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

Of bis, that the Constitution was obligatory upon
TIE national and individual consciences. that you
should tribe it to sudden and irresistible tempta
toni Wf2, what had he, clear down to the 18th Of
March, that more truly indiyduazed him-what
had he more Enthusiastically his own where
withal bad be to glory more or other than all beside.
than this very doctrine OF the sacred and permanent
obligation to support each and all parts of that great
compact Of union AID justceY Had not this been
his distinction, bis speciality-almost the foibe OF
HE gIeaness-the darling and master passion ever
Consider that that was sentiment which had been
Part If his conscious nature for more than sixty
yeaftbat from the time he bought his first copy Of
the Cons on the handkerchief. and revered
parental lips had commended 1t to him. with all
other holy and beautiful things along with lessons of
reverence to God, and the belief and love OF His
Scriptures, along with the doctrine of the catechism,
the uDtqualled mnsicof Watts, the name Of Washing
ton,-tberc had never been an hour that he had not
held it the mssterwork OF man,-just in its ethics,
consummate In its practical wisdom, paramount in
MS inlnncuoIf that every year OF life had deep
cred the original impression that as his mind
opened, and his associations widened, he found
that every one for whom he felt respect instructors
theological and moral teachers, his entire party
bection, the opposite party and the whole couotry,
80 held it, too, that its fruits Of more than half
fury OF union, OF happiness, Of renown, bore con-
slant and clear witness TO 1t in his mind and that
CHANGED that certain emergent and rare occasions
had devolved him to stand forth to maintain it, to
vndcate its interpretation to vndcate its authority
to unfold its workings and uses-that he had ac-
Quilted himself Of that opportunity as to have won
the title OF its ExpOunder and Defender, 30 that his
proudest memories bis most priced renOwn referred
to IT, and were entwined with it, and say whether,
with such aitecedepts, readiness to execute or dis
position to evade, would have been the hardest to
explain, iikeliest to suggest the surmise OF new
temptation! He who knows anything of man, knows
that his vote for beginning the restoration Of harmo
ny by keeping the whole constitution, was deter
mined, was necessitated, by the great law of Sc
QueDCes-a great law Of cause and effect, running
back to his mothers arms, resistess as the law
which moves the system about the sun-and that he
must have given it, although it had been opened to
him in vision, that within the next natural day his
"eyes should be turned to behold for the last time
the sun in heaven"
But it is time this eulogy were brought to its con-
clusion. Ny heart goes back into the coffin there
with him, ard would pause. went-it is day
or two sncealone, to see again the house which he
p8ssienstely loved, the chamber where he died,
the grave in which they laid him down--all habited
as when
"Hs look drew audience still rs night
Or summers Docntde air f."
till the heavens be no more. In all that spacious and
calm scene all things to the eye looked ut first
changed. The books in the library the portraits,
the table at which he wrote, the scientific culture of
the land the course of agricultural occupation the
coming in Of barvests fruit Of the seed his own
husbandry the trees planted BY him in lines, in cop
SEES, in orchards by thousands the seat under the
noble elm on which he used to sit to feel the south
west wind at evening or Lear the beathings of the
eea OF the not less auOlDle music OF inc Sy leaVenS
all seemed at firrt unchanged. The OF a bright
day, from which, however something Of the fervors
of midsummer were wanting fell temporarily on
them all, filed the air all sides with the utterance
of life, and cleaned on the long line Of ocean.
Some Of those whom on earth he loved best, still
were there. The great mind still seemed to preside,
the great presence to be with you. You might ex-
pect to hear again the rich and playful tones of the
voice Of the old hospitality. Yet a moment mere
and all the scene took the aspect of one great mo-
Dument, inscribed with his name, and sacred to his
memory. And such it shall be in all the future Of
America! The sensation Of desoateness, and lone
Illness, and darkness, with which you it now will
pass away. The sharp grief Of love and friendship
will become soothed. Men will repair thither, as
they commemorate the great days Of history. The
same glance shall take, and the emotions shall
greet and bless the Harbor of the Pilgrims and the
Tomb Of Webster