New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-11-11


zee been applauded, yet he had nothing OF
those qualities as an author which give gr'oo
anl interest to personal history; he Is he"''
arl he is frigid .,,or
Nor can we say that the present piog
is any compensation of fate for whatever M ~.
fects of Mr.. Wheaton's genius iniiicteu upO
eoua His NEPHEW writes with much iliore
zeal and affection than elegance OF w
both his biographers have had the SAL ioi
.s,. 10 nreserye out Of his letters anu
,,,,cb that is interesting. The new one
1.,sb COLLECTIONS Of both AN important
:, tha ,abors of the old. We mean howeNe''
thar 10 give n general idea of the book than
..;,,,,to criticism: and shall merely note a lew
aa.os ~ facts which strike us in the rapid
glance which we have taken AT inc No'ui"e
We find. for instance, at page TO- tha' wne ,
Mr. Pinkney was first sent to London III LOO
os n nublic commissioner, finding himself quite
inferior in classical attainments to the Engush
4 gentlemen among whom his diplomatic station
| threw him. he forthwith took masters ana ap
plied himself with the greatest diligence TO such
| n course of study as was necessary to make MN
n scholar. In our day, an abundance OF EN-
hossadors far less learned than Mr.. Pinkney Is
sent to the European courts but we have heard
of none of them that initiate his example
In his speech on the treaty making power
in 1915. we were amused to find the following
passage:
1t is natural here to ask of gentlemen what security
they would have? They cannot take bona q az
he will appoint office the refuse Of the world tina
he will not polute the sanctuary Of justice by calm
vagabouds to its holy ministry instead of adjoining
will Eka4 rtv fpt born
nifty than they receive from it that he will enter int
treaty Of amnesty with evey conspiratoT against a'
and order and psrdou culprits from mere enmity t.
virtue? The security for all this and infinitely
found in the Constitution and in the order OF nature
and We are all satisfied with it.
A Some of the subsequent acts of the Executiv,
t affor} a curious commentary upon the confidence
0 expressed by Mr. Pinkney. Presda its hav
appointed to office the refuse of the world !
t they have polluted the sanctuary of justice
} by placing on the bench of the Supreme Cour
a certain Judge Daniel, who if not an absolute
vagabond, was only dull in law and dirty il
politics Mr.. fancy was placed at the head 0
the same great tribunal for the desperate par
tisan service of the removing of the public de
posits; g conspirators against law and order
are received back into the democratic fold from
Syracuse platforms and disunion plots or ever
elevated to foreign embassies and to federal SEQ
retaryships; while like Judge Bronson
who set their faces against such rewards, are
thrust out of employment.
We have said that the Rev. Mr.. Pinkney was
not a good writer; the following, however, is a
character drawn with much discrimination
Clay far reaching, endowed with extraordinary
sagacty fn of sterling common bold lion the
most perfect master Of the power aud mould the
masses tmphatcally and par erccs the orator of the
people He the first statesman the world Almost
intuve in judgment. he equal to any emergency
and could steer the noble ship of State through most
difficult and appalling crisis His courage always rose
with the occasion and his admirable decision Of charac-
ter sort Of charm to the policy he pursued and
the chief element of his His tall and majestic
figure beautifully harmonzed with his frankness of dspo
sition while his voice which the very melody of
quence capable Of the marvellous meditation pre-
einenty fitted him for leader in ferver and excite
men OF debate The great pacidcator of the country
he more than once calmed the spirit of tho storm as it
rose in its fury and threatened pour desolaon in its
whrwnd path that without the charge of extrava
gsnce may apply to him those beautiful words Of the
poet
! "Tumida equora plucat
Coectasque fugat nubes, soemque reducit