OCR Text |
Show 2G2 TilE LlBERT\.' DELL. more just than he, and allow the Judge's letters to him to be published. lie was certainly an eloquent nnd able advocate: too much so, even in tho Senate, where it marred whatever claim he had to tho character of a. statesman. If he were not an orn.tor, our age has not produced one : though it would be difficult to name the burning phrase or proverbial sentence which, like Chatham and Mirabcnu, be bas lent to literature, or given to the people as household words. In simple intellect, no American has ever equalled him. But that massive brain contcntc(l itself with saying common things uncommonly well. It never went sounding on and on, to pilot the people into broader and deeper life. Tho great heart was fretting about broken toys, while the nation girded itself for great duties, and found its way onwnnl alone. But mind docs not govern, it is oftener will. It is not intellect tlutt makes heroes, but character. 'This man made great speeches ; and there is an unconscious confession DANIEL WJmSTEn. 263 of tho real truth in the very form of OX}Jression so many of his eulogists adopt. He will be read it has been said a hundred times "S 1 tl ' , " ong as 1e English language _endures. Perhaps so. He may live in print. Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Garrison, will live as long as the American nation is remembered, print or no print. ' God gave us three able men in this age. CAL· UOUN, tho pure, manly, uncompromising advocate of Slavery; the Hector of a Troy fated to fall. CtA Y, tbc secret, facile, and therefore more dan· gcrous nlly of Calhoun ; the graceful Belin! of politics, who Counselled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth, Not peace: In the third, tho ablest intellect of all, we looked to find tho King of Men, one who should be the Voice of the Spirit of the Age. In place of this, lo I a mocking bird I His song, at one time, the Constitutional system of Marshall; at another, the |