Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-11-18
THE LATE SENATOR CLAYTON OF DELAWARE

THE LATE SENATOR CLAYTON OF DELAWARE
TIL" following article from the New York Express al.
though s'mc"hat tinged With political bias will be found
interesting;
The Senate OF the United States which W. have seen
m0rc Or less OF since ls3s-S3, in its then palnest days
laundering against general Jackson has lost another
brilliant hut rather cratic hight ia John NJ Clayton Mr.
CLAYTON hrt signazed himself in tile hot aud fiery
made against the generally usufping aud denunriator,
spirit OF the Jackson Administrations and into this conte;
he rushed with ali the arer of middle age The aroused
aud indignant Clay led oil ia his tempest If mpas,onrd
e"quence- the fierce and sarcastic Puindexter followed
the p'-hed but Effective Spmgue the witty and cuttur
Holmes both OF Maine, and the great grand aud niasnf
Gent Webster, with ut'rs, brought up O poN
eiul Pariin entary debaters the world saw O.
ten llhyne and Calhoun, Ut : c. worked with them side
10y sd-whc Felix GrIndy. OF Tenn, aud John Fo syh OF
Ga.,-both administration sWordsmen. parred their
hrss the best at their ability All of them are nov
gone, with B-rrien and Dawson, Of Ca, Leigh, o Va
and Porter, OF LL-a gone to that bourne whence nu
traveller eiura>-sive Spraguc ot Maine, who j. nov L.
:. District Judge VA Massachusetts, ia the ul maturity oi
high Judicial power.
john II. Cl,ytOn a great mtn--but a remark
be man. Without high order Of eloquencc he Yet wa
eloquent. Without much learning, yet learn
cd enough inF all the places lie called Not great
lawyer yet he had the reputation OF being one He ke.
little OF almost everything without knowing ythi,.
eprey well lie ai'T ,, a,n S. az aud Ss~c
yet ~ss ~ society to any extent lie loved man. aud
avoided ~onen-and he would talk all day aud all night
with his but ALWAYS dodge the other u he could
With extraordinary habit-, lac shortened life created
be long Nature gave him powerful physique, which h
crippled or piived at TuScle, by developing IT,
exercising part of its are-ifhe could help
His day began about IL, ", AID ,ndrd at or A
He would stay III the Senate a>iduOus all ay, aud
nearly al night. Inspuiug every body with impress
ion OF his profound SINCERITY, It Is Vrry doubtful IT,
politician. he sincere all. verthrlrss every.
body liked im whether they accepted all he said
Without order ia his habit, he nevertheless could achieve
great amount al work When he hal a thing u a h.
vent ininit with lis whole heart aud SOUL aud would
ut or Ou;-tak, cut tsnd boy au every body
ncctrd with hin in his work Fckc. however ia hi.
mud he often land With difficulty msled from,
his purposes Sir llrnry BulNe, -,d INN oil ~ t,,
Crnual American Treaty from the traghd,r ward
iracl.
Duiiug the T. ylor administration, h halted, a. a mem
her OF the Cabinet, all the while between wind aud water
On the subject OF the repeal Of the Missouri Coup
against which his judgment clear nevertheless h,
position or lii anhiiuu. led lin on here, there aud
ryShere that nob"dy now, without reference To
the documents tell just exactly where he But when
in the Seratc he served under Henry Clay as II sort
Lieut. Genernl--pircd 10y the iacss,css OF great
eng the Nullfcr- ia s32 49, aud uphoIiiug the Fore
Bl, he went Tor the Taf Compromise Of 1882 to saw
Jnhu g. C'ihOnn from Gri Jack SON. moose Tie btnvri
Gen Jackson and all hi- myrnilous wirh courag- of t
very highest order. II broke down Postmaster q neral
Barrv-wheu mrmb'r Of the pOstDirc cuIn nif
ony ~ hi Latter days that the unhappy licnty Developed
I itself shirh made him uen inirm of purIr,-r.
But pc. To his remains. No wife uouris him ~.
itnl' pours lament his Jentbedl II. was = n,ai
- love and 10 ilte-a j,val compnnion-a n,u-
agreeable taker-tnc drgt nf the -ot circ. in which
state, IT. otectpr and defender. Hs speeches
~ ime-. have rKrtt'd u large influence ovrr the pub
find aud his uDry will h. fresh for years aud yrai
among all poI'rc'l men. Peace Z" hi names.