The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-11-19
DANIEL WEBSTER.

The following eloquent and able article
npun DANIEL WEBSTER. from the n. Y.
Daily Times, we commend to the perusal
Of our readers. We have seen none which
so eloquently and correctly expresses the
general estimate of his mind and character:
"The event which the whole country has,
for few days, been anticipating with the
deepest sorrow, has at length occurred.
DAYIm WEBSTER is no longer of the living. |
He has passed from the scene Of his vast
labors and his glorious triumphs. to join
the great of all ages in the spirjt-land.
But he has left a nation of mOurners. His
family, his relatives. the extended circle Of
his ardent personal friends, have no mo-
nopoly Of grief-but every American i'll
whose breast beats an American heart par.
takes the general sorrow. No man could
have departed from us who would have
left so large void-whose place could not
have been laore easily supplied. No name
of the present day is so intimately inter
wrought into the very web and woof of our
country 5 hstory-n0ne, surely to which an
American may point with more heartfelt
and glowing pride. The mourning which
spreads over the land will know no North,
no South, no East, no West. 1t will not be
confined by narrow limits; State lines
cannot bound it-degrees of latitude or
longitude will not check its flowing; but
over the broad bosom of this great conti-
nent, from ocean TO Ocean-nay, wherever
on the oceans float the stars and stripes,
there will well-up from noble hearts the
profOundest lamentatiOn for the inestmable
loss our country has sustained. Party an
imosities slink into their burrow-pOlitical
riValries and iealOusies ATE Oyershadowed
by the great bereavement, and hide away.
The weapons of party warfare fall harmless
TO the ground, and contending parties and
rival sections give token of humanity, and
swell the tide and volume of the common
grief,
It seems, indeed, pity that such large
experience, such commanding powers, gath
cred and strengthened amid the troublous
contests, trials and vicissitudes of the
world, could not have been longer vouch-
safed to us, conspicuous light and guide
TO the present and coming generations of
men. But no endowments of heaven can
guarantee an earthly existence beyond the
usual limits Of life; nor, however much
mankind might gain, would it be Just to
the individual, to withhold him from that
higher sphere that beckons and awaits him,
But WEBsrHR's bright example and recorded
wisdom remain. AS he passed over the
disc of this life, he has enacted his part on
SO conspicuous a field, that all have been
able to profit by his career; and his majestic
orations yet resOund in every ear. 1t is
fortunate indeed, that his forensic reputa-
tion will not depend, as that of many great
orators has done, merely on tradition. 1t
will not die out of the memory Of any
succeeding generation. His own great
thoughts, in his own harmonious and stir
ring language, are stamped upon the living
page, "and there they will remain forever. "
That Mr.. WEBSTER should, at this time,
have surrendered his life, cannot be sur
prising, even to those who know how much
Of iron entered his constitution, when they
reflect upon the extraordinary labOrs he has
performed. What frame but his that would
not have broken drown under merely the
professional duties that have been cast up
on him, For nearly half century, he has
been sought out, not only in his own, but
in other countries and states, to sustain the
chief weight and responsibility of the most
important litigations. If mighty interests
were at stake, or new and interesting ques-
tions involved, or if causes depended upon
constitutional construction, the services
We're invoked of this Golah of the North.
When we remember a few of the most con.
spicnous Of the causes in which he has been
emPloyed,-the Astor cases in this city,
the Dartmouth college case-the famous
steamboat case between New Jersey and
New York, of Gibbons, ~. Ogde1-tbe
Crowingshields-the New York Fire cases
the Glrard will-the recent India rnbbsr
csse-when We turn over the decisions of
the Federal Courts Of the Union and sse
how numerous and important are the oues-
tions upon which he has been professionally
called TO shed the light of his mind-when
we think how many hundreds of nisi prius
causes he has tried, reports of which have
never been embalmed in type--remember-
ing too, that, in all of these cases it has
been his lot To try his strength with the
ablest and most distinguished lawyers Of
the Uni0a, with men whose powers might
we'll arouse the highest effort of transcend.