Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-07-17
SIX cDOLLARs PRR,YRAR,
-, Invariably in Advance.

can Fe, ms associates;do without iilsr counueIY
70 70 pnge q uoes the murmur 20 round that Doug.
Ittnis t speaking In the Senate; no longer does
w mouse become quorumless To listen 70 Mia,
vo,ce. his death is like the dissolution of 4.
pa4cai L%ae l, a. organism. Indeed, we could better
sos \. 10 " lose e,. sphere Of stars from our flag;
las cannot BE- brought Back d Ss. ma SsJ,n MA
sach a'defant power, with the 'theNs Of Ann. q,
fhlm ana the pulses Of q Titan'sC heaft.n haa y
\ gYhe upon returnless journey. How moeb v,s,
ehall miss him ne0! We have so Ime,rsS !,
ca tne poliaeal, social, geographcal, and com.
mefciai necessities TO which our Government,
Was adapted as rendering 10 eternal, that its
present condition calls Tor new and rare ele.
Men's ., s.atesmanship. Are we equal to the
time and the trust7 1Oh! for q CLAW, Webstsr, =,
Douglas, IN this great ordeal Of copstitutIonalr
freedom! While the country is entaneled By
these serpents of revolution, we shall miss the =
giant--the Hercules Of the West-Whose limbs
brood }c 's9j ''il, ,-7I,rDi -, !,
Who is Left to take his place7 Alas! he has
no successor. His eclipse is painfully palpable,
since it makes more obscure the path by which ,
our alienated brethren may return. Many
4 Union men, friends of Douglas In the South.
heard Of his demise as the death knell of their
loyal hope. Who, who can take his place? The
great men Of 1850, who were his mates in the
oenate, are gone. we trust, to that better Union
ABOVE, where there are no distracting coupsels
-all, all gone! AIT No. thank Heaven!
Kentucky still spares to us one of kindred nat.
rlotism, fashioned in the better mold of ao
earlier day-the distinguished Btatesman who
mas just spoken Mr.. CrittendeD Whose praae
OF Douglas living / loved to quote, and whose
praise Of Douglas dead, to which we have iust
listened, laus Laudari lsudatus est is praise in
deed; Crittenden still stands here, lifting on
high his whitened head, like q Pharos in the
sea, to guide our storm-tossed and storm latter
i ed vessel TO its haven of rest. His feet tread
closely upon the rereating steps OF our states.
man OF the West. Ia the order Of nature we
cannot have him long. Already his hand Is
outstretched into the other world to grasp the
hand OF Douglas! While we have him, let US
heed his warning, learn from his lips the lessons
OF moderation and loyalty of the elder dave,
and do all and do II tnobly for our beloved Re
public 'H l.I
In conclusion, sir, we can only worthily praise
stephen A. Douglas, by doing something to car
~ out the will which he left his children and
his country:
Glove and uphold the Constitution of the
l United States"
4 speak it all reverently when say that this
was his religion. He had faith in that
tsr.... 'creed of creeds
The loveliness Of perfect deeds
would not seek to disclose the future to
|, which God has consigned him in the mysteri
ous order of his providence; but such virtue as
! his cannot die. 1t begins to live most in death
Tit may be said, as the laureate OF Eugand
sang, that transplanted human worth will bloom,
to profit, otherwhere. The distinguished gen
tleman from Kentucky Mr.. Crittenden has
alluded to the fact that the mind of Douglas
expanded with bis public service. 1t has been
NV ANN haann nha Nknk H.
among the few public men who grew in moral
height with mental breadth. Year after year
inspired him with more Of reverence and char
ity; while his "psalm of life" found expression
in daily duty done. He never shrank from the
dust and heat of active life. He most desired
to live when dangers were gathering thickess
He would not ask from US to-day fears and
plants, but words which bear the spirit of great
deeds-"tremendou and stupendous'' efforts TO
save the Government he loved so we'll. We
may toll the slow bell for bis noble spirit; we
may Grape the arm in token Of our woe; we may,
while we think of the meannesses of our politics
and the distractions CT our country, congratu
late him that he ia wrapped in his shroud, for
b ever safe in the memory of the just; but il we
would worthily honor him, let US moderate the
i heats OF party strife, enlarge our view OF nation
J, al affairs; emulate his clear.eyed patriotism,
which saw in no section his country. but loved
al peCJlOuS ulke anu nOlu up MS me- 80 ltult
}, full in wisdom beyond his years, for the admira-
tion of the old; and picture him for the imita-
! tion of the young as that
VI "Divinely gifted man
Whose life in low estate began:
Who grasped the skirts Of happy chance.
nj Breasted the blows OF circumstance,
And made by force his merit known.
And lived to clutch the golden keys,
D To mould mighty States DEGREES,
ell And shape the whisper of the throne;
y And moving up from high to higher,
Becomes fortunes crowning slope
q The pillar Of peoples hope,
k The center Of a worlds desirel"
q But sir, no language, either in prose or verse,
J can portray the greatness OF his loss. His fame
is printed in the hearts Of the people. From
i the Green Mountains of his native State to the
p white tops of the Pacific Sierras, while the
is heavens bend above our land to bless it, the
rivers roll and the mountains stand to unite it,
or the ceaseless interchange of traffic and thought
Is goes on by sea and rail, by telegraph or post
II the people of America, from whose midst, as
y poor boy, by his own selfrelance, he sprung,