The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-06-23
Daniel Webster.

In connection with the appropriate tribute
to the great South Carolihian, found with
this, we give anextract of a eulogy on DANIEL
WEBSTER, which was published with his four
oratons
Eloquence was his panoply-his very step
ping stone to fame She twined upon his brow
wreath which antiquity might cOvet-inspir-
ed his soul with Divinity which shaped his
lofty destiny, and threw light upon his track
of glory which no fortune could obscure She
bore Tim up to the Pisgah of Renown, where
he sat solitary and alone, the monarch of
realm, whose conquerOr wears no bloody lau-
rels-whose fair domain no carnage can des-
poll, and in whose bright crown no pillaged
pearls are set.
As a forensic orator, know Of no age, past
or present, which can boast his superior. he
united the boldness and energy of the Grecian,
and the grandeur and strength of the Roman,
to an original, sublime simplicity, which nei-
ther Grecian nor Roman possessed. He did
not deal in idle defamation and lofty express
ion his ideas were not embalmed in rhetOri-
cal embellishments, nor buried up in the su-
perhuous tinselry of metaphor and tropc He
Clothed them for the occasion, and if the crisis
demanded, they stood forth naked, in all their
native majesty, armed with power which
would not bend to the passion, but only stoop-
ed TO conquer the reason. Sublime, indeed, it
was to see that liant m ind when reused in all
its grandeur, sweep over the fields of reason
and imagination, bearing down all opposition,
as with the steady and rcsistless power of the
ocean billews,-to see the eye, the brow, the
gesture, the aDhole man speaking with an utter
ance too sublime for language--a logic too
lofty for speech He spoke like a Divinity
each conception was heavenly guest,
ray OF Immortality and stood
sarlike, around, until they gathered to God -
The highest honors America can confer upon
her nobest son, can prove but her bankruptcy.
She can never rear colossal monument wor-
thy ofhiS towering genius. He needs no mar
BILE column or sculptured urn to pcrpetuatc his
memory, or tell his worth to rising generations.
Exegit . monumentum perennius
kegalque stu pyranidum atus"
His fame shall outlive marble, for when time
shall efface every letter from the crumbllng
stone,-yea, when the marble itself shall dis
solve to dust, his memory shall be more deeply
encased in the hearts of unborn millions, and
from his tomb shall arise a sacred incense
which shall garnsh the cOncave of his native
sky with the brightest galaxy of posthumous
fame and on its broad arch of studded magniti-
cence shall be braided in characters of living
light" Daniel Webster. the great Defender of
the Constitution.
The nation mourns, and we'll it may. He
has left void which none can fill-laid forever
at rest in the humble grave, by the side OF the
seattle wild waves sing his requiem. With
Mount Vernon and Ashland, his tomb will be
place where men in all coming time will re-
sort, to bring away memorials from the sane
tuary Of the mighty dead. Patriotism, when
it desponds, will 60 there, look and live; fac
tional strife and sectional jealousy will feel re-
buked when they visit the last resting place OF
him whose labors of lifetime were to trans
nit the blessings of life and liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness which God ordained should
first be made manifest in America. Not far
from his grave is that hallowed spot in Ameri-
can history, where
The heavy night hung dark
luis and waters