Show WEBSTER allf at atit dr ID florilil As a boy clinging to my fathers arm I stood on bunker hill where stoob at tho aade timo most of massachusetts in fact ewt of he american nation if reckoned by quality and to daniel webster when alio topstone of the monument waa laid tant was in the power a sentence which probably does not appear in mr websters published works the oration had not yet bogun and the vast crowd pressing to get nearer to the orator finally in their impetuosity pushed back the lines of military and as in my vicinity the guards bield their muskets horizontally pressed against the breasts of tho people they were swept away by the crowd alio knocked up their musket hitting breach and bayonet right and left and forward in such masses as threatened to trample those in front to death in gaiu tho master of ceremonies entreated them to fall back for there was an oceanic swell behind that fairly nun theio in advance toward the stand at last he begged mr webster himself to coma forward and plead with tho tumultuous crowd lie arose advanced a step or two toward us and said gentlemen you must fall bacal mr webster it is it is impossible mr websters Web sterl shouted a thousand voices at once then the jupiter konans burst forth raising li arm and his voice as his burning iiii im clemen nothing is impossible to americans orr bunker A great shout thundered through those thronging thousands and they surged back liko waves from the shore anat was eloquence or rather to use websters immortal language it was something higher and nobler than eloquence action noble sublime godlike action |