Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-08-02
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EDWARD Everett GIaO Incidentally ConsY6-
a sLAsHING REVIEW.

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sLAsHING REVIEW.
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-, = ne Old and amiabIe rule of speaking ONLY
WIN NlnuneSS OF the dead, is one which in this
"u''u OF small comfy, we have no wish 10 die.
regard; although it is one, the final violation Of
~nlGn wiz; IS SIMPLY question of time and the ma
JuLai result OF historic doubts. All character, is
9uoiohs There may be those who with nor
fect honesty do not admire Fenelon and do aJ.
% "%lFe Di3erOt or Fotairc. Indeed, it is onlv
"HeH a human career is closed that we are in
position to estimate its value, purnort and
nPShot The public life of public man is pnb.
nc property. We may not indecently hasten to
draw his traisties from their drcar abode. but
the mere fact that he has gone to his account,
10 "nich, indeed the meanest and the most
uaShlncent natures must 60 certainly affords
no authority Tor s!andcring the living If the
late Mr. Rufus Choatc, while he succeeded es a
"t$' P"@"S lawyer, failed as q statesman, we do
not know that this gives Mr.. Edward Everett,
who has also failed as statesman. the riqht IN
stand in Fancuil Hall, and to ccnsurc to the
oeSt OF ms not inconSideruble ability those who
! nave heen more fortunate. AR. Choate NAV
nave mad little fondness for political life, and
no aptitude whatever for the out door manage.
ment, FOR the clcctioneering icgerdemain. for
the wcaTIsOme correspondence with the local
great men, and the hcart-breaking ctrudeerv of
ranking cart-!oads speeches and public ,l0cu-
ments to the four winds, which are necessary
Mt the present day to great success in political
career still less" Mr.. Everett went on to
say, was he adroit in turning to some personal
advantage whatever topic happens 10 attract
public attcntion-GslIing with ever freshly
| halted hook i'll the turbid waters of ephcrncrai
popularity"
1t such language this should fall from a
young man just entering upon public life
from a yuuHg man hoping TO be Rcpresrntative.
| or Senator Or Pres
such an expression Of opinion to 0e at once
candid and courageous; but coming from an old
man IRON one well verSed III the arts which
he dcnonnccs-the clectionccrng lcgcrd.-
mann, the weariSome correspondence with
! local great men, " "Ihc Misunderstanding druduerv
oiIranking cnrt-Ioads of speeches aud public
| documents from one who; if he has not been
adroit IN turning to personal advantage topics
happening to attract public attention." has not
been aversc to the attcmpt-coming from such
81 man may not these opinions and their some
what qneruons expression, be rather the result
OF disappointment, and argue rather a want of
philosophy than any peculiar personal purity?
! we DO not Know anybody who has written
more "ietters to local great men" than Mr. Ev
erett, and some orlhose which we have seen
were so full OF feeble complaint, that they would
Ill bear publication. We do not knox ANYBODY
Who III his day willing to inIprovc
! topics happening to attract public attention"
| Everybody will remember that when iiI!ibus.
tc'Ing happened" to be in fashion, Mr.. Everett
was a tinc tiilibuster. Everybody who heard it
"lIl remember the Plymouth speech, in which
Alr. Everett declared that "the work must 90
on; hy which he meant that the manifest dcS-
tiny OF the United States was TO conquer and
annex the Kingdoms and republics OF South
| America. Every body who ever heard of it
will remember the attempt Of Mr.. Everett to
| appropriate to himself the credit of Mr. Web.
Ster's celebrated iluIsemann letter Everybody
. " nf
how Mr.. Everett subscribed for the Sumner
TESTIMONIAL and how he Hflcrward attributed
his lnGlscrcton to overdose of laudanuin
Surely no gentleman whose personal history is
crowded with incidents like these is in posi-
zion TO sneer at 'thc diStincuishedactiv states
man of the day." Nor did the memory of AIr.
Choatc require any such apology. a lawyer in
great practice, exceedingly devoted to his pro.
LESSON, and relying upon its cmOlumcnts to
meet Il personal expenditure which was always
large and frequently mprovidcnt, he preferred
to give his time, Snachcd from the demands of
the bar, to liberal studies, to the preparation
of "discourses on academic occasions" And
| because he did so, and trusted to the wiser in
StinctS OF his naturc-bccausc he knew himself
to be in place rather in the Court Room than
i'll the Senate Chambcr-it docs not follow that
other men, who had more positive taste and
talent for public employment, were either his
moral or his intellectual interiors And if his
political aspirations had been never so ardent
he entertained fatal opinions, which, in the heat
and hurry Of his speech, he continually bctray-
ed |? he cared for any Democracy, it was for
the old Democracy of Athens. II he believed in
any Constitution, ii was in the unwIittcn Com
stitution Of Great Britain. He sncercd at the
Declaration Of independence. He grlcd and
ijibed at the most limited alliance between hu.
manity and politics. Slavery is the surcSt
touch stone of political character at the present
time, add the test was fatal to Mr. Choatr lie
thought that to be enslavcd was best for the
| blacks, and to cnS'ayc them was best for the
whites. The people of Massachusetts were not
Ct his mind; but we will do him the justice to
say that for the opinion Of the people of Mass,-
chusetts he cared very little. There was an
inherent love of paradox in his nature, which
long practice in the Courts did not Of course
diminish. Clear headed men were not deceived
either by the fnlminations or fulgidities oC his
rhetoric. lie was careless Of personal couSe.
Qncnces, and would at auy time risk success Tor
the sake ofstartling. In avoiding political du.ics
or in uniting himself to discharge them-in
suffering himself to drift into the turbd waters
of au,-Democracy-in seeking with SCOTS and
sncerS to silence the discussion Of great qucs-