The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-03-19

ABSTRACT OF "a SERMON DeLIyERFD I'M THR,
UNITARIAN CHURCH LAST SUNDAY MORN.
ssBgA 1NGBY REV. III. M. SIMMONS

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Our thoughts to-day naturally revert 10
the year 1850, when Willard Fillmore passed
10 the presidentlai chair aaudg called Daniei
Websie" from he Senate 10 tie cabinet.
n neaeen years Mr.. WEBSTER had De,u m ne
Sen~Se and the conspicuous tgur there.
tcad bow beside iiin aevenasthea majestic
I Cabolin seemed common Clay looked val.
gar, Van Buren, but a iox" AND lns looks
did nol belle nm, His clear understanding
s"ado hum gre lawyer aud sla.esula !;
his wont:ous personal power nude hiln gu
preLM as an Cralor to maguet,zo anu SWAY
men at his Wilt And when he used Lhis
4 e'oqutuce IA 0eAal ot'yuslicesl aud freedom,
rs be SO Olsen had, lhe greaEi com nonwva h
OF Massachusetts almost worshped us great
Senator. n h.} IA WIN bN4*
/ But III that ysar 1850 men were beginn,ug
1 'oeeep moral weahness behind this intel.
iect ua elrenglh he logces OF ir.4h..n
and slavery were organizing themselves tor
Tue copncL. aud This nralur Ior freedom
uegan T., cotHpEomlsewita slavery. ne cor.
fupuon ,hat turks III poiitcs begu to IN
lfcct ALE 10. ana Was SLOWLY eating oaL tbs
Ieuul. That Gear voice Tor numan rights bes
gan 70 give tOrth The uncertain SQUAD o, q
deina-og ne. The man wno had worked for
principles, was working ior tue pres ldency
now Tne desire tor jusnce In Tie south,
Was stylng Way . the desire Tor votes rom
Tie ooutn, Ou March T. 1850 tA!s advocate
Tor justice gave his voice Tor tLs extuLs: n
OF slavery and he fugitive slave bul Mac.
sdthusebtS could moi al ti!aC te.ieyc nc
n9"o bat IL was TOO tiuu. Webster to.u
tue people o. Boston the discussion OF sa4
Very ulust' DC suppressed. Ii has sup press.
cd oi COURSE. The fugitive save Uitl passec;
--.ne h.dnappers came 10 Boston ana dl4
tne'r ugry Work. Thanks 10 WeDsters TO-
tAenee, | lie prO~slayery seDmmenL Increased
Iii the norJn. HoiicetotLb Webster rllcj ed
| tie a0ollt'0alsGs w.Ln Their "nigaer Ia
tnat exists scm Where between US ana Lne
! tni'd heaven, never knew exactly where
What was lne result Did Wooster get i.
presidency rue Baltimore Convention
met sud OUT OF 293 votes gave him 81. tia
. ireude had deeerleu Ii In aud hO maQe 40
new cues. lie uad re.ped the reward ui
,uudclny. lie Went home anu ulcd. Aud
"hllo he streets were slnl drcped III b.Auh
lor INN, II funeral discourse from Theodore
Parker The grea,esL preacher OF Boston.
"ui.e eGlOglzlng the meiits OF Wcus u,
corW stlIl III the nane Ut iustice arralgn
nlm as uan VINO had Ialleu aud ''cu.iccd
the naUIon III his lAlI' THIS great Scua,or
dad Que defect. giant In intellect Las
needed not The higher law"
The last ttme Mr. Webster entered tue
cenate ChAmOer, IL was 10 listen 10 The luau
whom MassachuseILs had Sent there as nIs
SUCCESSOR. Vino was 1t "A Young iuan inr
tue place; with small fame except AS a
scAoiar aud legal writer ; I'm ruelen as II
poitIcian; he mad reouked u q leit tue
gfeaL Wing party Tor thulr .lonAissness ON The
slavery gust on had allied As,naeH WIN
tle Iltr,e sand ot Free -souers': ana now was
seiiL 10 the Senate oy an unlocked ter roall..
toe. almostby accldtGt II SEEMED NJwon-
der the respectable ciuzens OF Boston shook
tptlr hands they Thought Oh he rreat
COM munWealth oi MasoacA Us ,tts s~nu.ng
tits INEXPERIENCED, lanAtlcal young SENATOR
tos'. III lhc great Weostei's seat!
This vas he man,-Cnares sumner
whom Webster Went 10 me senate 10 hear.
the iaso time h. entered there. The Young
Senator spoke ;-not tor. but against the
fugitive Slave bill. He believed III the
higher law" u+
But would he hold nrm - stead,I he
sLood session after session 10y Tho cAnse of
human rights. Whatever taulesa were .ouna
IN hun, none here His words more Than
any otners ia Congress insured Lhu north
: with that love OF freedom which was the
} soul Of The WA: opposed AS he Wa 10 war.
} ae slui sterny opposed all sco,npromlse
with slavery he early urged tue policy of
emancipation ;attei emancipation he s>eads
, Ivy fought Tor the political and then Tor the
civil rights OF old men, even TO the very
deathbed where his dying charge was co
take care OF his Civil Rights Bill; from irsv 10
last, often in the tace Of incignitles quite
AS brusal and lar mor,s painful than the
I blow oil southern cane, he stood iaithtuiiy
BY the cause OF human rights
He grew in favor too. His state became
: proud of.him The Wing party that opposed
aiin IN 81 went 10 pieces. The Free-soil
principles which he represented, gathered
about themselves the great Republican par.
i ~, which gladly returned hmto the Senate
!, IN 81, and returned him again in IS, and
d returned him once moreln 90 aud was sriI
sroud that 1t had such u man TO return.
HIS state ielt that ne vas adding glory
even TO the great Webstere seat The bet.
@ ter Rniri. OF WahStnr The anirif that Id