Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-10-14

ceeded in making life and property safer in
every city of the empire. And that, is Frs
kim whose eloquence, spite of Lord Eldon
and George the Third, made it safe to speak
and to print.
Then New England takes up the record,
saying, That is Cboate-wbo made il safe
to murder: and of whose health thieves asked
before they began to steal.o
And this was listened to with patience !!
Aye, the faithful reporter tells US with "laugh
ter and applause ~ What must be the state
of society which produces such priest and
such an, audiencel The untutored savage
who knows nothing of revealed religion but
draws his lessons of virtue and morality from
the instincts of his breast, would not be gull
ty of so gross a departure from right. OF a
truth may it he said the missionary is needed
in Boston: the heathen is at the very doors
of the church in that enlightened, classic
city! GA
Massachusetts has placed a statue of WEB
sTER in front of her capitol. 1t is proper
mark of her appreciation of the greatest of
her sons-tbe statesman who conferred re-
nown upon his native State and upon the ma
ton. OF him--of DAsIEL WBBsTER-did
PHILLIPS also speak. We give a specimen
and turn from the contemplation of the
wretcbed fanatic with loathing and disgust
Blame me not that i again open the re-
cord, Mr.. Chairman. His (Websteris) inju-
dicious friends will not let him die. Indeed.
the heavy yoke he laid on innocent and
friendless victims frets and curses them vet
too keenly TO allow him to be forgotten.
He reaps only what be sowed. In the Tai
mud, the Jews have story that Og
King of Bushan, lifted once great rock 10
hurl il on the armies of Judah God hOl-
lowed it in the middle, letting it slip over
the giants neck, there to rest while he lived
This man lifted the Fugitive Slave Bill to
burl. as at Syracuse, or the trembling
and hunted slave, and God has hung it like
a milestone about his neck for evermOre.
TApplause] While the echoes of Everett's
periods still fingered in our streets, as 1 stood
with the fresh-printed sheet of his eulogy in
my hand. there came to me man, succes stul
after eight attempts, in flying from bondage.
Week after week he had been in the woods,
half starved, seeking in vain a shelter. For
weeks he bad pinned in dungeons, waiting the
slow steps of his master. At last God bless
I'd his eighth effort, and he stood in Boston.
On his glad way from the vulture of the States
10 the safe refuge Of English law. He show
ed me his broad bosom. SCARED all over with
the branding iron, his back one mass of re-
cord how often the lash had tortured him for
his noble efforts TO get free.
] looked at him. ard the empty and living
eulogy dropped from my nerveless hand and
thanked God that statue and euelogy both
were only borrid nightmare. and that there
were still roofs in Boston for the safe shelter
OF these heroic children of God g right hand
(PrUlonged cheering.1
But YOU and l. Mr.. Chairman were born in
Massachusetts, and we cannot but remember
that the character Of the state is marked by
the character of those il crowns. Daniel
Webster said on Bunker Hill. in one of his
most glorious bursts of eloquence, THAT mo-
tionlcss shaft will be the most powerful of
speakers. Its speech will be of civil aud re-
lieious liberty. 1t will speak of patriotism
and of courage. 1t will speak of the moral
improvement and elevation of mankind. De-
crepit age will lean against its base, and in
genuous youth gather around il, speak to
each other of the glorious events with which
ii is connected. and eXclaim, thank God, |,
also, am an Americana" 1t is glorious
lesson. and the noble old shaft tells il daily.
But when ingenious youth stand at his
pedestal what shall they say? Consummate
Juristl Alas. that your latest effort was to
sheer at a !" Higher Law ~ Most able aud elo-
quent Advocate! could you find no other
cause to plead than that of our lowest in
stinctS against our highest and hottest senti-
ments? Alas, that your last and ablest argu-
ment was the duty of hunting slaves! Sa-
gacious statesman Fated to die not very
old, and yet live enough TO see all the plans
of your manhood became obsolete ideas, cx-
cept just those You have abandoned! Surely
you were great party leader ! for you found
the Wing party strong, spent life in its service
and died prophesying it's annihlation, found
it decent, at least in profession, left it des-
picable in utter shamelessness found il the
natural ally of free labor and free speech,
stirred it to a contest with its rival in servile
bidding for southern fellowship. and left it
despicable for the attempt, and still more
despicable and ridiculous for its failure. Tie
curses OF the poor have bighted your laurels.
You were mourncd in ceiled houses aud the
marts of trade but the jewellers in slave
huts and fngitives along the highways thank
I'd God, when you died, that they had one
enemy the less. Wherever that terrible face
turned, it carried gloom to the bondman. On
how many an humble hearth did it cost the
loitiest Christian principle to fUrbear calling
down curses on your head
And yet your fatters tell us, this was the
:. grandest growth of our soil and insti!u-
tons y this the noblest heart Massachusetts
can offer 10 the world for place beside the
PhOcions and the Hampdens-thc Jays and
the Fayettes! Thank God, then, am not a
Massachusetts man !