New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-10-23
n.xIpL WEBSTER.


.ho,cb ,re do not credit the report asan ascer-
tanned fact, yet there can be little doubt that
wbeu this sheet reaches the majority Of It's
readers. DANIEL WEBSTER will be no more
among the living
Mr. WEBsrER's has been lofty though not
entirely successful career. Descended from
an ancestry originally Scotch, but for a tim
resident in England, which migrated to this
country very soon after the Landing at Ply
mouth, he was born in Salisbury, now Boz
cavern New Hampshire, on the 18th OF Janu-
ary. 1882. His life has therefore been ex-
tended over nine months beyond the seventy
wears slotted TO man. His earliest kn
proceniter was THOMAS WEBSTER, vino settled
at Hampton, near the sea-cOast Of New-Hanp-
shire, as early as 1886. The WEBsrLRs were
we're generally farmers aud Con OccaslOn) SOL
diers, were fair-haired, Of light complexion,
and slender frame The Statesman inherited
his sturdy frame, dark features, black hair,
&c. from his father mother, daughter of Rev.
STEPHEN BATcHKLDER, and O woman Of re-
markable force of character His own mother
was also woman OF rare intellectual powers.
His father, after fighting well for his King and
country in the French and Indian Wars, OBJ
tanned, after the Peace of 1863, grant Of
land in Salisbury, at the head of the Mcrrimac
River, and there built his log cabin and com
menced his clearing in 1764-the farthest
North Of any British subject in New-England
The log house long since vanished as did the
frame one built beside it, in which DAsIEL
WEBSTER was born; but the farm remains
In the family, and the trees which shaded
his boyhOOd and the well whence he quenched
his thirst, still woOed him with their well-re-
membered attractions, on each recurring visit,
to the last
Young WEBSTER received his education
in the common schools of his native town, in
the famous Phillips Academy, at Exeter, in
the family Of Rev. SAMUEL WOODS, OF Bos-
eawen, and at Dartmouth College, to which
his father resolved unsolicited to send him-a
great undertaking for poor farmer, in what
was still almost a pioneer settlement. His
brother EZEKIEL was also sent little later to
Dartmouth, imposing on them both, as well as
on their parents, the necessity Of observing
most rigorous economy. But they were both
carried creditably through, and more than
justified the fond hopes of their parents
EZEKIEL became lawyer of eminence, bur
fell dead (of disease of the hcOrt) while arsu-
ing cause in Concord, \. H., in 1923
DANIEL entered college in 1897, and gra-
duated in 1901, spending the next year as
Principal of an Academy at Fryeburg, Maine,
for $3.50 per annum, which he saved entire,
earning his livelihood by copying legal records
After spending a few months in the law Office
of q Mr.. THOMPSON in Salisbury, he went TO
Boston, and entered as student the Office of
CuRIsTOPHER Corr, an eminent lawyer and
statesman, where he made rapid proficiency,
and was admitted TO the bar in March, lcO5.
Returning to New-IIumpshire, he declined
profIered Clerkship in the Court OF which his
father vas now a Judge; and as his father was
yisibly declining he settled beside him at Bos-
cawen. till the old man death, which occurred
in April, 1906 The next year, DANIEL rolln-
ou;sbed his business to his brother EZEKIEL
and removed to Portsmouth, aud was married
,ba following summer TO GRACE FLETCHER,
daughter of Rev. Mr.. FLETcHER, OF Hop
knton, N. H. BY her he Ind four children-
GRACE, FLETCHER, JULIA, and EDwARD-of
whom FLETCHER alone survives. EDWARD
died in Mexico, in 1Si7, while serving as
Major of Massachusetts, Volunteers. JULIA
became Mrs. APPLETON, aud died III Boston
some years ago.
Mr. WEBSTER lived nine years in Ports
mouth and was thence elected TO Congress III
Nov. 1912, aud reelected in 1914. New-Iiamp-
shire then elected by General Ticket, and We
believe Mr.. WEBSTER uniformly led the Fed
eral Ticket His talents were widely known
to be extraordinary, though he had filled no pub
lie station. when he was first elected at thirty
years Of age.
Either Mr.. WEBSTER own squeamlshness or
that of the editors of the successive editions OF
his speeches, have done injustice TO his ab.li-
ties by suppressing some of the nobler foren-
sic efforts of his early manhood. We have a
clear recollection of reading Il Fourth-of-July
Oration of his-we think delivered when he
was but 81 or at most - years Of age-which,
for ability Of statement, breadth oi view and
yigor of language, would do credit TO the ma
turest mind. But it was Federal Grafton,
and YOU will look for It in vain in any collection
of his Speeches So OF the great majority OF
his Auti-War Speeches in Congress, from ISIS
TO 1915 inclusive. If Mr.. WEBSTER dictated
this mutiation and suppression of his earlier
efforts, he committed grave mistake ifhis cd
itors have done it oftheir own notion, they have
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