Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-11-03
DEATH OF DANIEL WEBSTER.


lectual giants is no more. South Carolin
has mourned her beloved Calhoun-Ken
tucky has mourned her reneratcd Clay
Massachusetts now mourns her gloriou
Webster-and our nation mourns them al
all in little more than two years, success
sively borne to their honored graves. The,
were contemporaries in public service, an,
compeers in intellectual cminencc and loft,
endowments as orators, statesmen and pa
triots Beyond all comparison they wer'
the three greatest men Of the republic, since
the days Of the revolution-and long will i
be ere our national armament will be agail
Illuminated by such constellation of intel
lectual glory-and long will the nation la
mcnt the isreparable loss of their wise
counscls and patriot services. They came
into public life almost simultaneously, and
their glorious sunsets have been separated
by but short intervals. Alike have they
spent their entire maturity in the service o
their country, and alike have they ill died
III harness aud ut the post of duty. Alike
did they deserve, and alike were they denied
the highest honor Of the republic-and
alike did they tower in colossal grandeur
above all the men of their times. While
the popular vote conferred fame on others,
they conferred fame OH their country, and
their memory will live and be reverenccd,
while liberty is worshipped, and public
worth is cherished in this land of the free.
The lustrious subject Of this obituary
notice was born in Salisbury, at the head Of
the Mcrrimask River, in the State of New
Hampshire, on the 18th of January, 1882.
His father was farmer, but had been an
officer in the War of the Revolution, and
was for many years Judge of the Court
of Common pleas. Mr.. Webster owed his
early education to the free school system Of
New England, and graduated with high
Academic honors, at Dartmouth College in
1901. lie commenced the study OF the
law in his native town under Mr.. Thomp.
son, afterwards member of Congress, and
completed it in Boston under Governor
Gore Of Massachusetts-and was admitted
to the Bar in Boston, in 1905. At Bos-
cawcn, village near the place of his
nativity, he began the practice Of his pro-
fcssion, but he som removed to wider
f.ld in Portsmouth, where he soon stood in
the front rank of his profession. His en-.
trance on public life was in 1912 when at
the age Of thirty, he was elected to repre-.
sent his native State in the popular brunch
.rs,,tf.y-r,r--rrrru c--sutIrnre1 o'
1916, he removed to Boston and made it
the theatre OF his professional labors and
fame. From 1923 to 1927, he was men,
Der of Congress from the city Of Boston,
and distinguished himself alike in parlia.
mcntary debate and by his forensic triumphs
in the Supreme Court of the United States.
In 1927, he was elected to the United
States Senate from the State Of Massachu.
sets, and continuously served in that body,
with single interval, until his call to the
Department of State by President Fillmore.
In ls4l, he accepted the Department Of
Stat, under President Harrison, and con-
tinucd in that post, under President Tyler,
until he had negotiated the Asburton
Treaty. In 1915 he returned to the Senate,
and left it again in 1850, to resume the
office Of Secretary Of State, under MIR.
Fillmore, which office he continued to hold
until the day of his death. The State of
Massachusetts gave him her electoral vote
for the Presidency in 1886, and at the time
of his death. he was the nominee for the
Presidency, by portion of the Wing party
Of Georgia. He died at Marshtield, his
residence in Massachusetts, of inflammation
of the bowels, Sunday morning at two
minutes before three o'clock, in the list
year of his age. His speeches, parliamen-
tary, forensic and popular, constitute a
legacy to his country Of inestmablc value.
Charleston Courier.