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The Daily Dispatch: April 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], Congress on Saturday. (search)
do we know why a column should be any more sacred or indestructible than any other work of art of nature.--A column may be a broken column, like that erected ever youth out off in its rich bloom of promise; or it may be an unfinished column, like the Washington Monument at the Federal city, which, in its present condition, is the most suggestive and significant of all columns; or it may be a pillar of salt, like that of Lot's wife, and which commemorates the fate of one of the seceders from Sodom, who lingered, like Mr. Crittenden, upon the "borders," and could not bear to think of dissolving her blessed union with the cities of the plain. It does not follow, therefore, even if the United States were a column, that it is deserving of universal respect, and destined to immortal duration. It is an unfortunate figure employed by Mr. Crittenden, this "column rising among the nations of the past." If he had said among the nations of the present we could have understood his meaning,