The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-25
ours, respectfully,
+. WIN. WALKER, Secreta

CLAY AND CALHOuN.-From the Oration of Mr.
B. |. Barbour, delivered at Richmond, Virginia.
on the 18th instant the occasion of the inau-
guration of the CLAW Statue we take the following
passage:
Divested of its personal features, the antagonism
between the Senators of South Carolina and Ken
lucky marked in the other instances
The one gloried in the contemplation of the vast
ness of his cOuntry-the other thought il necessary
to watch with closest scrutiny, if not suspicion,
the delicate relations Of the different members.
Mr.. Clay, as the native of State and the
adopted child of another, considered the divisions
between the States as lines which policy drew, but
which affection should not regard. Mr. Calhoun
watched them as ealously as the founder of Rome
guarded his growing walls, which not even bro
ther might leap over with impunity. One eXpend-
ed his time and talents in curious dissection OF the
body polite, tracing its wonderful, ana TO MIN too
often its fearful anatomy; the other sought to en-
due it with health and strength, make 1t instinct
with life and radiant with beauty. Or, if
NAV add another illustration, the South Carolinian.
in his more hopeful moments, regarded the Union
as Constellation, deriving its lustrc and grandeur
from the brightness of each particular star; the
kentuckian found the image of his country in
some grand river like our giant Mississippi, each
valley sending its rill, and lofty mountains speed
ing their torrents to swell its rapid tide On its
banks he saw fertile fields and happy homesteads-
the blended sounds of manifold industry went up
from pleasant villages and stately cities-on its
bosom were countless vessels laden with the pro-
ducts and fabrics OF a land framed in the prodgal
ity of nature-and thus crowned with the trophies
of Agriculture and of Art, he saw it rushing
to the sea, and delivering to white-winged Com
merce the bread to feed and the raiment to cothe
world.
Posterity will do justice to both of these great
men-to the political speculations of the one, and
the remarkable executive ability of the other-for
therein was the difference which made their paths
more and more widely divergent. One was
statesman, grasping with present difficulties; the
other dreaming philosopher, following principles
as the Prince OF Eastern fable followed MS arrow
beyond the habitations of man, beyond the pouhus
of pr ,bability. In their temperaments TINS antag
ons.n was equally manifest. one was 'ne o'"eie
of bounding hope ,,.,
''And his eye kndled
With the prophecy of glorious years.
The other became the prophet of woe, and trem-
bIed. like the ancient Pythoness, under the agony
of his own forebodings-
0There was a listening fear in his regard,
AS il calamity had but begun;
As il the vanward cloud of evil days
Had spent their malice, and the sullen
Was with its stored thunder aborng up
One went down to the grave in gloom and sor-
row, bewaiing the fate of the "South-the poor
South"-the other with his latest articulation,
blessed that Union which he believed was to be the
assurance of happiness to an undefned, unlimited,
endless, perpetual posterity" undsied.