The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1855-12-05
NUMBER 3s.

ueHce Will 10 Weil iOr us yet. we SHait
live. and live comfortably. / have this
week come within an ace of being ap-
pointed Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas for Hillsborough county. Well,
you viii say, you are no better off than Il
you had not come within an ace. Per-,
haps am-say nothing. but think good
deal, and do not 'distrust the Gods.'n
HE THINKS OF POETRY AND THE PULPIT.
In conclusion of this letterto his broth-s
er of June 10, he relieves his mind Of the
following verses
"Fol di dol, dol di dol, di dol;
I I'll never make money my idois =
| With my friend and my pitcher, ,5sr -
I'm twenty times richer
| Than if j made money my idol r. -
Fol di dol, dol di dol, di dol.''.
It may be remarked here that Mr.
Webster, in the midst of his family, and
with his children and grandchildren a-1
round, was not a1ittle given to off-hand
I 1rhyming, and would greatly divert them,
by his extemPore English heroics, in which,
the sonorous march of the rythm would
be humorously disproportioned to the tri-l
fling nature of his theme ssssal;s
But the poets was not the only voca1
ton which the great statesman narrowly
ESCAPED. AT one time in his youth, some
of his friends earnestly pressed upon him.
the duty of entering the Christian minis-
try, and he was wont to tell, with evident
enjoyment, the story of his being advised
to assume the business of Necronancyg 2
An old man, who enjoyed the regulations
in his native village of his being uizatd,i
assured young Daniel, that he was .sjust
made for a conjurer," and as there were,
at that time, a great many stray cattle to
/ be found, the business offered good
opening. he concluded by offering to:
take the future statesman into partner
ship, and go halves with him in the,
profits
HOW HE BECAME A MARRIED NAN.
While on the subject of Mr. Webster'a.
, history, cannot forbear mentioning an.
incident related of his courtship, which I
do not remember to have seen recorded.
He was then young lawyer in Ports
mouth, n. III. At one of his visits to
I Miss Grace Fletcher, he had, probably
with a view of combining utility and en-
ljoyment, been holding skeins of silk
thread for her, when suddenly he stopped,
saying, "Grace, we have thus been en-
4 gagged in untying knots; let us see If We.
can tie a knot one which will not until,
for lifetime." He then took a piece q
tape, and, after beginning a knot Of .
peculiar kind gave it to her to completes
This was the ceremony and ratification Of
their engagement And now in little
box, marked by him with the words, "Pre-
4 cious Documents containing the letters
of his early courtship, this unique memo
rial is still to be found. The knot has
never been united
/ HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY
/ Perhaps the most interesting relic Of
Mr.. Webster which will be incorporated
, in these volumes, will be his autobiography,
as yet unpublished, written by him in fheI
year 1929, for his friend, Mrs. f. B. Lse,
of Boston. 1t is written in his clear.
legible hand, and covers sixty three pages
fof letter paper. The time over which.
the narrative extends is from his birth in
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