The true Democrat., 1857-03-24

poison Tn ring was all his dying country had to give hlm. Death by poison in the temple or Nertnne;--tears, praise and wonder fore yer more!
 Mr. Choate then passed glowing eulosv upon the Characteristics of Demosthenes as an orator, and upon his devotion to the welfare ot his country. That spirit, he then said, so ! hopeful, so bold was clear-sghted, too: and he could not fall to see that he had come 'upon the last days of Greece. The old Greek pub-
 lie life was in it's decay. The outward life of Athens was unchanged, certainly, and vet all
 was gone. The laws of Themistocles were there, but the men of Marathon, where were they! Instead, vanity, effeminacy, sordid ava rlcp, distrust of the gods, total loss of religious
 oeiiei, the theatre, the banquet, the garland drlpping with wine. The once bright, con- summate flower, was fading on its stalk, and the one long prayer of the orator was that these dry bones might live. Through all the nre ana subllmlty of his exortations there seemed half expressed, half ndulsed con- Scioushess that all was passed and all was vain.
 IL seemed as II the orator was a prophet also, and the vision he saw sallened the voice he uttered. He almost acknowledges himselfthat the inspiration he feels is the inspiration of despair:
 .' see a hand you cannot see;
 near Voice you cannot hear"
 The scene when Demosthenes after the tri- umph of Philip, stood before his cuuntrvmen as candidate for the golden crown was then portray ed in eloquent and touching lanuuaye. How Demosthenrs addressed them. in the mo- best drliberalive diSquision ever uttered by mortal lips, all men know. He reviewed e grand and melancholy story; gave them to see how It had been appointed them to act in the final extremity of Greece, what dignity and tragic interest belonged to their fate, and how S"rlo'>ly they hli been minded, without cal. culatlon of the chances of success or failure. to stand or fall in the passes of cear mother land. "All that Greece men of Athens. all she had of letters, of reuown, of liberty. all was represented by you; and nublv have you Strven [" defend it. Grandly vou resolved. l Srandir you re.steI, gr~udly have you falien.,
 hat day, the stricken hent of tine people of Athens loldci its orator and statesman to its l
 love, and set on hlS head forever the crown of golA
 The next type of revolution. that in which | d hulon preserves life, but is cnmpeied to | chah9e Is Tree Institutions for those of tyranny | Was Illustrated ny the Case of Rome, when sine | became the Rome of the C,eslrs. or that re- voutlon Cicero was the oratpr-that most con | sumlnate production, take him altogether oi the Latn type of genius Nlr. Cnoate consi- aefen Cicer", or thls occasion, more plrlicular- 1 " as the orator of an expiring commonwealth ! with whose life the light of Roman f,elom went out; and 1t va, fit that when the .rander them < "i freedom were forbidden, that cb- Iuence sh,n die. Nor dd she start to life vh h,.,, I her awakened thundcis from the tribune Of re- evolutionary France In the last two year, of his He he (the orat"r) re,ced to say that mo worShlprer> of the C es4rs of that time or this no ehVier "r Sneerer at regulations, pretends to hni, bl hXlng Microscope on the end of telescope one spot on the sun going down. (Appan>e) ln all these thinys-by wise cpu"sei>, by iabnrions correspondence, bv Der sonal intercourse with other patriots, bv unl,er sal acuVItv, by courage, by contempt of death hy eioluence growing sweeter and nobier to the end-he showed himself one of the great est amt nob!e>t of the Romans. In one of his | l"urteen Ilst peailngs ln the senate house and | before the people, he sail--" For myself, | make th's profession: defended the common wealth when l was young; will not desert her now when am old. 1 dispisel th,. swords ot Cataue; shall l tremble at those of An thonv. Nay. most freely would surrender this form to bloo Iy death, so that may pre- serve freedom to the state" That lofty bur pose It Vas his to retain; that death it was nj, to welcome; and if he had not the satisfaction 10 preserve freedom, he hal the iov and tri- umph not to survive the loss of liberty. Mir. Cnoate said, in this connection, that he wa, aware there was theory of history which would deprive Cicero and all the other names ot the republic of Rome of their crown of honor, and place it upon the brows of the first and second Caesars That theory was. that it was time the republic should end, and the em- pirc beGlr, anu that Cicero ought to have re. co5nzed It. But was not such theory about aS poor, heaftleSS, aui arrdut piece of be- ! dahtry as any III all the folly and nonsense of ! learning! This judgment of a mans action 1 ny the light oi events that develop them 1 selves oOo wears after he Is deaI-how lonr hl' that been thought just and honest? Is . success all at once to stand for the test of ey- ceIIehcv of conduct, of excelIcucy of honor? heca'Se offences must come. shall not the mo- rAl Ju i5mentS of mlpkind coutitue to ,le- h"unce the woe against hm by whom they 1 come! He was sorry to see the name of D.. Quncy among those who had adoD;cl this theory. Our own brilliant historian. F. Hot.
 II easy to say that the empire should have come In the place of the republic, because nobody can dispute 1t; 1t seems to be new, and sounds like philosophy; but when they carry it 50 far as to +ay they sec no grandeur in the struggle ol iFeedom with the circumstances. of virtue Ahd conscience with for e. and feel no sympl- thy "lth patriotism attempting; ;o defend it's country aSdn>t treason, he had not to hate It all ncredulousy.
 Turn now to another form of revolution in which people, who were not nation became one How unlike the elolnence of such a re- v"Iuton to that of which he h d been speak. lh-. The confident voice of the vounr ,,ilnt rlngS through It. His look of fire. now fixed on the ground, now strained toward the distant S"al-hIs heart assured and high, and throb- o'hS with the hr>t strange, delicious feeling of ! natlonal lte. Twice In a century men heard It. First Tn the history of Ireland, when Mr. GFattan stood up and said-" now address free people. Ages have passed away, and this IS the nf't moment In which you could be dis ungulShei by that appelaton I found Ire- IAnd on her knees; have traced her progress rom lnlnnes to arms, from arms to liberty rom liberty to glory. Spirit ot Swift, spirit oi MoIyneux, your genius has prevailed Ire iahd Is nation; and, in that character hail | her. and lowing to her august presence, say, LiUe .fo'eUern L ,ui cheers
 A-aIn y"u heard that eioluence with higher hope of d more splendid result, in l776 The leader in that great cause was our own John Adams, of Massachusetts,. He was the orator alone of the revolution in which the ma. ton was born Others co-operateI srlendidlv with hm-Sanuel Adams, Samuel Chase. Thomas Je1e'son, James Otis, in the earlier stages. Each of these went abroad and scat tered broadcast the seed of life in the waiting. virgin soil. Jefferson, the magic of style, the power of touching the feelings with those fair ideas of freedom and equality dear to men, so irresistible at that time. Henry, the indescri- babIc spell of speech, which fills the eyes stays the bood, turns the cheek pale instiliing | into the soul the sweet madness of battle.- Samuel Chase, the tone of indignation, the pf"ud deh 'nce, and the extraordinary art of and hn,,