The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1853-01-07

| seddened couhiehahce. The last time
he was in the Senate, il was 10 hear bis
successor speak. tie siaid an hour and
head Charles Simmer demonstrate that
the Fugitive Slave bill was not good
religion, nor good morality, nor good
law.
He came home to Boston. and went
down 10 MarsbGeld to die. An old man,
broken with the storms Of State, went
home-to die! To him, to die was gain;
life was the only loss. His friends were
about him; his dear onas--his wife, his
son, (tbe last of six children lie had
loved.) Name by name he bade them all
farewell, aAd all his friends, man by
man. Two colored servants Of his were
there-men that he had bought out Of
Slavery, and had blessed with freedom
and life. They watched over the bed
side Of the dying man. The kindly
doctor sought TO sweeten the bitterness
Of death with medicated skill, and when
tha, failed, he gave the great man little
mama tina, fell down from heaven three
thousand years ago, and the shepherd
David gathered i, up ard kept it in a
psalm:
"The Lord is my Shepherd. Though
walk through the valley of the shadow
of Death, | will fear no evil; Thy rcd
and Thy staff they comfort me-"
And the great man fa.tered out his
las, words, "That is what I want-thy
rod, thy rod; thy staff, thy staff" That
great heart had never renounced God
oh, no! Ii had scoifad at His "higher
law" but in the heart Of hearts, there
was religion still!
Just four years after his great speech,
on the Gath Of October, the mortal Daniel
Webster went down 10 the dust, and the
soul to the moiherly bosom Of God!-
Men mourn for him; he heeds il not.
He needs not pity. THE gieat man has
gone where the servant is free from bis
master, where the weary are at rest,
where the wicked cease from troubling
'No farther seek his merits 10 disclose.
UT uTnW Hlb IhUllleS tTOtn tIcIT uTehU HnOuei
There they alike In trembling hope repose
The bosom Of his father and bis God!''
Massachusetts mas lost her great adopt.
ed son. Has lost! Oh, no, II still lve,"
is lruer than the sick man knewE
''He lives and spreads noft by those riIre eyes
% And perfect virtues of all judging God"
\ His memory will long live with us,
still dear to many a loving heart. What
honor shalt we pay? Let the State go
out mindful of his noblest servlces, yet
fearful for his fate, sad that he would
fain have filed him with the husks the
swine do eat, and no man gave to him.
Sad and fearful, let her remember the
fnrce Of circumstance and dark temp,a-
tons secre, power. Let her remember
that while We know what he yielded TO,
and what his sin, God knows what also 10
resisted, and he alone knows who the
sinner is. Tho dear old mother of us
all! Oh, let her warn her children to
fling away ambition, and le, her chatge
them, every one, that there is God who
must in deed be worshipped, and higher
law Of God which mus, be kept, though
Gold and Union fail. Then le, her say
10 them, aye have dwelt long enough III
this mountains turn ye and take your
journey into the land of FREEDOM, which
the Lord your God gve,h you!"
Then le, her lift her eyes to Heaven,
and pray:
-eweet Mercy! To the gates of Heaven,
This statesman head, his sins forgiven,
The ruefnl conflict, the heart riven
With vain endeavor;
And memory Of eRrth's bitter leaveu
Effaced foreveri
"But why to him confne the prayer,
While kindred thoughts and yearning5 bear,
On the frail heart, the purest share
with all that life?
The best of what we do and are
Great God! forgivc"