The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-14

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diurnal circuit shone on no country so
beautiful And in all the combinations
Of grace that same luminary has never
dawned on human kind that excelled the
Great Commoner II seems as though
the gods themselves had prepared this
land for their own abode. The foun-
tains, the fields and the groves, and in
an imaginary sense, swarm with nymph
and graces. And the Goddess of Liberty
still dwells here and calls to her favorite
sons TO range themselves along the ranks
Of the free, and bids them never TO
blanch before the hostile array Of the
hosts of tyranny.
The Great Commoner sleeps his last
sleep, but the immortal statesman "still
lives" and his great soul broods over
his country's sad condition. The grace
full form of the "Prince of the Senate
still points that long and sinewy finger
to the goal of our national hope, and the
noble sons, of those noble sires, that stood
around the great man in youth, manhood,
and in those ripened years when seventy
summers had matured that intellect which
never quailed before the assaults of men
or calumny, and which bid defiance to
the arrows Of disease, and babe its earth
ly home adieu in the flood time of its
vigor, now crowd around the flag of that
country which he served so long and so
well. Alas my friends, patriots, do
you know that the heels of vandals now
trample beneath their barbarous feet the
ashes of your patriot chief?
Do you know that this sanctuary of
human liberty is now desecrated with
worse than Ottoman darkness? II does
seem that million flaming swords should
at once be drawn to annihilate the per-
fidious invader. Where stood the great
champion of Kentucky? Listen to his
words of love and truth. How often was
his warning voice raised against the pas
sions of the hour? When party strife
threatened to engulph the hopes of coun-
try and humanity beneath its boisterous
waves, the great man came forth and
said to the angry waters, "peace, be
still" and it was done. Would to God
that the Executive Chair could have one
hour of that earnest, sincere, heaven in
spired, enthusiastic love of country and
liberty which flowed from the divine
countenance of HENRY CLAY, when fred
by the peculiar condition Of his country.
One hour of this great mans life would
hurl the teeming millions of the loyal
States upon the rebel horde with storm
of avenging fire. The following from
his "great effort on the compromise reso-
lutions will be an appropriate quotation:
''Mr. President: am directly opposed
to any purpose of secession or separation.
/ am for staying within the Union, and
delying any portion Of this Coniederacy
TO expel me or drive me out Of the Union
| am for staying within the Union and
fighting for my rights, if necessary, with
the sword, within the bounds and under
the safeguard of the Union. l am for
vindicating those rights, not by being
driven out of the Union harshly and un-
tremendously by any portion of this Con-
federacy. Here l am within it, and here
/ mean 10 stand and die, as far as my in
dividual wishes or purposes can go--with-
in il TO protect my property aud defend
myself, defying all the power on earth to
expel me or drive me from the situation
in which / am placed. And would there
not be more safety in fighting within the
Union than out of il? Suppose your
rights to be violated, suppose wrong to be
done you, aggressions to be perpetrated
upon you, can you not better vindicate
them--if you have occasion to resort to
the last necessity, the sword, for a resto-
ration of those rights-Within, and with
the sympathies of a large portion of the
population Of the Union, than by being
without the Union, when large portion
of the population have sympathies adverse
to your own? You can vindicate your
rights within the Union better than if ex-
PEELED from the Union; and driven from
it without ceremony and without author
ity.
"Sir, l have said that thought there
was no right on the part Of one or more
States TO secede from the Union. l think
so. The Constitution of the United States
was made not merely for the generation
that then existed, but for posterity--un-
limited, underlined, endless, perpetual pos
terity. And every State that then came
into the Union, and every State that has
since come into the Union, came into It
binding itself, by indissoluble bands, to
remain within the Union itself and to re-
main within it by its posterity forever.
Like another of the sacred connections, in
private life, il is a marriage which no hui
man authority can dissolve or divorce the
parties from. And if l may be allowed
10 refer 10 some examples in private life