Show powers statue of 0 webster Tebster I upon saturday the net the cele ie braad statue of the patriot statesman daniel webster was inaugurated in the city of boston with ceremonies appropriate to the occasion casion rc the splendid civic and military display which was to have taken place was dispensed with on account of a storm pre 1 availing vail ineat at the time the presentation and r reception t cf eption speeches by prof felton and his bis I 1 honor 10 or the mayor of the city as also alio a speech ly by governor banks were delivered I 1 a at the music hall arid and these were followed i by bv the hon edward everett in one on of those classical and eloquent orations for w he la 11 probably more noted than any livi gamer ican orator the statue is is of bronze andl and stands upon a granite pedestal hewn from the cariles ua riles of the great ex native i state Itis it 13 said t to 0 b be e a master piece of art modeled from life at the meridian of his i dais days and his fame I 1 Ile le gretting our liability inability to give the erl entire tire address addres of mr everett everetta tm e cannot forego the plea pleasure siire of copang for the still greater pleasure of our re adeis s his gi abid peroration I 1 ile he sleeps by the be multitudinous ocean which lie he himself so much resembled in it its mighty movement and its mighty repose but his monumental form shall henceforward stand sentry at the portlis port la of the capitol the right hand band pointing to that symbol of the union on which the lem left reposes anti and his hia imperial gaze directed w ivitts ith the hopes of the country to the boundless wet west in a few short years we whose eyes have tested rested on bistema his mai leste estic per person scrip whose wh apse ears have drunk in the e m music of lis his c clarion la r ion voice shall have gone to our rest but 0 oar r children for ages i to come as they awe 11 II with awe struck gaze i upon the monumental bronze she shall 11 say 0 that we could have seen 0 that we could have heard the great original two hundred and twenty nine years agot ago this day our beloved aitt city rec received dived from the general court of the colony C y t the h e highly honored name of boston on the be long ong roll of those whom born she has welcomed to her nurturing bosom is 13 there a name which aich shines with luthi a brighter lustre than his seventy beien two to tea years rs ago this day the constitution of oe the united i ted states was tendered to the accept acceptance ar of the people by george washington who IV of alf trie the gifted and patriotic of the land that have adorned the interval has rione done more to untold unfold its principles assert asser tits its purity punt yand and to its duration 9 here then under und erthe the cope of heaven here on this lovely eminence here beneath beneat li the walls valls of the capitol of old massachusetts here within the sight eight of those fair new england villages here in the near vicinity of bethe the graves of those who planted the germs cfall of all this palmy gr grow th hi here within the sound of sacred bells we ruse raise this monument et with loving loung hearts to the statesman to the patri atthe fellow citizen the neighbor the friend long may it guard the approach to these halls balls of council long may it look out upon a pro prosperous 8 cou country and if days of tri trial al and disaster should come and the arm of flesh should fiill fail doubt not that the bonu mental form would descend from its pedestal I 1 to stand in the front rank of the peril and the bronce lips repeat the cry of the thing voice liberty and union now and forever one and inseparable weekly st joe west |