Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-04-10

JOHN C. CALHOUN.
d" But treason capital, confessed, ant
proved, hath ovsrthrown him.
CHARLES SUMNER.
"Besides-he hath born his faculties SC
meek, hath been SO clear in his great office
that his virtues will plead like angels
trumpet-tOngued, against the deep damna
ton of his taking off"
"UNCLE" BUTLER
"And so, from hour to hour, We ripe
and ripe ; and then, from hour to hour, We
rot and rot."
ANsON BURLINGAME.
You that will fight, follow me close
III bring you to it."
PRESTON S. BROOKS.
He excels his brother for coward,
yet his brother is accounted one Of the
best that is /; in retreat be ou,rurs any
lackey; marry, in coming on be has the
cramp
EDWARD EVERETT.
al have seen the ddmb men throng to
see him, and the blind to hear him speak;
matrons flung gloves, ladies' and maids
their scarfs and handkerchiefs, upon him
as he passed"
FILLIBUsTER WALKER
40, if men were saved by merit, what
hole in hell were hot enough for him -
MILLARD FILLMORE.
"Wha,'s this (To the Pope)
Nay, then, farewell have touched the
highest point of all my greatness, and from
that full meridian of my glory, l haste
now to my setting. | shall fail like a
bright exhalation in the evening, and no
man see me more"
"Fortune brings in some boats that are
not steered."
THOMAS II. BENTON.
~ am left; for me nothing remains
but long | will not be Jack out of-ofice"
JOHN c. FREMONT.
"This was the noLlsst Roman Of them
all"
HENRY A. WISE.
4" If they will fight with me, bid them
come down, or void the field; they do
offend our sight. If they'll do neither,
We will come to them"
"Sir, you seem a sober, ancient gentle
man, by your habit, but your words show
you o naadmau.'
HENRY W. LONGFELLOw.
"The poets eye, in a fine phrsnzy roll
ling, doth glance from heaven to earth,
from earth to heaven, and, as Imagination
bodies forth the forms of things unknown,
the poets pen turns them to shapes, and
gives to airy nothing a local habitatiOn
and . name"
JOHN TYLER.
Had | but served my God with half
the zeal served my King, He would not
in mine age have left Inc naked to mine
enemies"
JOHN NJ. CLAYTON.
"When the butt is out, we will drink
water not drop before. Give me acup
Of sack"
JOHN P. SANDERsON.
Which is the villain Let me see his
face that when note another man like
him, l may avoid him"
JOHN RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE.
What 1 think, l utter, and spend my
malice in my breath"
CALEB CUSHING.
The best persuaded Of himself; so
crammed, as he thinks, with e1cellences,
that it is his ground of faith that all that
look on him love him"
RUFUS W. GRIswoLD.
He counsels divorce loss Of her,
that like jewel, has hung twenty ysars
about his neck, yet never lost her lustre."
ELISHA WHITTLEsRY.
ZACHARY TAYLOR.
"Every man hath bis fault, and honesty
is his; l have told him ont, but l could
never get him from it"
JANIS GORDON BENNETT.
He speaks an infinite deal Of nothing,
more than any man in all Venice. His
reasons are a. two grains of wheat hid in
two bushels of chaff you shall seek all
day ere you find them, and after you have
them they are not worth the search"
LIEUTENANT MAURY.
Numbering sands and drinking oceans
dry"
ISAIAH RYNDERS.
"Our business is not unknown 10 the
Senate; they have had an inkling, this
fortnight, what we intend to do, which
now we'll show 'em deeds. They say poor
suitors have strong breaths; they shall
know We have strong arms too"
JOHN ". GEARY.
40, but man, proud man, drest in q
little brief authority, most ignorant of
What he's most assured. his CLASSY essence
like an angry ape, plays such fantastic
lrisks before high heaven as make the an
GELS weep"
PROF. MORSE.
"rll put girdls round the earth in
forty minutes"
WILLIAM L. MARCY.
"And, oftentimes, excusing of fault,
doth make the fault worse by the excuse