The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-11-04
From the New Orleans Pioayune.
Death Of MIR. Webster.


: The lightning messenger of a national ca
: lamlty announces to us the death of Daniel
c Webster The details of this affecting e.
vent Will be found in our telegraphic de-
spatches.
thus goes down star after star in the gal
: axy OF our national renown. Time, rolling
onward in his eternal cycles, carries one by |
one beyond the scope of mortal vision the
great lights which have directed and illumi- |
mated the counsels of two generations of men.
Calhoun sleeps in a rural tomb within the
bosom OF his own Carolina. Scarcely has
the grave closed over the remains of CLAW.
before mourning nation is abruptly sum-
moned to the death-bed of another of the
great intellects of the age-the last of the
glorious triumvirate of Genius. Wherever
the tidings are carried by the electric flash,
there will arise profound expression of Ia
ment A heacon-light has been extinguish-
ed in the land The aspirations of a lofty
spirit have been hushed. The courage of a
great heart has been quelled by the conquer
er of all. The tongue of consummate ora
tor, on which listening Senates have hung,
applauding, persuaded, or convinced and
which has spoken such majestic strains for
union, liberty and law, is stilled forever
From nation half conscious yet of the great
ness of her loss, has departed master states
man, just when he had established new IT,
tie to her highest gratitude for services and
sacrifices, and when be was most needed for
the uncertain and troublous future
In the common order of nature this event
could not have been far distant Three
score and ten years lay heavy burdens upon
the frame tasked by incessant care in the
public service. Yet the announcement
comes upon us with an abruptness that finds
us totally unprepared. We had been think
ing of him Of late as a powerful and living
clement in the direction of public affairs, an
essential part of the vitality of the nation.
He has been presented to our thoughts as
one whom the rrepressible zeal of host of
friends urged, with passionate earnestness,
for the Chief Magstracy of the country
their first unyielding spirits, their last and
only choice. These proofs of deep and i'm
plicit devotion associate themselves with the
idea Of vigorous maturity of mind, and an
unhesitating assurance of undated bodily
strength. 1t comes, then, with shock o
surprise, in addition to the sense of a ma
tional affiiction, to learn that the object o
these desires and struggles, this admiration
and reverence, has been cut down by disease
with such brief warning, before age hac
dimmcd the lustre of his mind But sue
is the decree of fate. Webster has passc
from earth, to join the brotherhood of in
mortality with his illustrious compeers, Ca
houn and Clay; and of these three might
men, who for thirty years were the nation;
oracles, to whose voices innumeraale he's
rallied as at a trumpet call nething rernair
but their memory and their ashes. A lit
spot of earth will suffice to hallow these asl
es. The people rose up as one man to pa
funeral honors to Calhoun and Clay; an
their instincts will not fail to award tow e.
ster the last, but not the least of them, I'll
same public tributes which we were paid
his august compeers, to testify then senke
his greatness and their bcreavemen64 q
His memory like theirs, time cannotwe
ken; nor the limits of continent define
1t is interviewer with the history of the r
public 1t is part of the moral proper
of the nation. AS years roll on twill co
tinue to grow with the growth of the cou
fish try, and brighten with its glory and sprei
ons, with its dimensions, so long as Union al
iron Liberty exist together; and it is the hope al
the prayer of every true heart that the
ana. may be eternally inseparable.
,ays, Immediate steps will, of course, be tax
,rass by the National and State Executives,
ubs' public and corporate bodies, and by popul
p oms meetings to pay the honors which berea
ware ed people should pay to such a man.
pots, our dispatches will be found notices of t
IONS, burst of feeling which has been produc
o"S' elsewhere The immediate proclamation
sued by the Mayor speaks appropriately
feelings of the people of New Orleans, W
are behind meme in appreciation of the ILL
he: trious dead, or in the depth and sincerity
hcb their manifestations to his memory.
IL a We have neither space nor ability to p
~ try adequately the life, character and seel
of Mr. Webster To do justice would
quire the ablest pens and wide ad comp
hensive study of the history of the age a
the genius of our Institutions, with b.
which his life has been closely intertwin
itv But an outline of the principal incidents
NCY his career may not be unacceptable to tn
lring who have not at hand the materials for
ey- freshing memory.
n,oLA. Mr. Webster was born at Salisbury,
New Hampshire, on the 18th January, IL
and was consequently seventy years of
in January last. The family was origina
, Sol Scotch, but they were early settlers in
,sses. merica The New England stock could
traced back in New Hampshire to 1886
His father Ebeneezer Webster was fir
tier man, when the Indians and Canals
were dangerous to the homestead where D
lei was born of a second marriage. He
the usual village teaching. at Salisbury
.esses at fourteen years of age was received TO
few months at the academy at Exeter, I'm
DIR. Abbott. He was sent the next y
1897, to complete BIS preparation for
s;erv lege, under Dr. Saml Wood, Of the tow
Mits; Boscowen In August Of that same J
ion.- he entered college at the a Of steen,
scrip passed the usual four years D assipous
dy His college terms gave pFou pf
oplish powers and great application nd tnre
Caps nown was predicted for him at that e
'erths' day.
On taking his degree, he comIhenced
study Of the law in the Office OF Mr. Thomp
afterwards Senator in Congress from
Hampshire. But his means we're so st
Cloths ened. that he left the studyof the law,
Te5ies while, TO teach school in tie town OF
aae1s burg. The salary Of this appeintnel
about one dollar a9ay-he continue