Show urson ye ronal all Cliar acter of vaniel daniel IV ebster we ive have haie already published one from the eloquent oration of eilard lerett everett delivered on oil t the ie of tle the bronze statue of webster ebster ft in in boston but the fol lofting close to that admirable effort is isa a passage of 0 too much beauty and ains too fervent a cirit pint u iri otise to be oe oi na great as aa was vas daniel fame receives receive es luster from the g genius of L this is not the occasion occasion iob to d dwell 11 ell upon the personal character chai acter of mr air webster easteron eb on th ohp f s i s phia s social cial in intercourse ee or 01 t the e clianna aar in of cf la his domestic life comet something Som ehing ing I 1 could lave have said on lis his companio companionable naLl 0 dispositions di arid and habits his genial temper the resources ard and ar d attractions of lis his conversation his hia love loie of nature alike in her wild ild and cultivated aspects p ets and ili hio lieen keen perception of the beauties of this thia fair world in which aich ne live of his devotion demotion to 10 agricultural pur pursuits which next to his hi professional and public duties fornier the occupation of ins his life something Kime lhing of his for athletic lid ara irian y sports sport and exercises exercises of his hi and of 13 attachments warmer than friend sips ships the s son on the brother th the e husband and the father something of the joys ai d sorrows of his bis home of the strength ean of ins his religious con im his testimony to the tru truth th of the christion revelation rev elation the tenderness and sublimity of the I 1 partial scene something of these to topics 1 I 1 have hare elsewhere e Ise where said and may riot not me beneat some other tb toils things ilS my friends with your indulgence I 1 would say thoughts memories which crowd up 1 on 00 nse me too vivid to be repressed too I 1 personal almost to be uttered oo on the of july 1801 a young mail ban from new hampshire arrived ill n boston all but penniless and all I 1 lit but friendless ile he was twenty two years of age and had come to take the first stems steps in the career of life at t he ae ampi capital t al of new england three d lays as a after f t e r arriving rr iving he be presented himself without letters of recommendation imen to mr christopher gore the returned from to ter an official residence of some years and solicited a place in his office as clerk his only introduction was by a young man as little known to 10 sir mr gore as himself and w who ho lim eni to pronounce his name which h he e diaso did so indistinctly as not lobe to be h heard eard his slender figure striking ing Ppe arance large dark eye and inasy I 1 ay br brow ow his general appears appearance nc e in 1 elating lla catl ting a delicate deli calo organ organization izat i on his hanly y ala carriage rr ia e and modest demeanor arrested attention and inspired confidence his humble suit was salted granted he was received into the of fice ce and had been there a week w eek before mr gore learned that lil h ls is name as daniel NV webster ebster his older older in years but later in storing entering life for whose education D daniel diey while teacher at tho the academy m at fi i eburg ind dredged drudged till mi midnight nig it in t tho io office of alc ister of deeds at that timo time taught a mall school in in short shoil street div now kington kingston street Q in in boston an and d while lie he was in in attendance at the commencement of dartmouth in in ISO 1 to receive ceide his degree daniel supplied his place at that school at the age of ten iwas then i a pupil and there commenced a friendship which lasted without interruption or chill while his life lasted of which while mine mine lasts the grateful recollection collection le will never peri perish zdi from that time forward I 1 know knew I 1 honored I 1 loved him I 1 saw him at all seasons and or on all occasions occasions in in the fluh bluh of public triumph in in the intimacy of the fireside in the most unreserved interchange inter interchange ter t of personal confidence in in health a and nd in in sic sickness knes in in sorrow and in m joy when early honors began to wreathe wreath ebis his browand brow and in in after life through most of the important scenes of his public career I 1 saw him on oil occasions occasions that show the manly strength and what is is better the manly wea weakness kuess of the human heart and I 1 declare this day in in this the presence of heaven and of menthal men men that I 1 never heard from him the expression of a wish unbecoming a good citizen and a patriot the utterance of a word unworthy a gentleman and a christian that I 1 never know knew a more generous spirit a safer adviser a warmer friend do you ask me if he had faults I 1 Ianswer answer he hp ii was as a man he had bad some odthe of the faults of a lofty spirit a genial temperament and a warm and generous nature he hid had none of the faults of a grovelling gro velling mean and malignant nature ile he had especially ally the last infirri infirmity 1 ty of a noble mind and had bad no doubt raised an aspiring eye e e to the highest object ol of political ambition bit L it he did it in the honest pride ol 01 a capacity equal to the statton and ai d with a con that lie he should hould reflect back the tha honor which abich it conferred conr erred ile he might inight say with burke that he had no arts but honet honest arts and if he sought the highet highest honer oft of the be S stats a 3 he did dd it by trans transcend zend talent iab laborious service sen ice and patriotic devotion to the public good altas i not lot given to 1 anany more than to the other members of the great triumvirate wilh aia whom his name is is habitually associated to at itam I 1 an ain ahe i e 0 b e c i of their ambi ambition flon but mcp in u t pos posterity to rity wal do be begins gi is already 1 6 a d y to I 1 discharge the debt of respect arid and grat gratitude etude A noble mausoleum ill m honor of clay andhiv statue by hirt hart are in progress the statue of calhoun by powers adorns aderi is the court house in in charles ton arid and a monument to his memory i is s in preparation and we present you this day follow fellow citizens citizen the statue of liebster lV ebster in in enduring bronze on a pedestal of granite from his native slate State jale noble coun i 1 tori denance te nance ance modeled from froin libei life at the I 1 meridian of his fits days and his fame and his person prod pi aced from faithful I 1 recollection by the oldest and most distinguished if ff the living artists of this country he ale sleeps eps by the ibbe multitudinous ocean which he himself so much resembled in in its mighty movement and its mighty repose but his monumental form shall henceforward stand sentry at the portals of the capitol the right hand pointing to the symbol of the union lon I 1 on which the left reposes and his I 1 imperial gaze gaze directed with the hopes of bis country to the bound less west in a few short years we whose eyes have rested upon his majestic person whose years have drunk in the music music of his clarion voice voice shall have gone to our rest but our children for ages to come as they dwell art ell with awe struck gaze upon the monument monumental entil al bronze shall say 0 that we could have seen 0 that we could have heard the gre great at original two hundred and twenty nine beares eares ago ago this day our beloved city rebe received ived from the general court of the colony the honored hollered name of boston on the long roll of those whom hom she has welcomed to her nur turing bosom is is there a name that shines with a brighter lustre than his seventy two years agog agaj this day the constitution of ih the e united states was tendered to the acceptance of the people by george washington I 1 who of all the gifted and patriotic of the land that have adorned the interval has done more tu tj unfold its principles assert its pu pm rity nty and to promote its duration here then under the cope of heaven here orthis on this lovely emi eni nence here beneath the wall walls sf ff the ithe capitol of old massachusetts I 1 here within the sight fir far new england villages here bore in in the near vicinity of the graves raves of those wb who 0 planted tho the ge germs of all this ralin palmy Y growth hero here within the sound of sacred bells we raise this bonu anent with loving hearts to the st statesman ate sinan ille ae patriot the fellow citizen the neighbor the friend long may it guard the approach to thoe halls ot council long may it look out upon a prop prosperous erous country and if days ot of trial and disaster should come add the arm of flesh should fail doubt not that the R monumental 10 u form would descend from its pedestal to stand in the front rank of the peril arid and tho the bronze lips repeat the cr cry of the living voice liberty and union now and fore ever one arid and inseparable |