The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-01-13
DEFAMING WEBSTER.

The political career of Daniel Webster must be pro-
nounced a failure. He had the habits OF mind the
opportunities the external conditions that belong to
the great statesman but he will not hold that name
with posterty-nay he does not hold it now. The sew
enteen years that have passed since bis tragic death
have steadily and silently taken away from his polit
cal fame. Could he heTs lived dozen years longer
would have been better for his renown for doubt
not he would have cast off the sophistry in which po
iitical ambition caught and held him fast and would
have practically renouEced his base allegiance to the
slave power, when the shock of war disclosed what
the true designs of his southern friends But di
vine justice did not permit this; he punished for
his double sin of ambition and apostasy by what to
him and his the worst retributioD-the downfall
of all his political hopes and the greater part of his re-
nOWn as a statesman.
from that pink of political Radicalism, the
Springfield (Mass) Republican, of late date.
1t is in perfect harmony with the splenstic ef
fusions of one of the Giving statesmen" who,
riding upon the crested wave of these degen-
crate days, directs the New Nation" under
the Radical dispensation.
But few months since we noticed an arti-
tice In the same paper stating that ex-Pres-
dent Pierce and Brick Pomeroy were lying
upon what was then considered to be their
death BEDS and predicting that the latter would
Outlive the former in the memories of the coin
mon people; and still later, in the same paper
when referring to the demise of those veterans,
draped in the enviable calm of ripe old
age and after lives of patriotic service, for
which their memories should ever be green,
Amos Kendall and Robert J. Walker, the same
Radical scrib6lcr and malignant bigot pro-
claimed to his gaping readers and blind follow
ers that it would have been better had they
never been born Per contra. In the same
number of that paper an editorial appears ex-
Oneratng a. ID. Richardson in his sef-admit-
jured man and his unfaithfu wife whom Rich
sons seductive influence and money had caused
to prove unfaithful to her vows and whose af-
fections he had aenated from her husband.
In keeping with such course there also ap
pears in the same paper, under the head of
1.-The Last Colfax Party" letter No ) from
Mrs. Calhoun who. 1t will be remembered, was
the go-between of Richardson and Mrs Nc
Farland, and who was the principal witness,
and on whose evidence the Indiana divorce
was obtained. When Cassius was plotting
dark conspiracy he exclaimed "'Tis meet that
noble minds keep ever with their likes" So
let us group the cOnspratOrs against the luck
less Mcfarland There is Cofax with Mrs.
Calhoun of the Last Party" Bowles Of the
Republican and Richardson of a former party
''across the continent all now, though, ap-
pearing parties of the first part in this scan.
dalous intrigue which has resulted in destroy
the peace of one family and in the death of
one of the chief actors. Who wonders that
such statesmen" in view of comparison might
wish that Webster, Pierce, Walker and Ken
dali had never lived? The malignant thrust
in the above paragraph from the Republican
at the dead lion, from the existing jackal,
might be expected from pack which numbers
4 Beecher among its brethren, a Stowe and
ler sacrilege invading the sacred precincts of
he grave and slandering the memory of the
lead Bowles and Beecher-"Pa mobile fra,
rum"