Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-12-15

a TRIBuTE 10 HEsRY CI.Y.-The following
to thelamented and gallant Harry fthe West,
was paid by Hon. Thomas F. Marshall, during
the recent political excitement. II is enough
that Mr.. Marshall was the speaker, and Ken
tucky's idoiithe subject.
livery oge knows chat the various subjects
Of the Texas boundary, the admission of Cali
fcrnia, the territorial organization Of Utah and
New Mexico, the recovery of fugitive slaves who
had escaped from their owners into the territory
Of States whose constitutions did not allow sla-
very. and the abolition of tic slave trade in the
District OF Columbia, were sought bY Mr. CLAY
to be united In a single bill and passed as one
measure In this form the Omnibus bill. as il
was termed, tailed But IN the shane of several
acts on each separate snhject, the principles
eonteaded for by Mr. Clay we're adopted and be-
cameS. part of thel egislationof that year. Why
the biz reported by himself was defeated and
dismembered vet in the shape OF separate acts.
adopted IN almost exact accordance with his
wishes. IS not for me to inquire. II it were de-
signed on the part of some Senator'S to deprive
the dying leader Of the honors of his last battle
1t was aysin hope In the public mind. and in
common parlance, they are still associated. In
history they viii be known as Afr. ClAy's Com
promise They are grouped and termed the
Compromise of 1850 in the Democratic platform.
even the Kansas and Nebraska acts adopt the
common nomenclature, and insteai of reciting
the several acts by their titles, call them the
lCompTolnise.
Inc friends OF Mr. Clay mediate the construc-
ron OF monument, 10 mark the spot where re-
pose the remains of that fraii tenement, which
once held IN his fiery soul II viii be honora-
Die TO them, and viii form graceful ornament
10 the green woods which surround the city of
which lhe had himself been 50 lon.. the living
ornament, butt viii be useless TO him or to his
fame He trusted neither himself nor his fame
TO mechanical hands or perishable materials
Exe2f 1a0IlnaaeAtaM pereakias erer They
may lay their pedcsta of granite-they NAV
rear their polished columns til they pierce and
float the slsies-they may cover their marble
pillars all over with the blazenry of his deeds,
the trophies OF his triumphant gcniIls and sur
mount them with images of his forms wrought
by the cunnlngest hands-it matters not-he is
not there. The -prisoneds eagle has burst the
bars, and scared away from strife, and conflict
and calumny. He IS not dcad-,He lives. /
mean not the life eternal in yon other world of
/ which religion teaches. but here on earth he
lives, the life which men call fame that life the
hope of which forms the solace of high ambition.
which cheers and sustains the brave and wise
and good, the champion of truth aud human
kind, through all their labors-that life is his
beyond all chance or change, growing, expan-
sive, quenchleSs as time and human memory
de needs no statue-he desired none 1t was
the image Of his soul he wished to perpctuate.
and he has stamped it himself in lines of fame
upon the souls of his countrymen. Not all the
marbles of Cararra, fashioned by the chisel of
Angelo into the mimicry ofbFeathing life. could
convey to the senses likeness SO perfect Of him
self as that which he has left upon the minds of
men. He carved his own statue, he built his
own monument. In youth he laid the base
brad as his whole country, that it might we'll
sustain the mighty structure he had designed
He labored hcroically through life on the colos-
sal shaft In 1850, the last year oftle first
half of the 10th century, he prepared the heal
ing measures which bear his name as the capt.
tai well proportionedand in perfect keeping with
the now finished column, crowned his work, saw
that it was good and durable. sprangto its lofty
and commanding summit, and gazing from that
lone height upon a horizon which embraced all
coming time, with eternity for his background,
and the eyes of the whole world riyettcd upon
his solitary figure, consented there and thus to
die