Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-12-18

ed English worthy Of the earlier Of the Language
whom Ne studied and admired.
As a statesman and politician, his power felt ant
acknowledged through the republic and all bore Willing
testimony his enlarged views and TO his ardent pa
trotism And he acquired European reputation by tn
State papers he prepared upon various questions OF
foreign policy; and of these his reuaton and expo
of absurd and arrogant pretenson Of Austria
distinguished by lofty and generous sentiments becoming
the age in which he lived and the great people in whose
name he spoke; and it is stamped with yigor and re
search not less honorable in the exhibition than conclusive
in the application And it viii take rank in the his
tory OF diplomatic intercourse among the richest contrbu
tons to the commentaries upon the public law Of the
world
and tried, and faithful and in the latest may it be the
last it was the most perous, crisis of country,
rejecting all sectional considerations and exposing him
self to sectional denuncations he stood up boldly proud
y indeed and with consummate ability for the consti-
tutona rights of another portion of the Union fercey
assailed by spirit Of aggression incompatible with
our mutual obligations with the duration Of the Con-
federation itself In that dark and doubtful hour his
voice heard above the Storm recalling his country
men to of their dangers and their duties and
emperng the lessons of reproof with the experience Of
age and the dictates of patriotism He who heard this
memorable appeal to the public and conscience
made in this crowded chamber with all eyes fixed upon
the speaker and almost all hearts swayed his words Of
wisdom and of power will seduously guard its recolec-
ton as one OF those precious incidents which, while
they constitute the poetry of history, exert permanent
and decisive influence upon the destiny of nations
And our deceased colleague added the kindler afec
tons of the heart to the lofty endowments of the mind
And recall with almost painful sensbity the assoca
tons of our boyhood when schoolfelows toge-
ther with all the troubles and the pleasures which belong
to that relation Of life in its world Of preparation
He rendered himself dear by his disposition and deport
ment and exhibited of those peculiar Characteristic
features which, later in lfe made him the ornament
the social CIRCLE and when study and knowledge of the
world had rpened his faculties endowed him with powers
of conversation have not found surpassed my inter
course with society," at home abroad His conduct
and bearing at that early period have left enduring
impression upon my memory of mental traits which his
subsequent course in life developed and confirmed And
the commanding position and ascendency of the
foreshadowed by the standing and influence of the boy
among the comrades who surrounded him
Fiftyfye years ago parted he to prepare for his
splendid in the good old land Of ancestors and
to encounter the harsh tolls and trials of life in the
great forest of the West.
But long the report of his words and his deeds pene
trated those recesses where human industry pain
fully but successfully contending with the obstacles
nature and found that my early companion was as
Stunning position which confirmed my previous antic-
pations, and which could only be attained by the
faculties with which he was gifted
Since then he has gone on, rradating his path with
the spendor Of his exerons, till the whole hemisphere
bright with his glory and brighter than when
he went down III the west without cloud to obscure his
lustrecear calm, and glorious Fortunate in life, lie
not less fortunate in death for he died with his fame
undmnished his faculties unbroken and his usefulness
unmpaired surrounded by weeping friends and regarded
the messenger that mocks at time and space told from
hour to hour, tho progress of his disorder and the APP
proach of his fate And beyond all this and better than
all this he died in the faith Of Christian humble but
hopeful adding another to the roll of eminent who
have searched the Gospel of Jesus and found it the word
and the will Of God given to direct while here and
to sustain that hour Of trial when the things Of this
world passing away, and the dark valley Of the
shadow of death is opening before
How FALLEN, may yet excaim,
when e of greatest and wises but they fall to rise
again from death to life, when such quckening faith in
the mercy of God and in the sacrifice of the Redeemer
shed upon them its happy influence this side
of the grave and beyond it,
Mr.. SEWARD, of New York, said When, in passing
through Savoy, / reached the eminence where the
weller is promised his first distinct view of Mont Blanc
asked Where is the Mountain p There" said the
guide pointing to the rainy sky which stretched out be-
fore 1t is when approach and attempt to
accurately great character Clouds gather upon it,
and seem to take it up out of our sight.
DANIEL WEBSTER was man of warm and earnest af
fectons in all the domestic and social relations Purely
incidental and natural illusions in his Conversations let
ters and speeches have made familiar with the very
pathways about his early mountain home with his motker
graceful intellectual fond, and pious with his father,
assduous patriotic and gous-changng his pursuits,
duty in revolutionary times commanded from the farm
the camp, and from the camp to the Provincial Legs
lature and the Constituent Assembly II if
could recognise the very form and features of the most
and generous of brothers. Nor strangers
at Marshfeld. We guests Hospitality admitted and
then left wander at under the evergreens
the lawn the grassy fields through the dark native
forest, and along the seashore. We know, almost as
well know own the children reared there, and
fondly loved and therefore perhaps early lost the
wants bought from bondage, and held by the stronger
chains of gratitude the careful steward always active
yet hurried the reverent neighbour always welcome
yet obrusive and the ancient fisherman, whose
little fleet is ready for the sports of the and
meet every side the wachu and devoted friends whom
frequency Of disappointment discourage and whom
the death of their great patron all at
disengage from efforts which know balancing Of pro-
liabilities reckoning of cost to his elevation to
the first honors Of the Republic.
WHO that was even conessedy provincial was ever so
identified with any thing local Daniel Webster with
the spndles Of Lowell and the quarres Of Quincy with
Faneu Hall, Bunker Hill, Forefathers Day, Plymouth
Rock, and whatever else belonged to Massachusetts
And yet who that most truly national has
blimey celebrated touchingy commended to our
affection broad and ever-broadenng CONT
mental home its endless rivers majestic mountains and
capacous lakes its nimitable and indescrbabe Cons
uon its cherished and growing capital its aptlycon
ceiyed and expressive ag and its trumphs by land and
sea and its immortal founders heroes and martyrs How
manifest it too that, unlike those who impatient
of slow but progress he loved his country not for
something greater higher that he desired hoped she
might be- but just for what she was, and she al
ready, regardless of future change.
No, sir; believe me, they widely who say that
Daniel Webster cold and passoness IL is true that
he had little enthusiasm he nevertheless earnest
and sincere, well calm and therefore he both
discriminating and comprehensive in his affections. We
recognise his likeness in the portrait drawn by Roman
pencil
"Who with nice discernment knows
What to his country and his friends he owes;
How various Nature warns the human breast
To love the parent. brother, friend, or guest;
What the great Offices Of judges are,
OF senators, OF generals sent TO war