The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-11-03
Tributes of Respect to the Memory of Dam
lei Webster.

dent. FRANCO.
Tributes OF Respect to the Memory of Dam
lei Webster.
JACKSON DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION.
At an adjourned meeting of the jackson Demo
cratic Association, held on Monday evening, the
25th of October 1852 the regular order of business
having been suspended the president, Mr. J. d
Hoover, rose and said:
GESTLEMEN: This, az you arc aware, ia an ad l.
journed meeting OF the association; it is business
meeting, but the sad news which has reached this
metropolis within the last thirty six hours pre-.
cudes the possibility Of our transacting business
The American nation has suffered an irreparable
calamity. great bereavement has befallen the
American people. The last of the trio of the se.
cond generation of American statesmen has been
Lost forever to US. Daniel Webster is no more.
Gentlemen, it behooves US to- night to forget the
wide breach which has ever divided us politically
from the great man whose demise | have men,
toned. We should only think of Daniel Web
ster, the profound statesman, the true American
who, in every position in which he has been
placed, "has filled the measure of his country's
glory" and ningling ours with the nations tea rs
strew garlands Of our grief around his tomb
1t 10 not for me, gentlemen, to dwell longer on
this truly affecting event. l leave it to you to
adopt some expression of your feelings; and sug-
gest that. when that ia done, the association will
from respect to the memory of the iustrous dc
ceased, without transacting further business, ad.
journ
Mr.. z. w. McKNEw then offered the following
preamble and resolutions:
"When a great man Ia stricken down by the
hand OF death 1t becomes a mighty nation to
mourn for heavy calamity has fallen upon it,
Before the graves of the great the interests
of the hour and the harsh rivaries of party should
stand rebuked, and men should for season turn
away from the allurcments of the day to render
their tributes to the memory OF one who has perish.
ed full of honor. The last Of the mighty three has
fallen. Calhoun went first, Clay followed, and but
now Webster goes from US in the track of his great
compeers-their gig !nc proportions throwing a
deep shadow over bereaved county. Feeling
these things most deeply, the Jackson Democratic
Association of the City of Washing ton doth re-
solve
sl. That it has heard with deep grief of the
death Of Daniel Webster, and mourns the loss of
that eminent citizen as heavy calamity to that
country whose annals he has adorned with 30 many
trophies; and, sinking all party purposes it offers
its sympathies to the citizens Of the Union because
a great man has fallen.
90 That the jackson Democratic Association
will unite in any manifestation of respect to the
memory of Daniel Webster which his friends may
deem right and proper to be made.
"3. That the president of this association be
instructed to communicate these resolutions to the
family of the illustrous deceased
ga. That in view Of the lamented decease of
Mr.. Webster, the Democratic mass meeting intend
ed to be held in commemoration of our recent
political victories be indefinitely postponed
WILLIAM. M. OvERToN, eco, seconded the reso-
lutions; and in the course OF his remarks he
paid touching tribute to tho three great states
men who have recently fallen in the service of
Mr.. +. MCNERHANN then addressed the associa.
ton follows:
Mr.. PRECEDENT: With feelings of sincere re-
greet and of unaffected sorrow for the demise of the
illustrious sta tesman and renowned orator. Daniel
Webster, and with deep sense of the national
bereavement caused by that mournful event, rise
to respond to the resolutions eloquenty seconded
by my friend who has just taken his seat, by add
ing my feeble tribute to the memory of the mighty
dead.
The unerring arrow'of Death, Mr.. President, has
indeed hit a "shining mark" brilliant star has
fallen from the constellation of living American
statesmen; majestic figure, glowing with all the
light of transcendcnt genius, has been stricken
down; a voice, upon whose eloquent tones listen.
ing Senates have hung enraptured, ia silent for
ever: Daniel Webster, whose name and whose
fame have penetrated wherever civilized man has
abode, wherever the starry flag of our glorious
country has been unfurled, wherever the american
Union has been heard of by word of mouth or in
song or st,ry-Daniel Webster, the intellectual
luminary of his age, has sunk below the horizon of
life forever!
This, Mr.. President, is beautiful, a Christening,
q sublime spcctacle it is full of melancholy inter
est and of wholesome admoniton. We-membcrs
Of the Democratic party-of that party which al
ways truly reflects the national sentiment-have
met here tonight to express our sense of the pub
lie calamity which has fallen upon the land.
flushed in the presence of this solemnty, lie the
deep shadows of death which darken the ma
tional metropolis and the whole country are all
the aeperites all the animosties, all the bitterness
OF party strife; and we meet as Americans, know.
ing but one country, but people--as lovers of
that glorious Union around which are clustered
our brightest hopes aud dearest affectIons-we
meet to pay the tribute of our profound respect to
the mcnory OF that distinguished and Ia,ncntcd
statesman who, when the Union ilnpcrilled
mnj stically above the predictions of party,
and put forth all the energies Of his massive mind,
all the powers Of his mighty intellect, to maintain
and perpetuate that magnificent fabric, and the
cherished and priceless Constitution upon which
has, trust, its enduring it's everlasting founda
ton,
1t is right, then, Mr.. President-yea, sir, it is
most appropriate should pay to the me.
mory of the illustrious deceased the tribute con-
veyed by the appropriate preamble and resolutions
now upon your table.
we, the. members Of thS Jnckson Democratic
ahin rsns Te o.
cAN.-as a statesman who has shed lustre upon the
American name and character, who has defended
with more than giants strength the citadel of
our liberties, and whose sublime prayer ever was
that he might never live to see star blotted out
from the glorious ensign Of the Republic Yes,
Mr.. President let us honor the memory Of the il.
lustrious deceased-of him who said, i'm the burn
ing words Of immortal eloquence--in words that
shall never be obliterated from memory so long
as the English language lives-in words that
ahall be recited by our aspiring youth through
Ill s,.ooss,ve -""arations, and that shall kin
die into patriotic enthusiasm the MANHOOD OF
Amcrica-iet Us. say, Mr.. President, do honor to
the memory of him who has SAID" men my eyes
shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun
in heaven, may not soc him shining on the bro
ken and dishonorei fragments OF a once glorious
Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belige-
rent; land rent with civil feuds, or drenched,
il ma be- in fraternal blood. Let their last feeble
md lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous
ensign of the Republic, now known and honored
the EARTH still full high advanced, it's
arms and trophies streaming in their original lns-
tire, not stripe erased or polluted nor single star
obscured bearing for it's motto no snch misersble
as What is all this WORTH Nor those
o. her words OF delusion and folly, Liberty first and
Union afterwardsj but everywhere, spread al over
in characters OF living light, bia.ing on all it's
ample folds as they float over the sea and oyer The