Weekly Clarksville chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857, 1857-01-16

Clay, was pronounced by the eccentric Tom
Marshall, during the last summer. tits gem
orally know that this distinguished orator was
personally hostile to Mr.. Clay, YET his mag
nanimity and sense of justice Overcame his
personal enmity, and he thus paid his beauti-
fol and meried tribute 10 the patriotism and
ability of the great stn:esman, Mark the
difference between his conduct and that OF
Buchanan, the pretended friend, but political
assassin of ahe sage of Ashland. It's notorious
that james Buchanan was a trucking sych-
phant--wearing The mask of pretended friend.
ship Tor Henry Clay, while it is equally no.
turious that he WIS the author Of that malicious
SANDER which pursued the former even to the
grave and whilst the innocent suffered at the
hands Of his th1nkless countrymen, the deeply
guilty has received honor in payment ofsdis.
honor:
every one knows that the various subj ects
Of the Texas boundry, the admission of Cali
fornia. the territorial organization Of U.ah,
aud New Mexico, the recovery of fugitive
slaves who had escaped from their owners into
the territories OF States whose constitutions
did not allow slavery, and The abolition of the
slave trade in the District of Columbia, were
sought by Mr.. Clay to be united in single
bill and passed as one measure. In this form
the "omnibus" bill, as it was termed failed
But in the shape of several acts on each
separate subject, the principles con'eaded for
By Mr. Clay were adopted and became part
of the legislation of that year. WHY he bill
reported by himself was defeated aud dismem
bered, yet in the shape ct separate acts, adop
ted in most exact accordance with his wishes
is not for me 10 inquire If it were designed
on the part of some Senators. to deprive the
dying leader of the honors of his last battle,
it was vain hope. In the public mind, and
in common parlsnce, they are still associated.
In history they will be known as Mr.. Gays
Compromise. They are grouped and termed
the Compromise Of 1850 in the Democratic
platform, even the Kansas and Nebraska acts
adept the common nomenclature. and instead
of reciting the several acts by their titles, call
them the Compromise.
The friends Of Mr.. Clay mediate the con-
struction of a monument, TO mark the spot
where repose the remains of that frail tene>
ment, which once held his fiery soul 1t will
be honorable to them and will form a graceful
ornament to the green woods which surround
the city of which he had himself been so lone
the living ornament, but it will be useless to
him or TO his fame. He trusted neither him
self nor his fame 10 mechanical hands or
perishqble materials. "Eregt monunnenium
perenniVs ere #" They may lay their pedestals
of granite-they may rear their polished
columns ill they pierce and fiout the skies
they may cover their marble pillars all over
with the baznnry of his deeds, the trophies of
his triumphant genius, and surmOunt them
with images of his form wrought by the
cunningest hands--it matters not--he is not
there. The prsoned eagle has burst bars, and
scared away from strife, and conflict, and
caumny. He is not dend--ho 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 WATCH forms the soace of high
ambition, which cheers aHd sustains the grave.
and wise, aud good, the champions of truth
and human kind, through all their labors--
that life is his beyond all chance or change,
growing, expansive, quenchless as time aud
human memory. He needs no statue-he de-
sired none. II was the image of his soul he
wished to perpetuale, and he has stamped
himself in lines Of tl1me upon the souls of his
countrvmen Not all the marblerof Cararra,
fashioned by the chisel Of Angelo into the
mimicry of breathing life, could convey to the
senses likeness so perfect of himself as that
which he has left upon the minds Of men. He
carved his own statue, he built his own monu-
mept. In youth he laid the base broad as lis
whole country, that it might well sustain The
mighty structure he had designed He labOred
hcroically through life on a clossal shaft To
1850, the last year Of the first of The l9,h
century, he prepared the healing measure
which bears his name as the capital well pro-
porlioned and in perfect keeping " ilh the now
finished column, crowned his work, saw that
it was good and durable, sprang to its lofty and
commanding summit. and gazing from thai
lone height upon a horizon which embrace
all coming time, with eternity for his bnoI
ground, and the eyes Of the whole VOID |
riveted upon his solitary figure, was contentd .
there and thus TO die"