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voice growing gradually fainter, as; he pass.
ed on into the thicker shadows of tbe Dark
Valley, the tluttering pulse stood stll, and
John Randolph of Roanoke was numbered
with the dead! June "a, 1888, aged sky J
They carried him back to his SOLITARY
horne, and buried him@.ssiin death as in life,
unsocial and isolated--in the forest of Roa.
noke. In the soil Of the Virginia he loved
so well, they laid the corse of her faithful
and devoted son. They left him. to rest,
after the long fever of his troubled. dream
of life was over, in an, humble and seoues-
tered grave, beneath two stately pines.
There let him sleep on The gloom of their
shade, and the melancholy sighing of the
wind through their boughs, are fit emblems
of the life which was breathed out in sud-
ness and in sorrow.
JACKSON.
1t may we'll be doubted if the records of
ancient OF Of modern times exhibit to us a
name, more distinguished for sublime and
untaiteringecourage, than that of Andrew
jackson. He ,neversscemcd to- rise to, but
ever to stand level With the loftiest cxigen-
cies. There was nothing in the shape of
danger or responsibility which he feared to
brave-not to meet merely, but to 20 in
quest of-not to endure, but to DEFY and
master. He was chary of his fame. He
loved applause; but when did he pause in
the execution OF purpose to count its cost
to his reputation Did he ever falter when
the chivalry and flower of his early and la
ter supporters deserted his banner by bsttal-
lions9 If anything can appal politicians
heart or stay his hand, it is civil war. But
in case South Carolina, lie contemplated that
result and prepared forsit, with the GOODNESS
and determination Of q commonplace busil
ness matter. He stood forth peculiar and
original man, in the great attribute of con-
ceiving and executing purposes and plans,
from the very contemplation of which COM
mon-place politicians shrink in dismay.
Yet one thing this great man lacked. He
lacked the crowning virtue of magnanimity.
Generosity towards personal or political
enemy, and charity for opposing opinion;
were not numbered among the virtues in his
calendar. We are panied to be forced by
truth to say that the hero's character, Of
such robust and stalwart proportions, and
vital with such massive and masculine
strength, was incomplete. Like some Goth
lc tower, dimly seen by star light, it leaves
the impression Of power akin to the terrific
and sublilns;; but wants the mild and .softs
ening light Of this absent grace to; n,akeiStt
lovely to the contemplation and aears ths
heart. ~ [;sssasss .ssss1ssSss; n 3;
CLAY IN 1850. S5 81 81
At this Juncture, Henry ClaSabk his.
seat in the Senate. His very pressa here
was an event in the political history 81. tbs
country. The old light was on is lloftys
brow, and in his eye and in his voice were
the, fire and the spell which could YET save
his country. He seemed in visw of the
new work before him, to breathe another
youth. With the 'om of his ripe age,
ne seemed to hav ught from the past the
yigor and the pr .,.sof his meridian fre.
There was patriotism enough in the country
to save it; but it was q dormant patriotism.
Clay walked it up. Clay was the medium
that poured the electric current Of the, peo-
pie upon the politicians and the public coun-
ellis. Never before had he fully shown him
self the man Gad had made him. For fifty
years he had never found rival for whole
session, as an orator and leader in a deliber-
ative assembly, but s4nen had compared
him to himself, and had noted how :farphe
was, in this speech or that; from his high wa,
ter mark Of excellensas Now he was above
himself -aRSRe where the food Of his sweep
ing and surgelik pquenee had ever gone
before. ASH mere Orator, he left the great
deeds of his youth and middle age behind,
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