The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1852-11-16
HON. EDWARD EVERETT.

little fit, body or mind, to perform the duty;
and never felt so kccnly how inadequate are
words to express such an emotion us manifest
lypcrvades this meeting in common with the
whole country. There is but one voice that
ever fell upon my ear, which could do justice
I 10 such an occasion. That voice alas! we shall
hear no more forever, No more at the bar will
1t unfold the deepest mysteries Of tho law; no
more will il speak conviction I admring Sen
atos: M more in this Hall. the chasen theatre
of his intellectual dominion. will il lift the soul
Us with the swell of tho pecling organ, or stir
tho blood with the tones of clarion in tho in
most chambers of the heart.
We arc assembled. fellow citizens. to pour
out tho iullness Of our feelings; not in the vain
attempt to do honor to the great man who is
taken from US: most assnrcdly not with tho
presumptious hope on my part to magnify his
name and his praise. They are spread through
nas tna land. From Fast to West, and from
North TO South, (which ho knew, as he fold
you only that hc might embrace them in the
arms of loving patriotism) a voice Of lamcnta.
ton has already gone forth, such as has not
echoed through the land since the death of him
who was first in war, first in peace and first in
the hearts of his countrvmen.
.vi You have listened fellow. citizens to tho res
olutions which have been submitted to Won by
Col. Heard. thank him for offering them.
1t does honor to his heart, and 10 those with
whom he acts in politics. and whom / have no
doubt he well represents that he has stepped
forward so literally on this occasion. The res
olutions are emphatic, sir, but feel that they
do not say too much. No one will think they
overstate the magnitude of our loss. WI o is ca
pahle of appreciating character like that Of
Daniel Webster. Whp of us, felow-citzens.
q that has known him--that has witnessed the
mastery skill with which no would pour the
full cffulgence of his mind on some contested
legal and constitutional principle, till wha,
seemed hard and obscure became as plain MS
day; who that has seen him in all the glory of
intellectual ascendency-
Ride onthe whiriwnd and direct the storm
of parliamentary conflict: who that has drunk
of the pure fresh mir of wisdom and thought IN
the volumes of his writings; who, alas! sir,
that has seen him
--Iu his happier hour
OF social pleasure. ilLexchanged for power.
that has come within the benigpaut fascination
of his smile. has felt the pressure of his hand.
and tast d the sweeis Of his fircside cloqucncc.
will say that the resolutions say 10 much:
So No, fellow citizens, wo come together not to
do honor to him but to do Justice to ourselves
We ohcy an impulse frcm within. Such a fee
ling cannot be pent up in solitude. We must
meet, neighbor with neishboi, clizen with citi
zen, man with man, to sympathze with each
bukc US. The granite hills Of New Hampshire.
within whose shadow he drew his first breath
would cry shame; Plymouth Rock, which all
but moved at his approacI-the slumberirg
echoes OF this hall, which rung so grandly with
his voce-that "silent but majestic orator.
which rose in no mean degree nt his command
on Bunker Hill-all would cry out at our de.
gcnerocy and ingratitudc.
Mr.. Chairman, do not stand hero TO pro.
nounce the eulngy of Mr.. Webster; il is no
necessary. Enloey has already performed her
first Offices to his memory, As the monrniul
tidings have flashed through the COUNTRY, the
highest Offices of nation and state, tho most diq
nitied official bodies, the most prominent indi
viduals, without distinction of party, the press
of the country, tho great voice of the land.-al
have spoken and with one accord of opinion
and. feeling; and nnanimity that does honor
at once TO the object of this touching aitcsia.
iion and to those who make it, The record Of
his fe from The humble roof beneath which
he was horn, with so inheritance but poverty
and an honest and an honored namc,) up
through the arduaus paths of manhood, which
he trod with lion heart and giant steps, ill
they conducted him to the helm of s,ate--this
stirring narrative, not unfamiliar bef,,re, has
with melancholy promptiiudc, within the last
three days, been again sent abroad throuo h
the length and breadth of the land 1t has
spread from the Atlantic 10 The Mississippi
Struggling poverty has been checred nfresh
honest ambition has been invigoratcd while all
have mourncd.
The poor boy at the village school has taken
comfort as he has read that the time was when
Daniel Webster. whose father told him he shn'd
90 to college if he had to sell every acre of
his farm 10 pay the expense, laid his head on
the shoulder ofthst fond and discerning parent
and wept the thanks he could not speak. The
pale student who ckes out his scanty support
by extra oil. has gathered comfort when remind
ed that the first iurist statesman and orator of
the time, earned with his weary fingers by the
midnight lamp the means of securing the same
advantages of education IN q beloved brother
Every true hearted citizen throughout the
Union has felt an honest pride as he reperusos
the narrative. in ref1ccling that he lives be
meath constitution and government under
which such man has been formed and train
ed, and that no himself is compa'riot with him.
He does more, sir: he reflects with gratitude
that, il consequence Of what that man has
done. and written, and said--in tho result of
his efforts to strengthen The pillars of the Union
IA safer inheritance of civil liberty stron.
ger assurance that those blessings will endure,
will descend tn his children.
know. Mr. Mayor, how presumptious il
would be to dwell on any personal causes Of
grief. in the presence Of this august sorrow
which spreads its dark wings over the land
You will not. however, be offended If by wav
of apology for putting mvself forward on this
occasion, saw that my relations with Mr. Web
SER ran further back than those Of almost any
one in the community. They began tho Fl rst
year he came to live in Boston. When was
but ten or eleven years old. | attended little
private school in Short street (as Il was then
called; il is now the continuation of Kinrston.)
kept By the late Hon. Ezekiel Webster, the cl-
der brother to whom I have alInded and a
brother worthy Of his kindred. Owing to ill.,
moss, or some other canse of absence on his
part. the school was kept for a short time by
Daniel Webster. then student Of law in Mr.
Cores Office: and on this occasion, AZ or 4s