Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-11-06

SURFACES the win Of an irresponsible and packed body
interested and selfish partisans and oceseskers But
from whatever cause it may arise the fact is Mr.
Calhoun within the last few weeks before his DEATH
cognised this fact and made application Of il Mr.
Webster
s.we can vouch for the correctness Of the following
statement of remarks made by Mr.. Calhoun concerning
Mr.. Webster which show not only the high esteem il
which he held Mr. Webster but his regret that Mr. Web
ster would be the next President Mr. Calhoun was
deeply concerned and agitated by the dark clouds thai
overhung the Union during the session of 1850 and had
often both private and public expressed his fears
to the result Though holding life himself by a very fra
tenure he felt deeply for the country and in his private
conversations spoke constantly Of the subject In
these Conversations in February 1850. friend asked
/ What will Mr. Webster dor Mr. Calhoun promptly
and theoretically replied He will do all that states
man and patriot do My hopes rest upon Mr. Web
ster. He alone save this Union He added Il have
known Mr. Webster for nearly thirty years. and he has
always acted from conscientious regard the welfare
of the whole Union This prior any conversation
between Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Webster in regard to the
course Of the latter.
The day following Mr. Websters speech Of the 7th Of
March another familiar friend of Mr. Calhoun was with
him, and the subject of conversation Mr. Websters
noble effort in behalf of the Constitution and the Union
Mr. Calhoun spoke in the decided terms of admira-
ton of the speech and of gratitude to its author for his
patriotic and elf-sacriicng He then said,
why Mr. Webster should not be the next
President He ought to be- But he added, as if
soloquizng lie Is too great to be made Pre-
sident
Mr. Webster and his great compatriots are now be-
yond the reach of the applause the envy Of their
rymen and we see no men rising in the East the West
or the South who will be able to take their places
the public councils able they were hold de-
cided mastery over the American mind.
1T does not follow that because these have not
filed the Presidency they have not welded immense in
huence in the country They have, perhaps held as much
in public AFFAIRS while in Congress and in the Ca
bnet if they had, each in turn filled the Executive
chair Merely to be President, without having render
civ have
honor
"Mr Webster indicated the Constitution in 1890 from
the Notification heresy and hailed by the American
people the defender of the Constitution He twice
rescued the country from the peril of with England
growing first out of the Northeastern and of the
Oregon boundary. He placed a and immova-
BILE basis the immunity of the American commerce. and
the invioaby of the American flag He did more than
any other in the whole country and at greater haz
ard OF personal popularity to stem and roll back the tor
rent OF sectonalism which in 1850 threatened to
throw the pillars of the Constitution and the Union
Such great actions these the glory of statesmen
and the admiration of mankind and it would add little
Mr. Webster's fame his usefulness have filed the
Presidency
correspondent of the paper, who was a visit
at Aarshfeld the time of Mr. Websers DEATH writes
as follows:
We entered the mansion, and found sadness upon
every countenance The humbest servant a mourn
er with those who nearest akin to the mighty dead
Preceded by Mr. Abbot private Secretary Of the late
head of the State Department entered the cham
Der where the good met his fate which he called his
own, but the library room, located in section Of the
suilding that planned by his much-oyed daughter
Julia, the late Mrs. Appleton Thther the remains of
Mr. Webster had been removed and had been placed in
the metallic buracase that had been received during the
afternoon from your city There lay in the centre Of the
the mortal part of Daniel Webster dressed as it was
wont to be- quite nearly when the great mind that so re-
Gently left it. about to address the Senate jury
the coat Of blue that we have often him wear pan
falcons and vest of snowy white and neckcoh of the
same. The hands folded upon his breast as had
often them in later m and then there was the very
face the great head and the unequaed forehead of the
intellectual giant Of the age 1t seemed though Mr.
Webster was enjoying quiet slumber and that he would
rise up and speak The face still quite natural
especially the upper portion Of it, including the forehead
From the expression Of the features it might be inferred
that their possessor great sufferer in his last days.
and that the disease diseases that laid him low bat
tied against his giant frame with all their might
Around the room, upon all Sides was that choice Sc
lection of books that the had carefully gathered
in Europe and America during the last thirty years
There had often spoke the kindred minds Bacon
Milton Shakespeare, Chatham, and Burke There he had
been pleased with the lesser poets such Gray the
thor of the Eegy in the Country Church Yard which he
indistncy called for the night Of his death This
was fayorite with the owner and there he was
accustomed to sit, and write, and read On Sabbath
when detained from the house Of God by i'll health he
often was during the last years of his fe he
toned peruse the book that he regarded as the best of
all-the Bible and commentaries thereupon. For
Sunday he delighted to read one from DR. Bar
row. prince of English sermonizers Of the seventeenth
century.
1T was in this very room that the writer who had
then just taken charge Of the parish to which Mr. Web
ster belonged had his first interview with him several
summers since. The conversation turned upon theology
cal and Bible topics Mr.. Webster dscoursed most elo
quenty upon the Book Of job which has been for many
years avorite portion Of Holy Writ with him He had
Just been reading Barnes Job, and did agree with
that learned author whom he respected that Job
historical character Said Mo Webster there was no
such person in my judgment as J-o-b(speng the name
as he spoke) Job was the hero of great epic poem
he continued, the object Of which is to teach religious
truth poem as much superior TO the boosted Homer
oil antiquity as Homer superior to the production Of
schooboy.'
After discoursng upon other portions Of the Scrip
lures he proceeded 70 speak Of the ministry Of this and
OF former day He spoke Of the great eoquence of Dr.
0sgood Of Medford, whom he was accustomed to hear
often when he first removed Boston in 1916 He spoke
OF how the cause Of orthodoxy protected in the north
OF Boston by the interchangeable Dr. Morse Of Charestown
. man who was always thinking always reading al
way writing always preaching always acting Rev.
Dr. Goldman, who maintained the cause on the south at
Dorchester and Of other clergymen Of that day 1t was
his impression that the clergy Of that day were more
strictly students Of the Scriptures and able divines
and preachers than those Of the present day He ex
pressed the idea that though the ministers Of had
been quite useful in giving much Of their attention as
they have to the various charities and other abors than
those more strictly belonging their profession they
have lost students and pastors and az To their mower
in the pulpit But after ALL said the nrofound critic
do not know cannot judge for others perhaps
ought not to have yentured these suggestions
The Charleston Courier thus briefly and appropriately
eulogizes the deceased patriot
The last Of the iustrious trio Of intellectual giants
is more. South Carolina has monrned bor belovad