The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-11-27

Message ~ tine Governor or New Hampshire.
The Legislature of New Hampshire having as
senbed according to their adjournment, on the 18th
inst, ut Concord. Governor Martin delivered his ad-
dress to both Houses.
The Governor congratulAtss the Legislature on
the prosperous condition Of the schools and colleges
recommends economy and equality in the leyying
OF State taxes, suggests action for preserving tbs
public lands. virtually recommends the abolition OF
the statute Of limitation in relation to the collection
OF debts, and suggests some additional legislation to
prevent accidents on railroads and in manufactures
He refers to the late election, and deprecates the
bitterness OF party STRIFE but says that the universal
respect paid to the popular judgment, when ex-
pressed through the ballot box, is Of the main
sustaining pillars Of our political fabric And while
the intelligence, virtue, and patriotism OF our
countrymen remain undiminished, mistaken and un-
corrupted party conflict, however fierce or bitter,
enate one portion of the American brother
hood from the other, or subyert weaken essenti-
ally our institutions. But may not the experiment
be too often repeated, and too long continued May
not the Decentralization at home, and the disgrace
abroad, incident to such imprisoned personal crm
nations and caumnious party strife result in detr-
ment to our mission Of hberazing and enfranchising
oppressed humanity, the world over.
In referring to the death Of our great men, the
Governor thus speaks Within q few weeks, the
last Of that ilustrious trio Of American orators,
statesmen, and patriots who for forty years. have
adorned our country and filed the most brilliant
page in our national history, has passed away to
that home to which We all are fastening. The ma
ton mourns, deeply and sadly mourns for the third
time, the departure of her greatest sons Calhoun,
Clay, Webster three mighty spirits, identified with
all that il lofty and profound in intellect, logical
and eloquent in oratory, learned and sagscious in
statesmanship, true and exalted in patriotism.
Mstchless champions of republican freedom and
stitutional right; they yet live in their recorded
deeds and their great examples. The last, Daniel
Webster, the country laments with deepest sor-
row; the thrice opened wound bleeds afresh the
collection of the one mirrors the Others associated
were they in the national councils, in the thoughts
Of the people, in the great heart Of the nation.
Stand they will on the inefaceable page of our
country's annals, in grand and unapproacha-
bic conjunction. Daniel Webster was New Hamp-
shire's native son. His natal breath was her
pure atmosphere; he was nourished by the pro-
mentally. morally and religiously, by her
Of his greatness were drawn from her bosom, and
he was dutiful, . requitpg He went out
from her the great representative Of her human pre-
duction, and to shed lustre and glory her and
our common country. He stood amsng men, in his
towering intellectual grandeur, as the matchless
Chamoulari amid the mountains vast peer
less New Hampshire has lost another son for whom
she and the nation mourn. The lanented Levi Wood
bury, alike distia gushed . statesman, logician
and jurist-a man Of profound intellect, Of varied
and extensive requirements of deep research and Of
unsurpassed practical application = who dignfed
the bench, graced the forum, adorned the cabinet
and swaysd the legislative assembly He was cut
down in the entire strength of his intellect and man
hood, in the full tide Of career of honorable fame
and eminent usefulness. Thus is passing away the
great intermediate link between our revolutionary
fathers and the present generation leaving to us in
ing to us the great and glorious inheritance be
queathed to them, unmarried and untafnished. May
our posterity receive it, transmitted with no less
fidelity, and alike untarnished.