Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-05-29
1t was not by the puerie tricks and starts of
an accomplished dcclajmor that the Athon,
"Wicldcd at will tho fierce democracy,

"Wicldcd at will tho fierce democracy,
Shook The arsenal, and rumincd over Greece,
10 Mace lon and Artnxcrxcs' throne"
"By ction," he meant Delivery, earn
est, imprisoned Delivery, in which tho whole
soul is fused into every uttcrancc, and which
can no more live and glow with any thing ar
tificial than fire and straw can dwell together
in heated oven. WHO can listen to more
finished rhetorician than Mr.. Everett His
face and person were pleasing. Eycry move
mcnt had been practiccd. Ills beautiful pas
| sagcs filled the mind with admiration aud de-
light. But who ever felt his heart burn with
in him; who was ever conscious of that
something immense and infinite of which
Quintlian speaks; who ever found himself
transported, melted to tears, fred to cnthusi-
asm, while listening to lis elaborate compost
tons In straightforward, close linked ar
gument, III noble contempt for all trappings
and decorations, in condensation, in yocab-
ulary torso and emphatic, in energy, ychc.
mencc, passion, Mr.. Calhoun closely rcscm-
blcd his illustrious model while in all moral
qualifications Of great orator, he rose i'm
measurably above him. For even his enemies
confessed that he possessed courage which
no opposition could shake aud an intcgrit,
which no temptation could corrupt.
In mental greatness, in learning, deep
thought, and all the attributes Of tho highest
order of genius, Mr.. Clay was inferior to his
two great contemporaries. but in the physi
cal combinations, III all the natural furniture
of soul-stirring orator, he far surpassed them
both
His mouth, that most expressive feature
was an organ created by God for the prorun.
citation of large and hcroical thoughts. Then,
what clear blue eyes, now calm in then azure
depths, then laughing in genial mirth, and
then, when he was thoroughly rouscd up,
sparkling, almost blazing. Tn his whclo
conntenanre what play of generous feelings;
the soul of homer, friendship, chiyary, breath
ipe in his face. Above all that magnificent
voice; at one moment soft and breezy; pres
emily swelling until it beat the vau;to,l roof,
and revcrbcmtcd far beyond the walls of the
! chamber, away into the adjoining rooms and
rcccsscs. Rufus Choatc had no superior at
home, but going to Washington as United
States Senator, he, on one occasion, drew up
Oil himself II single Droadsi,lo from tho Ken
tucky orator, aud it SO frightened him, that
he was aftcrward almost silent, crcstfallcn, and
(to employ his own favoritc phrasc) "uttorly
flabbcrgastca Every body remembers Mr.
Clay's duel with Mr.. Randolph. On his last
journey North, in an almost dying condition,
the Firginian was carried into tho Senate
Chamber. Mr. Clay was speaking. "Stop,"
| said the sick man to those who bore him.
Stop, let mo hear that voice / came here
to hear that voice once more before de-
The grace and beauty of Mr.. Clay's clocu-
tion were consumatc; his whole being inform.
ed with his subject, and instinct with the love
of truth. And his warm gushing sympathics
seldom failed to draw you to him, and bear
you along with him, causing you to feel that
one touch of nature makes the whole world
kim The last time heard him was at
meeting of the Colonization Society AS he
reclincd in the chair, he seemed to be an old
man, "broken with the storms Of State -
But when he arose and spoke, there were no
traces of years upon him. All felt that bis
soul was still erect and young, and that, as an
orator, his eye was not dimmed, nor the force
and vchcmcnce of his stregthen abatod.
had intended to say something of his
death; but this communication is already TOO
extended. His father wasa Baptist minister,
and tho son never forgot tho faithful say
ing" which he learned from that father. Aud
though he betrayed sad infrmity as to rcig.
ion, saying to Dr. Curtis, in Charleston, that
ga public man ought to join no chur n, if he
wished to bo POPULAR" Ga sentiment, by Che
way, on which thousands act without the
oandor to confess IT'D and after he had idcn-
tilted himself with church, frcquenting tho
| theatre, yet ho fingered long under the sau.
tary discipline of sickroom, his last pillow
was wettcd with ponitcntial tears, and, of the
threo great compccrs, he alone departed con-
Tossing himself a sinner, and roposing all his
confidence upon tho blood aud righteousness
of the. Rcdeomer.
sit hore and look at the places which onco
know thoso thrco men, but now know them
no moro, and say, Oh that they were with
us vet Whatever their errors onco, were