New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-09

and fearful eyideLce Of the downfall and dtgener.
ton Of mind and Of m9n 10 South Carolina is not
needed; but if It were, the Honorable Lawrence
n. Keitt would supply the widest deficiency IN that
regard. The Great Nuliier is 10 h:ye monument
wherever money enough can be collected to build
il; but as Boston ard NewYork merchants have
just now 10 money TO spare, and no particular rev.
eIeDce for Mr. Calhoun the South Carolin,ns must
rely upon their own purses. They have managed in
some way to lay tie corner-stone; and, II the e1-
ample Of Virginis be Improved, cares from the
grave may bring in cash enough to pay for few
Thousands Of bricks and few bushels of lime
But, before carrying about subscription paper, we
advise The stern and deci,iye suppression Of Mr.
Keitt He s undoubtedly man Of ability, for be
is able TO make even tie memory Of Calhoun rldic-
ulCus; and outlaws oyer the grave Of greatoess
sound hollow and dreIy The North had little
reason for loving Mr. Calhoun; yet be has left even
here memory Of great battles greatly fought,
sometimes won after psrlo1s contest. and some
times lost, when defe.t brought 10 dishonor Tne
blows which we were obliged to take, no less than
these which We were obliged to give, enabled US to
form tolerably just estim,te of Mr.. Calhouns
powers, ard our respect for thsm is wounded BY
Mr. Keitts superlatiyes. Although the lion be
dead, Why must this Nightingale of Arc'di; be a.
lowed to discourse dissOnant peans over bis grave
After Lies titful fever he should be permitted to
sleep well, nor driven, in sort OF preternaIura
agony. to turn in his coffin, by tie plattu-
dnous praises of L. N. Keitt. Let thss
babbler be careful of his digestion and shun
impractcabe suppers if be would not have the
cas.-iron countenance reproachfully haunting his
slumbers Mr. Calhoun never, while living, need
ed protection from censure half so much as he
now needs protection from prase. Did no leave
no friends no heirs no relatives no representa-
tivesl Is there nobody to rescue him from k9it
Why did be not take testamentsry precautions
spaipst Keitt Alas the eye of his dstempered
fancy sometimes beheld South Carolina reduced
ruined degraded and down. trodden, taxed, tor
mented and torturad; but he did not, probably, In
his saddest moment, think that Keitt would be bis
euogist. Providence, f,Ibearirg to embitter the
last hours Of dying greatness, drew the curtain and
concealed from his closing eyes the coming and
GROWING indienity. He was spared. He might
have foreseen monument, but let us kindly trust
that be did net foreses Kett. He must, with his
great acuteness, have felt that his reputation was
left in dubious keepiDg-he might have had appre
hf psiops of Quattlebum-but how dubious thank
Heaven he did not and could not know.
Mr.. Keitts oratorical style is quite different
from that of the late Mr.. Calhoun. 1t is much
finer. 1t is in fact as fine as fiddle. 1t is kidd
of bad Irish style, costiye in thought but not at all
costive in expression We cannot, n reading the
orstion, say with Sir Hugh, "Pauea rerba,' but we
can conscientiously say that the words are very
"goot worts," and that there are plenty of them.
In the article of adjective Mr. Kett is especially
opulent, while the late DR.. Charming was deficient
in the same. All Mr. Ke!t's nouns are adjectiyely
qualified, and some of them are, like the American
militia, "very strongly offcered" Moreover, Mr.
Kett is as classical as classical dictionary, and ne
lugs in by the head and shoulders about twO-thrds
of the distinguished dead people mentioned by Lem
priere, including Niobe, Titus, The Dying Gladia.
tor, Phidias, Scraps, Phocion Cato, Tacitus, Cic-
ero, Aspasia, and Eneas, to say nothing of the
Macedonian phalanX, the Pretorian cohorts, the
dust of the Campagna, the Grecian rietor
(sic in orig, the Roman legist the Titans,
the Styx, the Stagrite, Ktesiphon, Socrates,
Plato, and the King of Terrors, vulgarly called
Death. Here is fine specimen of Mr.. KS
classical allusons The meretricious jewels of an
"Aspa.ia may never have studded his chain of
" thought; but the chaste besuty of the aatique
"matron ever breathed its diguty over every word
(which he spoke." Who the particular old LADY
here alluded to may be, we do not know; but We
hope when she "breathes her dignity that the
effort is not accompanied by pulncnc paia. Here
is still another specimen of the Kett classical:
:" The obelisk and the pyramid, the hypogeum and
The temple scarred over with letters Of granite,
"spread their teachings to the popular sense from
90 the deserts Of Nubia to the deltas Of the Nile"
We call that god. Very handsome it is Of ths
obeiitk ard pyramid, to say nothing of the conde-
scen.cion Of the b. pOgeuD. in spreading its teach
ings to the popular sense. "What is hypogeum p
cur leaders may ask. We are not certain that We
know. Ii used to mean a cellar, and perhaps
wine cellar. May be Mr.. r. had been once too
often into shy pcgeum' wh:n he made bis speech.
We presume that they have "hyQogeuris' 10
Chsrleston
But Mr. Ktitt does rot allow his love OF the
clsssics to seducs him into any painful severity OF
stye. He tells US that "o once and once only the
CarOlioan consented 10 cothe bis thoughts 10 the
graceful diapsry of woid,.' This, our readers
will 1emember, was the weakness OF Psddys par
rot which, although very taciturn, kept up dsyil
Of thinking. Mr.. Keitt most certainly has not
profled By Mr. Calhouns example; We should
Ike to know the precise day upon which Mr. Cal
houn consented 10 open bis mouth as We should