New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-01-01
.NEU- YEAR.

.notbar war oman f,y bnmon bone dorht and
mixed anticipation. Eighteen Hundred and Fif.
Nv Two v;e,ds N E;,btean Hundred and i;ftr.
Three Time. in all the solemnitv If ;;s LANSING
periods. places n new denosit in the valb,ila 4
wears. and there in the dim senulcbre Of his
toric record. will the mast year repose. like nne
of the icv-cold heroes Of Northern myth IA
the intelligent II will he n curious ANATOMY Of
human nature. to the careless and unreAectjnr
by-rone. lev mystery. To all. it will he like
hall of statues. suggestive in outline. imn-es
siye in the statue of facts.
Men make history. Bonaparte was history
Adams was history. Calhoun was history
And CLAW. and Webster. and wellington wers
history. They personiied results and results
are records, to be studied. remembered and
taken as clearly Indicative of results as alrebrac
indications. Men are the statues of the Partbe.
non of History and if the dead of anv wear
are grand, and great. and pure. and holv-if
they have spoken words eloquent in truth. or if
they have done works eloouent in result History
inaururates them in its Temnlc of the Magpi.
6cept and the Benefactors The very yeor
which passes, is for them, dead. but like break
inr wave. a requiem in its close. and its very
spray. in breaking upon the shore of time a
kaleidoscope reflection of glory unon their lives
The world has lost Wellington. He is cofinel
in his tomb of grandeur and nat;ona, olorv
Waterloo echoed its thupders, and shed its liobt
above his burial Jmmense the tbrona which
followed him to his last resting place soler,
the burial service Eloouen. tho ross;n,r anil,
ries. Poet. and orator and ionrnoIist snor
their full power of insp;ration. eloopence and
elaboratiye rhetoric upon the dead whose pro.
sence was n statue unon Waterloo. in tho Rrit.
ish Parliament and in the cl.re Of Nooon,o,,
like history-an enthroned divinity If Rr;tish
pride. The Cathedral anthem rolled abova tho
great dead. Thousands tbronoed 70 ioin in ,bo
procession. So. in the last wear nossed avn,
from mortality and all its incidents Of glor,.
suffering. or trial and so tho nomiro,1v oroat
victor of Waterloo died
How sturdily he stood unon his ;moqnarv mr.
legalized rights of lordly domipation-bow ob. |
solutely he trampled down all the pleas Of his
inferiors-bow strongly he maintained the cx-
tremes of aristocratic rights. to which he was
only raised by the accident of the arrival If
Blucher and the arrival of Butcher. is history
Facts are as solid as the epitapbed monument
which rises above Arthur, Duke of wellington. |
the favorite of fortune. the defeated in snoin
the plainly accidental conoueror in France
Not such was Webster The tbundor of M
cannon echoes his fame in the nresent or tho
future. He was statesman-an American
sometimes wrong in detail. but always national
when national Questions became involved JfbcI
spoke sometimes like a special representative he
always felt and smoke ms an American whom ,
great national question became involved Ue
was, even in his errors. like the blind Saul
who recovered clear vision !, bis rotI,
And, Henry Clayl But how can We sneol,
here How can we speak of him whom we have
80 loved and trusted, of him whom all men trust
ed, of him whose whole soul was in the Union
whose heart was full of genuine Kentucky ma
tionality, and whose death was so solemn. awful
and suggestive an episode in a nations history
We cannot, if we would, speak in elaboratelv /
rhetorically phrase. Our heart, save our home
affections, is in the grave of Henry CLAW, the
true. hearted AMI the brave-hearted old ~ ,
triot. We are chilled in the remembrance of a
his death. We are weak in faith and hone Of 4
the future in which he does not stand
He was, and is, to u.s. in his day and genera. .
Ii |
sunlit mountain, which casts its light far dow.
into the valley which the oyer-roinr sun shall
50 soon illuminate truth realized and en-
bodied, Illuminating the future. lie was to us
a man of his age, and yet with larger range ,,
Of vision than any of his contemporaries might 4,
aspire to- He was to us the morning star of
Americas future day. And now. so mass all II
things great, Or humble. or useful. or moonid I
cent of earth, the corpse of Henry CLAY is under
the dewy sod, and the soul of Henry CLAY is with
its God.
who will mourn more bitter and dearer sorrows /,
The aged may either have chronicle upon the q
tomb stone or weep over an epitapb Of some r.
one whom they should have preceded in the e
path to the dark and silent cities of the tomb
Life's buds may have never lowered in the ,
warn love of hearts; and, Towering. they $
may have withered in the first exposure to life's
trials and changes. There NAV be hearts to. a
day solemnly busy in the church wards. IN
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