The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-07-14
po.ahumous Praise.

1.-THE dead could hear; t. In that cold samblanco
Of ufe, which ere decay has commenced, looks 30
like sIssp, there were o waking sense 70 eaten the
musse Of salogy that floats around, almost as son ana
silvery az the first fant melodies OF paradise now
might even the immortal who has passed through
the great mystery Of Death, wonder OF the greater
mystery Of mortal Inconsistency. IL Is humane
maxim that bids US speak no evil OF the dead' ana
surely, none but hyena or A ghoul would WISH 70
Invade the precincts Of the tomb and feast It's IN
fernal appetite upon the contents Of the charnel
house But equally offensive 10 good taste, and re-
voting to truth, decency and manliness, are the
indscriminsts laudations heaped upon the grave of
fallen greatness by those whose tongues are vet hot
with defamation Of the illustrious departed, when
alive aud figuring actively in the scenes OF puohc
life.
These reflections have been suggested by the inI-
some strains In which the Tribune and other BLACK
Republican journals refer 10 the isie otoio'"'!
Marcy One would imagine now that the is'''''i"N
statesman was the srst intellect OF the age ana
model Of every public and private '"'ue' le''
while be was living he was abusn "lIhoue stihtoy
these extravagant panegyrsts OF to-day, as an en-
bod,ment Of political depravty, a wretched party
hack. without an idea beyond the traces,
pirat,on above the manager. What shall We believer
Shall the public man never receive Justice till
Death removes him from the conflict for power and
place, and then be honored in such frothy and Of
Srrescing libations, that know not where to look
for reality and TRUTH
Well Is 1t that the "cod, dull Of Death" is il.
sensible alike to human praise and condemnation
II aught could disturb its deep repose, it would be
the serpent tongue Of enmty seeking to hiss a
requiem over its grave Still moro disquietlng to
magnanimous shade would be the insidious effort to
oil Ia it, ar,a 81 az al
and equally pure and generous spirits. That secre
tary Marcy possessed all the qualities Of great
statesman, and was capable of guiding the helm OF
the ship Of state, he has proved on many trying
emergency, and demonstrated. beyond all caVil and
dispute during the late administration Of President
Pierce But whom, unsatisfed with the civic ldu'
rels which adorn his hrovs, his late adversarler,
superserviceabe friends, In the excess OF then
sympathetic devotion, seek 10 crown him with mil
itsry chapes stolen from the warlike crest OF Viz
gtnia: whom, skulking in the sacred shadows OF inc
sepulchre, they hur their missiles of dctractlon I
the real heroes Of the war with Mexico they might
well cause the bones of the dead ~ st!r uneasiiy,
in sympathy with the indignant hearts of the liv-
ing. Whilst deny the wisdom and en-
ergy with which Secretary Marcy presided over the
War Department, during the Mexican conflict, he
did not plan the campaigns. fight the battles,
gain the victories Of that memorable war. Zachary
Taylor and Winfield Scott needed no instructions
from anv civilian, or military man, either in Amt-
RIGA or Europe in the art and mystery Of that trade
of battle to which they had been spprenticedn hoy
hood and Of which they had been acknowledged
masters long before the Mexican war began. One
of these veteran captains sleeps in soldiers grave
The other still survives the first military man OF
the world. If the Black Republican detractor5 of
Secretary Marcy in life, would atone for the wrongs
they have done to the Dead lot them be just to the
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