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The Value of a statesman.
Some of our contemporaries exclaim, Oh, for a statesman!
Oh, for an hour of Daniel Webster or of Henry Clay! True, we have no such men; but if we had, they would be powerless.
Whilst Daniel Webster lived, he was frowned down by his own section, abused, defamed, hunted to his grave, and his memory insulted after his body was at rest. --Were he living, he could not be elected constable in Massachusetts. Edward Everett, second only to Webster as a statesman, and his equal as a scholar and patriot, delivered a lecture lately on Astronomy. They will listen to him in Massachusetts on the subject of the planetary system, but not permit him to breathe a syllable about the stars of this Confederacy.
And so with Henry Clay. He struggled to the last for compromise and conciliation; but, were he living now, he could only say and do what the venerable Crittenden is saying and doing in vain.
We need not blink the true source of all our woes.
Demagogism, the