Show No Inferiority Complex About Daniel Webster Un Undoubtedly the acceptance of or Daniel Websters Webster's greatness h by his contemporaries was due In part to his ILLS own consciousness of or it and his skill In Imposing osing his liis conception of J himself on others Even en as a 11 poor Ioor ho boy at Dartmouth colle college e he had 1111 a passion for clothes For great grent oratorical occasions he lie always al always always al- al ways wore a n. bright blue coat with brass buttons an anti and a n buff hurr waistcoat There is more mOle than titan a n suspicion that he be stage mannge managed his entrances an and exi exits ts Clau Claude e Moore Fuess In his biography biography biography raphy Daniel Webster ehster quotes a n Dartmouth graduate who remarked that in the political processions of or his youth he never saw Webster except except ex ex- ec- ec marching alone in a n hollow square and that without any planning plan plan- l ning on the part Jart 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 himself him him- self In terms of public appearance Ii Webster directed his deathbed I scene with a formality such as attends attends attends at at- tends the passing of a cardinal or pope After his d lying dying ing oration he lapsed Into drowsiness but revived l to Inquire Have I wIfe I-wIfe wife son doctors doctors doc doe tors friends are you all here here have have i t I on this occasion said anything unworthy Unworthy un Un- I worthy of Daniel Webster Robert Robert I Morse Lovett Lorett In the New Republic |