The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1853-08-16
Ha From Che Ohio state Journal.
CH0ATEs EULOGY ON WEBSTER.

| . EULOG1 ON WEBSIEh
: AT the late anniversary commencement OF
Dartmouth College Hanover N. H. cx-Scna.
TOR Choate, of Boston delivered a eulogy OH
Daniel Webster, who was graduate of that
college. IL was tho most eloquent, able and
mastery exposition of the life: character; and
principles of the great American statesman
that has ever been delivered. It has been
Published in the eastern mammoth papers. COW
ering nearly two pages Of the Times Tribune
5'c. If il were not for its great length we
should be happy to lay it entire before our
readers; but we hope to give some extracts
from il hereafter. Tho scono was solemn and
imposing. 1t was impossible for half tho peo-
pie TO get within tho church to hear the dis
course. The correspondent of tho " Y
HerdH in letter to that paper thus refers to
several interesting incidents connected with
the event. r. L4b
The culanncr in which copy of Mr.. Choatc's
eulogy WIS obtained, may possess some inte-
rest to your readers. TO roreat him verbatim
is an utter mpossib:lity. Moreover he want
ed his address, If published at all, printed as il
was written, and not as he spoke it; and in de-
livering he does not follow his notes very
closely. But to read his notes, to decipher
his hieroglyphics, was just as imprac,icable as
to report him correctly. 1t was ascertained
that young gentlemen in Boston, Mr.. FELTON,,
n student in Mr.. Choates office. had studied
his hand writing, until at last incredible as il
would seem, ho had succeeded in learning TO
read it. A telegraphic despatch brought Mr..
Fellon to Hanover, and thus the thing was ac-
complished.
remained both by the orator and his sub
ject of my first Introduction to Mr.. Choate, by
Mr.. Webster somo years ago. was in Con-
corl Mass, whittier l had gone in fulfilment
Of professional appointment with Mr.. Web
. ster. lie and Mr.. Choato were both there as
counsel engaged in the defence of Wyman,
charged with defrauding a bank in Charleston
of large sum of money. Mr.. Webster was
nearly Sick but he received me into his room
in the evening, and entered heartily into con-
sultation which was the object of my visit
Some one of the juror counsel in the Wyman
case came in to inform Mr.. w. who had been
absent from the court room through the after
noon, that the testimony in the case was clos
cd. / remember well tn, expression of his
face as Mr.. Webster said swell how is Choate!
Is he prepared TO go ahead like steamboat
The next morning, | went into court and
heard Mr.. Choates address TO the iury one of
the most mastery in point of ability, and most
ingenious that | ever listened to, spangled
and dazzling with the gems ofthe Imagination,
and bathed in the deepest and ienderest pa
thos. The speaker himself was much intores.
ted and excited. His eyes flashed, his hand
iremblcd like that of n man with the palsy, the
drops of perspiration gstened like dew in the
curls of his beautiful hair, aud ho spoke like a
man whose whole soul was absorbed in his
subject. The case was one which had been
tried two or three times before, and the sympa-
ties of the counsel had become warmly enlis-
TED for their client
recollect distinctly how the eyes of the ju-
rs moistcncd as Mr. Choatc dwet, in q De:
VIII wife and child who, il the prisoner should be
convicted, would share in his ignominy and
disgrace. "Tbe defendant said he" may
have erred, he may have gone wildly astray
from the path of rcctitude and duty; wo do
not deny that he has committed great errors,
which now way him down with patience, and
will through life. But of tho crime for which
he stands indicted he cannot be legally convict
cd, and against an illegal conviction, moro for
others even than for bimsclf-for the sake of
The wife who lcvcs him with all tho passion
and devotion of a true aad noble woman, for
tho sake of the child for whose father, wheth-
or in honor or dshonor he still isl appeal TO
you to permit him to take with him, as if ac-
quilted, he intends to do, his little family away
TO the West beyond the Great Father of wa
tors, where in new home he may commence
new life Mr. Webster sat within the bar
DuTIN Ucnltlu MT. OllOItc, uFcsScu i'll u suit
that looked us though be might have brought
it with him when he first came from New
Hampshire. wrapt i'm a grey overcoat, the arms
of which hung loosely from his shoulders.
lie was black as a thunder cloud. Occasion
ally, as MIR. Choate finished u sentence. hc
would interpose suggestive remark, which
Mr.. Choate would seize upon, and, with mas
ters skill turn to the best account. Tho trial
terminated i'm disagreement Of the jury
Mr. Choate has made tho motives which ac-
tuaied Mr.. Webster in bis public life, and moro
especially in his seventh of March speech, a
prominent topic ofccmmont and of argument
in his oulogy. 1t happened to the writer to
pass the Sunday evening preceding the sev-
onth of March 1850, alone with Mr.. Webster
at his house i'm Washington. NV sympathics
were not with him in that speech, and there
foro the testimony which boar on tho subject,
so far as his Olives are concerned. is perhaps
all the stronger: and | givo it willingly from
n sense of Justice rs we'll rs gratefully, in sad
remembrance of the almost fathcrly which /
always experienced at his hands. IIo spoke
earnestly upon tho condition of tho country
and said he could SEQ but one way to do, and
that was to maintain the government as il was.
At length tho Presidential question was re-
fcrred to-hs own prospects were spoken Of.
lie alluded to tho many appeals which were
made to him from one side and the other, and
of the great number of persons who were COM
ing daily to sec him / shall nevor forget
how bis great eyes glowed, and the very light
ming seemed to be flashing from his face, as no
exclaimed. "Mr.---, u Uouid mol siccrre A
HAIR for The PRESIDENCY hHa I'D B.
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CINCINNATI AND MAcKINAw RAiLEoAD.---In
the issue befor our last. wo gave the proceed
ings of meeting for the organization of this
Company, to construct the line to tho Mchs
gan State line. From tho Stato limo the Road
will oxtond northwardly, via Lansing, to Mack
inaw, and thus open connection between
that distant point and Cincinnati at all seasons
OF tho year, and allow the immense amount of
frcights accommodating there every Winter, to
be forwarded without delay. ip on lo w0nf o
| That the Road SO FAR as il runs through this