Daily American telegraph., 1852-10-29
AMERICAN TELEGRAPH.
From this mornings Republic
Respect to Daniel Webster.

city-a large number of the citizens met, last
night in the Council Chamber, City Hall, for the
purpose Of adopting suitable measures with
reference to the death of Daniel Webster"
Mr.. Lenox called the meeting to order and on
his motion his honor, the Mayor Of the city, was
called to the chair.
Messrs. Nicholas Callan and John b. Blake
were appointed secretaries.
On motion of Mr. Carlisle, Messrs. Seaton and
Lennox were requested to act as vice presdents
and, on motion of the gentleman, it was
Resol0ed, That committee of nine members be
appointed by the chairman to prepare resolutions
expressive of the deep sympathy of this meeting
and of the community on account Of the death Of
Daniel Webster
In pursuance of this resolution, the following
named gentlemen were appointed said committees
J. M. Carlisle, 2. R. Fendall, Joseph Bryan,
Johnson HELEN, Jacob Gideon, Judge Crawford
S. II. Hill, f. A. Tucker, and Benjamin A. Beal
The committee, after a brief absence returned
when
Mr.. CARLISLE said | have been requested by
the committee to present to this meeting series
of resolutions. In doing So | do not feel myself
equal to the task of prefacing them by remarks
VIII ch usual such occasions. / will not
say that feel on this occasion more than sup
pose every other American must feel. Although
it was my fortune to know the illustMous de-
ceased, and although was personally attached
to him, all personal affections which may have
been felt for him are now merged in the feelings
akin to patiotism, which absorb the whole heart
of the whole American people when such man
dies.
Feeling an American, and standing in the
presence of Americans, it is scarcely necessary
that / should utter single word. If feel that
the constitution has lost its nobest prop, so do
they feel If my mind reverts to signal occasions
when he has combatted dangers which surrounded
the constitution, and triumphantly sustained il,
so do their minds revert in grateful reverence to
! the same memorable scenes. If in my mind he is
associated with all that belongs to the glory and
dignity of our country and the perpetuity of our
institutions, are the like associations now fill
ing every mind and heart around me.
Tomorrow his body is to be consigned to the
earth, at place far distant from us. | know that
many hearts here will swell, and the tear unbid-
den start from many an eye, when the imagina-
| ton pictures that scene. Yet while we stand
in spirit beside his grave, the feeling of fresh
grief will be almost lost in the trumphat recol-
lection that such man is the offspring of our own
soil--that such n mind and such powers, and
such great and comprehensive heart, have been
developed by own home-bred institutions
that what he has done has been done not for to-
day, or to- morrow, but for all time that it has
been grated by him in the constitution, to grow
and flourish with that constituton--to last while
the constitution lasts Beyond that day he
would net look, nor will |. And yet, sir, we who
have been accustomed to see him day by day in
our walks witnesses of the constancy Of his de-
votion TO duty who have seen, and felt, and
known the happy influence which such a man
and such n mind must ever exercise, we do
/ lnalr
ing in history, but realizing him as a man whose
hand we have pressed, but shall press no mere
| as a man whose bright and friendly smile we
have witnessed, but shall witness no more. We
who saw him a husband father, and friend
we cannot forget that on this earth
"Nor wife children shall be behold,
Nor friends, nor sacred home"
While the nation mourns, let her not forget that
the same blow which has made great void in
her great theatre, has pierced the hearts which
nature and the dearest friendship had drawn
around him. At home, abroad, in cities, hamlets,
and in fields and forests, everywhere there are,
and will be, mourners for Daniel Webster.
1t becomes us, therefore, on this occasion, to
assemble here as we are assembled-men OF all
parties-men without distinction Of any kind
all men who have American hearts in their bos-
oms, all men who can feel what it is to be proud
ofSuch man as DANIEL WEBSTER, and grateful
for his services, to testify, by some appropriate
resolutions, those sentiments which the tongue
or the pen can but inadequately express. Ssch
are the resolutions which, by direction of the
committee, | now read
The citizens Of Washington here assembled are
conscious that the occasion which has conyoked
them is an event in the national history
DANIEL WEBSTER Is DEAD.
In these simple werds our countrymen have
| read all that eulogy can utter-all that the sto-
ried urn can tell-of public loss and private be.
reavement.
He lived to sec his name the token and cpl
tome of highest eloquence-of largest statesman.
ship-of widest patriotism-of profound wisdom.
| Orator, statesman, patriot, and snge, though
the grave now claims his mortal body, and, as
| we humbly trust, his soul already rests "where
no enemy enters and no friend departs" yet all
of DANIEL WEBSTER has not left the earth nor
shall leave it, till time shall be no more.
Here in this New World august and ever
| glorious BEING has sprung into EXISTENCE be-
log whose radiant body like the sun, freely sheds
| its light on all the world-TsELr Sun, set IN
| the armament, to illuminc THE SOULS oi men,
now and through all time to come
This offspring of our country is the CoNsTITu-
TloN. Its wonderful Immortality, its world like
influence, is shared by DANIEL WEBSTER.
| WHILE STANDS THE Constitution, HE SHALL
| STAMP, MAY 1T BE PERPETUAL!
The citizens of Washington here assembled feel
that they arc not unfit, on this occasion to repre-
sent the heart of the Republic. Nowhere, in the
wide limits Of the land from ocean to ocean, has
the death Of DANIEL WEBSTER sunk in the minds
Of men heavier or deeper Here was the theatre
of his noblest efforts. Here he met and combat
ted, and by the force of his great mind and pa
triotic heart, felled one by one as many factions
as arose to assault that Constitution to which he
had devoted life fraught with gigantic in
fuences Here he gave to the forum new glory
here he commanded not merely the applause ol
listening Senates, but welded the hearts and
minds of American Senators, going before them