Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-10-15
SPEECHES OF MIR, WEBSTER.

SPEECHES OF MIR, WEBSTER.
Everything from the mouth OF Daniel Webster is |
sure 10 be read with interest. The great statesman |
iBd attended the receRt State Agricultural Fair
Of New Hampshire, his native State, at Manchester
On arriving in the cars, he was welcomed by Hon.
s. II Aver in cordial address
To which Mr.. WEBSTER replied:
''Mr AVER, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN MY NATIVE
STATE II were to say TO you, on THIS occasion, mat
thank you for this welcome, should use only COM
mon place language, unsuited TO me warin'h Oh my
heart, and the deep qualification which this occasion
inspires. Allow to say that there is not on the
face of the earth another spot on which such well
come as this, by such company as ths, could con
vey so much qualification and gratitude to my heart.
| am here to-day in the State which gave me birth,
the State of my early education, the State In which
the bones OF my ancestors Teposs. An my early as
greatest truth that traversed the State my
passage elsewhere, its boundaries, with
out feeling glow, an inward thrill, which told me
" This Is my own, my native land
professional and public duties have carried me
elsewhere, but have at moment lost sight OF New
Hampshire, and could no more do than travelerto
the North could lose sight OF Mount Washington and
IT have at any time done any public service to New
Hampshire, 1t can never pay the debt which owe TO
nay native State.
"Gentlemen, human life passes away rapidly, and
may never have another opportunity 10 see you in an
assembly IN my own native State. ] see here faces
around me the glow of health and happiness. come
here to again renew old associations, and TO torn
some acquaintance with the young growing up gene
ration. Allow me to thank you once more, fellow
citizens, and to say that consider this bright day
IN my history. Permit me, them hoping TO meet ma
ny of you again, to bid you good morning"
MIR. WEBSTER was interrupted with applause seye-
raj times during his short address, after the delivery
OF whichhe proceeded in barouche 10 the residence
of the Hon. +. II. AVER, where he received several
friends
The ceremonies of the day took place under a spa
| ri mi The pia OS he oc-
casIon, delivered handsome address.
After he had concluded, Mr.. West En- was loudly
called for, and came 70 1ward amidst immense cheer
ing, repeated three times, and commenced:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.-I hardly know how to
occupy the few moments in which it proper for
ME to address you. | came here to day as visitor
and guest to and TO hear, and exchange congrat
| ulations with my Counrymen and my countrywomen
OF New Hampshire; but is too late in the day, if The
occasion proper tor the discussion of any subject
except those viii CHI belong 10 that particular object
in regard TO which your eloquent friend has SO ully
and ably dscoursed
| Ladies and gentlemen-On these occasions I know
| very well that there is some limit to patience and to
sreng h. You may desire as one OF your ore-
nal fellow citizens. You may desire TO hear my voice
but you do not desire to hear me discourse on
topics such as have discussed and commonly discuss
elsewhere, on an occasion so closely confined in its
appropriateness to object. will say 10 YOU la
dies and gentlemen that if there be any one thing in
my heart stronger than any other wish, it is that all
cuted BY scientific discovery, and guaranteed BY fee
government, may continue 10 prosper in this our
land.
Ladies and Gentlemen: Y our father. and nv fath
es, generations that have gone before u.s. united tie
character of soldier and farmer They fought the enemy
and they fought the nclemency othe weather and they
struggled with the soil. The mechanic art they pur
sued and enjoyed farther than was necessary to car
ny on those great elementary operations of farming
country They lived in cold region-a region of
six months winter, and short summer during which
OF nf ;nol
weather-tey went therefore, Zealously 10 work and
cul ilyaed the fields for their subsistence: and
am old enough and have seen and seen since l was
member and practced at the bar, those who have
been shot and wounded in their own corneds by In
dian muskets on this. river just above
Now, Genemen--a is changed. Wars of that
KIND have ceased, and come have come an end He
who was once malt soldier and hall farmer has now
become altogether farmer, or else he has gone to the
mechanic arts to those various improvements which
enrich and adoru society and our State of New
Hampshire Is as great participation in these improve
ments as any part OF the country, and need not say
to you, gentemen-l need not say to you that this
new face OF thlngs-thls great change that has come
over us while partly owing TO peace the from
tiers which mas released in former times SO many of
the people OF New Hampshire from border wars that
peace lset has been promoted, and all the ats thar
we See ourlshng around and the increase of wealth
which we behold, the fruits first of all Of the enter
prlsDg character. and next of the good Government
under which it has pleased Almighty Providence to
permit US to live.
Friends aud Fellow Citizens-we are at the head of
the western world. No man appreciate what is
duo 10 himself American citizen or what aye the
duties incumbent upon him such, who does not feel
tha ne IS one Oh the twenty hive million OF people who
are Setting great example OF freedom and republican,
ISM TO the rest OF the world Saud he be narrow or
local, or he be as blind mole-t he
cannot see an inch before him, he comprehend
ms destiny. lie does not know the place he fills
amidst the human race Therefore, thin1 that it is
incumbent on lis all, on all these occasional public
ceilings, that see, and know, and feel the progress
remember is the
suit OF those institutions which fathers founded for
u.s. and which is our duty always and at every sacri
hce 10 maintain.
Gentlemen, the hour OF the day. if nothing else
would prevent NE from discussing any of those sub
Jects winch more appropriately belong to another
sphere.
The eloquent gentleman who welcomed me at the
cats this morning. was kind enough TO say that in this
vast assembly there was no political party-there was
general attachment to the Union. | believe it. |
do not believe that the soil OF New Hampshire can
produce any OF the opposite poisonous plant 1t is as
tree from all noxious of that descr pton as any
part OF the country am glad OF ittor mere barren
ness IN The naked tops OF the tGoffstown Hills or
White Mountains far 10 be preferred to the richest
SOILS which produce nothing but plants of mschievous
poisonous growth.
Gentlemen, delight to dwell upon the consideration
that am New Hampshire man and am now among
New Hampshire men. | delight to feel that | stand
on my native soil, in the neehborhood of those whom
L have regarded from my infancy. | am enabled 10
recollect that the tomb OF the great Hero of Bennng-
ton Is neal us. am proud to remember that many of
my friends, and especially my father, was with
MN on That occasion, and 10 know that on these
hills IN early lie have his comrades
And now, gentlemen, if we turn back to our New
Hampshire people-itwe remember the men who shed
their blood, and employed their councils for the liberty
OF this country-it think Of Bartlett ana Whippe,
and Thornton, OF the Gilmans, the Landons, and ali
those patriots oil two or three generations ago who
founded our New Hampshire government who con-
nected US with the great government of the Union,
who sought with all their hsgs and recommended
with all their powers, Tar sas proper 10 lead the
them all here, Josiah Bartlett, William Whppe, Jno
Taylor Gilman, and the rest, and ask them how we
should deport ourselves the present crisis of our
country-what would they say? If any should say,
cutting loose the lies that are binding us together
would they not say we were stark mad-departlng
from every thing they had taught us.
Gentlemen let me you that, in my conviction,
the thnnde bolt that ryes the hardy oak and splits it