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Show 134 NOTES ON account, and that only, that while tlJCy respected the man, they coultl not give him their vote in Convention, (not even in the wa,y of compliment when It became certain he cou\U not be nominated,) lest they should be charged with endorsing his doctrine on tbnt point. I n·grct that it was so: I regret that It is dctcrmina.lion was so unalterable, for I believe most fully that the extension of slavo territory will be for the benefit of the blacks as well as the w bites, and that the best interests of tho country demand it, as soon as it can bo honorably brought about. But that Mr. Webster did not believe it, there can be no doubt, for if there is any one thing that is certain, it is that tho principles of the "l3ufi'alo Platform," were those of his whole public career. .And yet, in the fucc of :dl this, ).h. Horace :Mann characterizes the doctrines of the 7th of l\Iareh speech a_s "apostate doctrines,'' "cold, relentless, and blaspheming," and Mr. Whittier, in reference to ~hat same speech, wrote the following: ICIIATIOD. So f:~llen! so lost! the light withdrawn -which once he wore! 'l'he glory from his gray hairs gono }'or cYermore! Revile him not-the Tempter hath A snare for all ; And pitying ten.r8, not scorn nut! 'nalh, Befit his f:tll! Oh! dumb be passion's stormy rage, 'Vhcn he who might Have lighted up nmllcd his age, :F:tlls back in night. Scorn! would lhe angels b.ugh, to nmrk A bright soul driven Fiend-goaded down tho endless dark, From hope aud heaven! 1JNCT.F: TOM'S CATITN. J.-et not th(' land, once prou<1 of him, In:-;u!t hin1 I H)\\', Ko1· b~and \ritl• dc('pcr shame his dim, Dtshonorctl brow. 13ut let its humbiPd ROns, instC':td, :E't·om sea. to Lake, A lung l:uucnt, ns fu1· the dead, In sadness make. Of all we loved and honored, nought Sa,·e powet· remnins- A. fhl!~n angel's pride of thought,• Stt!lstrong in chains. All else is gone; from those great eyes The soul has fled ; 'VItcn faith is los t, when honor die~'<, '!'he man is den.d! 1'hen, pay the rc,·erenee of old d<Lys 'J'o l1i14 dead f:une; 'V:1Ik backw:u·d, with :wcrted gnr.e, And hide tho shame J Shame, sayest thou? ''Blistered be thy tongue For such a wish! He was not born to shame! Upon his brow shame is a "Shamed to ~it! ~"or 'tis a throne whel'e honor mi~ht be crowned Sole monarch of the uni,·ersal earth.'' 135 B~tt even ·had tho above lines been as true as they nrc ~?etteal, Mr. Whittier should have been tho last person to g."'c utterance to them, as my readers will probably admit \\hen they read tho followin(l' atldressed by h"•m ' h I 0 ' some years ago to t o I on. U~nry Cla.y, a slavelwldcr, and one, more· ~ver, who ~tood Sido by side with ~fr. lVebster, on the Compromtsc Measures:''- Not fhllen I No! as well the tall And pillared Alleghany fall! As well Ohio's giant tide! |