The Nevada journal., 1858-02-05
WHOLE NUMBER 397

aric Cascade, flashing in creamy foam
ana rainbow beauty, roaring and his
sing IN tumultnous eddies, tearing on,
impatiently pressing forward to search
the blue and tranquil depths, or earnest
ly crowding on. betwixt high rocky
shores hegirt with lignious forest mon
archs its banks all fringed with vines
and flowers, sweeping like the streams
that feed the Meditelranean blue, draw
ing world Of waters through Bospbor-
ic passes and Herculean Straits, with an
under current gliding slow beneath, both
to and fro, like Points and Propontis,
through the Hgean Seas, by rock girt
Isles, scorning the muddy Nile, out into
the blue depths of Old Oceans multi
tude "PofuPtloSboio ThalasSes" waves.
Calhoun, multitude of innumerable
streams, washing tie mountain bases,
threading with winding and devious
course the mazy tangled woods and
gloomy forest depfhs, and stealing swift
ly through ten thousand vallies, and
gathering all together to make its grand
dr6ut, to the unfathomable deep, def
antly to breast the winds that sweep the
lllimitab.e field of waters-and Web
ster, Oceans self, pealing in roaring
voices, and in laundering tones, its ever
lasting anthems, round the rock-built
shores that hem about the habitations of
The children of Almighty God
9. And Clay, again, a Planet, like the
fiery Mars, menacingly streaming thro'
the fields Of space; Calhoun, like Mer-
curry, 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 SIX inches above its exacting and
inexoraGle surface; and Webster, like
Jupiter boldly aspirant to "snuff the
Moon" and with playful absence of
strong attraction, permitting living things
to leap mile high, up towards Heaven,
or Saturn, feeding not on Infants, but
devouring Giants at gulp. Clay, like
.Nurora, heralding the Day. Spring of
Creation Calhoun, the baleful Syrius,
the raging DogStar of the skies and
Webster, the super-seen and all-seeing
North Star of the Upper Deep!
10. In Music, Clay would have loved
to listen to the ringing tones of the war
hugle's sounding note; Calhoun, the
multltarlouS dlscord that makes an OPP
cratic harmony and Webster, the still,
deeProling, solemn anthem.
IL. If an Element, Clay would glory
IN personating a chafirg, unclaimed
storm; Calhoun, the shifting and unstea-
dy. variable winds; and Webster, the
sIlong and steady breeze, slow-moving,
as with Its rolling Diapason it sweeps
the forest, as when the Almighty, with
his resislless breath, strikes a Thunder
harp Of Pines
II. In War; Clay, like Charles XII.
OF Sweden, would prefer the fierce as
sault; Calhoun, like Scott, would prac-
ice the strategetic siege, or turn his
enemies right or left wing, instead of
breaking his centre and Webster, like
old ''Rough and Ready" or like Crom-
well, would tell his men to trust in God
and keep their powder dry" and meet
the foe, IN an open, pitched, fairfield
and bulldog fight
l3. If Clay was challenged to the
field Of Honor, he would fight at once,
like the Admiral Crichton; Calhoun,
like our Quaker Revolutionary General,
Nathaniel Greene, would reason out of
it; and Webster would look upon the
challenge like gentleman and chris
tian, and treat it with conscientious in
difference.
IA. If they were called upon to make
a Treaty, Clay would endeavor to force
it by intimidation Calhoun, diplomati-
cally treat it with RicheIeu-like and
Machievellian cunning; Webster, by
open, fair, straightforward dealing.
Is. In Religion, Clay, if he had con-
secrated his energies to teaching it, not
withstanding he died an Episcopalian,
would have been an Enthusiast, and, as
was the exclusive and aristocratic habit
pf his mind, he would have believed in
the doctrine Of Election or Predestina-
and allowed but a very select
few to be saved, and the balance to be
incontinently damned; Calhoun W., ,uld
have been a Free-Thinker; and Web
ster, in favor of the Established, Consti-
Church.
16. In Patriotism, Clay was for Com
promise, Conversatism and Union Cal
houn, for Secession, Nullifcation-I
loved him too well to say Treason-
Revolution and Disunion; Webster, for
Union, Independence, and Common
Cause, at every hazard.
II. In Habits, Clay was dictatorial.
but genial Calhoun. wary,
diplomatic and exclusive; and Webster,
gentle, self-poised and dignifed.
is. In Poetry, Clay would have been
Heroic and Lyrical Calhoun, Didac-
tic; and Webster, like 'the Blind old
Bard of Sci"'s Rocky Isle." would have
an Epic
10. In Art and Architecture, CLAY
would have fancied Painting and Sculp
tore Calhoun would have mathemati-
eally taxed his brain, in yrinthine
structures, such as Ulysses threaded in
the rock girt Isle of Crete, where the
Fates held the Light, and the Distaff,
and the Wheel, when Atropus clipped
the string Of Fate and Wehstar v1onlI