Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-10-30
namOcratic Republican Electors.
DANIEL WEBSTER Is NO MORE

DANIEL WEBSTER IS NO MORE
The rumor given in our last has been confirmed
DANIEL WEBSTER is no more He expired at hi;
residence, Mansfield, Massachusetts,, on Sunday
morning last, at four o'clock.
Daniel Webster would have been man of mark
in any country. He was endowed, by nature, with
GREAT physical as we'll as mental powers and he had
applied all these powers, in all their fullness, from
his youth up to the acquisition of knowledge and
to the service of his country As an orator he had
no superior in ancient or modern times. lie has
gone down to the grave in the fulness of his fame
That fame will survive him for many, many gene
rations and his printed orations will be read and
admired so long as the English language shall be
known or spoken on the earth.
We are indebted to the Boston Courier for the
following particulars relative to his death
1.-THE last hours of one so beloved he whose
earthly career has just closed, amid so many crcum
stances of consolation, of the same tenor
as all the rest. The public already informed of
the chief features of that deeply interesting scene,
up to the period when Mr.. Webster desired to take
leave of all who in the house.
One BY one, in deep sorrow, but sustained by his
own great example, the members of his family and
the friends and attendants came in and took leave of
him. He desired them to remain near his room, and
more than once enioned on those present, who were
not of his immediate family, not to leave Marshfield
till his death had taken place. Reassured by all that
his every wish would be relgiousy regarded he them
addressed himself to his physicians making minute|
inquiries to his condition, and the probabeI
termination of his life.
Conversng with great exactness, he seemed to be!
anxious to be able to mark TO himself the final period
of his dissolution. He was answered that it might
occur in one, three hours, but that the tmes
could not be definitely calculated "Then," said
Mr.. Webster, Z" suppose must lie here quietly till
it comes.' The retchng and vomiting now REQUIRED
again. DR.. Jeffries offered to MIR. Webster some
thing which he hoped might give him ease. Some
thing more. Doctor, more-I want restoration"
Between 10 and IL o'clock, he repeated, somewhat
indstincty, the words Poet, Poetry, Gray, Gray.
Mr. Fletcher Webster repeated the first line of the
elegy, "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.
THAT'S it, that's it," said Mr.. W., and the book
was brought and some stanZas read to him, which Z
seemed to give him pleasure.
From II o'clock till 2, there much restless
ness, but not much suffering. The physicians weres
quite confident there was no actual pain. A faint
occurred, which led him to think that his death
was at hand. While in this condition, express
sloRs fell from him indicating the hope that his mind
would remain to him completely until the last. Hes
spoke OF the difficulty of the process of dyng whens
DR.. Jeffres repeated the
Though | walk through the valley of the shadow
Of death, will fear evil, for Thou art with me
Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me-
Mr.. Webster said Immediately: 1.-The fact, the fact.
That is what want, Thy rod, Thy rod Thy staff,
Thy staff.''
The close was perfectly tranquil and easy and oc-s
Cured at precisely g. minutes before o'clock. The
persons present Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Webster,
Mr.. and Mrs. Paige, Mr.. S. A Appleton, Miss Dow
mes, Mr.. Leroy, Edward Curtis, Peter Harvey, Geo.
/. Curtis, Charles H. Thomson, (or Thomas Esq,
George j. Abbott and W. G. Zantzinger of the State
Department, Drs. Jeffries and j. Mason Warren, and
the personal attendants and domestics of Mr.. Web.
ser. Mrs. Webster, being unable to witness the
last moments, awaited TIE event in her own apart
ment.
We learn that Mr.. Webster, by his own specialS
direction, will be buried in unostentatious manner
The funeral services will be performed by the clergy
man of the parish of South Ma:sheld at which placeE
the remains will be inferred in the tomb. Mrs. PAIGE
In behalf Of the family announce the time of burial.
The following embodies briefly another account
of his last hours:
1.-The last of his family that he parted with was.
Peter Harvey Webster, "a grand SOM upon whoms
he asked the richest blessings of Heaven. He then!
said, as if speaking to himself On the 24th of Oc
tO6er all that is mortal Of Daniel Webster DiH be no
more"
Mr.. Webster then prayed in full and clear voice
most terventy and imPressiVely, concluding fol
lows:
"Hequenv Father forgive my sins, and wslcOose mel
to hyseF through Christ Jesus
Dr, JettTes then conversed with him. and told himI
that medical skill could do nothing more to which!
Mr. Webster replied:
Then am 10 be here patiently hHthe end-ifi ii bel
so, may ii come soon.''
1t is now 10 o'clock, and Mr.. Webster continues.
perfectly conscious Of everything that is passing.
DIS Jettries and Porter have expressed the opin-!
Ion that the immediate of his inevitable DEATH
is cancerous affection of of the smaller intes
tines.
ISEcoND DIsPATcH.7
MARsHFIED, Sunday Morning, O'Clock. Since tenI
o'clock Mr.. Webster has continued to gradually sink
though still retaining all his faculties unclouded, but
TOO weak to converse with his friends save an occas
lonal remark, if to satisfy them that his mind was
still free, and that all his mental faculties remained
unimpaired.
THIRD DISPATCH.
MARsHFIELD, Sunday Morning, o'clock. The
Hon. Daniel Webster, the greatest of American
statesmen, is no more! He Gied at % minutes of 3
O'Clock, In The list year of his age.
Turing the last hour he entirely calm, anG
Dreamed his last peacefully that it difficult t.
hx the precise moment that he expired