The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1860-05-09
CLAY, CALHOUN AND WEBSTER.

We make, SAYS the Charleston Standard,
the following extract from a lecture deliver
ed by Gen. Haskell, at Lexington, KY, as
reported in the Observer & Reporter. That
paper remarks that the recent insanity Of
the distinguished crater was occasioned by
too severe attention to literary duties. 1t Il
believed that he has entirely recovered his
mental c0mpOsure, and will now carry out
plan long age Determined upon Of lectaring
10 the principal cities of the Union:
Aud now. dismiss for the present, all
these leading characters. save Clay, and |
no longer dwell on him, as a distinctive
character, hut as onp Of a mighty trio. Clay,
Calhoun and Webster, who TO u were, what
Pitt. Fox and Grattar were 10 England.
1. In social Iife-in marriage, for exaw-
pie Clay would have pressed forward vita
coup d etat. like an ancient Briton, stur-
dy Welchman in GlendOwer's day, an Ara
bian Chief, each one Of whom would have
seized his reluctant bride and borne her 70
his home.
Calhoun would ponder long and warily.
and with circumspecton, ike an European
monarch, who negotiates a match for pur.
poses of State.
And Webster, Ike Prince Hal ". Of
England, who wooed and won without diplo.
macy the gentle Katherine, the daughter Of
the Due de Reignier, and mother Of Henry
W., OF England, Inc victim Of that she-woll
Of France, MargaretOf ANTON and the bloody
Chester. in the Tower Of London.
2. In forensic debate-lhe forte Of Clay.
was his resistles. eloquence--of Calhoun,
his sophism and wonderful power # meta
physical dIsquisition, and sstuie analysis
10 Webster, Of open and solid argument
:. Is a historian. Clay would have been i
speculative thearist--Caihuun . sceptic and
examiner, and Webster would haze been
guided BY example and the facts.
4. A disappointment ia struggle for do
minion, Clay would have felt with the prick
ing Of The pangs Of pride and ambition baf.
I tled--Calhuun, with the restless lerSOr Of de-
fant disc0ntent-and Webster. would have
encountered IT, With calm and philosophical
composurc.
5. In administering Government, clay
would have been both compromising ani
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. head strong, restless
and defiant Web.ter. tor standing On the
\ laws and the constitution.
6. a. monarch, Clay would have pre-.
ferred TO have been an Administration,
an Athenian Arrhen, elevated on ilie broad.
est principles 1t Democratic suffrage. and
Webster would have liked limited aud
constitutional monarchy.
! :. As historic character. Clay resembles
4 the chivalrnIs and daring Henry y, ol
I England. on the field of Agincouri, charging
with visor up and lance eovchmd IN re.t,
sgainst The mailed aud willing, bold and
knocking, mad and lcyerish Percy, the re.
doubtable and undaunted Iloispur-Prince
I Hal. swift bearing on astride his richly ca.
parisDned and well housed white steed, bis
nostrils wide expanded. and challenging
fierce neigh. III. white name streaming M
his boldly npIiited crest, anil waving TAIL
flashing wildly the mad and sulphur charged
wind, careering Der tie field of battie
sbile Percy bounds with defiant shout, Il
meet him 10 The lpBged for conflict. Cal
houn. the subtle strategist, the calculating
Saladin, whose Damascus scymetar nashv,
through the severed neck Of foemeD, wh1
know not till they nod their heads that ihey
are detached from their bodies-while Web.
ster, Gpur de Lion in arms. bufls his pom
derous battle axe, with colossal strength
until the mailed links fly apart. and the de.
scending weapon grinds bones. and blood
aud fire. into one nndistinsuishable, shape
less 81 Jose.spIi,ted, lightning. s,ricker
humanity.
8. They arc like three different stream,
of equal volume. Clay, like 81 Anthony,
Falls. Or cataractie, Niagaric cascade
flashing 10 creamy loan, aud rainbow beau
", roaring and Kissing IN ,umultuous eddie.
tearing on, impstiently pressing forward, Il
search the blue and Tranquil depths. or ear
nestly crOwding on, betwixt high ROCKY
shores begirt will, lignious forest monarchs
its banks all fringed with vines aud flowers
sweeping like the streams that feed III,
Mediterranean blue, drawing a world o.
waters through Bosphoric passes and llereu
lean straits, with an under current gliding
slow beneath, both % and fro, like Ponti,
ami PrOpontis, through the Egean Seas, d,
rock girt isles seorning TIE muddy Nile. oaI
into The blge depths u old oceans mullItul,