The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-01-16

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.,I.d "a chronicle, thus, with glowing dc.
s,on ~. sketches thAportraits of that immortal
.r;o Clay.NESke1Se ~ Galhs1 The Ian
cuage r. - sase Of word
paint An 1 sus II =. ssnt, all
the.,yI ~ " = ~ Cln9s md no
iours ~ Ill - -, ~ : 6stinSlise char
acter. - & I]sue Of q niSbty ~, Clay,
Wchster - Cashoun Who to ~ were,
what m; ~ and Giattaq wers Eng
land. i ia D ss'ss ;'sye
/. rnsssn;al life-in marriage, e. exam-
ple-Clay would have pressed forward with
q cou0 Gesat, like ancient Bnton, . sturdy
Wac6snan in Glendower's day, an Arabian
Chief. each one Of whom, would have seized
his reluctant bride, and borne her 70 his
Calhoun would posder long andiwearily,
and with circumspection, like an European
Monarch, who negotiates . match FOR Par-
noses Of State.
And Webster, like Prince Hal ", Of Eng
land, who woed and won without diplomacy
the gentle Katherine, the dasghter OF the
Due do Reignier, and mother OF Henry VI:
of England, the victim OF that she-woif OF
France, Margaret Of Anjea and the Bloody
Gloster, in the Tower Of London.
Q. In forensic debate-the forte OF Clay,
was his resistless Elequence-ot Calhoun,
his sophism, and wonderful power Of meta
physical disquisition and astute anaiysis-in
Webster, of open and solid argument.
. J. As . Uisterian, Clay, would have been
a speculative theorist-Calhoun, Skeptc
and Examiner, and Webster would have
been guided by Example and the Facts.
q 4 disappointment, in, q struggle Tor
dominion. Clay would have felt with the
prickinc Of the pangs Of Pride and Ambition
bafiedoCalhoun with the restless fever OF
defiant discontept-and W ebster would have
encountered it with calm and philosophical
composurc. ,e.
5. In administering Government, Clay
would have been both compromising and
conseryative-C Calhoun headstrong, restless
and dcfiant-Webster for standing on the
Laws and the Constitution.
4 t. Asa Monarch, Clay would have pre-
ferred to have been an MISUNDERSTANDING,
IN Athenean Archon, elevated on the broao.
est principles Of Democratic sutfrage-and
Webster would have liked limited and
constitutional Monarchy. pa
7. As a Historic character, Clay resembles
the chiyalrous and daring Henry Y. OF Eng
land, on tho field Of Agincourt, charging
with visor an, and lance couchant, in rest,
against the mailed and willing, bold and
knocking, mad and feverish Percy, the re-
doubtai6ie and undaunted Hotspur-Prinee
llal, swift bearing on astride his richly ca
parisoned and we'll housed white steed, his
nostri,s~ wide expanded, and challenging
fierce neigh, his white name streaming on
his boldly upl;fted crest, and waving tail,
l,.shing wildly the mad and sulphur charged
wind, carecring DER the field OF battle, while
Percy bounds with Q defiant shout, TO meet
him, in the longed-for conflict: Calhoun,
the subtle stratcgist, the calculating Sala-
din, whose Damascus scymetar flashes
through the severed neck OF foemen, VINO
know not till they nod their heads, that they
So are detached from their bodies-while Web
ster, Capr dc Lion, in arms, hurls his pom
derous battle-axe with colossal strength,
until the mailed links fly apart, and the de-
scending weapon grinds bones, and blood,
and fire, into one undistinguishable, shape
less mass of Jove-splitted, lightning stricken
humanity. .s. ..-..
5. They are like three different streams Of
equal volume. Clay, like st. Anthony'a
Falls, or Cataractic, Niagaric, Cascade,
flashing in creamy foam and rainbow beauty
roaring and kissing in tumultuous> eddies,
tearing on, impatently pressing forward, to
search the blue and tranquil depths, or earn
estly crowdlng on, betwixt high rocky shores
bcgirt with lignious forest monarchs, its
sweeping like the streams that feed the Med
iterranean blue, drawing world Of waters
through Bosphoric pass and Hurculean
Straits, with IN undercurrent gliding slow
beneath, both to and fro, like Points and
propontis, through the Egean seas, by
rock-girt Isles, scorning the muddy Nile,
OUT into the blue depths Of Old Oceans
multitude sPoluphlosboio Ihalasses' waves.
Calhoun, multitude of innumerable
streams, washing the mountain bases,
threading with winding and devious course,
the many tangled woods and gloomy forest
depths, and stealing swiftly through ten
thousand yallies, and gathering all together
to mike its grand debut, to the unfathoma-
BILE deep, dcfantly to breast the winds, that
sweep the bosom of the illimitable field of
waters--und Webster, Oceans self, penling
in roaring voices, and in laundering tones,
its everlasting anthems, round the rock
built shores, that hem about the habitation
Of the children of Almighty God.
9. And Clay, again, a Planet, like the
fiery Mars, menacingly streaming through
the fields Of space Calhoun, like Mercury,
swift in his flight, close round the sun, dense
and constant to its centre Of attraction,
chasing the living creatures that tread upon
it, so that they cannot leap six inches above
its cxncting and inexorable surface and
Webster, like Jupiter, boldly aspirant to
-'snuif the Moon," and with his playful alb
sence of u strong attraction, permitting liv-
ing things to leap Q mile high, up towards
Heaven, or Saturn, feeding not on infants
but dcvouring Giants Mt gulp; Clay, like
Aurora, heraldilg the Day Spring Of Crea-
iion: Calhoun the haleful Syrius, the ra-
cling Dsg-Star Of the skies; and Webster,
the superseen and all-seeing North Star Of
tho Upper Deepl
10. ia Music, Clay wonld have loved to
listen to the ringing tones Of the war-bugles'
sounding note: CalhSun, the multifarious
discord that makes an operate harmony !;
and Webster, the still, deep-roIling solemn
anthem. .r- ... ...... .... -....e .,,.-
II. IL aa Element, Clay would glory in
perseaatiDg chafning, unclaimed storm !;
Calhoun, the shifting and unsteady, variable
winds; aud Webster, the strong and steady
breeze, slow-moving, as with its rolling Da-
pason it sweeps the forest, us when the AL
mighty, with his resistless breath, strikes a
thunder harp Of pines! o.
II. In War, Clay, like Charles XII. of
Sweden, would prefer the fierce assault
Calhoun, like Scott, would practice the
stratcgetic siege, or turn his enemies right
or left wing, instead Of breaking his centre;
and Webster, like old "Rough and Ready"
or like Cromwell, would tell his men to
1strust in God, and keep their powder dry,''
and meet the foe in an open, pitched, fair
field, and bulldog fight
-sl3. If Clay was challenged to the field Of
honor, he would Hght at once, like the Ad-
mirable, Crichton /; Calhoun, like our Qua
ker Rev dictionary Genera, Nathaniel Green,
would reason out of "; and Webster would
look upon the challenge like q gentleman
and a christian, and treat it With conscien.
tious indifference.
IA. If they were called upon to make q
treaty, Clay would endeavor to force it by
intimidation; Calhoun, automatically trea,
it with Richelieu-like aud Machieyelliar
cunning; Webster, by open, fair, straight.
forward dealing.
= Is. In Religion, Clay, if he had conse.
Grated his energies to teaching it. n0tWith.