Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-10-16
Patriotic Union Speech Of the
Hon. DunicI Webster.

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Patriotic Union speech Of the
Hon. Daniel Webster.
The Hon. Daniel Webster was present
on Thursday. ms specially invited guest
at the annual Agricultural Fair in Man.
chester New Hampshire. The Philadel
plia Inquirer has the following account
by Telegraph Of his reception and report ol
his speech:
At an carly hour in the morning great
preparations were made TO receive Hon
Daniel Webster, who had been invited to
participate in the proceedings, incident to
the occasion.
The Committee Of Arrangements and a
number Of citizens. met the distinguished
guest at the State Line.
When the cars arrived an immense con-
course of spectators were assembled TO wei
come him to the city.
Mr.. Webster was escorted to platform
opposite the depot, which had been erect
cd for the purpose. where he was vel
comed TO the city in handsome speech by
Hon. A. II. Aver
Mr.. Webster replied briefly, in which
he paid high compliment to the people
Of New Hampshire. their future prospects,
&c.
A large procession then formed and Mr.
Webster was escorted to his lodgings in
Hanover Square where he delivered the
following speech:
Ladies and Gcnilemcn.--On these oc-
cnsions | know very well that there i:
some limit to patience and to strength. You
may desire 10 see me as one Of your origi
nal fellow-citizena. You may desire to
hear my voice, but am sure you do not
desire to hear me discourse topics such as
] have discussed and commonly discussed
elsewhere, on all occasions
Ladies' and Gentlemen, hardly know
how to occupy the very few moments in
which it is proper for me 10 address you.
came here to-day as visiter and guest,
to see and hear, and to exchange congrat-
ulntions with my countrymcn and country
women of New Hampshire, but it is too
late in the day. If the occasion was proper,
for the discussion Of any subjects except
those which belong to that particular OBJ
jcct, in regard TO which Your eloquent
friend has so fully and able dscussed-so
closely confined in its appropriateness to
one object.
I will say to you Ladies and Gentlemen,
that II there he any one thing in my heart
stronger than any other wish, it is, that all
the various pursuits of life, projected by
law, prosecuted by scientific discovery and
guaranteed by free government, may con.
iinue to prosper in this our land.
Ladies and Gcn,lemcn-your fathers
and my fathers-generations that have
gone before us, united the character of sol
,icr and farmer. They fought the enemy,
and they fought inclc,ncncy of the weather
and they struggled with the soil. The
mechanic arts they pursued and cngagcdin
no farther than was necessary to carry on
those great elementary operations of farm
ing the country. They lived in cold re-
sions--a region Of six months winter and
short summers, during which they were to
provide for this great length ofinclement
weather. They went. therefore zealously
10 work TO defend themselves from the
savage Zoe, and cultivate the fields for their
own subsistence, and am old enough to
have seen, and have seen since | was a
member and practiced at the Bar, those
who have been shot and wounded in their
own corn fields by Indian muskets on this
river just above US.
Now, Gentlemen, all is changed. Wars
of that kind have ceased, and some have
come to an end. He who was once half
soldier and half farmer, has now become
altogether farmer, or else he has gone to
the mechanic arts-to those various i'm
provcmcnts which enrich and adorn socie-
~; and our state of New Hampshire is as
great participation in these improvements
as any part of the country. and l need not
say to you. Gentlemen, need not say to
you that this new face ofthings-this great
change that has come over US, while it is
partly owing to peace on the frontiers
winch has released in former times SO ma
ny OF the people of New Hampshire from
border wars-that peace itself has been
promoted, and all the arts that we see -four
ishing around us, and the increase of wealth
which we behold, are the fruits first Of the
enterprising character of our people and
next of the good government under which
4 has pleased Almighty Providence TO let
us live.
Friends and Fellow Citizens-Wc arc
at the head in this western world. No
man can appreciate what is due to himself
as an American citizen. or what are the du-
ties incumbent upon him as such, who does
not feel that he is one of the TWENTY-FIVE
millions of people who are setting great OK.
amplcs Of freedom and rcpubiicanism TO
the rest Of the world; and If he be narrow.
or local. or prejudiced, if heb as blind as
molc-if he cannot see an inch before
him-he cannot comprehend his destiny.
He docs not know the place he fills amidst
the human race Therefore, ] think it is
incumbent on US all in all these occasional
public meetings, that we see, and know,
and feel the progress Of our own prosperi-
~, and remember that it is the result of
those institutions which our fathers found
cd for US, and which it is our duty always
and At every sacrifice to maintain.
Gcntlcmen, the hour Of the day. If moth
ing else, would prevent me from discuss