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Choat’s Eulogy on Webster.
The extreme length of Mr. Cheat’s splen
did eulogy on Webster has very generalIv
precluded its insertion entire in° the col.
umns of the public press. This subjoined
extract on Air. Webster’s public character
and life will be read with interest:
To his true fame, to the kind and degree
0 uence which that large series of great
actions, and those embodied thoughts of
great intellect are to exert on the future
t.ns is the all important consideration.—
n the last speech which lie made in the
benate the last of those which he
made, as he said for tlie Constitution and
the l nion, and which he might have com
mended, as Bacon, his name and memory,
“to men’s charitable speeches, to foreign
nations, and the next ages,” yet with a
better hope lie asserted—‘ The ends I aim
at shall lie those of my country, my God,
and truth.” Is that praise his ?
L ntil the 7th day of Alarch, 1850,1 think
it would have been accorded to him by a
universal acclaim, as general, and as ex
pressive of profound and intelligent convic
tion, and of enthusiasm, love, and trust, as
ever saluted conspicuous statesmanship,
tried by many crisis of affairs in a great
nation, agitated ever by parties, and whol
ly free.
That he had admitted a desire to win,
by deserving them, the highest forms of
public honor, many would have said, and
they who loved him most fondly, and felt
the truest solicitude that he should carry a
good conscience and pure frame brighten
ing to the end, would- not have feared to
concede. For he was not ignorant of him
self, and he therefore knew that there was
nothing within tlie Union, Constitution and
law, too high, or too large, or too difficult
for him. He believed that liis natural or
his acquired abilities, and his policy of ad
ministration, would contribute to the true
glory of America ; and he held no theory
of ethics which required him to disparage,
to suppress, to ignore vast capacities of pub
lic service merely because they were his
own. If the fleets of Greece were assent
bling on their arms from Loconia to Mount
Trace, from Cape of Sunium to the western
most isle, and the great epic action was
opening, it was not for him to feign insan
ity or idiocy, to escape the perils and the
honor of command. But that all this in
him had been ever in subordination to a
principled and beautiful public virture;
that every sectional bias, every party tic,
as well as personal aspiring, bad been uni
formly held by him for nothing against the
claims of country ; tliat nothing lower than
countiy seemed worthy enough—nothing
smaller, large enough—for that great heart
would not have been questioned by a whis
per. Ah ! if at any hour before that day
he had died, how would then the great pro
cession of the people of America—the great
triumphal procession of the dead—have
moved onward to his grave—the sublimity
of national sorrow, not contrasted, not out
raged by one feeble voice of calumny.
Iu that antecedent public life, embracing
from 1812 to 1S50—a period of thirty-eight
years—I find grandest proofs of the genu
ineness and comprehensiveness of his pa
triotism, and the boldness and manliness
of his public virtue. lie began his career
of politics as a federalist. Such was his
father—so beloved and revered; such his
.iterary and professional companions ; such,
although by no very decissive or certain
preponderance, the community in which he
was bred and was to live. Under that
name of party lie entered Congress, person
ally, and by connection, opposed to the
war, which wait bought to bear with such
extreme sectional severity upon the North
and East. And yet, one might almost say
that the only thing he imbibed from feder
alist or federalism, was love and admira
tion for the constitution as the means of
union. That passion he did from them in
herit—that he cherished.
He came into Congress, opposed, as 1
have said, to the war—and behold him, if
you would judge of the quality of his politi
cal ethics, in opposition. Hid those elo
quent lips, at a time of life when vehemence
and imprudence are expected, it ever, and
not ungraceful, let fall even one word of
faction ? Hid he ever deny one power to
the general government which the sound
est expositions of all creeds have allowed
it ? Hid he ever breathe a syllable which
could excite a region, a State, a family of
States, against the Union—which could
hold out hope or aid to the enemy—which
sought to turn or tended to check the tide
of a new and intense nationality, then burst-
up, to flow and burn till all things ap-
ited to America to do, shall be fulfilled !
;se questions, in tbeir substance, be put
Mr. Calhoun, in 1S38, in the Senate,
that great man—one of the authors of
war——just then, only then, in relation
[r. Webster, and who had just insinua-
a reproach on his conduct in the war,
silent. Hid Air. Webster content
self even with objecting to the details
he mode in which the administration
red the war? No, indeed. Taught by
constitutional studies that the Union
made in part for commerce—familiar
l the habits of our long line of coasts
wing well bow many sailors and fisher-
1, driven from every sea by embargo
war, burned to go to the gun deck and
age tlie wrongs of England on the ele-
it°whcre she had inflicted them, Iris op-
itiou to the war manifested itself bv
dun 0, tlie nation that the deck was her
1 of fame. Non il/i imperitim j/elagt
•unique tridentem, sed nobis, sortc datum.
!ut 1 might recall other evidence of the
lino- and unusual qualities of his public
ue.° Look in bow manly a sort lie not
•ely conducted a particular argument or
irticular speech, but in how manly a sort,
iow high a moral tone, he uniform y
It with the mind of his country. I o i-
ans got an advantage of him tor this
Ic he lived; let the dead have just
isc to-day. Our public life is a Ion;
pioneering, and even Burke tells you
t at popular elections the most rigorous
lists would remit something of their se-
itv. But wherever do you find Dim
tering his countrymen, indirectly or di-
ly, for a vote 1 ' On what did he ever
^ himself hut good counsels and useful
-ice 1 His arts were manly arts, and
never saw a day of temptation when lie
rid not rather fall, than stand on any
cr. NY ho ever heard that voice cheer-
thc people on to rapacity, to ^ us ^
a vain and guilty glory 1 N\ no evei
• that pencil of light hold up a picture
manifest destiny to dazzle the fancy .
low anxiously, rather, in season and
out, by the energetic eloquence of his youth,
by bis counsels bequeathed on tlie verge of
a timely grave, be preferred to teach that
by all possible acquired, sobriety of mind
by asking reverently of the past, by obe
dience to tlie law, by habits of patient and
legitimate labor by tlie cultivation of the
mind, by the fear and worship of God, we
educate ourselves for the future that is re
vealing. Aleu said he did not sympathise
with the masses, because his phraseology
was rather of an old and simple school, re
jecting the nauseous and vain repetitions
of humanity and philanthropy, and pro
gress and brotherhood, in which may lurk
heresies so dreadful, of socialism or anti-
socialism, or disunion or propagandism, in
which a selfish hollow and shallow ambi
tion masks itself—the syren song which
would lure the pilot from his course.—
But I say that he did sympathise with them;
and because he did, he came to them not
with adolation, hut with truth ; not with
words to please, but with measures to serve
them; not that Iris popular sympathies
were less, but that his personal and intel
lectual dignity and his public morality
were greater.
And on the 7th day of Alarch, and down
to the final scene, might we not still say,
as ever before, that “all the ends ho aimed
at were Iris country’s,hisGod’s and truth’s.”
He declared, “I speak to-day for the pre
servation of the Union. Hear me, for my
cause. I speak to-day out of a solicitous
and anxious heart, for the restoration to
the country of that quiet and harmony
which make the blessings of this Union so
rich and so dear to us all. These are the
motives, and the sole motives that influence
me.” If in that declaration he was sincere,
was he not hound in conscience to give the
counsels of that day ? What were they 1
What was the single one for which his po
litical morality was called in question ?—
Only that a provision of the federal con
stitution ordaining the restitution of fugi
tive slaves, should he executed according
to its true meaning. This only. And,
might he not in good conscience keep the
constitution in this part, and in all, for the
preservation of the Union.
Under his oath to support it, and to sup
port it all, and with his opinions of that du
ty so long held, proclaimed uniformly, in
whose vindication, on some great days, he
had found the opportunity of his personal
glory, might be not, in good conscience,
support it, and all of it, even if he could
not, and if no human intelligence could
certainly know, that the extreme evil
would follow, in immediate consequence,
its violation ? Was it so recent a doctrine
of his, that the constitution was obligatory
upon the. national and individual conscien
ces, that you should ascribe it to sudden
and irresistible temptation 1 Why, what
had he, clear down to the 7th of March,
that more truly individualized him—what
had he more characteristically his own—
where withal had lie to glory more or other
than all beside, than this very doctrine of
the sacred and permanent obligation to
support each and all parts of that great
compact of Union and justice? Had not
this been his distinction, his speciality—
almost a foible of Iris greatness—the dar
ling and master passion ever ? Consider
that that was a sentiment which had been
part of his conscious nature for more than
sixty years—that from the time he bought
Iris first copy of the Constitution on his
handkerchief, and revered parental lips
had commended it to him, with all other
holy and beautiful tilings, along with les
sons of reverence to God, and the belief of
His Scriptures, along with the doctrines of
the catechism, the unequalled music of
Watts, the name of Washington—there
had never been an hour that he had not
held it the master work of man—-just in its
ethics, consummate in its practical wisdom,
paramount in its injunction, that every
year of life had deepened the original im
pression—that as Iris mind opened, and his
associations widened, he found that every
one for whom he felt respect, instructors,
theological and moral teachers, Iris entire
party connection, tlie opposite party and
the whole country, so held it, too—that its
fruits of more than a century of union, of
happiness, of renown, bore constant and
clear witness to it in his mind, and that it
chanced emergent and rare occasions had
devolved on him to stand forth to maintain
it, to vindicate its interpretation, to vindi
cate its authority, to unfold its workings
and uses—that he had so acquitted himself
of that opportunity as to have won the title
of its Expounder and Uefcnder, so that his
proudest memories, his most prized renown,
referred to it, and were entwined with it,
and say whether, with such antecedents,
x-eadincss to execute, or disposition to evade,
would have been the hardest to explain,
likeliest to suggest, the surmise of a new
temptation ! He who knows anything of
the man, knows that his vote for beginning
the restoration of harmony by keeping the
whole constitution was detennined, was ne
cessitated, by the great law of consequen
ces—a great law of cause and effect, run-
ningback to his mother’s arms, as resistless
as the law which moves the system about
the sun—and that he must have given it,
although it had been opened to him in vi
sion, that within the next natural day his
“eyes should be turned to behold for the
lastjrime the sun iu heaven.”
The following tribute to Air. Webster's
social qualities, is eloquent and truthful :
There must be added next the element
of an impressive character, inspiring regard,
trust and admiration, not unmingled with
love. It had, I think, intrinsically a chann
such as belongs only to a good, noble and
beautiful nature. In its combination with
so much fame, so much force of will, and
so much intellect, it filled and fascinated
the imagination and heart; it was affec
tionate in childhood and youth, and it was
more than ever so in the few last months of
his long life. It is the universal testimony
that he gave to his parents in largest meas
ure, honor, love, obedience—that lie eager
ly appropriated the first means which he
could command to relieve the father from
the debts contracted to educate his brother
and himself-—that lie selected his first place
of professional practice that ho might soothe
the coming oix of his old age—that all
through life he neglected no occasion, some
times when leaning on the arm of a friend
alone with faltering voice, sometimes in
the presence of great assemblies, where the
tide of general emotion made it graceful, to
express his “affectionate veneration of him
who reared and defended the log cabin in
which his elder brothers and sisters were
born, against savage violence and destrac-
tion ; cherished all the domestic ^ virtues
beneath his roof, and through the fire aud
blood of some years of revolutionary war,
shrank from no danger, no toil, no sacrifice,
to seiwc his country, and to raise his chil
dren to a better condition than his o>vn.”
Equally beautiful was his love of all his
kindred. When I hear him accused of
selfishness, and a cold, bad nature, I recall
him lying sleepless all night, not without
tears of boyhood, conferring with Ezekiel
how the darling desire of both hearts should
he compassed, and he too admitted to the
precious privileges of education, courage
ously pleading the cause of both brothers
in the morning, by tlie wise and discerning
affection of the mother, suspending his
studies of the law, and registering deeds
and teaching school to earn the means of
availing themselves of the opportunity the
parental self-saci-ifice had placed within
theirreach—loving him through life,mourn
ing him when dead, with a love and a sor
row very wonderful—passing the soitow of
women.
I recall the husband, the father of the
living and the early departed, the friend,
the counsellor of many years, and my heart
grows too full and liquid for the refutation
of my words. ~
fiEschines, thundering against his great
rival—vulnerable here, exclaimed—“it is
impossible that the unnatural father—the
hater of his own blood should be an able,
faithful leader of Iris conntry—that the
mind which is insensible to the intimate and
touching influences of domestic affections,
should be alive to the remote influence of
patriotic feeling—that private depravity
should subsist with public virtue.” But our
Heinostlienes was unassailable by such de-
nunciation.
“Well might he be strenuous in his country’s cause,
'Who owned the charities for whose dear sake
That country, if at all, must be beloved.”
Ilis affectionate nature, craving ever
friendship, as well as the presence of kind
red blood, diffused itself through allhispri
vatc life, gave sincerity to all his hospitali
ties, kindness to Iris eye, warmth to the
pressure ofliis hand, made his greatness and
genius unbend themselves to the playful
ness of childhood, flowed out in graceful
memories indulged of the pastor the dead,
incidents when life was young and promis
ed to be happy, gave generous sketches of
rivals, the high contention now hidden by
the handful of earth, lioui-s passed fifty y eax-s
ago with great authors, recalled now for
the vernal emotions which then they
made to live and revel in the soul. Aud
from these conversations of friendship, no
man—no man, old or young—went away
to remember one word of profaneness, one
allusion of indelicacy, one impure thought,
one unbelieving sxxggestion, one doubt cast
on the reality of virtue, of patriotism, of en
thusiasm, of tlie progress of mau—one
doubt cast on righteousness, or temperance,
or judgment to come.
Every one of his tastes and recreations
announced the same type of character.—
Ilis love of agriculture, or sports in the open
air, of the outward world in star light and
storms, and sea and boundless wilderness—
partly a result of the past fourteen years of
his life, perpetuated like its older affections
and its other lessons of a mother’s love, the
psalms, the Bible, the stories of the wars—
partly the return of an unsophisticated and
healthful and genial nature, tiring, for a
space, of the idle business of political life,
its distinctions, its artificialities, to employ
ments, to sensations which interest without
agitating the universal race alike, as God
has framed it, ixx which one feels himself on
ly a man fashioned from the earth, set to
till it, appointed to return to it, yet made in
the image of his Alakcr, and with a spirit
that shall not die.
I have learned, by evidence the most
satisfactory and pi-ecise, that in the last
months of his life, the whole affectionate
ness of his nature, his consideration of oth
ers, his gentleness, his desire to make
them happy and to see them happy, seemed
to come out in more and more habitual ex
pression than ever. The long day’s public
tasks were felt to be done—the cares, the
uncertainties, the mental conflicts of high
place, were ended, and he came home to
recover himself for the few yeai-s which he
still might expect would he his before he
should go home to be here no more ; and
there I am assured and fully believe no un
becoming regrets pursued him, no discon
tent, as for injustice suffered or expecta
tions unfulfilled ; no self-reproach for any
thing done or anything omitted by himself;
no irritation, no peevishness unworthy of
his noble nature, but instead, love and hope
for liis country, when she became the sub
ject of conversation, and for all around him,
the dearest and the indifferent, for all
breathing things about him, the overflow,
constant growing in gentleness and benev
olence, of the kindest heart, parental, patri
archal affections, seeming to become more
natural, warm and communicative. Softer
and yet brighter grew the tints on the sky
of parting day, and the last lingering rays,
more even than the glories of noon, an
nounced how divine was the source from
which they proceed, how incapable to be
quenched, how certain to rise on a morning
which no night should follow.
Such a character was made to he loved.
Ut was loved. Those who knew and saw
it in hour of calm—those who repose on
that soft green, loved him. His plain neigh
bors loved him ; and one said when lie was
laid in his grave, “How lonesome the world
seems.” Educated young men loved him.
The ministers of the gospel, gentlemen of
intelligence of the country, the masses afar
off, loved him. True, they had not found
in his speeches—read by millions—so much
adulation of the people : so much of the
music whiehrobs the pu lie reason of itself;
so many phrases of humanity and philan
thropy. And some had told them he was
lofty and cold—solitary in his greatness;
but every year they came nearer and near
er to him, and as they came nearer they
loved him better. They heard how tender
the son had been, the husband, the brother,
the father and the friend and neighbor;
that he was plain, simple, natural, generous,
hospitable ; the heart larger than the brain;
that he loved little children and reverenced
God, the Scriptures, the Sabbath day, the
Constitution and Law—and their hearts
clave unto him. Alore truly of him than
even of the naval darling of England might
be said, that “his presence would set the
church bells ringing, and give schools boys
a holiday—would bring children from
school and old men from the chimney cor
ner, to gaze on hinx ere he died.” The
great aud unavailing lamentation first re
vealed the deep place he had in the hearts
of his countrymen.
On the oratory of Air .NVebsterat the bar
and in the halls of Congress Air. Choate
dilated with great force and eloquence.—
He said :
But there were other fields of oratory on
which under the influence of more uncom
mon springs of inspiration, he exemplified,
in a still other forms, an eloquence in which
I do not know that he has had a supeiior
among men. Addressing masses by tens
of thousands in the opeix air, on the ur
gent political questions of the day, or desig
nated to lead meditations of an hour devo
ted to the comxixemoration of some national
era, or some incident marking the progress
of the nation, and lifting him up to a view
of what is and what is past, and some indis
tinct revelation of the glory that lies in the
future, or the death of some great historical
name, just borne by the nation to his tomb,
we have learned that then and there, at the
base of Bunker Hill, before the corner stone
was laid, and again when fi’om the finished
column the centxxries looked on him; inFan-
uiel Hall, mourn ingfor those with whose spo
ken or written eloquence offreedom its arch
es had so often l’esounded ; on the l'ock of
Plymouth; before the capitol, of which
there shall not he one stone left on another
before bismemoxy shall have ceased to live
—in such scenes, unfettered by the laws of
forensic or parliamentary debate, multitudes
uncounted lifted up their eyes to him ; some
great historical scenes of America around
him, all symbols of her glory and art and
power and fortune there, voices of past, not
unheard ; shapes beckoning from the future,
not unseen.—Sometimes that mighty intel
lect, borne upward to a height and kindled
to an illumination which we shall see no
more, wrought oxxt as it were, in an instant,
a picture of a vision warning, prediction ;
the pi’Ogress of a nation ; the contrast of its
eras ; the heroic deaths ; the motives to pa
triotism ; the maxims and arts imperial by
which the glory has been gathered and
may be heightened, wrought out, in an in
stant, a picture to fade only when all re-
cord of our minds shall die.”
A large portioxx of Mr. Choate’s discourse
was devoted to the consideration of Air.
AVebster as a jurist and statesman. Of his
eminence in these professions the speaker
said :
In surveying that ultimate and finished
greatness in which he stands before yoxi
in bis full stature and at Iris best, this dou
ble and blended eminence is tlie first tiring
that fixes the eyes and last. When he died,
he was first of American Statesmen. In
both characters he continued dischai-ging
the foremost part in each, down to the fall
ing of the awful curtain. * * * * *
I caxxnot here and now ti - ace his career
at the bar—define the stages of his rise, or
the moment he came to be fii’st. I cannot
enter even on his character as a jurist; nor
since the seperate and able treatment, of tlie
topic by one so well known qualified to do
it justice, it is needful. Yet, let me say
that herein, also, tlie first thing that strikes
you is the union of diverse, and, as I have
said what might have been regarded, in
compatible excellencies. I shall submit it
to t’ne judgment of the American Bar, if a
carefully prepared opinion of Air. Web
ster on any question of law whatever in the
whole range of our jurisprudence would not
be accepted every where as of the most
commanding authority, and the highest ev
idence of legal truth? I submit it to that
same judgment, if, for many years before
his death, they would not have rather chos
en to entrust the maintainance and enforce
ment of any important propositions of law
whatever before any legal tribunal of char
acter whatever, to his best exertion of Iris
faculties than to any other ability which
the whole wealth of the profession could
supply?
And this alone completes the description
of a lawyer and a forensic orator of the
first class; but it does not complete the de-
scription ofliis professional character. By
the side of all this, so to speak, there was
that whole class of qualities which made
him for any description of trial by jury
whatever criminal or civil, by even a more,
universal assent, foremost. For that form
of trial no difficulty was unused orneedless;
but you were most struck there to see the
unrivalled legal reasons put off as it were,
and re-appear in the form of a robust com
mon sense and eloquent feeling, applying
itself to an exciting subject of business ; to
see the knowledge of men and life by
which the falsehood and veracity of wit
nesses—the probabilities and improbabil
ities of transactions as sworn to, were dis
cerned in a moment—the direct, plain, for
cible speech—the consummate narrative—
the easy axid perfect analysis by which he
conveyed his side of the cause to the mind
of the jury—the occasional gusli of strong
feeling ; indignation or pity—a masterly,
yet natural way in which all the moral emo
tions of which his cause was susceptible,
xvere called to use—the occasional sover
eignty of dictation to which his convictions
seemed spontaneously to l’ise. His efforts
in trials by jury compose a more traditional
and evanescent part of his professional imp
utation than his argument on questions of
law; hut I almost think they were his
mightiest professional displays, or displays
of any kind, after all.
I doubt if bis prosecution of the murder
er of Joseph White was not a far more dif
ficult and higher effort of mind than his
more famous “Oration for the Crown”—tlie
reply to Air. Hayne, delivered a few months
before.
Virginia Girls.—The achievements of
some Georgia damsels in heavy work being
announced in this paper many months since
a correspondent from Hanover introduced
to our notice the accomplishments of two
Hanover girls, who spun cotton, cooked
and washed (for themselves of course) haul
ed the seine and got out shingles. The
amount of the labors of these two girls
was astonishing ; they were especially
“some on a shingle !” to make the only
tolerable applications of this slang xve have
ever known. AYhat was a crowning fea
ture in tUc history of these girls, they were
well behaved and went to church even"
Sunday.
This paragraph travelled from Alaine to
Arexico, and our female shingle manufac
turers became as distinguished as Aladame
Bishop or Steffanoni. Finally our neigh
bor, tlie Enquirer, gets hold of it and makes
it the occasion for bringing to notice anoth
er specimen of Virginia female indepen
dence. A young woman in the Valley,
who procured some land, cut down trees,
chopped logs for a building, made shingles
to cover it, nailed them on, and finished a
house by lathing aud plastering it herself.
She was afterwards married. And now
considerably older than she was, is the
mother of thirteen children—tlie youngest
an infant. This was a pretty good part
nership business begun in a cottage the fruit
of the wife’s industry and the work of her
hands.
And now wc have yet another, and one
of a very different character. She seems
to have all the firmness and resolution of
those already noticed with a little more
fii’e. Indeed she seems one to befeared as
much as loved. This gentle dame resides
some where in the mountains of NYest Vir
ginia. The editors of the Parkersburg Ga
zette has seen the lady, and describes her
as young, comely, educated and sprightly.
She came from Kentucky, and is tarrying
in the mountains with the view of perfect
ing her title to some thousands of acres of
wild land. This domain descended to her
from an ancestor to whom it was paten
ted for Revolutionary services, hut is
now claimed by a “ land-pirate” who for
merly acted as her agent. To defend her
rights, she proceeded “ solitary and alone”
to tlie disputed territory, made a clearing,
built a log cabin and located a tenant. She
always carries one of Colt’s revolvers
and, thus armed, roams fearlessly over the
mountains,following paths seldom trod save
by the panther and bear. A suit for the
land is pending.
This will do for Virginia girls ! They arc
not easily excelled !—Richmond Enquirer.
A voting gentleman of this town, says
tlie A eraon Banner, came very near get
ting his brains blowcd out with a broom
stick the other day. He was boarding in
a private family, in which there is a rather
attractive young lady. As he was leaving
the house after dinner, one day last week,
in passing the window, he spied the j-oung
lady sitting in a rocking chair. In order
to be sociable—and perhaps to quiz the
young lady—he remarked to her, “Miss, yon
look sleepy—as though you had lately fall
en, or soon will fall, into the arms of Alor-
pheus.” The young lady, not perfectly
understanding the meaning of the last term,
took it that it was the name of some young
man. AAriiereupon she told her mother how
the gentleman had insulted her, by saying
that she had been hugged by Air. JSIorjdteus.
On the return of the gentleman to his board
ing house, the landlady attacked him with
the usual weapon of a matron—told him to
understand that her daughter was never in
the arms of Morpheus or any other young
man, and notified him to leave the premises
sans ceremonie. And the offending individ
ual accordingly sought out another board
ing house. Good for him. Served him
right. He had no business thus to insult
an intelligent young lady.
A Voice from the North.
The President and his Nationality.—
President Pierce was elected to the office
he now fills, under the connivance of sever
al thousands of AA T hig voters, who believed
that his administration would he more reli
able in liis support of the Compromise
Aleasures, than circumstances would permit
Gen Scott to be. Gen. Pierce had all
along avowed himself a great stickler for
those measures, and all Union-saving com
mittees, in New-York and elsewhere, either
openly served his election or winked at it.
They were afraid that Gov. Seward, and
those of his way of thinking, would obtain
an undue influence over Gen. Scott, if chos
en, and accordingly they turned in for the
New Hampshire invincible. And when
the little General delivered his promising
Inaugural, on the fourth of Alarch, it went
like electric tire to the bosoma of those
compromise AYlrigs par excellence, and
warmed tlieir hearts with better than Prom
ethean fire. “Now at last,” they said, “we
have a man, Democrat though he be, who
has set himself like steel against all anti
compromise men and anti-slavery notions,
and who will redeem his pledge to frown
upon every idea and every idealist of agi
tation.”
Alas! how little are human promises to
be relied upon ! Only four fleet months
have sped by, and this Compromise Presi
dent has been doing but little else than fil
ling the offices, from Alaine to Louisiana,
with anti-compromise incumbents. He at
once appointed a Alassaelmsetts Coalition
ist to be bis legal adviser in tlie Cabinet,
and a Alississippi Fire-eater to a scat by his
side. And from that day to this the work
has gone bravely on. Barnburners in New
York, Fire eaters at the South, and Coali-
tionsts in Alassaelmsetts, have been his es
pecial favorites and the recipients of some
of his best offices. Even tlie granite De
mocracy of New Hampshire have ta
ken the alarm and began to quake. A
loud cry has gone up in New York against
such treachery to past pledges. And even
in Alassaelmsetts tlie war notes of rebel
lion would have been raised, but that tlie
Democratic party was already so largely
abolitionized in this State, only a few old-
lincrs remained of all us past sachems;
and two of these the President silenced ina
jiffy with the best offices in the Common
wealth. And having thus quieted a large
portion of what little was there left of Old-
Lineism in this State, he has since been feed-
ingout theGovernmentpatronageto the Co
alition, without stint or limit. He has gone
father, and has offered the loaves andfishes to
the Abolitionists—who, to their credit be it
spoken, did not ask, and in some iustances
will not accept, the proffered patronage.
AIu. AIerrill, the Abolitionist recently
appointed Postmaster at Gloucester, has
refused the office because it requires him to
swear fidelity to the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, which he will not do; all of which
was known before he was appointed, being
one of the Garrison School of politicians, who
openly proclaim their desire to sec the Union
dissolved, and, the Church too. This is the
way Air. Pierce proposes to save the Un
ion—an object which he appears to think
can best be reached by appointing its open
enemies to office under the Government—
Cabinet Alinisters and Judges of the Su
preme Court from Southern Disunionists,
and Nullifiers, on one hand ; and rampant
Abolitionists, Bible despisers and Union
haters, on the other.
The Postmaster of Cambridge is an Ab
olitionist. The Postmaster of Itoxbury is
a Coalitionist. The Postmaster of Pitts
field is a Coalitionist. Tlie Postmaster of
Northampton is a Coalitionist. The Post
master of AVorcester, when appointed, will
be a Coalitionist; and if there be any of
fices, of honor and profit, in Massachusetts,
which shall not be filled with out-and-out
opponents of the Compromise Aleasures,
and heart and hand fraternizers with anti-
slrvery agitation, we presume the Boston
Post will, with all becoming dispatch, in
form the public ofthe fact. Such is the indom
itable nationality of General Pierce's admin
istration. It started off like the fire-works,
which, within the past few days, have il
luminated so many places in this country
with lights of geld and blue; but like them,
it is descending aud going out in a dark-
TH !■ — IMHH ■IW-IITI II1 I >
ness that is all the more striking by the
contract, leaving a stale odor in place of
the so recently fragrant and eulogized na
tional Democracy.
[ Worcester (Mass.JjEgis.
“A Strong AIinded Woman.”-A woman
in Ohio, having exhausted her patience in
endeavoring to save a druken husband, call
ed onthe liquor sellers, and politely request
ed them not to sell her husband any more.
They all declared they had not, ?nd would
not sell him any liquor. On Thursday af
ternoon, while out in search of her husband,
she found him drunk and almost senseless
in a i uni den. At the lamentable condition
in which she found her husband she be
came very much enraged. Provoked to
madness, she seized a club about two and
a half feet in length, with which she broke
to pieces a large decanter filled with whis
key, just placed on tlie counter as she
stepped in, for the accommodation of some
four or five drunken sots. The next move
she swept pitcher and glasses from the
counter; this made the doggery-keeper fu
rious ; he attacked the lady, while she with
both hands seized the club, and with one
fell-stroke brought him to the floor. He
raised the cry of murder, and fled. The
rest of the inebriates seeing the practical
demonstrations of her skill, fled the house.
Having the shop to herself she eooly and
deliberately walked to the whiskey barrel
and beer keg and broke the faucets, caus
ing the contents to run out over the floor.
After which she broke all the jugs, bottles
and flasks that could he found.
Keep it Before the People.
That the notorious NYm. J. Brown, of
Indiana, when about to be elected speaker
of the House of Representatives, wrote the
following note to David AYilmot, the leader
ofthe abolitionists in Congress, in order to
secure their votes.
Washington City, Dec., 10, 1849.
Dear Sir.—In answer to yours of this date.
I will state that, should I be elected Speaker
of the House of Representatives, I will consti
tute the Committee on the District of Colum
bia, on Territories, and on the Judiciary in
such manner as shall be satisfactory to
yourself and your friends. I am a rep
resentative from a free State and hare always
BERN OPPOSED TO THE EXTENSION OF SLAVE
RY", and believe that the Federal Government
should be relieved from the responsibility of
slavery where they have the constitutional
power to abolish it.
I am yours truly, W. J. Brown.
Hon David AArilmot.
Yet this is the man that Air. Pierce has
appointed to office ; and the appointment is
sustained and defended by Hersehel V.
Johnson, David J. Bailey and all the De
mocratic Press that sustain them ; and the
Jeffersonian is “ not only content, but de
lighted” with the appointment.
[Am. Union.
A New way to Kill a Snake.
Our cotemporary of the Albany Patriot,
amongst other strange things about the
working of the present administration, says,
“the great triumph of democracy last year
has eutirelv crushed Abolitionism for the
present.” NVhat is the English of this*?
Why simply, that the election of Gen.
Pierce constitutes this great triumph, and
that his election has crushed abolitionism.
Now, just for information, we should like to
knoxv Iioyy the thing has been done, or is
likely to be affected. Before the election
of Pierce the abolitionists xvere sinking to
their merited condition, and were becom
ing pow’erless, except when they could
form an alliance with the democratic party,
as they did in Ohio, Massachusetts, .and
other states. Since his election they are
taken to the arras of the Chief Alagistrate,
honored as his Chief Counsellors, loaded
with the high offices of the country, and fed
and fattened on the spoils and viands found
in the flesh pots of Official patronage. If
abolition dies during Pierces administration
it will be ivitli a founder or a surfeit. If it
is crushed at all, it will be beneath the
weight of honors and rewards so unjustly
and promiscuously heaped upon its votaries.
But there is no danger of its dying in this
way. It will grow in power and influence,
and insolence, and, Lacked by the patron
age of the President, will rear its hydra
head at the close of this administration,
many a cubit higher than it has ever done
before. Crush it indeed ! Yon might as
well attempt to crush a Hyena by feeding
him on human flesh.
f Columbus Enquirer.
How Kentucky got its Name.—The
origin and meaning of the name of Ken
tucky, has been accounted for in different
ways, both ingenious and plausible. The
latest analysis of the word Kentucky, that
xve have heard, xve had a few days ago
from the lips of an old hunter, now in the
ninety-ninth year of his age. AVhcn Boone
first came to that country it xvas inhabited
exclusively by no tribes of Indians, but was
the common hunting ground for all the
tribes of the adjacent country. The rich
valleys xvere covered with a chappare! of
cane, bearing a small berry, on xvbicli tlie
turkeys came in countless numbers to feast.
Thus, it was enough for the whites to call
it the land of Cane and Turkey. The Indi
ans trying to pronounce the same words,
got it Kane tuckee, from this it xvas abbre
viated into Kentuck, and finally the name
by xx iiich is noxv known, Kentucky—the
land of Cane and Turkeys.—Putnam Ban.
An Affecting Story.—The Alemphis
Appeal contains tke following:
“ A most touching case illustrative of
conjugal love, occurred at our xvkarf a fexv
days since. A man and Iris xvife xvere com
ing up the river, when the husband took
sick and was supposed to hax e died. AA’hen
they ariixed at this city, tlie xvife had
a coffin purchased, and her husband
was deposited in that last home of tlie
dead. Just before the moment of closing
the coffin, however, and the final interment of
the deceased, tlie bereax ed and agonized
wife insistedupon once more lockingandem-
bracing the cold remains of the deceased
partner of her bosom. AVhetlier it xvas her
warm embrace, or returning consciousness,
certain it is that the supposed corpse sud
denly evinced signs of life, and the proper
restoratives being applied, xvithin twenty-
four hours, the inx-aiid was enabled to pro
ceed on his journey, xvith ex ery prospect of
a speedy recox’ery, owing his life to the un
tiring dexotion and love of his true aud
faithful xvife.”
In lieu of attaching the pig-tail quirk
“Esq’s” to men’s names noxv, the words
“S. P.”are substituted, which signify “Some
Pumpkins.” We consider this* an im
provement, as well as a new fashion.