Show No Inferiority Complex j About Daniel Webster I Undoubtedly ly the acceptance of i Daniel Websters Webster's greatness b by t his contemporaries was due In n part pmt to tot I t his own consciousness of It and his I skill In n Imposing his conception of himself on others othel's I Even Eren as a poor ho boy at nt Dartmouth I college he hall had a n passion for clothes clothe s. s I For gr great at oratorical occasions he al always always al al- ways wore a bright blue coat with brass buttons tom and a n buff burr waistcoat There is more than n a suspicion that I ho he stage managed his entrances and exits I bloc Clau Claude e Moore loore Fuess guess in his biography biography raphy Daniel Webster quotes a n ar nD r D Dartmouth graduate who remarked that In the political processions of his youth he never saw sow Webster except except except ex ex- marching alone In a hollow square an and that without any planning planning planning plan plan- ning on the part of the authorities In charge Like other actors he needed his audience While Emerson communed with the Infinite through his diary Webster thought of himself him him- self in terms of public appearance Webster directed his deathbed scene with a formality such as attends attends attends at at- tends the passing of a n cardinal or pope After his d dying oration he lapsed into drowsiness but revived to inquire Have I I wIre wife son doctors doctors doctors doc doc- tors friends are you ou all nil here here have have I on this occasion said anything unworthy unworthy un un- worthy of Daniel Webster Webster Robert Robert Morse forse Lovett Loyett In the New Republic |