Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-10-26
Daniel Webster.

On Sunday morning, the oath of this month, at
20 minutes before three O'Clock, DANIEL WEBSTER
died at Marshfed, Massachusetts,, the place of his
residence.
This event and the death of Henry Clay will
mark the present year as memorable epoch in the
history of the American Union. 1t will be remem-
bered as the close of period in our national histo
~ lustratedby their lives, informed by their wise
craftsmanship, marked by great events which they
controlled and rounded OF by the happy and glori-
GUS services which they rendered to the country in
their last days. ....I
The decease of Daniel Webster has already filled
the whole land with profound SORROW. Nay, more.
1t affects the popular heart with an anxious fore
boding, as if of the pillars of the constitution
itself had been suddenly removed So long, and
with such habitual trust, have the people been ac-
customed to look in difficult emergencies of doubt
full ISSUE to his clear majestic intellect his mature
experience, and his comprehensive patriotism for
guidance and safety 1t was in solving questions
of tremendous import to the liberties of America,
that he won the honorable title accorded to him by
his grateful countrymen-"rHE GREAT ExrouNDER
OF THE CONSTITUTION ...
Daniel Webster was born in N. Hampshire, jan
uary 18th, 1882, and was consequently nearly II
years of ago. In early manhood, he became citizen
of Boston. Soon afterwards he became Representa-
i've in Congress, and thenceforward until his
death continued, almost without Interruption, in
the public service of the United States. As a Rep
resentatve, Senator and Secretary of State, he
was conspicuous actor in our national affairs du-
ring nearly half century. The great events in
whichhe took leading part, fill up the larger por-
ton of our annals as an Independent nation. The
productions of his mind preserved in permanent
forni-his "rrorks''-fl many large volumes, and
constitute library replete with wisdom. In
these, and in the history of his public services, he
has just begun to live that life which, even in this
world, is deathless; and which is the sweet and
and just rexard of great genius, exerting itself in
good works. F...- 20
In the extraordinary combination ofthe highest
faculties of the advocate, the urst and the states
mans Daniel Webster stood without an equal in
his time and probably has not been excelled in
any former age. In forensic debate he crowned the
most massive logic and the most mastery analysis
with pure, energic and impressive style of elo-
quence, which often rose TO the highest excellence
attained by the masters OF that art. But, unlike
many other great advocates, he acquired equal
distinction jurist. The jurisprudence of this
country-especially its Federal and Constitutional
jurisprudence-owes more to his luminous and far
reaching mind than to the efforts of any other
who has never held judicial station. In the
Senate, he proved himself match for Calhoun and
Clay. Can higher praise be written of an Ameri-
can statesman? In the Cabinet-he could not sit
in any Cabinet without being its veritable CHIEF.
We have not space to write at length of the
services which he has performed for the honor OF
this country, for the prosperity of the people, for
the preservation of the Union and for the perpetual
ton of our legal and constitutional liberty. The
happy sectional controversies, Senator first,
and then a member of our present admirable Adj
ministration, the great New Engander rose above
all the narrow influences of a section; and In
lofty spirit of sefsacrifcing devotion to his whole
country, stamped the last page of bis glorious his
tory with his own immortal sentnept:-"Liberty
snd Onion, nop and forerer, one and in.separable"
The LONDON TIMEs:-lt is stated as cha acter-
site of the careful provision and good manage
ment of this journal, that its long memoir of the
Duke of Wellington. on the morning after his de-
ease, had been prepared six years previously, to
Sc in readiness when that event occurred. 1t is
to be written by Mr.. Dodd, the well K
Known compiler of q parliamentary annual, who h
undertakes the obituary. department of the X
Times" In the "pigion holes" OF the "Tmes"
'ce there are said to be memoirs Of all the leading
'ersonnges ofthe day, whose advanced age, rem
lers their demise at all probable. 4 III
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