The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-23
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told the French youth what was the
dominant passion in the bosom of
France, and it awoke corresponding
sentiment in his own. Under its spell
he marched through Europe and over
threw her kingdoms and empires, and
felt in Egypt that 40 centuries We're
looking down on him from the pyra-
mids. But at last, one June morning
in Trafalgar Bay there was another
utteranee, more quiet in its tone, but
speaking also with a personal ana IN
dividual voice" England expects every
man to do his duty"
At the sight of Nelson's immortal
signal duty-loving England and
glory-loving France met as they have
met on many an historic battlefield
before and since, and the lover of duty
proved the stronger. The England that
expected every man to do his duty was
as real a being to the humblest sailor
in Nelson's fleet as the mother that
bore him.
The title of our American states to
their equality under this admirable
arrangement depends not on acres. or
upon numbers, but upon character and
upon personality. Fancy a league or q
conference in which Athens or Sparta
were united With Persia or Babylon
or Nineveh and their political power
We're to be reckoned in proportion to
their numbers or their size.
have sometimes fancied South
Carolina and Massachusetts,, these two
Industrious and heroic sisters, instead
Of sitting apart, one under her palm
trees and the other under her pines,
one with the hot gales from the tropics
tanning her brow and the other on the
granite rocks by her ice-bound shores,
meeting together and comparing notes
and stories as sisters born of the same
mother compare notes and stories after
a long separation. How the old es-
arrangements, born of ignorance of each
other. would have melted away.
Does it ever occur to you that the
greatest single tribute ever paid to
Daniel Webster was paid by Mr.. Call
houn? And the greatest single tribute
ever paid to Mr.. Calhoun was paid by
Mr.. Webster?
l do not believe that among the
compliments or marks of honor which
attended the INDUSTRIOUS career of Daniel
Webster, there is one that he would
have valued so much as that which his
great friend, his great rival and antag-
onist paid him from his dying bed.
MT. Webster" said Mr. Calhoun,
has as high a standard Of truth as any
statesman whom 1 have met in de-
bate. Convince him, and he cannot
reply; he Is. silent; he cannot look truth
in the face and oppose it by argu-
ment'
There was never, I suppose, paid to
John c. Calhoun. during his illustrious
life any ether tribute of honor he would
have valued so highly as that which
was paid him after his death by his
friend, his rival and antagonist, Dan
lei Webster
Mr.. Calhoun said Mr. Webster,
had the basis, the indispensable ba-
sis. OF all high character and that was,
unsposted integrity unimpeached
honor and character. If he had aspi-
radons, they were high. and honorable,
and noble. There was nothing grovel-
ling, or low. or nleanly selfish. that
came near the head or the heart of Mr..
Calhoun. Firm in his purpose, per-
fectly patriotic and honest, as I was
sure he was, in the principles he es-
poused, a5id in the measures he de-
Tended. aside from that large regard
for that species of distinction that con
Quoted him to eminent stations for the
heneflt of the republic, I do not believe
ne had selfish rIotive or a selfish feel
ing. However he may have differed
from others of US In his political opin-
ions or his political principles, those
opinions and those principles will now
descend to posterty, and under the
sanction of great name
He has lived long enough he has
done enough, and he has done it so
well. so successfully, SO honorably. as
70 connect himself for all time with
the records of the country. He is now
an historical character. Those of us
who have known him here will find that
ne has left upon our minds and upon
= our hearts a strong and lasting impress
sion of his person, his character, and
his public performances. which, while
we live. will never be obliterated. We
shall hereafter am sure, indulge in it
as a grateful recollection that we have
lived in his age, that we have been his
contemporaries that we have seen him
and known him We shall delight to
speak of him to those who are rising
up to NIL our places And when the
time shall come that we ourselves shall
go, one after another, IN succession. to
our graves, we shall carry with us a
deep sense of his genius and character.
his honor and integrity, his amiable de-
pertinent In private life, and the purity
of his exalted patriotism
Just think for a moment what this
means. If any man ever lived who was
not merely the representative. but the
embodiment of the thought opinion.
principles, character, quality. intellect
ual and moral, of the people of South
Carolina, for the forty years from 1910
until his death, it was John c. Cal
merely was the representative, but the
embodiment of the thought, opinion.
principles, character, quality, intellec-
tual and moral of the people of Mas
sachusetts, it was Daniel Webster. Now
H. after forty years OF rivalry, of con-
fiict, of antagonisn, these two states
men or ours, most widely differing in
opinions on public questions, who never
met but to exchange a blow, the sparks
from the encounter Of whose mighty
swords kindled the fires " hich spread
over the continent, thought thus Of one
another is it not likely that if the
states they represented could have met
with the same intimacy, with the same
knowledge and cOmpanionship during
all these years. they too would have
understood, and understanding, would
kGve loved each other?
] should like to have had a chance to
hearken to their talk. Why their Cos
sip would almost make up the history
of liberty. How they would boast to
each other, as sisters 60, of their chill
dren their beautiful and brave How
many memories they would find in com
mon. How the warm Scotch-Irish blood
would stir in their veins. How
the Puritan and the Presbyterian blood
would quicken their pulses as they re.
counted the old struggles for freedom
to worship God. What stories they
WOulu nave 10 tel edCn Olher OF the
day of the terrible knell from the bel
of the old tower of st. German dc
L'Auxerrois, when The edict of Nantes
was revoked and sounded it's alarm t.
the Huguenot exiles Who found refuge
some in South Carolina and some il
Massachusetts. You have heard Of
James Bowdoin, and Paul Revere, anC
Peter Faneuil, and Andrew Sigourney
These men brought 60 the darkenec
and gloomy mind az the Puritan fbf
sunshine of beautiful France, which
South Carolina did not need They
taught our Puritans the much needed
lesson that there WAS comet hing fhei