they, as they went down; 'no golden rule, only the statutes
of men.' A man with mythologic ear might fancy that he heard
a snickering laugh run round the world below, snorting,
whinnying, and neighing, as it echoed from the infernal spot
pressed by the fallen monsters of ill-fame, who, thousands
of years ago, on the same errand, had plunged down the
self-same way. What tidings the echo bore, Dante nor Milton
could not tell. Let us leave that to darkness, and to
silence, and to death.

"But spite of all this, in every city, in every town, in
every college, and in each capsizing church, there were
found Faithful Men, who feared not the monster, heeded not
the stamping;--nay, some doctors of divinity were found
living. In all their houses there was light, and the
destroying angel shook them not. The word of the Lord came
in open vision to their eye; they had their lamps trimmed
and burning, their loins girt; they stood road-ready.
Liberty and Religion turned in thither, and the slave found
bread and wings. 'When my father and my mother forsake me,
then the Lord will hold me up!'

"After the 7th of March, Mr. Webster became the ally of the
worst of men, the forefront of kidnapping. The orator of
Plymouth Rock was the advocate of slavery; the hero of
Bunker Hill put chains round Boston Court House; the
applauder of Adams and Jefferson was a tool of the
slaveholder, and a keeper of slavery's dogs, the associate
of the kidnapper, and the mocker of men who loved the right.
Two years he lived with that rabble rout for company, his
name the boast of every vilest thing.

"'Oh, how unlike the place from whence he fell!'"

"Do men mourn for him? See how they mourn! The streets are
hung with black. The newspapers are sad colored. The shops
are put in mourning. The Mayor and Aldermen wear crape.
Wherever his death is made known, the public business stops,
and flags drop half-mast down. The courts adjourn. The
courts of Massachusetts--at Boston, at Dedham, at Lowell,
all adjourn; the courts of New Hampshire, of Maine, of New
York; even at Baltimore and Washington, the courts adjourn;
for the great lawyer is dead, and Justice must wait another
day. Only the United States Court, in Boston, trying a man
for helping Shadrach o