The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-04-25

= native ana representative of q Slava
otate; he had never lived anywhere else
ana while unhiaehingly true, at an time
ara upon all points, to the rights of the
southern States, yet he considered
slavery as great though unavoidable
eNH' But he was in no degree inpas-
stoned and blinded in regard to it. He
looked at the subject calmly and with
OUT eXaggerati0n; not through the mac
nilylng glass of religious fanaticism or
distorted philanthropy, but with the
calm eye OF a practical statesman. He
maintained the policy of gradual eman-
clpatlon on both occasions that the sub
JFct was agItated in Kentucky, openly
ana vigorously; contending that the
great numerical preponderance of the
whites over the blacks in that State rem
dered their gradual emancipation and re-
moYal safe and easily attainable. At the
same time he always declared that he con-
sidered ali such schemes to be utterly
mPraeticable in the planting States /;
ana II citizen Of one Of them.
would oppose them all, because the
numbers Of the blacks would render
their removal impossible, and their con
tinual presence Instantaneous and
perllous to the whites. lie favored
emancipation in Kentucky, while farther
south he declared he considered it utter
~ impracticable. These views he urged
and ampHtied at length, not only in lie
discussion of the question in his own
Stale, but also in the United State, SEN
ate, while discussing the reception Of
petitions for the abolition of slavery in
the District of Columbia. This position
might also be referred to, as another IL
lustratiOn OF the practical and complete
~ relative character Of all his po-
lltlcal ideas. Doubtless, as an abstract
proposition, considered without refer
ence to its inevitable existence or the
perllous consequences Of its cessation, he
was opposed to slavery; for liberty was
the passion of his life. His own coun-
try and his own countrymen were the
first and the principal object in his
thoughts and in his heart; but his broad
and extended philanthropy embraced
the world. Even the degraded African
slave, separated from his own race by a
wide and impossible gulf, found him a
well-wisher to his moral and mental ele-
walton, when it could occur safely in a
different land and other cline. Where
ever abroad freedom, found a votary,
WY Wy Vo."ry louhd III MN champion
" hen Hfeece' the classic laIu OF Greece
Inc l0UnV1ln Oh rei'l,eillehC' tAe Q Jii
place o. o1uence ana poetry ana Ioer-
iT lion N'ieeoe 'T9Ne l[oi1 t,te lohS
3lumoer OIL ages, ana peat DaGE the iad-
~ ~ NIe'1ehC 10 Us haIlFe LasG-When
n%ceooil III lasO caiieu 10 l4lna VLe IeaIs
VI iieI C Coz, uC u; o3y' anu 'llg spartan
again ii struck . III Tor tho iahq Which h@d
preu NM III lAehfy Ciay voice inc
"oto9 o! cheetlI8 follea over the oiut
waters from y, me lar west a. The greeting
u inc NC" J" ora 70 the va
When Mexico, and our sister repub
lies OF the extreme South, shook off tht
rotted yoke of the fallen Spanard, and
freedoms face for one brief moment
cleaned under the pale light Of the
Southern cross, it was he spoke again tt
cheer and rouse its champions. The re
generated Greek, the dusay Mexican, tho
Peruvian mountainaer-ail, who woulc
strike one blow for liberty, found in
him friend and an advocate. lis word.
of cheering swept over the plains o.
Marathon, and came ringing back From
the peaks of the Andes. Bat that voice
is now stilled, and his bright eye closet
forever. He has gone from our midst, anC
the wailing of grief which rose iron
the nation and the plum9ge OF mourn
ing which shrouded its cities, its hall anC
its affairs, attest his countrymen's sens,
of their loss He has gone, and gone il
glory. From us rises the dirge; witt
him floats the pnan of triumph. BY
beautiful decree and poetical Justice O
destiny, it was fated thai the last eif0r
of the Unions great champion shoulC
be made in behalf of the Union, in it
last great extremity. He passed off tn
stage as became the Great Pacifcator
His dying effort was worthy of and ap
propriate to him. When the Fountain
of the great deep of the public mine
were broken up, and the fierce passion
of sectional animosity tore over it, a
the storms sweep over the ocean, it wa
from his voice that the words of sooth
ing came forth, "Peace, be still" 1t wa
his last battle, and the gallant veteran
fought it out with the power and tn
fire of his prime. The expiring ligh
of life, though Pickering in its las