind-
cate its authority, to unfold its workings and
uses-that he had so acquitted himself of that
opportunity to have the title of its Ex-
FOUNDER and Defender, so that his proudest mem
ories, his most priced renown, referred to it.,
and were entwined with it, and say whether,
with such antecedents, readiness to execute, or
disposition to evade, would have been the hard
est to explain, Gkeliest TO suggest, the surmise
of new temptationi He who knows anything
of the man, knows that his vote of beginning
the restoration Of harmony by keeping the whole
constitution, was determined, was necessitated,
/ by the great law of sequences-a great law OF
cause and effect, running back to his mothers
arms, as resistless as the law which moves the
system about the sun-and that he must have
given it, although 1t had been opened to him in
vision, that within the next natural day his
'.eyes should be turned to behold for the first
time the sun in heaven"
/ But it is time this eulogy were brought to its
conclusion. My heart goes back into the coffin
there with him, and L would pause. WENT
is day or two since-alone, to see again the
house which he SO passionately loved, the cham
Der where he died, the grave IN which they laid
him down-all habited as when
'.His look drew audience still as night,
Or summers noontide air,
+ till the heavens be no more. In all that spacious
and calm scene, all things to the eye looked un-
changed The books in the library, the por-
traits, the table which he wrote, the scientific
culture of the land, the course Of agricultural
occupation, the coming in of harvests, fruit Of
the seed his own hand had scattered the ami
mails and implements of husbandry, the trees
planted by him IN lines, in copses, in orchards,
/ by thousands, the seat under the noble elm on
! which he used TO sit to feel the south west WING
at evening, or hear the breathings Of the sea, OF
the not less audible music of the starry heavens
all seemed at first unchanged. The sun OF
bright day, from which, however, something OF
the fervors of midsummer were wanting, Eel
temporarily on them all, filed the air on al
sides with the utteranee of life, and CLEANED OF
the long line of ocean.
Some of those whom on earth he loved best
still were there. The great mind seemed L
: preside, the great presence to be with you foc
: m;g ght expect to hear again the rich and playlu
tones of the voice of the old hospitality let
moment more and all the scenes took on the as
pect of one great monument, inscribed with NJ.
name, and sacred TO his memory And sucA
r shall be in all the future of America! The sen
sation of desolateness, and loneliness, and darA
6 xyot, II NOW will away