Daily American organ., 1856-04-26
WHOLE No. 457. .
Grafton Of Judge McCaleb.

OrdtlOn Oh Judge McCaleb. .ftf
The oration Of Judge McCalsb, of the United
States District Court Of Louisiana delivered on the
late anniversary Of Henry Clay's birthday, in New
Orleans is a mastery production.
Judge McCaleb is native of Mississippi and
was educated at Phillips's Academy, at Exeter,
New Hampshire, and at Yale College. The high
reputation which he acquired IN these seminaries
for scholarship and purity of character, has been
amply illustrated by his subsequent career at the
bar and on the bench. He concluded his Grafton
on the 18th by an eloquent appeal for the Union,
in the course OF which he took into consideration
the proposition Of forming great Southern party,
to resist the aggressions of the North. Under
this head he spoke as follows:
What possible good. can arise from the forrna-
tion of such party, avowedly as such? Would
it augment our political or moral strength Against
the particular aggressions to be resisted, we are
already united. We are resolutely prepared to
defend our rights, whenever and wherever they
may be assailed We "know those rights, and,
knowing dare maintain them As wen might we
be called upon to unite in defence of our families
our affairs, and our firesdes and would it not be
an insulting reflection upon us as men, as husbands.
and as fathers, to be seriously asked If we are VIII
ling to unite for such q purposes In the darkness
Of the future, can discern no good to be derived
from the formation Of great Southern party ; but
cap readily perceive what evils would necessarily
arise from the open assumption Of such belliger-
ent attitude by the South. II would be almost
tantamount to an open declaration Of war 1t
could not fail to array against us thousands who
have hitherto been the passive spectators Of the
senseless rawlings Of fanaticisni, or remained the
firm opponents Of its treacherous designs. 1t
would paralyze the efforts of the noble patriots
vut,< hovv ut<x or IL.
tutional rights of the South, and are ready at all
times to rally in their defence. It would be the
means OF arrayng one section with such avowed
hostility against t1e other, that it would, in its
ultimate effects and consequences, be the means Of
rending the Union itself asunder.
Standing on the spot to be consecrated to tho
memory OF Clay, and.with very vivid recollection
OF the noble sentiments which so often rang forth
from his patriotic heart, on this subject declare
that have no sympathy with those who advocate
measures which have even a remote tendency TO
dissolution Of the Union In the execution of
the interesting duty assigned me by the Associa.
tion how could dare to speak the praises of the
great statesman, II could for one moment acqui-
esce in the correctness of political doctrines raught
with destruction to that which, Of all things, while
living he held most dear? In the presence of
this multitude, composed of the combined friends
Of the gallant jackson and the eloquent Clay,
solemnly declare that / desire to have no lot or
part in any political machnation or scheme having
for its object the banding together the South as
party against the North. Rather would embrace
the interesting occasion TO echo that noble senti
ne engt from n he Heart! heart 81 son Of
chusetts: ~ follow in the march of no party
which does not keep step to the music OF the
Union." May the richest OF Heavens blessings
fall upon the author Of such a sentiment; and
should his eloquent lips never again give ntterance
xnno hxyS Shotso
timent alons he will have canonized his memory in
tho affections Of his countrymen. It is sentiment
which should give him place a. bright and glori.
ous in the admiration Of those countrymen "as il"
in the language of w ebster, Of whom the authoris
a worthy representative "his name were written In
letters of light Oh the blue arch OF Heaven, be-
tween the consultations of Orion and the Pleades."
Lett be echoed BY every lover Of his country from
Maine to Louisiana, and from Louisiana to Cali
fornia; let it mngle alike in the diapason Of the
Atlantic and the Pacific waves, 81 follow in the
march Of no party that does not keep step to the
music Of the Union!"
i thank the Divine Giver Of all good that am
not of those, tellowcitizens, who believe that our
glorious Union is in danger. / do not for one mo-
ment indulge the gloomy thought that il Is in the
power Of all the demagogues and fanatics in our
country combined, to tear asunder that which the
wisdom and patriotism Of our hthers under the
blessing Of Heaven, 80 happily joined together. /
put no more trust in politicians than in princes,
but / repose with an abb ing confidence on the
virtue, intelligence and fidelity of the masses of
the American people. Credulous many among
them may be, and often are, even to q fault
Swayed they often are, unconsciousy, from
their patriotic purposes, by the plausible tales Of
political alarmists and fanatical agitators. Hasty
and inconsiderate they sometimes may be, in list
ing with too credent ear" to the dangerous dog
mas and in6anmatory appeals Of false philan-
thropy, without regard to the lamentable conse-
quences to which they may lead. But let the truth
be fully and fairly presented; let them be remind
ed of the fraterRal ties which bind them as Ameri
cans, to their fellow-ctizens throughout this broad
land and sure am that their glorious recollec-
tions of the past the memory of the fathers of the
Revolution, their common dangers and common
triumphs, will prompt them to abandon forever
the perfdious doctrines Of the perjured advocates
Of higher iatc and return In penitence and sor-
row to their sacred allegiance to the Constitution.
Let there be once awakened throughout our coun-
try solemn conviction of real danger to the
Union, and armies will everywhere spring up in its
defence like the tabled warriors Of old from the
dragons teeth sewn by Cadmus For every tlai-
tor who would raise his voice for its dissolution,
thousand patriots would rush forward to main ain
It'll For every arch-fend of fanaticsm who would
attempt its destruction, the swords of ten thousand
champions under the banner of the Constitution
would leap from their scabbards, and gleam In its
defence, like the Cherubms and the flaming sword
that turned every way to keep the way of the tree
Of life From one end Of our Republic to the other
would be echoed in thunders the emphatic decla-
ration of our own glorious Jackson--'' The Union
must be preserved"
BENTON ON FREMoSr.--There Is story aloat,
which, whether true not, is too good to be lest
II runs thus: Col. Fremont, after writing his far
nous epistle to Robinson, the bogus Governor Of
Kansas, proceeded to join his redoubtsble father
in-law, Old Bullion, In Washington city After the
interchang. of salutations, the very perceptble
cloud which had gathered ON the brow of the yeta-