The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1857-12-17


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4. As historic character, CLAW resembles
the chivalrous and daring Henry V, of Enc.
land, on the field of Agincourt, charging
with visor up and lance couchaat in rest,
against the mailed and willing, bold and
mockiog, mad and feverish Percy, the re.
doubtable and .undaunted Hotspur-Prince
Hal, swift bearing on astride his richly ca
parisoned and well.housed, white steed, his
nostrils wide-expanded, and challenging
fierce neigh. his white name streaming on
his boldly uplifted crest, and waving tail,
lashing wildly the mad and sulphur.chareed
wind, careeriDg DER the field of battle, while
Percy bounds with defiant shout, to meet
him in the longed.for conflict Calhoun
the subtle strategist, the calculating Saladin,
whose Damascus scymeter flashes through
the severed neck of foeman, who know not
till they nod their heads that they are de.
tached from their bodies-while Webster
Coeur de Lion in arms, hurls his ponderous
battleaxe, with colossal strength, until the
mailed links fly apart, and the descending
weapon grinds bones and blood, and fire, in.
to one undistinguishab,e, shapeless mass of
Joye-s -sphtted, lightning stricken humanity.
8. They are like three different streams
OF eqnai volume. Clay, like St. Anthony's
raiis' or cataractIc, Niagara cascade, flash
ing IN creamy foam, aud rainbow beauty,
roaring ana Missing in tumultuons eddies,
tearing on, impatientiy pressing forward, to
search the blue and tranquil depths, or earn,
estly crowding on, betwixt high rocky
shores, begrit with lignious forest monarchs
Its banks all fnnged with vines and flowers.
MS!s nNe Tue streams that iced the
.I oiue' drawing world OF wa
,e 'ulougn DosPnor'c passes and Helcu-
a" , win an unuer.current gliding
. D h: oo.n 10 ana iro, ike Pontis
@ nv rnn, Lpes';s; rn, ;;o .nrongn tue Hsean Seas,
~, n ;n,a S,' h . .s,es scotn,ng the muddy Nile,
,;,uda. | pn1StP n1 o'Se nePIhs @ 9l OLD oceans mui-
I CoiIe,n o'apn:ooso'o =, ,.:. !Matdsses waves
o"'noun'a a nul,ituae OF tinnumerable streams,
Wassing tne mountain bases, threading with
w'nalng ana devious course the many tan
s,eor g,eJ wooas ; ana g'oomy forest depths, and
lies, and oatbc,;no all ;nro,ho. I .uousSnd I 'ai-
grand de5ut 10 the unfa,Snmah,a aon', Jns &c
antly to breast the winds ,h., sap, aep, oIu, ,ho
bosom of the ;ll;m;,ahIo f;ald of - '"o
and Webster. oceans ssIf nsal;uo :" rs.
ino vo;ces and IN thnnJ" , pe",'"s ~ roar
erIasting anthems round the rock. built
shores, that hem about the habitations of
the children of Almighty God.
o. And Clay, again, planet. like the
fiery Mars, menacingiy streaming tbroupb
the fields of space; Calhoun, like MercuTv
swift in his fight, close round the ann
dense and constant to its centre of attrac.
ton, chasing the living creatures that tread
upon 1t, SO that they cannot leap six inches
above ITS exacting and inexorable surface {;
and Webster, like Jupiter, boldly aspirant
TO snuff the moon ) and with his playful
absence OF strong attraction, permitting
living things to leap mile high up towards
heaven or Saturn, feeding not on infants,
put devonring giants at a gulP; Clay, like
aurora, heraiding the day-spring of crea
non Oainoun, the oaieful Syrius, the raging
Dog'Sta OF the skies and Webster, the
superseen and all-seeing North Star of the
upper deep!
10. In music, Clay would have loved to
listen to the ringing tones of the war. .bugles'
sounding note Calhoun, the multifarious
discord that makes an operatic harmony ::
and Webster, the still, deep-rolling solemn
anthem.
IL. If an element. Clav would GLORY IN
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