The Nevada journal., 1860-08-24

OUR VENERABLE PRESIDEST.-James Church
man, Esq, recently delivered a speech at North
San Juan The following is that portion touch
ing "our venerable President" We apprehend
it will be called pretty good:
I must speak of our Chief Magistrate with re-
spect, for the sake of our common country. He il
venerable man-a great man. But great men are
sometimes unfortunate; and it is his misfortune
that the American people, i'll proportion their
admiration rises for him. must correspondingly
sink in respect for themselves. He is great in the
splendor. of his gigantic intellect which we must
imagine magnifcently shines in the distant and
dark regions Of abstraction, and Alone like
some undiscovered planet, whose light rs undis-
cernablc by telescopic view to any grade of intel
ligence the Almighty has ever yet conferred upon
man. He is great in his sternness of purpose
which is always uninfuenced by any puerile fear
OF offending the worlds sense of proprety, justice
or right: unbias scd by any childish submission to
the obligation of promise or pledge. Great in
his Roman frmness, which no false sense of re-
spect Tor the rights or opinions of mankind can
control; no weak fear for disastrous consequences
to the welfare of our country can swerve no
glimmering of integrity or sense of shame can
shake The greatness of his genius placed him
forty years in advance Of this age, when that long
since he declared if he suspected drop of dem
ocratic blood in his veins, he would open them and
let it out. But genius is seldom appreciated, and
now when he has livedto see that same democracy
come to his own standard of ethics, were he to
open his veins according to the dictates of his fancy
III lIs suDiiHlest cOceptfOnS, lne event would cause
no demand for Grape in the city or the village, on
the farm or in the work shop; with the aristocrat
he has worshipped, or the ''mud- sill ~ he has des-
pissed. He has lived long and done much to his
country, but republics ungrateful, and 1t is
mournful to think that when his taper goes out
among all of human kind who have basked under
the radience of his genius as a statesman, or en-
ioyed the benefit of his example man, but one
solitary being exists to be thankful he ever was
born-pOor Frank Pierce, who has acquired re-
spectability by comparison. Unfortunately should
the genius of Freedom remember him by her scars
she will only breathe his name in low, hoarse
whisper of grief The historian will print his
name in small italics, without an initial capital
and Fame will only sketch the incidents of his Of
fetal life with charcoal upon her bulletin board of
disasters to man, and with averted face, inscribe
his name with the feather-end of bullrush in the
sand, that the next breath of zephyr may erase
it forevea.
1t has been said of Washington (forgive me for
using his name in this connection) that % G cd left
him chidless that he might be father to his
country" But of his successor, fear it will be
SAID, God left him childless in compassion for hu-
man weakness and mercy to the human race, that
the stock might run out and the name become eX-
tinct that the last hope earth for free gov
erRment may not be imperried by the remotest
chance of another Of the family being liable to be
tempted with a public trust. But enough the
White House wlll soon know him no more for
ever.