Cjje B§teckl& Constitutionalist
Wednesday Morning, Jan.. 24,1866.
••GONE UP”—OR DOWN 1
After a pnhlica'ion of 'liirty-five years,
Garrison’s Liberator h is given up the ghost.
The hoary sinner that ran the filthy machine
proclaims his work done. It is certainly
done black, Asa specimen of his accom
plished labor, we give an extract from the
valedictory. Hear him:
“The old covenant with dqath is annulled;
a r d the agreement with hell no longer stands.
Hail, redeemed, reg' ncrated America! Hail,
North and South, East and West. Hail, the
cause of Peace, of Liberty, of Righteousness,
thus mightily strengthened and signally glo
rified ! Hail, ye ransomed millions, no more
to be chained, scourged, mutilated, bought
and sold in the market, robbed of all rights.”
By which is meant that the CONSTITU
TION has been trampled open and defiled
much to the exultation of this, the most ultra
of ‘ Nigger Worshippers”—the Veiled Prophet
of the whole gang. By which is meant that
the UNION of our fathers has become almost,
If not quite, impossible. By which is meant
that millions of white men mnst take the
place of emancipated darkies. By which is
meant that the darkies themselves are to die
as fast as they can. Every earnest man, of
any decency in the North or in the South, in
the East and irf the West, very far from hav
ing a riotous “high jinks” over the matter, is
sad to contemplate it, and sadder still to
know that it must last so long. And yet, in
spite of the most melancholy spectacle of the
century, this hideous old demon grins and
shouts and praises God 1 Yes : his work is
done, as far as this world is concerned for
him, but blood will cry out and wrongs be
righted and—Jehovah is just. Such men are
the disunionists and have been so throughout.
Such men arc the Rebels and ought to be
suppressed. Biding that time, wc are con
tent to know that one foul organ has become
extinct.
PLEASANT REFLECTIONS FOR
NORTHERN TOURISTS.
Our gorge Ims risen at reading of the dis
position made of many thousands of hospital
blankets, sheets, mattresses and other bed
furniture, at a recent sale of such plunder
near Fortress Monroe. A correspondent of
the News avers that most of this plunder was
bought up with avidity by Baltimore, Wash
ington and Philadelphia landlords, in order
to replenish the stock < f their hotels. The
savory fact of many negroes having died
thereon, is specially remarked. Thousands,
both white and colored, submitted to surgical
operations upon them, and some of the sheets
were still'stiff with gore when knocked down
to the highest bidder. It was prudent for
the New*’ correspondent to omit New York
from his catalogue, but we have not the Icaßt
doubt but that New York was on hand and a
heavy hi ’dcr. Whore is there a large sale on
tho habitable globe and a chance for bargains,
and New York not there or thereabout?
Perhaps, if tho whole truth could bo arriv. and
at, New York trtis the most prominent pur
chaser. In the meanwhile, our birds of pas
sage, bound Noith, will have the delectation
of sleeping upon couches where slept the
bravo—soundly.
SOUTHERN CORRESPONDENTS.
If it were not so very amusing, we might
feel i> diguant at the reports circuVrd about
us by the correspi orients of Jacobin journals
now squirming over the South. These itin
erant mountebanks, p;ui< plied with'prejudice,
fostering with rancor and bilious with conceit,
assume all the aiss of Montaigne or Montes
quieu, force! ting that splenetic verbiage and
circus wit rather incline thinking men to
doubt their philosophy and rank them with
ilan Itiee or a panorama ehowmaft. Horace
Greeley’s incendiary paper blazons with such
bosh and the old trick of sneering at every
thing in this section is kept up with a livid
virulence. The Richmond Times, a journal
betimes full of racy waggery, has had occa
sion to step out of the way to rap the dirty
coated disorganizers ov t the knuckles. It is
such a clever whirl of the pen ferule that we
cannot forbear from reproducing it fhns
prominently. It would be “ gilding refined
gold” to attempt nnything further by way of
embellishment, and we are most happy to
endorse our Richmond cotemporary by dis
playing his ‘ cunning of fence” in this column.
Says the Times;
••The late unfortunate aflray between several
of the gentle” en coou-. cted w'ith the Richmond
press, ha* made the correspondents of several
of Jbe Radical papers turn absolutely blue with
terror. Th< ir yells and squeaks over the event
are diverting in the extreme They have been
slandering, denouncing, villifying and libel
ling »he people of Virginia for* eight months,
and have thus far been neither shot at, nor
cudgeled, nor kicked, nor lynched, when they
have richly deserved all these brings in dis
guise The forbearance of onr |<eop> has been
commend* he; but the occurrences rs the last
frw dav* have greatly alarmed the mendacious
correapondens itr question Thev know th*»
they nv-rit shoo lug kicking and cudgelling,
and 'heT naturally fear the consequences ot the
figb'ing and cudgelling epidemic beginning m
spread We devontb hpe it will not. for in
such an eve. t the Her Id's correspondent would
haveH ha and time of tt ; f„ r jf kiekiag comes
in vogue be will be kepi firing about town
like « beiore fifty pdrsot indignant
boots
The ••special” manufacturer of pure fiction
for the r, bue ‘A D M (th« initials, no
doub', o a. Demented Munc* ausen, K*q.,) has
alreadi announced in a hurried telegram tbm
this piper wir.-cius the * maltreatment of the
correepnt.deuteoi loyal journals.” We have
done nothing of the sort, bnt we do regard the
chastisement of the mercenary calumniators of
a loyal snd noble people, as a solemn Christian
dn*y.
We should be exceedingly pleased to see
gome “unreortnstructed rebel.” aged ten, pur
chase a deadly rifle (at Sodini’s.) with a tin
barrel eight inches long, arranged with a com
pressible spiral wire for projecting peas and
cherry seed—aud we should also be delighted
to see him make therewith a felonious assault
upon the person of Mr. A PcmeDted Munchau
sen, of the Tribune, firing the aforesaid deadly
weapon with terrible precision and alarming
rapidity at said correspondent. What an as
tounding telegram the aforesaid ‘‘A. D. M.”
would make out of this ferocious onslaught !
Half of the leading news column of the Tri
bune would blaze the next morning with sen
sational and startling capitals after this fashion:
“Attempt at Murder 111—Bloody Assault of a
Young Rebel upon our Richmond Correspond
dent—Ttie Volcano of Sedition bursting forth
•fresh—Barbirity of the Young men of Virginia
—A Demented Munchausen, E-q., shot at in
the streets of tie Rebel Capital—A tin rifle
loaded with one cherry stone and three peas
fired at his back while be is flying from an
infuriated fiend, aged ten—Mr. Munchausen not
expected to recover, the cherry stone having
stuck to bis overcoat, and two peas having em
bedded themselves in bis back hair—Commis
sioners appointed upon motion of Senator Sum
ner, to inquire into the facts of the case.—ln
tense excitement all over the Union—The back
hair of Mr. Munchausen carefully probed by
the Surgeon General, and the peas not found—
They are supposed to have glanced arouDd
into the vital parts of bis whiskers—Life of
Munchausen despaired of—Affecting scene be
tween the fat Gulliver of the Herald and the
dying Munchausen—Gulliver vows to avenge
his murdered friend by vilifying the Virginians
more than ever I
We sincerely hope that the Tribune may,
somo bright morning, be able to astonish its
readers with just such an array of startling
sensational announcements as the above.
THE COLUMBIA AND HAMBURG
RAILROAD.
Great efforts are being made to finish this
important Railroad, but some difficulty is
experienced in the lack of stock subscriptions
from parties who are able to subscribe, and
whose property must be considerably improv
ed by a completion of the Road. We are
sorry to heir that tho good people of Edge
field are quite remiss. The landholders on
the lio«, for ten miles on each side, have more
interest in the Road than any one in Augusta,
Columbia or Charlotte where the stock is
principally owned. This appears to us an
unconsionablc lack of public spirit. If each
landholder living within ten miles, on each
sido of the lino, would take one dollar per
acre of stock for each aero of land, tho Road
would go forward rapidly towards completion
and, in twelve months at farthest, the engine
whistle would wake the pine woods from their
lethargy. To many of these acres the Road
will add from five to ten dollars in valae, and,
wo thipk, that the planters circumjacent
should, if possible, come forward and help
this enterprise which may otherwise languish,
though sure of final consummation. Col. Wm.
Johnson, the active and energetio President,
does not intend to lot the matter fail; failure
is an obsolete word in his lexicon, but he pre
fers to have the ownership of the Road right
here at home rather than foreign aid and
capital. Many a man is investing in candy
and other gtm-cracks large sums of money
which had better go for public works than
for pampering idle stomachs. By such Rail
roads Augusta is to prosper, and it behooves
us all to aid in their erection.
now. A H. Stephens. —The Washington
City National Intelligencer contaius the fol
lowing extract of a letter written by Mr.
Stephens, from his residence, at Crawfords*
villo, dated the 25th ultimo :
As to how 1 am doing, I can only sav that,
: n the matter of health, I have improved great
ly since my return home ; but the country I
find in a worse condition—physically, morally
and politically—than I expected. The general
desire of the people is for a speedy restoration
of civil law and harttfony. and I am engaged
in doing all I can to effect that result. I do
true' that wisdom, moderation and true pa
triotism will rule the councils at Washington,
a o o * Meanwhile it is the duty of
every one to do the best he can. The wise and
the good will always take things ns they find
them, and do the bpst they can with them as
they preseq^themselves.
A Grim Joke —The Washington Star, of
Tuesday, makes the following rich announce
ment with semi-official gravity. It will sound
right funny to those of our people who boarded
for a while with the humane and gentlemanly
commandants at Fori Delaware and Point
Lookout. The Star says :
The Commissary General of Prisoners h«s
found, in examinat on of the reports of com
mandants of our prisons for captured rebel sol
diers, that so far from there having been any
lack of food for the prisoner?, as alleged in
rebel papers, there was an excess of provisions
over what was consumed, in the rations issued,
to an extent which realized by its sale a fund
of over three millions of dollars, one-half of
wl ich was expended for wines and delicacies
in the hospitals for sick and wounded rebe s.—
It his been established beyond the possibility
fa successful contradiction that prisoners in
our hands, either sick or well, were better fed
and in every resrect more comfortable than
when in the rebel army, or in their own hospi
tals.
Gen. R. C. Crawford, who is reported to be
at Brownsville raising an American Division
for Mexico, was acitixen of Tennessee about a
year ago,and dismissed from service by a court
martial noon charges of stealing money from a
bank in R ig- rsvtlle, Tennessee. His chief o f
stuff, Reed, was Lieut. Col. of a colored regi
ment, and wag dismissed some time last sum
mer for gross offences. It is not helieved bv
those qualified to judge that Crawford or Reed
have recruited a single man.
T 1 e Pacific Mail Steamship Company an
noonce that ther will re-open steamship com
nutication between New Orleans and Aspin
wall, via Havana, taking mails, passengers and
freight to California.
New York Underground Railroad —An
extensive underground railway scheme is on
foot in the city of New York, the cost of which
is estimated at $8,487,000. Commencing at
Bowling-green, the route would follow the line
of Broadway to Fourteenth street, ther.ee, pass
nnder Union square ad Broadway to Twenty
third street, thence under Madison square to
Fifth Avenne, and under Fifth Auenue to Fifty
ni th street. It is proposed to construct the
tunnel of the width of 25$ feet in the clear at
the level of the window-sills of the cars, and
16 feet high above the rails at the center. This
width would give room for two lines of cars,
each nine feet wide, with spaces of two and
a half feet in the centre and on each side.
It is preposed to erect stations *.t interva’s of
half a mile. Assuming thi3 as the proper dis
tance, between the Bowling-green and F.fty
nlnth street, eight intermediate stations would
be required, which, with the two terminating
stations, and the station at the South Ferry,
would make eleven in all. Immediately within
the front door would be two stair-cases—one
for the entrance to the tunnel, the other for
exit from it. These descend about 10 feet to a
landing, where they turn and descend the re
maining depth, landing upon the level of the
station platform. For a distance of 150 feet at
each of these stations, the tunnel mnst be
widened to a clear space of 45 feet. Dummy
engines, either permanently attached to the car
or separate therefrom, are the proposed motive
power. There is no doubt whatever of their
economy as compared with horse power.
These engines can be made to condense their
steam to such an extent that the exhaust is
hardly perceptible; and as the fuel would be
coke, there would be no smoke or deleterious
gases.
The Cleveland (Ohio) Leader says that on Fri
day morning last, before daylight, three men,
with blackened faces and dressed in soldiers’ uni
forms, entered the house of Mrs. Saxton, a widow
aged sixty years, who lives in a lonely place,
three miles from Lagrange. Lorain county. The
only other iomate of the house was a boy of thir
teen. The men demanded her money. She told
them it was in the bank at Oberlin. They re
plied that she lied, as she had SSOO in the honse.
They then drew revolvers, but she seizid a poker
and brandished it at them. One of the men
threr tened to cat her throat, and actually cut a
gash three inches loDg on her throat. She cried
to the boy, who was in the next room, to give the
alarm to the neighbors, bnt the villains told her
that they had killed him. Believing the story,
and her strength giving out, she at last revealed
the hiding place of her money. Eighteen dollars
were in her wallet in the pocket of a dress lying
on the bed, and four hundred dollars in 7-30
bonds were rolled up in a mass of rags in a cup
board near the bed. ' There were four one hun
dred bonds, bearing respectively, the numbers
74,758, 74,759, 74 760, 298,247. After making
sore of the coveted treasure, the fiends again
turned to the defenseless woman and inflicted
still further injuries upon her, and then left.—
The little boy came in terrified, bnt it was too
late to rouse the neighbors, and pursuit at that
hour wonld have been fruitless.
Cold Wzather in New York.— The cold
snap in New York, Monday last, is thus da
scribed in the Tribune : Yesterday was not
only the coldest day of the season, but the
coldest we have had, according to the old in
habitants, for the last twenty five years. On
Sunday, after midnight, the mercury fell to
thirteen degrees below zero and stood but lit
tle above zero during any pirt of yesterday
The wind, sharp and cutting, blew fiercely
and bitterly fiora the north, freezing ears and
noses without mercy, and causing positive
suffering to pedestrians and all those compell
ed to be out-doors Bayard Taylor, whom
we met in Broadway, brilliant in facial hues
of crimson end violet, said he felt much colder
than when he rode behind a reindeer in Lap
land with the thermometer at fifty degrees be
low zto. The great thoroughfare was com
paratively deserted. There was no block ide of
vehicles on the Russ pavement, no crowd or
confusion of pedestrians on the sidewalks.
Free Trade in the West. —An “American
Free Trade League” has been formed in St.
Louis. It comprises not only leading public
men of that city, but also numbers among its
members several extensive iron manufacturers,
who say they do not need “protection” and do
not ask for it. They have undertaken to or
ganize Free Trade Leagues at points farther
westward. Among the members of this league
are Mr. Paschal!, editor of the St. Louis Re
publican, Mr. Foy, postmaster of St. Louis, Mr.
Blair, and other influentual citizens.
Horrible Case or Cannibalism at Sea
The brig C. M. Carver, Captain Treat, from
Georgetown, S. C, was dismasted and Abed
with water in a gale on the 21st ult. On the
31st ult" she was fallen in Wit •, seventy mile*
from Cape Ann, by the schooner Emma, and
the crew taken off,after being nine days on the
wreck, without food or water. One mm was
killed when the masts went over, and the stew
art died on the 30th, of starvation, and, when
rescued, the crew were living on his body.
"We understand,” says the CoriDth (Miss.)
Enquirer, “that the military have seized, and
are now holding at this place, a heavy train of
eitton, said to be the property of Gen. Forrest.
Upon what grounds it was seixed has not been
made known. It now lies at this point, hav
ing been brought up from the prairie by ihe
Mobile and Ohio railroad. We hope this is all
a mistake, and that Gen Forrest, if it is his
cotton, will get all hick without delay."
The Atlanta Intelligencer says that silver and
cipperore have been rcently disc vered in
abundance on the lands of James B. Huff, o'
R»d Clay, Whi'fidil county, Ga The mine is
within two and a half miles of the East Ten
nessee and Georgia railroad, in Whitfield
county. Specimens of the ore have been sen'
to New Yoik by an agent of a company from
that place.
The Days of the Giants in the United
States Senate.
CLAY, CALHOUN AND WEBSTER.
A correspondent of the Times and Witness,
of Chicago, who witnessed the United States
Senate in “ the days of the Giants,” furnishes
from Washington the following graphic picture
of “ Auld Long Syne” in that city :
Gibbon relates the celebrated story of the
Seven Sleepers. During a cruel persecution at
Ephesus, seven noble youths concealed them
selves in a cave. They immediately, so goes
the legend, fell into a deep sleep, which was
miraculously prolonged for one hundred and
eighty-seven years. On awakening they enter
ed the city, but found, everywhere, Christians
so degenerated, churches so conformed to the
world, all, in abort, sochanped, tbatthey burst
iDto tears and earnestly prayed to God that
thev might return to their slumbers again.—
Such are my feel r.gs as I sit here and lo«k
upon this body, and listen to their debates,
with the light of other days around me. Onlv
a few years ago I occupied this very seat, and
heard, with Measure, the gTeat men of the land
deliberating for the general weal of the whole
nation. Now, how many seats are vacant - ;
and the discussions are about the late war, the
treatment of rebellion, and the reconstruction
of a shattered Union; topics, the very sound of
which might cause the founders of this great
Republic to turn in their coffins.
Among many sad reflections, there is one
which especially depresses my heart, as I look
down on this conclave of grave, venerable and
patriotic Senators. It is, that there survives
not a single one of those statesman whose
voices used to be heard and felt throughout
the entire country. Once it was a great priv
ilege to pass a morning here, when “there were
giants In the land.” Yonder reposed, in si
lent grandeur, the rnassv form of Mr. Webster.
To his right, taking snuff and conversing pleas •
antly with his neighbors, was the light, grace
ful person of Mr. Clay ; while far to the left,
dark, sombre, with keen, flashing eyes, was
that incarnation of dignity and severe logic, Mr.
Calhoun, looking like a cast-iron man. When
ever either of these men was to speak, the
chamber was crowded early in the day, and
everybody studied their speeches. And with
reason; for in genius and true parliamentary
eloquence, they were men of pre-eminent great
ness, differing intellectually and morally, very
much as they did in their personal appearance.
So Temarkable were the head and figure of
the Massachusetts Senator that, when he was
in London, the porters and day-laborers in the
street used to cease from their work to gaze at
him ; and here each day, as he entered the
Senate, all eyes converged toward “ theman.”
and the whisner was heard on all sides in the
galleries, “ That is he.” Everything in his
presence was imperial. For myself, I never
looked upon that brow, that majestic aspect,
those “ Altantean shoulders, fit to bear the
weight of mighty monarchies,” that face, on
which “deliberation sat, and public care,”
without a something I know not what, of
awe and reverence, which I could not shake
off, even in a familiar conversation with him.
Asa writer, his style Is the very best in our
language; not so elaborated as Dr Channing’s,
bnt easier, more flowing and transparent.—
Mrs. Fannie Kemble told me that her father, a
man of exquisite taste, need often to say to
her, "Come, let us read Webster; his style
does me good. “In many passages, especially
in his argument on the trial of the Knapps,
and in his reply to General Hayne, that was
true of him which was said of Luther, “His
words are half battles.” But he was a tame,
ponderous speaker. In the peroration of his
speech on Foote’s resolutions, be glowed as
with ethereal fire; but generally he was dull,
heavy, phlegmatic. He was a perfect master
of language. Most public speakers find words
exceedingly unmanageable things. At his
command the best, fittest phrases came and
fell " into pefect phalanx.” His logic was
perfect, also demolishing everything like error,
“hammering away,” “ smashing everything
in its path,” (to nse the pithy words of onr
two great, generals,) hut it was not “logic on
fire ;” and his orations will always re eive
more admiration when read than they did
when delivered. His address at the completion
of Bunker Hill Monument is itself a monument
of classical taste, of profound thought, of ele
va;ed statesmanship, which will ou'last the
solid granite. Yet Mr. Choate, who was on
the ’'latform with him, tells us that he never
suffered more in his life, the delivery was such
a failure
Much has been said as to the morality of Mr
Webster, but de morticis nil nisi bonurn Os
one trait in h>s character I can testify. I mean
bis great revereoee for the Bible. When I first
came to this cit.v, I found that buying male
slaves snd sending them South was a regular
business, and I was so shocked that I went, to
Washington to see if anything could be done
to stop so nefarious a traffic. In consulting
with him on the subject of slavery, I found that
he was most noxious that some measure should
be inaugurated for its gradual abolition. He
confessed, however, that he could not se- any
remedy, and thought it a vvlnus immedicabite.
But whenever I quoted a passage from ihe
Word of God, be always received it as the
troth to which all should vield entire obedience!
In this reverent submission to the sacred
Orac'es I grieve to say Mr. Calhoun was as in
ferior to Mr. Webster as he was superior to him
in the unimpesobable purity of his moral char
acter I knew him well, both in Washington
and at K>>rt Hid. his residence in South Caro
lina. snd T t ever knew a man more upright,
con Mention* and virtuous. He was, too, a
sotnewha' regular attendant of the Episcopal
hnrch in Pendleton though never a commu
nicai tin any Church. But his intellectual
pri e ft'd independence made him intolerant of
»nT authority higher than his own reason. He
prnfes ed to believe in the inspiration of the
Script ores, hut, forgetting that important part
of knowledge which informs us of ihe limitation
of the human understanding—jealous of faith,
lest it should be credulity—accustomed- to in
quire as to everv doctrine ro* whether it was
conformable to G d's will, hut to his own ;
loving truth yet loving system more than
truth; ssil« r ving himself that he bad established
hi* point, if he could show the oljectiona to
any one position, without considering those to
all others; in short, never suspecting his own
judgment, always confident in bis own deci
sions. and therefore resolved that no argument
could be adduced which might change bis
opinions he knew nothmg of thst humble,
teachable spirit which is the great element in
Christen faith. Ho sincerely regarded slavery
as a divine and h nefleent institution. “The
negro and the «M'e man,” he 6aid to me, ‘‘are
b< tH elevated by it."
If I qimnd a text which expressed his views
he won'd give it his hearty assent, and dwell
upon its certaintv Bat if it condemned bis
cherished convict inns he as pmmntly questioned
it. I was With him during his last illn ss, and
upon one occasion, when I ci’ed that command,
• Honor all men,” he turned quickly to me and
said. 1 What, honor all men! Never, impos
aih'e, God never said that. God cannot re
quire me to honor the man in the White House,
nor the unprincipled p liticians, the selfish
demapouges now in hoth Bouses of Congress,
who are bringing ruin on he country ”
Os .his power of conversation a great many
have spoken; but in fact he never conversed- he
harangued as earnestly when alone with yon
as wh en in the legislative halls. He loved the
society of young men, and won their heart? by
the courtesy and condescension with which he
listened to them. It was, however, only that
politeness which was a striking trait in his
character. Ifhe paused to listen, it was but
the interval between the flashes of lightning
which soon blaze3-out again, Suiting and
shivering all opposition.
As au orator, he was a perfect contrast to
Mr. Webster. It is well known to his friends
that he proposed Demosthenes as bis model
and studied closely those Grecian master-pieces
to which all who knew what eloquence mears.
how it is as high above mere rhetoric as the
heavens are above the earth, will ever look up
in admiration and rapture. If, in his well
known remark about “Action” as the essential
ingredient in speaking, Demosthenes meant
graceful gesticulations, the South Carolinian
was defective. There was sometbiug stiff, sin*
gular, awkward in his manner. But nobody,
unless it be a teacher of rhetoric, can ever thus
degrade those .words of deep and noble wisdom.
No, again, no. It was not by the puerile tricks
and starts of an accomplished declaimer that
the Athenian
“Wielded at will the fierce demoeraty.
Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece,
To Macedon and Artsxerxes’ throne.”
By “Action” he meant Delivery, earnest, im
passioned Delivery, in which the whole soul is
fused into every utterance, and which can no
more live and glow with anything artificial
than fire and straw can dwell together in a
heated oven; Who can listen to a more finish
ed rhetorican than Mr. Everett ? His face and
person were pleasing. Every movement had
been practised. His beautiful passages filled
the mind with admiration and delight. But
who ever felt his heart burn within him; who
was ever conscious of that “something im
mense and infinite” of what Quintillian speaks:
who ever found himself transported, melted to
tears, fired to enthusiasm, while listening to
bis elaborate compositions ? In straight-for
ward, close-linked argument, in a noble con
tempt for all trappings and decorations, in con
densation. in a vocabulary terse and emphatic
in energy, vehemence, passion, Mr. Calhoun
resembled his illustrious model; while in all
the moral qualifications of a great orator he
rose immeasurably above him. For even his
enemies confessed that he possessed a courage
which no opposition could shake and an integ
rity which no temptation could corrupt.
In mental greatness, in learning, deep
thought, and all the attributes of the highest
order of genius. Mr. Clay was inferior to his
two great contemporaries. But in the physical
combinations, in all the natural furniture of a
soul-stirring orator, he far surpassed them
both.
His mouth, that most expressive feature, was
an organ created by Cod for the pronunciation
of large and heroical thoughts. Then, what
clear blue eyes, now calm in their azure depths
then laughing in genial mirth, and then, when
he was thoroughly roused up, sparkling, al
most blazing. In his whole conntenance what
play of all generous feelings; the soul of honor,
friendship, chivalry, breathing in his face.—
Above all, that magnificent voice ; at one mo*
ment soft and breezy; presently swelling un
til it beat the vaulted roof and reverberated
far beyond the walls of the chamber, away in
to the adjoining rooms and recesses. Rufus
Choate had no superior at home, but going to
Washington as a United States Senator, he, on
one occasion, drew upon himself a single
broadside from the Kentucky orator, and it so
frightened him that he was afterward almost
silent, crest-fallen, and (to employ his own fa
vorite phrase) “ utterly flabbergasted.” Every
body remembers Mr. Clay’s duel with Mr.
Randolph. On his last journey North, in an
almost dying condition, the Virginian was car
ried into the Senate chamber. Mr. Clay was
speaking. “ Stop,” said the sick man to those
who bore him. “Slop, let me hear that voice.
I came here to hear that voice once more be
fore I die.” The grace and beauty of Mr.
Cay’s elocution was consummate; his whole
being informed with his subject, and instinct
with the love of truth. And his warm, gush
ing sympathies seldom failed to draw vou to
him, and bear you along with him, causing
you to feel that “one touch of nature makes
the whole world kin.” The last time I heard
him was at a meeting of the Colonization So
ciety. As he reclined in the ch.-ir, he seemed
to be an old man, “broken with the storms of
State.” But when he arose and spoke, there
were no traces of years upon him. All felt
that his soul was still erect and young, and
that, as an orator, his eye was not dimmed,
nor the force and vehemence of bis strength
abated.
I had intended to say something of his death;
but this communication is already too ex'nd and.
His fath' r was a Baptist minister, and the sou
never forgot “the faithful saying” which he
learned from that father. And though he be
trayed sad infirmity as to religion, saving to
Dr Curtis, in Charleston, that “a public man
ought to join no Church, if he wished to be
popular” (a sentiment, by the way, on which
thousands at t without the candor to confess
it), and after he had identified hitnsalf with a
church, frequenting the theatre; yet he lingered
long under the salutary discipline of a sick
room, his last pillow was wetted with peniten
tial tears, and. of the time great compeers, he
alone departed confessing himself a sinner, and
reposing all his confidence upon the blood and
righteousness of the Redeemer.
I sit here and look at the places which once
knew these three men, but now know them no
more, and I say, O that they were with us yet!
Whatever their errors once, were they now liv
ing, I believe that in this crisis of our country’s
history their coudfcls would be those of mode
ration, wisdrgn and patriotism. Whatever their
differences in other days, bad they been spared,
I am confident that, after the terrible lessons of
the last four years, they would have buried all
animosities, and with one heart and one mind
have sought to quell the pas-ions of the hour,
and to lay broadly and deeply the foundation
of a union, harmony, liberty, prosperity, which
nothing could again disturb. Their absence at
a time like this fills me with regret and sad
nes -. But “the Lord reigneth.” “In the year
when King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord high
and lifted up.” The prophet mourned for the
loss of a wise and able Prince; but be found
consolation by raising his eyes to that King
who aits exalted in the heavens, upon the
throne of the universe, ordering all events for
his glory, and for the accomplishment, of 'he
designs of unerring wisdom aud unchanging
love.
Georgia State Bonds.— One hundred thru
sand dellars of the new seven per cent. s»mi
a-nnal coupon bonds, of the denominations of
five hundred and one thousand dollars e rh,
issu n d in conformity with the act of the late
Convention, hare been placed on detwwdt for
sale at the First National Bank of Macon.
The Saturday Press ssvs the Fenians are so
mnch amused at the row they have k'cked up
on both sides of the water, that the ob* day
they laughed till they split.
