The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1857-12-17
Plutarchic.

| SS"s insanity 'e4"hcu LIS couilnernent IN
Lunatic Asylum, has been discharged cured
Since then he delivered lecture mt Lexing.
Ton, Kentucky, from which the Observer
and Reporter reports the following extract
In this State people will be apt to think
the General was discharged too soon
CLAY, CALHOUN, AND WEBSTER.
| ny w. T. HASKELL.
Aud now, dismiss fer the present all
these leading characters save Clay, and
no longer dwell on him, as distinctive
character, but as one Of mighty trio, Clay,
Calhoun, and Webster, who 10 us were
what Pitt, Fox, and Grattan were to Euc.
land.
l. In social lfe-in marriage, for exam.
ple-Clay would nave pressed forward with
a coup .d'etdt." like an ancient Briton,
a sturdy Welchman in Glendower's day. an
Arabian chief, each one of whom would
have seized his reluctant bride, aud borne
her TO his home.
Calhoun would ponder long and warily,
and with circumspection, like an European
monarch. who negotiates match for pur.
poses oi State.
And Webster, like Prince Hal V, of
England, who wooed and won without di.
| plomacy the gentle Katherine, the daugh.
ter of the Due de Reignier, and brother of
Henry vi. of England, the victim of tha,
she'wolf of France, Margaret of Anjou and
the Bloody Gloster, in the Tower Of Lon
don.
g. In forensic debate-the forte Of CLAW
was his resis,less Eloquence-of Calhoun.
his sophism, and wonderful power Of meta
physical disquisition, and astute ANALYSIS
in Webster, Of open and solid argument.
3. As Historian, Clay would have
been speculative theorist-Calhoun n
Scep,ic aud Examiner, and Webster would
have been guided by Example and ,h c
Facts.
a.. A disappointment, in n struggle for
dominion, Clay would have felt with the
pr'cklng of the pangs Of Pride and Ambi
uon batfied-Calhoun, with the restless fe-
Yer of defiant discontent-- Webster
would have encountered it with calm and
philosophical composure.
5. La administering Government, CLAY
would have been both compromising aud
constructive Calhoun, headstrong. restless
and deiiant-Websler for standing on the
Laws and the Constitution.
9. AS 4 monarch, Clay would have pre-.
ferred TO have been an Autocrat-C calhoun,
an Athenean Archon, elevated ON the broad
est primeip!s- of Democratic suiIruge-and
Webster would have liked limited and
constitutional Monarchy.
z. As a Historic character Clay resem-
bles the chiyairous and daring Henry V. of
England on the field of Agiucourt, charg
ing with visor up and lance, coUchant, in
rest, against the mailed and willing, bold
and mockIng, mad and feversh Percy, the
redoubtabie and unJaunted lloispur-
FRINGE Hal, swift hearing on aslridc his
richly caparisoned and well.housed white
steed. his nostrils wide expanded, and chal
lenging, fierce neigh, his white name
streaming on his boldly uplihed crest, and
waving tail, lashng wildly the mad and
sulphur charged wind careering DER the
field of battle, while Percy bounds with a
defiant shout, 10 meet him in the longed.
tor conflict. Calhoun. the subtle strategist.
the calculating Saladin. whose Damascus
scymeter flashes through the severed nec,
of foeman, who know not ill they NOD their
heads that they are detached from their
bodies-whiIe Webster, Cuur dc Lion in
arms, hurls his battle axe, with colossal
strength, until the mailed links ily apart,
and The descending weapon grnds bones,
and blood, and fire. into one, undistinguisha-
bic, shapeless mass of Jove-spliued, light.
ning stricken humanity.
8. They are like three different streams
OF equal volume. Clay, like ST. Anthony 5
Falls, or Cataractic, Niagaric Cascade.
flashing in creamy foam, and rainbow
beauty, roaring and kissing in lumultuous
eddies, tearing on, impatientIy pressing for.
ward, to search the blue and tranquil depths.
or earnestly crowdn. on, betwxt high
rocky shores. begir with ligncous forest
monarchs, its banks al! frin.ed with vines
and flowers. sweeping like the streams tn ii
led the Mediterranean blue, drawing II world
of waters through BospEoric passes AID
HercuIean Straits, with an undercuncnt eli.
ding slow beneath, both TO and fro. like
Pontis and Proponlis through the Il sean
Seas, 10y rock glrt Isles, scorning the muddy
Nile, out into the blue depths of old Ocean ;
multitude "POiHphLosb0io IHaidSSeS" waves.
Calhoun. n multitude of nuumerabIe
streams, washing the mountain bases,
threading with winding aud devious course
The many tangled woods and gloomy forest
depths, and stealing swiftly through ten
thousand valleys, and gathering all logeth-
er to make Its grand deJW to the unitlh.
omable deep, detantIy to breast the winds
that sweep the bosom Of the il.imtable field
Of waters-and Webster, Oceans self. peal.
ing, in roaring voices and in laundering
rones, It's everlasting anthems, round the
tock built shores that hem about the habi.
tatIons of the children of Almighty Cod
o. And Clay again a Planet, ike the
fiery Mars, menacingIy streaming through
the fields of space; Calhoun like Mercury,
swift in his flight, close round the Sun,
dense and constant 10 its centre OF altrac.
ton, chasing the living creatures lhat tread
upon II, so that they cannot leap six inches
above lis exaciing and iuexorabe surface;