Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-08-15


knowledge, and applied with chastened taste
formed upon the best models Of ancient and of
modern learning; and to these eminent qualifi-
cations was added uninterrupted flow of
rich and often racy old-fashioned English
| worthy Of the earlier masters of the language,
/ whom he studied and admired.
/ AS statesman and politician his power was
felt and acknowledged through the republic,
and all bore willing testimony to his enlarged
| views, and to his ardent patriotism. And he
J acquired q European reputation by the state
papers he prepared upon various questions of
our foreign pulley; and one of these--his refu-
| tation and exposure of an absurd and arrogant
| pretension of Austria-is distinguished by
lofty and generous sentiments, becoming the
| age in which he lived and the great-people in
whose name he spoke, and is stamped with
| vigor and research not less honorable in the
! exhibition than conclusive in the application
and it will ever take rank in the history of dip
| lomatic intercourse among the richest contri-
| buttons to the commentaries upon the public
| law of the world. And in internal as in exter-
nal troubles he was true, and tried, and faith
full and in the latest, may it be the last, as it
ecting all sectional considerations, and expo
| sing himself TO sectional denunciation, he
stood up boldly, proudly, indeed, and with
| consummate ability, for the constitutional
| rights of another portion of the Union, fierce
! iy assailed by spirit Of aggression, as incom-
| patible with our mutual obligations as with the
| duration of the confederation itself. In that
! dark and doubtful hour, his voice was heard
| above the storm, recalling his countrymen to
sense OF their dangers and their duties, and
| tempering the lessons of reproof with the ex-
! periencc of age and the dictates of patriotism.
He who heard his memorable appeal to the
public reason and conscience, made in this
crowded Chamber, with all eyes fixed upon tire
speaker, and almost all hearts swayed by his
words of wisdom and OF power, will sedulousy
guard its recollections as one of those precious
incidents which, while they constitute the po-
etry of history, exert permanent and deci-
siYe influence upon the destiny of nations.
And our deceased colleague added the kind
lier affections of the heart to the lofty endow-
ments of the mind; and L recall, with almost
painful sensibility, the associations Of our
boyhood, when we were school-felows togetl
er, with all the troubles and the pleasures
which belong to that narrow relation of life, in
| its narrow world of preparation. He rendered
| himself dear by his disposition and deport-
ment, and exhibited some of those peculiar
characteristic features, which, later in life,
made him the ornament of the social circle;
| and when study and knowledge of the world
had ripened his faculties, endowed him with
| T
passed in my intercourse with society, at home
or abroad. His conduct and bearing at that
early period have left enduring impressions
| upon my memory of mental traits, which his
subsequent course in life developed and con-
| irmed. And the commanding position and as
| tendency of the man were foreshadowed by
the standing influence of the boy among the
cumrades who surrounded him. Fifty-fye
years ago we parted-he to prepare for his
splendid career in the good old land of our
cestors, and to encounter the rough tolls and
trials of life in the great forest of the West.
But, ere long, the report of his words and his
deeds penetrated those recesses, where human
industry was painfully, but successfully, con-
tending with the obstacles of Nature, and
found that my early companion was assuming
a position which confirmed my previous anti
cipations, and which could only be attained by
the rare faculties with which he was gifted
Since then he has gone irradiating his path
with the splendor of his exertions, till the
whole hemisphere bright with his glory,
and never brighter than when he went down in
the West, without cloud to obscure his lus-
tire, calm, clear, and glorious. Fortunate in
life he was not less fortunate in death, for he
died with his fame undiminished, his faculties
unbroken, and his usefulness unimpaired; sur
rounded by weeping friends, and regarded with
anxious solicitude by grateful country, to
whom the messenger that mocks at time and
space told, from hour to hour, the progress of
his disorder, and the approach of his fate.
And beyond all this, he died in the faith of a
Christian, humble, but hopeful, adding anoth-
er to the roll of eminent men who have search
ed the Gospel of Jesus, and have found it the
word and the will of God, given to direct us
while here and to sustain us in that hour OF
trial, when the things of this world are pass
ing away, and the dark valley of the shadow
of death is opening before us.
How ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN! we may yet
exclaim, when reft of our greatest and wisest
but they fall to rise again from death to life
when such quickenng faith in the mercy OF
God, and in the sacrifice of the Redeemel
comes to shed upon them its happy influence
on this side of the grave, and beyond it.
H-Put two persons in the same bedroom
one of whom has the toothache, and the othe