Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-08-06
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onted To IN the great man for The scene of his
glory. We come. as il better here Than else
where. I'VE could. watch, fold by fold, the
bracing on If Isis Vulcanian psnoply. and OBJ.
serve. with pleased anxiety. the leading forth
of The ci a'itt which. borne on irresistible
wheels. and drawn ny sieeds of immortal race
is to crush the necks Of the mighty. and sweep
away the srrried strength Of armies" And
therefore. II were filter that should ask of
you. than speak to you concerning him. Lit
u indeed anywhere. can be added now to that
wealth OF eolngy that has been heaped upon
bis tomb. Before he died even. renowned in
two hemspheres, In ours he seemed 10 be
known y h universal nearness of knc Wedge.
He walked So long and so conspicuously be.
lore the general eye.-hs actions his opinions
on all things, blcb had been large enough To
agtate The public mind for the last thirty years
and morr,had had importance and conse.
quence, ~ remarkable, anxlousy waited for,
passlonately canvassed, not adopted always
into the paricul measure, or deciding the
particular vo'e of Government or the country,
yet sinking deep into The reason of the people
IA stream of influence whose fruits it is yet
too soon for political philosophy to appreciate
completely an impression oil his extraordina-
| ry intellectual endowmenis, and OF their pecu
lar superiority in that most imposing and intel
| ligib bic of all forms of manifestation. the NOV
! ing OF Others minds by speech this impress
ION had grown SO universal and fixed, and it
had kindled curiosity 10 hear him and read him
so wide and so largely INDUCED, his indi, idu
atty altogether was absolute and 80 pro.
nounecd,-lhe force oil " i'll not less than The
power OF genius. the exact type and fashion
of his mind not less than its general magnitude
were so distinctly shown through his musical
and transparent style.-the exterior of the
man,-the grind mystery of brow and eye
the deep tones the solemnliy, the sovereignty
as oil those who build Safes, "where every
power and every grace did seem to Set its
seal, y bad been made by personal observation,
ny description, by the exsggerallon even Of
those who had felt The spell by art, the dagu.
erreotype and picture and siatue,-so familiar
to the American eye. craven on the memory
like the Washington OF STUART. the narrative
OF the mere incidents of his life had been so
often told, by some SO authenticity. and with
such skill, and had been so literally commit
ted to heart that " hen he died there seem.
ed 10 be little left but TO say here and how
his change camc,-with what dignity, with
what possession Of himself, with what loving
thought for others, with what gratitude to God,
pointed 10 him there 10 die,-to say how, thus
leaning on the rod and staff of promise, he
took his way into the great darkness undsmay-
ed, ill death shall be swallowed up of lfe and
then 10 relate how they laid him in that simple
grave. and turning and pausing and joining
their voices to the voices of the sea, babe him
hail and JareaocH
After this splendid exordium the orator
proceeded 10 remark upon the high character
of the tributes that had been rendered to the
memory Of the mighty dead, confessing the
difficulty Of saying anything wholly new and
concluding that-perhaps the place where he
was TO speak suggested the topic-lhat before
he approached the ultimate and historical
greatness OF Mr.. Webster, in its two chief de-
partments. and attempted to appreciate by
what qualities OF genius, and character, and
by W hat succession of action he attained it,
there might be an interest in going back of all
this--so 10 say-and puusng few moments
upon his youth and including in that desig.
nation the period from his birth, on The 18th OF
January 1882, until 1905 when % years of
age, he declined the clerkship of his father s
profession of the law, and the chances of a
summons to less or more public life; these %
years (saiJ the orator. We shall call the youth
Of Webster.
Mr.. Choa,c then, to avil ourselves of sketch
furnished by the correspondent of the Balti-
more Transcript in rapid review, sketched
the incidents ofthat period of his youth, & after
alludng to his having lived at home until his
fourteenth year, attending The schools of mas
tiers Chase and Tappan, in succession; at work
sometimes and sometimes at play, like any
other boy; but finding already, as few besides
him did, 1.-The stimulations and food of intellect
ual life in the social library; drinking in. un
awares, from the moral and physical aspects
ABOUT him, the lesson and the power of con.
tention and self trust. and learning how much
grander than the forest, bending to the long