The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-09-08
THE WASHINGTON UNION.

Indian seas and the coast Of Africa below certain par
alle of latitude and Spain had obtained from the ponti
Alexander the Sixth the right TO the rest of the
lying in this western world IL a matter Of some
TO the Netherlands that such exclusive pretensions
should be broken down. The principles on which Gro
titus gave to the It's freedom used by Great
britain for her own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT until the waves OF
the sea were sung by her poets the vas OF Queeny
Britannia. But greater than Carthage, or Venice or
Holland, Spain, Britain Is arising in the West to
give law to the unstable element Speaking for that
power which Is seizing the trident from Britain, William
L. Marcy makes that marine highway the path oil peace
He changes the maxim and gives law to As Gro
thus from his oceanic Holland, Marcy from Amer
lea, which holds two in its armsses above even
the ambitions of patriotism into that higher sphere of In
ternatonai Jurisprudence, where he collects the world
moral sense dss IL in his conscience searches the
best authorities of ancient learning the treaties customs,
and statutes common to civilized nations and in the light
of Christian comfy adds the nobest chapters to that
universal code which pevades the nations gravity does
the universe
Thus by thought pulsing from his clear mind does
he bring the laggfd conscience of the world into line
with that courageous science which IL at this moment
binding by lightning spark through the halls of the
ocean world with world
"As electrical light from each star 70 each star =
making harmony among the nations and speaking peace
to the argosies which float above its silent pathway
In view of such worldwide resuts, late foreign
minister, in the spirit of Antoninus might say Ciraas
pabra uih est Ut Antonno Roma az koapi aalndis r.
II is exaggeraton them to say that to the scholar
ship which William l.. Marcy here cultvated-to the
much abused college training, If you pease-do
such momentous results In daily intimacy with the
sublime thoughts of Milton aud the weighty wisdom Of
Bacon familiar with Sir Thomas Brown, and ripe in the
studies of the great master Of the human passions Shaks
peae he adorned the solid masonry of his logic with the
tasteful forms of purest English authors Ausere in
his outward life the influence of such liberal studies
in the cheerful home which lighted by his
humor and goodness of heart
To his room in the well named hotel Sans Souc at Ball
ston Springs he retres somewhat weary, with premo
milton Of the great coming change. He lies upon his
couch with small red quarto of Bacon Essays in his
hand to ponder its wonderful WISDOM when silently the
silver cord is loosened He upon whose fat many
basdors had depended is himself called the presence
of the Great Ambassador
While the nation which he had done so much TO glory
and adom laundering its last natal jubilee with all
the extravaganza OF our character this most distinguish
ed aumns of our university sank to his last
fully and sereney, The manner Of his death worthy
of lofty life Like other great in political
system, Jefferson and Adams he sank below the horizon
Independence Day at the high of the countrys
ecstasy of patriotism BY his DEATH by his life he
increased respect and for those whose biographies
the life of our independence and whose have
invested with added sacredncss that Union of States which
was banded by their WISDOM and is preserved by the
blessed fragrance Of their memories
The of God, who knew best his inner life testified
before the people at his burial that he doubted not while
the martial music esounded in the groves of the beaut
full cemetery where his remains entombcd that the
spirit of WILLIAM l.. MARCY then listening to
the more sublime music of the heavenly world. Em-
bens of mourning in and around the shrouded capitol
Of his State affection strews her white flowers his
bier but there is type fit and beautiful that
which places the breast Of the dead statesman the CON
stitution of his country He who had given to it such
commanding life abroad and for whose execution he had
dedicated much of his life might well it next
to the heart it had inspired with pure patriotism
He who gave limits to Austrian nsolence in the Leyant
and who taught English presumption humble walk
and conversation this continent; he who heartily
despsed those ogudties which sought to undermine
stitutiona obgations he who would have raised beside
national ensign and above the smoke OF cmbatlng
nayes the white pennon of peace for the protection of
commerce. he could have nober companion than that
constitution which Brougham has called "thc greatest
refinement in civil poty which the world has SEEN
In the review of such life full of wcllspcnt indus
try and prodga Of great benefit and glory may not
urge with something Of that emphasis which belonged to
his character of that moderation of that strong
preference for the true and right which be ilust
ted when he encountered the opposition of his party
and the impulses of his mmodcrate countymen If there
is motto which should be inscribed his tomb, for
his honor and for the honor and welfare Of his
try it is that of Cicero sLi5raa guam re2,ayo
in pert:naci1, sed guadam INC draicne postdm pmaJo
Working after such model, ever striving to restrain
within the bounds of moderation American life the
scholar the end of his life look back upon the VISTA
with tho painful feeling that there but blank in
the space which IL encoscs but with the reflection and
hope that the evening of life influential for good here
shall by-and-by be the sunrise Of Heaven.
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