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

81 a Philanthropy, having for its professed OBJ
ject the welfare of the African slave: but
really in spirit of inferno ddliDg with the
rights OF the people of section enjoying
higher grade of civilization, at once source
OF envy and hate, it has gone on from one ex-
IRENE to another, until there is no height or
depth of infamy which il has not attained
It has denounced the Southern people as
monsters of iniquity, the Constitution Of cur
country as a league with the devil, and the
Bible itself as the symbol of sin. There is
nothing pure and good standing between its
votaries and their purposes which it does not
seek to degrade and dcbase. Does Minis
ter Of God presume to interpose plea in be-
hall of the STAKEHOLDER, he is at once held up
as fit representative of the spirit of evil !;
whilst against the statesman who dares do
his duty 10 his whole country, is hurled the
/. fierce lghtnings of its wrath. Want and
misery may gather around it and cry aloud
for succor and sympathy, but if the wretches
who ask them have the misfortune to be free,
r. it's car is deaf and it's heart cold. 1t can
hear no note Of distress unless it be the i'm
raginary wnil of the bondsman on the Sou
thern plantation. Its code Of morality Ii
censes theft. and its religion deifes murder,
by or in behalf of a colored slave. From this
fiendish parasite upon The body polite had
sprung a race Of teachers, professed disciples
of Christianity, worthy of their origin. They
are a cold blooded. malicious race, who "have
stolen the livery of heaven to serve the devil
in" One of these incarnate fends, WENDELL
.is PHILLIPS, has been pouring forth current of
s malice and hatred before a select herd of adj
rnirers in Boston. The Aa0s, willing TO
s4 transmit to posterty, the ribaldry and bias
phemy of this impious fanatic, gathers this
current, and dark, blghting, whitening
pool docs it make The Dead Sea is not
more destructive TO vegetation than it 10 all
the ennobling attributes of the human heart.
Boston has but recently lost one OF its jewels
"a man OF whom the nation might well be
proud-the immortal CHoATE. He was cut
down in the full tide of usefulness and
whilst his iaurels were fresh. Boston mourn
ed her lost son, and rendered appropriate
honors TO his memory. The tears with which
she believed his grave are scarcely dry, be-
fore this irrcvcrent priest rises in her pre-
sence and mocks her woe. Hear him
The courts have covered the grave of Mr.
Choate with eulogy. Let us see what is their
idea of a great lawyer. We are told that
"he worked hard''-''he never neglected bis
client'-"he flung over the discussions of
the forum the grace of a rare scholarship
no pressure emergency ever stirred him
to- an unkind word" A ripe schOlar-a pro-
found lawyer--a faithful servant of his client
"a gentleman. This is good record
ly. May he sleep in peace! What he earned,
God grant that he may have
d. III, lNor fI,atc alro tine lair for
one a place among great jurists must itself be
weak indeed for this is only to make out the
onc-eycd monarch of the blind. Not one
high moral trait claimed; not one patriotic
act even mentioned; not one patriotic service
even claimed.
Look AT Mr.. Webster IS idea of what q law
yer should be in order to be called great, in
the sketch he drew of jeremiah Mason, and
( notice what stress he lays on the religious
and moral elevation, and the glorious and
high purposes which crowned his life Moth
ing of this now | forget. Mr.. Halet did
testify for MIR. Choale's religion daughter and
applatsc): but the law maxim il, that II wit
ness should be trusted only in matters he I'M
derstands, and that evidence, therefore,
amounts TO nothing (Renewed merriment.)
Incessant culogy; but not one effort to lit
the woke of cruel and unequal legislation
upon the neck of its victim; not one attempt
to make the code of his country wiser. purer,
better; not one effort to bless the times
breathe higher moral pure into the CON-
munily; not one blow struck struck Tor right
or tor liberty while, the Battle of the Giants
was going ON about him; not one patriotic
act to stir the hearts OF his idOlators; not one
public act of any kind whatever about whose
y merit friend or toe could even quarrel, unless
when he secuted our great charter as n "gllt-
, tering generality" or jeered at the philan-
" thropy which tried to prnctce the Sermon on
the Mount! When Cordus the Roman Sena-
xNr hsa,, ihnrif rod xuaG uiH
his fellows, he began Fathers, they accuse
me of Illegal words; plain proof that there
are no Illegal deeds with which to charge
me-" So with thes- eulogies-woTds, nothing
hut words; plain proof that there were no
deeds to praise.
The divine can tell us nothing but that he
handed chair dish nobody else could
(laughter); in politics, assured. he did
not wish tn sail outside of Daniel Webster;
and the Cambridge professor adds To his pu-
pills, for their special instruction, that he did
not dare TO think in religion. for fear be
should differ from Sonthsdc Adamsi cloud
laughter and applause.) The prof ssor strains
his ethics to prove that good man may de
bad man. Useless waste of labor In
Egypt, travellers tell us that the women
wholly naked. are very careful to veil their
faces. So the professor strains his ethics to
cover this one fault. Useless sir, while the
whole person is nude
Yet this il the model that Massachusetts
Offers to the Pantheon of the great jurisIs of
the world. / am Boston boy, and should
like to criticise il.
Suppose stood in that lofty temple Of
juris-prndence--on either side of us the stat
ues of the great lawyers of every age and
clime--and let US see what part New Eng
land Puritan, educated free New England
would bear in that pageant. Rene points
10 Colossal figure and says THAT j. Pa
~pinian. who, when the Emperor Caracalla
Z & murdered his owu brother, aud ordered the
lawyer TO defend the deed, went cherrfully To
death rather than sully his lips with the
atrocious plea; and that is upian. who, aid
ing his prince. To put the army below the
law, was massaeretd ut the foot OF weak
but yiriuous throne"
ss And France stretches forth her admring
hands, crying THAT is D'Auguesseau worthy
when he when 10 faee an enras.d
king. OF the farewell his wife addressed TO
him-Go! forget that you have wife and
children TO ruin. and remember only that Won
= have France TO save -tf iA
bee Then England takes up the legend That
is Coke, who flung the laurvls OF Eighty years
ia the face of the first Stuart, In defence Of
the people. This is Selden, on every book
~ of " hose library you saw written the motto
of which he lived worthy-sBefore every
thing Liberty ~ That is Mansfield silver
tongued, who proclaimed. ~
= sssaves cannot breathe IN England, tlseE iudgs
Receive our air, that moment they are free.H
This is Romeily, Who spent life 10 trying 20
make law Synonymous with justice, and ruc-