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


born, against savage violence aud destruction
cherished all the domestic virtues beneath its roof,
and through the fire and blood Of years OF revo-
htionary war, shrank from no Danger no toll, no
sacrhce, to serve his country and to raise his ohi
dren TO q condition better than his OWN
Equally beautiful YVES his love OF all his kindred.
When / hear him accused Of selhshne's, ana cold,
bad nature, ! recall him lying sleepess all night,
not without tears of boyhocd, comforting with Ezc-
kiel how the darling desire OF both hearts should he
compassed, and he too admitted to the precious pri-
viieges OF education, courageously pleading the
cause Of both brothers in toe morning, by the
wise and discerning affection OF the mother,
suspepding his studies OF the law, and registerin Z
deeds and teaching school to the Of avail
ing themselves of the opportunity che parental self
sacrifice bad placed within their reach--loving him
through life, mourning him when dead, with love
aud SORROW very wonderfu-passing the sorrow Of
woman.
the early departed, the friend, the counsellor Of
many years and my heart grows too full and LIQUID
for the refutation Of words.
Eschines, laundering against his great rival
vulnerable here, eXclaimed"lt is Impossible that
the unnatural father-the hater Of his own blood
should be an able faithful leader OF his counrythat
the mind which is insensble to the intimate
and touching influence Of domestic affection,
otto feeling-tha private depmvity should
subsist with public virtue !" But our Deinosthenes
was unassailable by such denunciation.
.'Wtu might lie be strenuous in hts c0untry's cause
Who Ozned the charities for whose dsar sake
Tat country, II a. sl' mnEt be beloved"
His afectionate nature, craving friendship, as
well as the presence Of kindred blood dised itself
through all his private life, gave sincerity to all his
hcspiiaties Kindness to his eye, Warmth to the pres.
sure OF his hand, made his greatness and genius un
bend themselves to the payfalness Of childhood,
howed out in graceful memories INDUCED
OF the past or the dead, incidents when
life was young and promised to be happy. gave
generous sketches of rivals, the high conten-
ton now hidden by the handful of earth, hours
passed fifty years ago with great authors, recalled
DOW for the vernal emotions which then they made
TO live and revel in the soul. And from these con-
versations OF friendship, no man-no man, old or
yOung-went away to remember one word OF pro-
faneness, one alusion OF indelicacy one impure
thought, enc Unbelievng suggestion, one doubt st
on the reality OF virtue of PATRIOTISM Of enthusiasm.
Of the progress OF man--0ne doubt cast on rghte-
business, or Temperance, or judgment to come.
the same type Of character. His love Of agricU-
lure, Of sports in the open air, OF the outward
world in starlight and storms and sea and bound
lefs wilderness-partly result Of the inhu-
perpetuated like its other affections and its
other lessons OF mothers love, the psalms, the Bi
BILE, the stories Of the wars partly the return Of
nnsophistcated and healthful and genial nature.
firing, tor space of the idle business Of political
life, its distinctions its articiaties, to empoyments,
TO sensations which interest without agitating the
universal alike, God las framed it, in which
one feels himself only man fashioned from the
W.
made in the image Of his Maker, and with q spirit
that shall not die.
have learned, by evidence the most satisfactory
and precise, that in the last months Of his life, the
whole atfectiOnAteness OF his nature his considers
ton Of others. his gent'eness, his desire to make
them happy and to see them happy, seemed to come
ont in more and more beautiful and habitual ex-
preston than ever before. The long days public
tasks were felt to be doDethe cares, the uncertain
ties, the mental conflicts Of high place, were ended,
and he came home to recover himself for the few
years which be might still expect would be his
before he should go hence to be here no more; and
there ! am assured and fully believe no unbecomng
rgrets pursued him, discomfort, as for injustice
Suffered or expectations unfufled; no selfreproach
for anything done or anything omitted BY him-ef;
no irritation no peevisLness unworthy OF his noble
nature, but instead love and hope tor his country,
when she became the subject of Conversation and for
all around him, the dearest and the most Indifferent
for all breathing things about him the overflow
constant growing in gentleness aud benevolence Of
the kindest heart, parental, patriaIcha affections
seeming to become more natural, warm and comma
NEGATIVE. Softer aud yet brighter grew the tnts OH
the sky of parting day, and the last lingering rays
more even than the glorles Of noon, announced h0~
divine was the source from which they proceeded
how incapable to be quenched, how certain to rise
on a morning which no hight should follow
Such character was made to be loved. 1t was
loved. Those who knew and saw it Ill its hour OF
loved him. His plain neighbors loved him; and one
said, when he was laid in his grave, How lone
some the world seems'' Educated young men
loved him. The ministers of the gospel, gentle
afar of, loved him. True, they had not found in
his speeches, read by millions, so much adulasion
Of the people, so much of the music which robs the
public reason OF ITSELF so many phrases OF humanity
and philanthropy; and some had told them he
was lofty and cold--so,ary in his greatness; but
every year they came and nearer to him, aud
as they came nearer they loved him better; they
heard how tender the son he'd been, TIC husband,
L.nt1 <k,nH n4h
that he plain, simple natural, generous, hospi
tablethe heart larger than the brain that he loved
little chidr en- and reverenced Cod the Scriptures,
the Sabbath day, the constitution and law-and
their hearts clave unto him. More truly Of him than
even of the great naval darling Of England might it
be raid, THAI his presence would set the church
bells ringing, and give school boys holidaywould
brine children from school and old men from the
chimney corner, to gaze on him ere he died." The
great snd unayaling lamentation first revealed the
deep place he had in the hearts Of his countrymen.
You ore now to add to this his extraordinary pow
CT OF influence the convictions and actions OF others
Of the means Of his greatness. And here again /
begin by admring and aggregate, made up of excel
lencies and triumphs, ordinar deemed inconpati-
BILE. He spoke With consunmate ability to the bench,
and yet exactly as, according to every sound canon
OF tate and ethics the bench ought to be addressed
He spoke with consummate ability to the jury, and
YET exactly as, according TO every sound Canon that
totally different tribunal ought to be addressed In
for political discussion In masses, before audiences
smaller and more select, assembled for some solemn
commemoration Of the past dead in each Of these,
again. his speech, Of tie first form Of ability, WAS
exactly adapted also u the critical propretts Of the
place. Each achieved, when delivered, the most
Instant and specific success Of eloquence, some of
them in splendid and remarkable degree, aud yet
stranger still, when reduced to writing as they fell
from his lips, they compose a BODY Of reading, in
many Volumes solid, clear, rich, and full Of harmony,
classical and permanent political literature.
and yet all these modes of his eloquence, exactly
adapted each to its stage and its end were stamped
with his image aud cripuon--identfed by
characteristics incapable to be counterfeited aud
impossible to be mistaken. The same high power
OF reason intent in every to explore end display
some truth some truth OF judicial, historical,
biographical fact-somc truth Of law, deduced by
construction, perhaps, by illationsomc truth Of
policy, for want whereof nation generations, may
be tie worse reason seeking and unfolding truth
the same tone in oil OF deep carnestness, express
sive OF strong desire that that which he felt to
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