Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-11-30
Clay, Calhoun, and webster.
By ". 7. HASKELL.

Us we're, what Pitt, Fox, and Grattan were to Eng
land.
/ In social life in marriage, for exampie-C1ay
would have pressed forward with Soup d. Et0t,"
Ike an ancient BritOn, sturdy Welchman in Glen
dower's day, an Arabian Chief, each one of whom,
would have seized his unreluctani BRIDE and borne
h. TO his home.
Calhoun would ponder long and warilv, snd with
circumspection, like an European Monarch, who ne
gotiates a match for purposes of State.
And, Webster, ike Prince Hal v, Of England
who woOed and won without diplomacy, the gentle
Katherne the daughter Of the Due de Reigni r,
and mother Of Henry VI CT EOgIand, the victim
Of that she-wof f France, Margaret of AnjOu,
and tn bloody Goster, in the Tower Of London.
2 In forensic debate-the forte of Clay. was his
resistlrss EIoquence-of Calhoun, his sophism, and
wonderful power Of metaphysical di, QUESTION. and
astute analyss,-in Webster, of open and solid ar
guuent.
3. AS Historian. Clay would have been spec-
ulative theorist-C Calhoun Scepuc and Examiner,
end Webster would have been guided by Example
and the Facts.
4. A disappointment, in struggle for domin-
ion, Clay would have felt with the pricking of the
pangs of Pride and Ambition led,-Cshoun,
with the restless fever of defiant discomfort, and
Webster would have encouDteredit with calm and
philosophical composure.
8. IN administering Government, Clay would
have been both compromising and conservative
Calhoun headstrong, restless and dehant-Web-
ster, for standing on the Laws and the Constitu-
ton.
8. As Monarch, Clay would have preferred to
have been AutOcrat-C Calhoun, an Athenean
ArchoD, elevated on the broadcast principles o.
D. mocratic sutfrage,-and Webster, would have
liked limited and constitutional Monarchy.
Z. As Historic character Clay resembles the
chivarous and daring Henry V. of England, on
the field of Agincourt charging with Vizor up, and
lance. cOHchGnt, in rest, against the mailed, and
willing, bold, and mOcking, mad, and feYerish Per-
~ nd It'd
Prince Hal, swift hearing astride his richly ca
parsOned and wtl-hOused white steed, his nostrils
wide-expanded, and challenging fierce neigh, his
white name streaming on his boldly uplitted crest.
and waving tail, lashing wildly the mad and sulphur
charged wind careering oar the field OF battle,
while PERCY bounds with defiant shout, to meet
him, in the onged-for conflict Calhoun, the sub
tie strategist the calculating Saladin, whose Da-
Dsscus Scym tar, flashes through the severed neck
of foeman who know not till they nod their heads
that they are detached from their bodies-whe
Webster Couer de Lion, in arms, hurs his ponder
Gus battle axe with colossal strength, until tha
mailed links fly apart, and the descending weapon
grnds bonrs and blood aud fibre into one undi.
tnguish bic, shapeless mass OF JoVesphtteo, light
ningSstricken humanity.
8. They are like three different streams of equal
volume Clay, like st. AnthOny's Falls, or Cata-
tactic, NisgaTic, Cascade, fasting in creamy foam,
and Rainbow Beauty, roaring and kissing, in tu-
multuous eddies, tearing on, impatiently pressing
forwsTd to search the blue and tranquil depths,
earnestly crowding on, betwixt high rocky shores,
begirt with igniOus forest mOnarchs, its banks all
fringed with vines and flowers, sweeping like the
streams that feed the Mediterranean blue, drawing
world of waters through BOsphOric passes aud
Herculean Straits with undercurrent gliding
slow beneath, both to snd fro, like Points and Pro-
points, through the Kgean Seas, by rockgirt Isles,
scorning the muddy bile, out into the blue depths
of Old Oceans multitude "POluphiOsbOiO ThdLas-
SeS" waves. Calhoun, a multitude of innumeTable
haaR
with winding and devious course, the many tangled
woods, and gloomy forest depths, and stealing
swiftly through ten thousand Valies and gathering
all together to make ITS grand debut, to the
fathOmuble deep, defantly to breast the winds,
that sweep the bosom of the illimitable field of
waters,-Hnd Webster, Oceans self, peaDg in
roaring voices, and in laundering tones, its ever
lasting anthems, round the rock-buit shores, that
hem about the habitatiOns of the children Of Al
mighty God.
g. And Clay, again, Planet, like the fiery Mars
meuacingly streaming through the fields OF space;
Calhoun, like Mercury, swift in his flight, close
round the Sun, dense and constant to its centre of
attraction, claiming the living creatures that tread
upon it, SO that they cannot leap siG inches a7Ove
its e1aering, and memorable surface; and Webster
like Jupiter boldly aspirant to "-nuf the Noon"
and with his playful absence OF strong attraction,
permitting living things, TO leap, mile Ugh, up
towards Heaven or Saturn, feeding not on lniants,
but dcyouring Giants at a gulp;-Clay, like Aurora
heralding the DIy-Spring of Creation; Calhoun, the
balefu Syrius, the raging DogStar Of the skies; and
Webster, the superseen and all-seeing North.Star
OF the Upper Deepl
10. Iu Music, Clay, would have loved to listen
10 the ringing tones Of the war-bugles' sounding
note; Calhoun, the multifsrious dscord that makes
Operate harmony; and, Webster, the STILL deep
rolling solemn anthem.
H. II an Element, Clay, would glory in person.
ating chatting, unclaimed storm; Calhoun, the
shifting and unsteady, variable winds; and, Web
81, "A alta d. IL.
with its rolling Diapason it sweeps the forest, as
when the Almighty with his resistless breath,
strikes Thuuder-Harp OF Pinesl
-. In War, Clay, like Charles XII Of Sweden,
would prefer the free assault; Calhoun, like Scott
would practice the strategetc siege or turn his en-
emies' right or LIFT wing instead of breaking his
centre; and, Webster, like old Trough and Ready"
or like Cromwell, would tell his men, to trust Ia
God, and ke, their powd-r dry" and meet the foe
in open, pitched, fairfield, and bull dog fight.
13. II Clay, challenged TO the field of Honor
be would fght at once, like the Admirable Crchton;
Calhoun, like our Quaker Revolutionary General
Nathaniel Green, would reason out OF 4; and
Webster would look upon the challenge like a gen
tieman ADD christian, aud treat IL with conscienti-
Gus Indifference
Ii If they we're called upon to make a Treaty,
CLAW would endeavOr to force il by intimidation
Calhoun, dplomatcaly treat Ii with Richelieu-like
and Machieveian cunning; Webster, by open, fair,
straisht-forward dealing.
energies to teaching il, notwithstanding he died
Episcopaliau, would have been an Enthusiast aud,
as was the exclusive and aristncratc habit Of his
mind lie would have believed IN the doctrine of
Election, or Professionalism, and allowed but
very select few TO be saved and the balance 20 be
inconstinenty damned; Calhoun, woull have been
a Free-Thuker; and, W Webster. Ia favor of the Es-
tablished Constitutional Church.
IS. In Patriotism, Clay, for Compromise,
COuverVatism, and Union; Calhoun. for SECESSION,
Nullication,- loved him too we'll 20 say Treason,
Revolution, and Dsunion Webster, Tor Union,
Independence and a Common Cause, at every
baz trd.
II In habits, Clay, was dictatorial, magisterial,
and geniil; Calhoun, wary, diplomatic aud exelu-
siVe and, Webster, gentle, seipoised, aud digni-
fed.
Is. In Poetry, Clay, would have been Heroic and
Lytcli Calhoun, Didaetic; and, Webster, like
the Blind Old Bard Of Solos Rocky Isle," would
have ,ssayed al Epic.
- In Art and Architecture, Clay, would have
taneied Painting aud Sculpture; Calhoun wouli have
mathemadcaLy taxed bis brain, .ia labyrinthine
structures, such as Ulysses threaded In the Rock
grit Isle OF Crete where the Fales held Zoe Ii h.
aud the Distaf, aud the Wheel when Atropas clip
ped the String OF Fate and, Webster would have
buded Monuments and Pyramids.
20 Il is remarkable, that IN al the written papers
left 10y Clay, there is but little cleaning nom the
fields OF Ancient or Modern LteFaturs, less in
CaIhOun's, aud they are 90 be found but spaEsely
IN Webster, but when found, opposite and apprO
pirate.
Aud DOW, leave these twenty one p1in's Of con
trast for future additions a they may occur 70 ne