The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1853-05-12
THOMAS CORwIN.

tnelr aOuSe, lney WOulu not tdhe So WuUi
pains to work themselves into passion
and say hard but ridiculous things of
him. Except on the one point Of per.
sonal honor, he is as deaf as an adder
and as blind as abeetle to all the charges
that political oponents may make against
him.-Always meaning 10 do right, and
ever striving to carry out his just intentS
careful in the formation OF his opinions.
and conscientious in the discharge OF his
duty--wisely patriotic as statesman,
and eminenlly honest as man, he pur.
sues the calm and even tenor OF his way
indifferent to the abuse of enemies, un.
solicitous of, and shrinking from, the
praise of friends,-Vod Of ambition al
most to fault, he neglects the means that
men ordinarily resort 10 to keep them
selves before the people," Fond OF sooi-
ETY., Of home, and OF his library, he re!
CARDS place as not worth seeking, and
power as responsibility to be stunned.
He has been forced into every office that
he has held since he reached middle life,
and was a happier man on the 4th OF
March, when he felt his limbs freed from
the harness of the Treasury Department,
than he had been before IN the course OF
many years Of conspicuous and honorable
public service.
The harpies OF the press may;stump
and denounce such man as an .'abol.
tionist,' as political aspirant," as an
"enemy TO popular progress, they may
him with pertinacious and
lalsehood, as "denouncing his
gallant countrymen in arms, hoping and
praying that they might be "greeted with
bloody hands to hoSpitable graves" they
may shoot their red and iorked tongues
al him from every stump in the land, and
spit their venom through every column OF
a newspaper they can control or inau-
ence, bat the whole of it will not disturb
his sleep, or ruffle the serenity OF his tenn
per. On the point Of honor Mr.. Corwin
is sensitive; but his whole private and
public life may be ransacked, by the bit.
lereSt and most reckless enemy he has,
and nothing be found to impeach his rec
titude. The baseness, therefore, that Tor
The hundredth time charges him with hav-
ing received large portion Of the money
awarded TO DR.. Gardner by the Mexican
commission, when not one dollar of that
money has every has ever touched his
hands. must recoil on the columniator
who is guilty Of it.
Two things have induced us, much
against what we know would have beer.
The pleasure of Mr.. Corwin had he been
where we could have consulted with him.
10 make this reference TO him: first, some
recent attacks upon him, in reckless Lo.
coioco papers in this State, grossly libel.
Ious in their nature and, secondly, nu.
merous reports, some of which have
Iound their way into the newspapers, to
The effect that he intends soon TO leave
Ohio and return to the State OF his natv.
ly, Kentucky. No man could remove
from another State Into this, we are well
satisfied, who would be welcomed with so
much enthusiasm as Thomas Corwin
but on the other hand no man would be
suffered to leave Ohio with more regret.
and we doubt very much whether the per-
'onal and political friends of MIR. Corwn
will permit any such step without inter.
posing Obstacles which he would hesitate
% remove.
We know nothing as TO what may be
he present intentions Of Mr.. Corwin, but
We feel safe in pronouncing as premature
zach and all OF the several reports 10 the
newspapers to the effect that he has be-
,ome possessed of the old family home.
stead in Bourbon county, and intends
emoving 10 t--that he has purchased
near Lexington, and will soon
occupy it--that he has recently invested
money in real estate in Frankfort, and
Intends to become a resident OF that town
his spring, and that he has bought an
'state near Louisville. with the intention
't spending the rest of his days in this
,ity, The prime Of Mr.. Corwin's life
about thirty years. has been given TO the
ervce OF his country. A part of that
ime, he was in situations in which for.
unes are made every year; another part
'f it, he was where much money passed |
Trough his hands; but nothing has ever
tuck 10 his palm which did not belong
here, and at this day he is not a rich
nan. If he had the desire for such in.
estments as are attributed to him, he has
iot the means: but he has no such desire
never has had, and never will have.
{ he does come to Kentucky, it will not
10 for pecuniary speculation or political
lace, but 10 get himself comfortable
ome, in which he may spend the rem.
Iant OF his life as christian and gen.
leman.
That he may finally determine TO re.
move TO this city, we join hundreds and
thousands Of warm.hearted men and wo.
nen here, in hoping. On their behalf as
veil as our own, we promise that he shall
lot bo troubled with politics. lie will
ave 10 put up with little enthusiasm,
owever; for the man who stood by Henry
;lay as he did, in an eventiuI period of
hat slateSman's lile--the man who has
lways been MAN, much more than a
tatesman, or an orator, great as he is in
10Th these capacities man who has
arcd TO take the unpopular side, because
@ believed it to be The right side-the
nan of transcendant qualities OF head and
cart, such as he has, can never be other
nan an object Of warm, enthusiastic re-
ard, to the people Of Kentucky,-LOuis.
iiie Courier.
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