Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-10-22

natter, few men know how to praise" Those
Cambridge professors and fair weather euloeists
have TO ability to measure Webster-either his ca.
pacity or his faults. They were dszzled blind by
the splendor of his endOwnents, they we're lost 10
the to mutt Of his vices. Theodore Parker's est.
mate Is the tfuest ever made. History will ad.
opt 1T as her verdict. His head and heart were
tho only ones large enough to grasp the subject,
and brave enough to paint it truly. tEnthusiastic
applanse.) The real ndmirer of Webster turns
from these French daubs 20 find there the cool,
truthful tone of Raphael, and feels that the states.
man has met there his kindest critic, and the man
bis most nppreciating judge. Accuse US not il
we award him blame MS well as praise. As |
said just now, our task is history, not Hattery.
know well that every statesman must compromise;
but, as Macaulay says-"A public man is often
under the necessity Of consenting to measures he
dislikes, TO save others he thinks important. But
the historian is under no such necessity. On the
contrary, it is one Of HE most sacred duties to
point out CLEARLY the errors of those whose gener-
al conduct he approves" If this be true Of Ger
rors," how still more sacred this duty wi en- the
question is one of t~reachery to Liberty herself
Blaim me not that | again open the record, Mr..
His iujudicious friends will not let
him die. Indeed, the heavy yoke no laid on limo.
cent and friendless victims ffets and curses them
yet too keenly to allow him to be forgotten. lie
reaps only what he sowed. In the Talmud, the
have a story that 0g, King of Bashan, lift
ed once q great rock, to hurl it on the armies of
Judah. God followed it In the middle, letting il
over the Giants neck, there TO rest while he
lived. This man lifted the Fugitive Slave Bill to
hurl 1T, as at Syracuse, on the trembling and hunt
ed slave, and God has hung il like a milestone
about his neck forevermOre. (Applauae.) While
the echoes Of Everett's periods still linger in our
streets, as | stood with the fresh-printed sheet of
euiogy in my hand, there came to me q man,
after eight attempts, in flying from bon
dage. Week after week he had been in the
woods half starved, seeking in vain a shelter. For
months he had pined in dungeons, waiting the
slow step of his master. At last God blessed his
eighth effort, and he stood in Boston, on his glad
from the Nulture Of the States to the safe
refuge Of English Law. He showed me his broad
bosom SCARED all over with the branding. iron, his
back one mass CT record how often the lash had
him for his noble efforts to get free. I
''hNN 70 b'bht hhN thO CihpbJ uhu lNlDR tulORH
from my nerveless hand, and / thanked
that Statue and Eulogy both were only a hor-
rid nightmare. and that there were still roofs in
Boston, safe shelter for these heroic children of
Gods RICH. hand. prolonged cheerng.)
But tot and !, Mr.. Chairman, were boru in
Massachusetts, and we cannot but remember that
he character Of the state is marked by tho char
lcter of those it crowns. A brave old English
nan tells us the Greeks had officers who did
'lnck down statues if they exceeded due symme-
ry and proportion. We need such now he adds.
to order monuments according 20 mems merits. In
we do! Daniel Webster said onBuukcF mi,
n one of his most glorious bursts of elpqu ence,
'Tha. motionless shaft will be the most powerful
# speakers. Its speeches will be of civil and relig.
our liberty. 1t will speak Of patriotism and If
1t will speak of the moral improvement
nd elevation Of mankind. Decrepid age will lean
.gainst its base, and ingenious youth gather
ound it. speak to each other of the glorious
vents with which it is connected, and exclaim,
hank God, ], also. am 40 American !" 1t is a
glorious Lessen, and the noble old shaft tells it
laily.
But when ingenious youth stand at his pedestal,
shat shall they say a? "ConsummGte jurist Alas,
hat your latest effort was to sneer at a 'Higher
Jaw !" Most able and eloquent advocate could
you find no other cause to plead than that of our
owest instincts against our highest and hottest
continents Alas, that your last and ablest ar
gnment was the duty Of hunting slaves ! Saga.
,ious statesman! Fated to die not very old, and
yet live long enough to see all the plans of your
manhood 1a,nuna nEao1ato a.. -. -I
you have abandoned Surely you were a great
1arty leader. for sou found the whig party strong,
'pent life in its service, and died prophecying its
found it decent. at least in profes.
i'm, left it despicable in utter shamelesness |
oubj it the natural ally Ct free labor and free
peech, stirred it to a contest with its rival 10 ser.
Tile bidding for Southern fellowship and LEFT il
lespicable for the attempt. and still more despica-
lie and ridiculous for its failure !! The curses of
he poor have blighted your laurels. You were
nourned in coiled houses and the marts of trado
nut the dwellsrs in slave huts and fugitives along
he highways thanked God, when you died, that
hey had one enemy the less. Wherever that ter
ible face turned, it carried gloom to the bond
nan. Oh how many a humble heart did it cost
he ~loltiest Christian principle to forbear calling
own curses on your head +!
"And yet, your ~fatterers tells US, this was the
growth of our soil and institutions =
his the noblest heart Massachusetts can offer to
he world for q place beside the Phocions and the
lam pdens-the Jays and the Fayettes Thank
I'd. then, we are not Massachusetts men |"
When | think of the long term and wide reach
his influence. and look at the subjects of bis
peeches-the mere shells of history-drum and
declamation-dry law, or selfish bicker-
ngs about trade when | think of his bartering
he hopes Of four million of bondmen for the
hances OF his private ambition, | recall the criti-
ism on Lord Eldon--"No man ever did hi, race
0 much good as Eldcn prerened." Again, when
remember the close of his life spent in ridicul-
ng the Anti-Slavery movement as useless abstrsc-
Ion. moonshine, 'mere rubadub agitation" be-
ause it did not minister TO trade and gain, me.
links ! seem to see written all over his statue
ocnueyille's conclnsion from his .n,va, oel