The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-10-09
. Speech Of Hon. Daniel Websser,

| cpeCcn Oh HOn. Ddnl6l webster,
In Boston, at the Great Railroad Jubilee. on the
10th Of Sept.
| Hon. Daniel Webster was then called upon,
and said:
May please your Excelency--Ths occasion
10 not mlne--is Donors and lis duties are not due
to or from me. The Staie--the great State-tho
old State-the old patriotic Bunke er Hill and Fam
euil Hall State Of Massachusetts has invited the
President Of the United States within her borders
10 your honored person aud TO your benored
once, may II please your ExceIiency this visit is
! paid Sir, am good deal touched with the
kind, the too kind, reception " hich you have Civ
en- u.s. As ! have said, sir, the occasion belongs
TO the President, and those of his Cabinet who
| are strangers. Thank God am no stranger
here. am Of Massachusetts bone of her bono
and flesh Of her flesh! And | would rather re-
Joce IN taking part with you, may il please your
Excelency, as the Governor of this State and nv
fellow citizens who surround you, in paying hon
or 10 the President of the United States, than in
ac'ing any part, OF in demanding any part towards
myself. And may il please your Excellency,
wish IN the first place, 10 say. that from the bot
tom Of my heart, wish entire success TO your
administration of the great affairs of this State
In mhosever hands those affairs fall, if they are
iaTiy and impartially administered, those hands
shall have my anu IN their support. In the next
place, may say, that devoutly wish the great
interests of the Commonwealth may prosper Our
interests are varied--they are complex. We have
million of people living very small surface,
on sterile soil, and beneath an nclement sky,
and yet we a-e full Of happiness, and all, as we
say in the country, "we!l TO do in the world, and
enjoying neighbor's fare Now, that must be
owing to good legislation. 1, must be owing to
great economy and prudence among the people.
IL must be owing to system of education. II
must be owing to something that is not in the
earth or in the sky, bat in the soul and hear, of
man, and woman, and child. These, | hope,
will prosper. hope, too, that every concern of
ibis great Commonwealth, nnder your admins
traiion, and that Of your SUCCESSORS may prosper;
and above all "a sentimen, can never repress,
and hardly postpone-mv ardent prayer is, that
this whole country, bound together as it is by ties
of interest and affinity, Of association, may con-
tinue to be bound together forever until that thing
shall happen, which know will never happen,
under Gods blessing--unlil the Constitution of
The country shall prove curse TO ii. Never,
never, never! Why, what is il that supports all
these interests: What is it: Here is a mass Of
conmerce' Who protects tits vas, interests
in manufactures. Here is coasting trade run
nIng from NewhurypOrt round 10 California. Who
protects u! What iaws-what government? In
short, wherever We turn our eyes we see that this
State is no, an agricultural State, but CONNER
cal one-a manufacturing Staie--a State mixed
up with all The interests that belong to society,
and beyond all these visible and demonstra able
Interests, vast many Yankee notions besides
We live under the laws of the General Govern
ment, and should perish if those laws were abro-
gated Sir, you have alluded to the period in
which l have passed some part Of my life in the
of the affairs of the country The
years Of human life wear away. Sir, shall per-
n.b Co. g
time; but with every increasing year, and day,
and hour, the more contemplate the history Of
this country the great destiny Of this country
the more see it. | contemplate il stretching from
sea 10 sea and from the rivers 10 the ends Of earih
the more l see it exhibit The American genius at
home and abroad-the more see what exhibi-
tions of skill have astonshed Europe, in this one
summer, the more l am surprised and gratifed.
why sir, the btterest the ablest the most anti
American press in all Europe, within fortnight,
has stated that in everything valuable, in everv
thing that is for human Improvement, the United
States go so far ahead of every body else, as to
leave nobody else in sight. Ii is lie the position
Of Jove among the gods---Iove is first and there
IS none second. And IN another paper, infuen-
iial in the councils of Great Brilian, the editor
says, she nigh. almost have said and now is
when America shall command the ocean, and both
oceans, and all oceans" This results parity from
me skiii OF buiVlduaIs and partly from the untlr-
ing ingenuity Of the people, and partly from those
great events which gave us the ocean of one
world on side and The ocean of other world
On the Other. They appear to nave filed the
minds of the people with astonishment; and it
brought to my mind story told of a gentleman
not now living; II was related to Mr.. John Low
ell. About thirty years ago, returning to Europe
after the peace Of 1915, the gentleman to whom
have referred, was spoken to by some one Of
the great personages of Europe, who alluding to
the naval power Of lbe United States, said that
ne hoped the European powers would now be
permitted to traverse the ocean quietly-and the
-esponse -'Yes, with our leave" Nav it
please your Excelency, hope that oil health.
happiness, and prosperity, will attend you hence
orw ard through life