Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-12-25
THE MEMORY OF MR.. WEBSTER.
EUL0GIES DELIVERED LAST WEEK IN THE HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

The resolutions passed by the Senate in honor If tn
memory Of Mr.. WEBSTER having been read and Nj DA
VS. Of Massachusetts,, having addressed the House ii
some appropriate remarks, heretofore published ohe
addresses were delivered, as follows;
Mr.. APPLETON, of Maine Mr. Speaker / do no
know that ought to add any thing to what has already
been said upon the resolutions before us yet since thu
death of Mr.. Webster was national calamity it is
that all classes and all parties in the community SHOULD
unite testify their full appreciation of it. The people
themselves have admonshed us of this, as they hav
gathered recently with mournful reverence around hi
tomb, and we should be unworthy of them IT. here in the
Capitol, where he won much of his fame, did
add our tribute TO his memory. 1t is GREAT MEMORY
SIR ana VIII go down to posterty, of the country
helrooms through know not how many successive gen
erations We are not here, Mr. Speaker to build his
monument He erected that for himself before he died
and had he failed to do So among could supply
the deficiency We are here rather TO recognise his
labors, and to inscribe the marble with his name.
That we have not all sympathzed with him in his
political doctrines been ready sanction every
saction of his public life, need not and sure does
not abae any thing our respect his services
our regrets for his loss His character and his works
what he and what he did-constitue legacy which
no sound-hearted American contemplate without
tons OF gratitude and pride There is enough of Daniel
Webster, sir TO furnish ground upon which all
his countrymen minge their hearty tributes to his
memory.
He to be remarked any where Among a
CdrGdros people he would have excited by his
very look and mien No one could stand before him with
out knowing that he stood in majestic presence and adj
mrng those neaments of greatness with which his Gre
ator had enstamped in manner not to be mistaken his
outward Form. If there was ever such instance on
earth his the appearance described by the great
dramatist:
Tie combination and the form indeed
Where every god did seem to set his seal,
To give the world assurance of man."
No one could listen to him. in his happier moments with
out feeling his spirit stirred within him by those deep
hca tones which the hit vehicles of his grave and
earnest thoughts No read his writings without
being struck by the wonderful in which they unite
simplicity of style with great warmth Of fancy
AMI great afiuence of dction.
We, Ar. Speaker remember his looks and his spoken
words; but by those who to after he will be
chiefly SHOWN through that written eloquence which is
gathered in public records and enshrned among the
pages Of his published works By these, at least he
sQ Ices and by these in my Judgment he win continue
10 live aer these pillars shall have fallen and this Capt.
tol shall have crumbled into ruin Demosthenes has sur
yived tire Parthenon, and Tully still pleads before the
world the cause of Roman culture and Roman oratory
but hers is nothing it me, either in Tuly or in
Denostcnes which, for conception, language or ee
vatonG sentiment exceed passages in the wri
ting Which remain of Daniel Webster His fame indeed
is secure for it is guarded by his works; and as he
himself said of Mr.. Calhoun he has lived long enough
he has,one enough, and he has done it so we'll so sue
cesstuiy 50 onoraby, to himself for all time
with the records of his country
In respect Mr. Speaker, is this an occasion Of Ia
mentation for him. Death not meant to be regarded
an evil, else it would not come alike to ali and
about Mr. Websers death there many circumstances
Of elity and good fortune He died in the maturity Of
his inteect after long public service and after having
achieved great name for himself and great memory
for his country He died home; his last wants sun
piled by the hands of Affection his last hours cheered y
the consultations Of friendship; amidst those peaceful
which he had himself assisted to make beautiful
and within hearing Of that anthem to which he NJ
ways listened with emotions Of gratitude and low He
ZOO, conscious of the wonderful growth and pros
perty and glory Of his native land His eloquent PRAYER
had been answered-he prayer which he breathed forth
10 Providence at the greatest of his fe when he
stood side by side with Andrew Jackson and they both
contended for what was in their belief the cause of the
Constitution and the Union pause, Mr.. Speaker at
the combination of those two Andrew Jackson
and Daniel Webster Daniel Webster and Andrew jack
son With the clear intellect and glorious oratory of the
one added to the ntuitiye sagacty and fate-ke will
the other will not ask what croHg is there which they
could not successfully crush but what riqht is there
rather, which could withstand their united power.
When my eyes," he said that great occasion, are
turned to behold for the last time the in heaven may
not him shining the broken and dhonored fragment
OF glorious Unon States discovered discOrdant
beigerentl land with civil feuds drcpehed il
may be- with faterna blood Let their last feeble and lin
geng glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign Of the Repub
lie known and honored throughout the earth, still
full high advanced Its arms and trophies streaming their
original ustre, stripe erased polluted a single star
obcured bearing for such miserable nterrogatory
What all this worth nor those other words Of deusion
and folly, Liberty first and Union afterwards-but every
where spread ali over in characters Of living light blazing
all its ample folds they oat over the sea and over the
and every wind under the whole heavens that other sen
men dear 70 every American heart Liberty ad Union,
now and forever one and inseparable."
Sir, Mr. Webster outyed the crisis of 1890 and saw
his country emerge in safety also from that later tenn
pest 6 sectional disturbance whose waters are even vet
heayng with the swell Of subdued but not exhausted
passion lie left this nation great prosperous and hap
py and than that he left the Constitution and the
Union in vigorous existence under whose genial influences
all that glory and prosperity and happiness he knew
had been achieved To preserve them he had risked
what few hare 10 rskhs reputation his good name
his cherished friendships and IL there be any who doubt
the wisdom Of his 7th Of March speech let them consider
the value o. these treasures and they will Mt least Civ,
him credit for patriotism and sincerity. But | am nm
willing Mr. Speaker to dwell upon this portion Of his
fhe fires Of that crisis have subsided but their
ashes are yet warm with recent strife What Mr. Web
did, and the other great with whom he abored
extngush those fires, has gone into the keeping Of
history and y have found their best reward In the con-
tnued safety Of the Republic.
Our anxiety need not be for them When the mariner
is upon the ocean, and sees one by one the lights OF
heaven 90 out before the rising Storm he does ask
what has become OF those lights or whether they shall
renew their ustre but his inquiry is what is to become
Of me- and how am to guide my bark in safety after
these natural pilots Of the sky have disappeared? Yet
even then BY consulting those calculations and directions
which wise and kfu men had prepared when the light
did shine and there tempest raging upon the sea
he Is enabled, may be- 10 grope his way in safety 10
his desired port And this sir is our consolation upon
occasions hke me present one jackson, and Calhoun,
and Clay and Wright, and Polk and Woodbury. and
Webster are indeed more and If all that they thought
and said, and did-their wise conceptions and tbeiy
heroic deeds, and their bright examples were buried I
them, how terribly deepened would be sense Of
the nations loss and how much less hopeful the
poets Of republican liberty. But il is not 50.
superior and commanding human intellect mr. web
ser has bmFef told us truly great man. when HEAVIER