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Show AS DANIEL WEBSTER SEEMED. In his autobiography Senator Hoar speaks of Daniel Webster as he saw him in his father's house in Concord, July 4, 1844. He says: "He was physically the most splendid specimen speci-men of noble manhood my eyes ever beheld. It is said, I suppose truly, that he was but a trifle over five feet nine Inches high and weighed one hundred and fifty-four pounds. But then, as on all other occasions that I saw hfcn, I should have been prepared to affirm that he was over six feet high and weighed at least two hundred pounds. Mr. Webster was then mi the very vigor of his magnificent manhood. Ho stood perfectly erect. His head was finely poised upon his shoulders. shoul-ders. His beautiful black eyes shone out through the caverns of his deep brows like, lustrous lus-trous jewels. His teeth were white and regular and his smile, when In gracious mood, especially when talking to women, had an irresistible charm." That is a very splendid description, but it does not equal that given by "Ned" Marshall of California. Marshall went from California as a delegate to the National Whig convention of 1852. Mr. Webster was a candidate for Presl" dent and gave the California delegation a dinner din-ner at his Washington home. As Marshall came out .from the dinner he said to another delegate: "All my life I have been running up against great and wise men, that is, great and wise in the estimation of mankind, but as I approach them they grow smaller and smaller, as a rule, and turn out to be just common com-mon mortals after all all save Webster. He, why d n him, he looks bigger and wiser than he really is, bigger and wiser than anybody ever was." |