Weekly national intelligencer., 1853-09-17

dencies which he thought time threatened to sub
stitute the government OF single will of single person
of great force character and boundless popularity
Of numerical majority of the people, told by the head
without intermediate Institutions Of any kind judicial
senatorial place Of the elaborate system Of checks
balances by which the Constitution aimed at govern
Of laws and not of men how much attracting less
popular attention, but scarcely less important to com
pete great work which experience had shown to be
left unfinished by the Judiciary act of 1885, by providing
for the punishment of all crimes against the United
States how much for securing safe currency and true
financial only by the of OPT
nion but by good specific measures adopted bad
defeated; how mucn to develop the vast material re-
Of the country and push forward the planting
the Westno troubled by any fear Of exhaustine old
Statesby liberal policy of public lands by yindcat;nc
the constitutional power OF Congress to make aid in
making large classes OF internal improvements and by
acting that doctrine uniformly from 1873 whenever
road to be built rapid suppressed or canal To
be opened or breakwater lighthouse up above
below the ow OF the tide If far beyond the ability
single State Of wide utility to commerce and Ia
Dor to rise to the rank Of work general in its infu
tie Of union because another proof of the
benefcence Of union how much to protect the vast
chanca and manufacturing interests Of the country
value of many hundred mionsafter having been lure
into existence against his counsels against his science
political economy by policy Of artificial encourage
mentfrom being sacrificed and the pursuits ana plans
of large regions and communities broken up and the ac
qured skill of the country squandered by sudden and
capricous withdrawal Of the promise Of the
how much for the right performances Of the decats
fairs Of the naton free sensitive selfconscious
nsing, it is true, public law and morality of the State
binding the conscience of the State, yet,spiring to
power, eminence and command its whole frame filled
full and all fire with American feeling, sympathetic
with liberty every where how much for the rht order
ing of the foreign affairs of such Stateaining in all
his policy, from his speech on the Greek question in
1928 to his letters to NJ. Hulsemann in 1850 occupy
the high plain yet dizzy ground which separates nAu-
ence from Intervention, to avow and promugGe warm
good will to humanity wherever striving to b. free to
inquire automatically into the history of its struggles
take official and avowed pains to ascertain the moment
when its success may be recognised consistently
with the great code that keeps the peace of ht world
abstaning from every thing which shall give nation
right under the laws of nations to utter wordof
plant, still less to retaate by war-the sympathy, but
also the neutrality, of Washington; how much
pose with honor of difficulties with e first
Power in the world, which any thing less than theghes
degree of discretion frmness ability, and means If COM
manding respect and confidence at home andabroad
would inevitably have conducted to the last calantya
disputed boundary line of many hundred miles, fom the
st. Croix to the Rocky Mountains which dividel an
asperated and impraccable border population enlisted
the pride and affected the interests and controlled the po
cs of particular States, well pressed on tie peace
and honor of the nation, which the popular Admin
stratons Of the of the quetest and best public feel
ngs the times of Monroe aud of Jackson could MT adjust
which had grown complicated with other topcs of
ctement that false step, right left wtud have
been step down precipce-this line settled forever
the claim OF England to search ships for thu suppress
sion Of the silenced forever and engage
ment entered into by treaty. binding the nato faith to
contribute specific naval force for putting nd to the
great crime of man. the long practice Of gad to enter
an American ship and impress from its terminated
forever the deck henceforth guarded sacred and
pletely by the fag how much by profound dcernment
by eloquent speech by devoted life strengthen the ties
OF Union, and breathe the fine and strong Shirt of
tionality through oil numbers; how mph, most of
ALL last of all, after the with Mexico needless if his
counsels had governed had ended in acquis
tion of territory presenting the great antagonist
Ia pttr i'm
peral prize to contend for and the accured fraterna
strife had begun-how much then, when rising to the
measure of true, and difficult and greatness
membering that he had country to well as To-
cal constituency crafty, laying oil the wealth. all the
hopes of an usrous life the altar of hazardous
patrotsm he sought and the exceeding glory
which now attends-which in the next age shall
| conspcuously attend-his who composes agi-
tated and saves sinking landrecall this series of con-
duct and Influences study them carefully in their facts
and resultsthe reading OF years-and you attain to
appreciation Of this aspect of his greatness his pub
lie character and life
For such review the eulogy of hour has no
Such task demands research, Details proofs Mustra-
tions, long labor volume Of history composed ccord
ing TO her severest laws-settng down nothing depre-
ciatng nothing in magnity to the dead suppressine
thing and alsifying nothing in adulaton Of the dead
protesting fidelity ncorupt unswerved by hatred by
love- yet able to measure able 10 glow in the contempa
ton OF true greatness and vast and varied and useful
public life; such history the genius and judgment
and delicate private and public morality Of Everett
sisted by his perfect knowledge Of the facts not dsqua
fed by his long friendship, unchled to the last hour
such history as he might construct.
Two three suggestions, occurring the most gene
raj observation Of this aspect Of his emnence you viii
tolerate as leave the topic.
Remark how very large portion Of all this class Of his
acts wholly beyond and outside Of the profession Of
the law demanding studies, experience turn Of mind
Of qualities and character such that profession
neither gives e1acts Some single speeches In Con
greSs OF consummate ability have been made by great
lawyers drawing for the purpose only on the learning
accomplishments, logic and eloquence Of the forum.
Such Chief Justice then Mr. Marshas argument in
the Of Jonathan Rohbins-turnng the nerpreta
ton Of treaty and the constitutional power Of the Exc
cutive; demonstration if there is any in Euclid-antic
patng the mastery judgments in the Of Dartmouth
College Of Gibbons and Ogden; Of Maculloch and
the State Of Maryland but such an one as a lawyer like
himf another there was-could have made in his pro
esonal capacity at the bar Of the House. although he
had reflected practical politics hour in hi:
life. Such somewhat William Pinckney's speech in
the House Of Representatives on the treaty power
in 1915 and his two splendid displays in the Senate
the Missouri question in 1920, the last Of which
heard Mr. Clay pronounce the greatest he heard
They were pieces Of legal reasoning questions Of
sttutonal law, decorated Of by rhetoric which
Hortensus might have enved and Cicero not have de
spsed but they professional at last To some
tent this is true Of some Of Mr. websers ablest speeches
in Congress- or, more accurately, OF Of the more
important portions Of Of his abest. should say
50 Of part Of that the Panama Mission Of the reply
10 Mr. Hayne and Of almost the whole Of that reply
70 Mr. Calhoun the thesis the Constitution not
compact between sovercign States !" whole series
discussion Of the constitutional power Of the Executive
and the constitutional power OF the Senate growing
of the removal Of the depostes and the supposed enden
ces Of our system towards Capitalization Of
in President and majority Of the people-markcd al
Of them by amazing ability. To these the lawyer who
could demonstrate that the charter Of this college is
contract within the Constitution that the steamboat