The weekly intelligencer., 1898-03-26

} America. The Greeks absorbed Tho
PhenIcians and the Romans absorbed
the Greeks. Then the Romans wen
10 Gaul and Britain, where there wa,
no doubt considerable PEoenician blood
already. One cannot judge very wcl
from rough pictures in newspapers
but Mr.. Clay's pictures impressed M
as having something about them thai
suggested the pictures and statues Ui
Nero. Lincoln was no doubt of n very
Kindly disposition, and did not delight
in the sufferings of others; yet for the
good object of the preservation of the
union, he consented to a vigorous pros
ecution of the war against disunion.
In Mr.. Clay's state of Kentucky my
mothers father started the second OF
| third newspap In Frankfort. He was
about 21, and came there from Vir-
| ginia to start paper to expose Burr's
conspiracy. he had no proofs, but
believed what he charged. jefferson
Davis said to me once, Your grand
father had so many challenges from
Burr'S friends that he had to file them
and make the challengers take their
| turns" do not know whether this is
true or an overgrown TRADITION. But
that he was attacked by Burr's friends
and was nearly murdered; that more
than once he defended himself with Il
knife, and that he was almost mortslly
| wounded and lay long betwixt life and
death, and bore to his grave the marks
of knife and pistol, Is both history and
family tradition. Humphrey Marshall
tells part of the story of his young
ri ha in
of Kentucky, calling him a "man of
sterling metal" Rut he took no
pleasure IN 1t, nor would have engaged
IN 1t but from necessity.
Let US look at what some other men
have done whilst Mr.. Clay was work
Ing out the career that he has related
to the newspaper reporter. In that
time the wonderful riddIe-solving
science of philology may be said to
have been born. With all their depth
and strength or mind, even the Greek
philosophers never suspected that their
language and that of the Romans were
sister tongues, and that the same is
true of the languages of all the people
classed by them simply as "barbar-
ians." Since Mr.. Clay was born, and
during the time that he was fighting
duels and driving men 10 suicide, the
wonderful comparative grammar of all
the ArYan tongues has been evolved.
The language that he spoke in Ken
lucky was found to be the sister Ian
guage of what the Hindoo priests had
treasured up as the vehicle of their
sacred writings tor about thirty-five |
centuries. By means of this science
LII II.
the itinerary of our fathers as they |
wandered forth from their homes in |
the Caucasus and spread over the
earth Look At the names of Bopp, |
Grimm, Bentley, Jones, Max Mueller,
our own Whitney, and many an other;
and 1t Is indeed roll of honor-names |
that are dignIfying and honoring to
the human race.
The same msy be said of the science
of geology or knowledge of the earLh's |
strata. BY 1t you may know when the |
rock was formed in your quarries, and !
how many times 1t has been sunK under |
the waters Of the sea and again emerged |
from them; and by 1t we know whore |
to sink for coal, for natural gas, for |
petroleum; and where 1t would be a !
waste of capital TO do so. While Mr.. |
Clay has been building up reputation |
for fit edom in destroying human life, |
the greatest minds In the world have |
found out the key to the riddle OF
nature IN the evolution doctrine, and |
sesn how, through inmessurable ages |
nature has slowly been evolving the |
highest type of animal 10 the hum n.
and the greatest power in the world, |
the human brain, through which Mr. |
Clay has been ready, on the slightest |
pruvOcation, to send u bullet whIstlIng |
and destroy natures handIwork slowly |
perfected through infinite ag-s past
Fancy, if you Gan. Oxen and L1msrck. |
Won Baer, Herbert Spencer, La Place,
Comte, Darwin, Huxley, our Cope.
Marsh, LIE Conte and LeIdy with pistols
bucklsd around them and bowie knives |
in their sleeves ready to make coIan-
ders or mIncemeat out of every body |
who offended them.
have chosen these three branches
of science because 1t takes no born
genius to follow them and add much
to the store of information about them
1t takes only love of nature and of
truth, with careful and patient dis
position, to observe and ella ssify facts.
Mr. Clay's services to his country
have been very important; let no Que
forget or try to bslIttle them When
the 1lon seemed almost In the IhToes
of dissolution he was minister to Rus
sia. HIS strong presentation of the
case no doubt did much to win the
friendship Of the great Aryan power,
and when England and France were
about to recognize the independence
OF the south, a Russian fact was sent
to New York. His services against
slavery were important and were per-
formed in great danger. There are
men and women who look
back with pleasure and regret at the
old slavery days. loan look back over
about two and half centuries of slave
holding ancestors In America. have
read the will Of even Quaker forefat hers
who were writing Ammo 10 as we are
writing Ammo 1S-, and they gave to
one wench and a riding mare; a lot
Of cattle, sheep and negroes to another
etc. To a certain extent have per
slavery, and it is a hateful and
and malicious monster that brought
into this land suited tor q home for the
highest Aryan type, lot OF black
people whom nature Intended to live
under the equator, and whose presence
among the Arysns is mischievous to
both races. l hate It as the monster
that broke up our home, that wrung
the heart of my mother in d 'ing so,
that threw me out into the world in
the years when otherwise | would have
beer in school and under the good
coInsels of . wise and loving father.
and sacrificed a million of the brRvesI
on the field. ! honor all who tried to
break II up, when they did so from