Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-12-25

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fkoA IhL JOURNAL or COMMERCE
We have the pleasure Of laying before readers to-
day the interesting correspondence between the late Hon.
DANIEL WEBSTER and Hon. DAVID sKAHs. Of Boston, on
the subject Of the annuity presented Mr. wrbsrrn By
his Boston friends This annuity has been the occasion
Of much remark and OF some censure on Mr.. WEBSTER
during his lifetime, the injustice Of which the corre-
spondence shows; but Mr.. w. was too proud spirit to
vndcate himself and preferred to leave II posterity
do him justice. While he chose to remain SILENT parties
interested did not feel authorized to speak But the
time has clear his fame Of all aspersions,
and hold up to mankind for their emulation the noble
ness Of his character in all its brightness Something
also is due to the contributors TO the fund well as to
Mr. Webster and their motives are entitled to be vndi
Gated well hiss for TO this day they have rested un
der the pprcbrium Of having brbed the greatest states
man Of their country Yet their hearts were conscious
Of the purity Of their g and the honest straightor
ward purpose they lad in view and they rested satisfied
with the frankgess and good feeling with which II was
received by their honored friend Who through good re-
port and evil report had faithfully abored for his whole
country knowing neither East West North nor
South.
BosroS, MARCH 81, 1896
DEAR SIN: have the honor to inform you that there
is deposited in the Massachusetts, Hospital Life In
surance Company on special contract the sum Of thirty
seven thousand dollars.
whose ENCLOSED, placed
this there for your benefit to constitute fund,
der the supervision Of Messrs. William Amory, Ignatus
Sergeant, and David Sears jr The income viii be SUBJ
ject to your order semi-annuay, and when not called
for will be added to the principal TO increase the income
appropriated to your
This fund has been created freely and cheerfuly by
your friends in evidence of their grateful sense of the
valuable services you have rendered your whole
try They have done it without your sanction or know
ledge, and with to imagine that their pur
pose might not be entirely acceptable to you.
But they have been moved in this matter by COM
mon feeling.
rendered. and the consequence is that ables
statesmen, their retirement for the highest positions
frequently obliged to return to the abors Of their
early fe and venerable Judges of the Supreme
Court of the nation after years Of TOLL left in their
old age poor and unprovded for Your friends in Bos
ton DESTROYS in your particular to ward off these
evils and furnish you with supply for your future wants
have determined to show their part at least decided
preference for permanent provision, and offer to you
In this way prop to sustain you hereafter.
They are now numerous and strong; and, with 20 few
exceptions, the who for five and twenty years raj
lied around you with minds firm and active, and with
hearts and grateful. But Time will do its work
with all of u.s. and when increasing age shall have
dered labor rksome to you and growing inrmites call
for repose, where may then be your friends? Most Of
them probably in their graves and the few that remain
without the influence and perhaps without the ability to
serve you These considerations have been conclusive
with the gentlemen who act with me- All were agreed
that was best to do what they not be able TO
do hereafter.
In their behalf therefore have the honor respectfully
to offer you the above annuity of thrtyseven thousand
dollars, hoping that if it be not desirable at present
may hereafter tend to the comfort of your advancing
years. and to recall to your mind this last united
effort Of your friends whose hearts with you and
who anxious while they had the power honoraby
and truly to assist and serve you.
With great respect and consideration,
Your obedent servant and friend
DAVID SEARS.