Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-05-15

keds 81 Kbors asSa dspssysfselSs but because,
SeohStitutfon too frail for any physi
pu{st Ssd % showed crest for learn
: inE more Advantages were rendered him than to
other boys Of the family. He manifested a great
and devouring passion for books, and it is related,
that before he fourteen years Of age, he became
very familiar with the Bbe and the poetry of Isaac
Watts, and could recite the whole Of Pope's Essay
on Man. III 4,4 +
Il He was sent to Exeter Academy in Nav, 1896,
- from thence to Dartmouth College, where he grad
uated at the early age of nineteen took charge of
an academy in Fryebhrge Maine, on salary of
three hundred and fifty dollars year, devotDg his
evenings to the drudgery of recording deeds
in the county records for a moderate compensation
and gave to his brother Ezekiel all his savings to
help out college expenses. He commenced the
study of law in 1902, came to Boston in 1904. in
March, 1906, admitted to the Suffolk bar,
turned to New Hampshire, was elected to Congress
in 1916, elected to the Constitutional Conven-
ton of 1920, and to the Legislature Of 1922, of
which he member ten days, when he was
elected representative to Congress, then Senator,
then Secretary of State under President Fillmore,
and died, at Marshfied, Oct. Oath, 1852.
This is brief record Of the prominent dates in Mr..
Webster's life, whose fame is coexten>ve with the
world. 1t is needless to dwell upon his great SER
vices in all those relations to the country, for they
are known and read Of by all men.
From the day young Webster entered Exeter
Academy, at the age Of fourteen, to the close of his
tai toll. He earnest in labor, with the
and before the sun, suffered any hour of any
day, to find him laggard. He affords another ip
stance to the longing, ardent children of poverty
and toll, how under our blessed institutions the
paths of honor and station and rcnown are open to
all who have the courage to labor for them, the
will to persevere, and the principles to direct and
guide them upward. Master of forensic eloquence,
he was not born an orator. as many may suppose.
Speaking of his academic life, Mr.. Webster him
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could not speak before the school. The kind mas
ter sought to persuade to perform the exercises
of defamation, like the other boys, but could not
do it. Many piece did commit and rehearse in
my room, over and over again; but when the
day came when the school collected, when my name
was called and saw all eyes turned upon my seat,
I could not raise myself from it, and when the
casion over. went home and wept bitter tears
Of notification"
Great as Webster in public he is endeared
still more to every heart by the shining example he
presented of filal, fraterna and parental love. No
labors were too great no selfdenal too much to
bring them Joy and succor He was. through life,
devoted and noble friend and father With all
his public honors and massive intellect he found the
purest joys in social and domestic intercourse. But
in whatever aspect we view him, as man, a states
man. law giver, orator. Christian, find
him approaching as near to the perfect model of
man as it is given us to contemplate. The memory
of Webster is joined that Of the Fathers of the Re-
public and with them he still lives in the hearts of
his countrymen.
The JACK DAw.--Just before the death of Web
ster everybody will recolect and after his recov
cry was despaired of, one of his physicians ap-
preached his bedside aud asked how he found him
self feel like the Jackdaw in the church seepe,
the strange reply. The physician Withdrew
sadly from the bedside to another part of the ROOM
where some members of the family were standing
together, and shaking his head confessed his appre
asesd ns, h 1ne ee IF h d Aas
top He could see method IN the answer which
his question had received One of the ladies' pres
ent who knew Mr.. Webster better, did not believe
that his mind wandering, and quietly stepping
to the bedside asked him what he meant by saying
he felt like the Jackdaw in the church steeple.-
"Why, Cowper; don't you rember?" was the re-
ply She did remember Cowpcrs delightful trans
lation of one Of Vincent Bonrnc's little poems, enti-
tied the Jackdaw, which give below.
There is bird who by his
And by the hnarSrne>> of his note,
Might be supposed crow;
great frequcnter of the church.
Where bshop-ikc he finds perch,
And d"rmitory too.
Above the stceple finds plate,
That and turns to indicate
From what point blows the weather
Look up. Yonr brains begin to swim,
IT'S in the clouds-1hat pleases him.
He chooses ii the rather.
Fond of the speculative height,
Thither he wings his airr flight,
And thence securely
The hustle and :he show,
That occupy mankind below
Secure and his case
You think. no doubt, he sits and muses.
Of future broken bones and bruises
If he should chance to fall?
No. Il single thought like that,
Employs his phiosophic pate
Or troubles it at all
He that this great round about,
The world, with al! its motley rout,
Church, army, physic, law,
Its customs and its business,
Is no concern a all of his,
And says-what says he ?-caw!
Thrice happy Bird too have seen
Much of the van;fies of men:
And sick of having seen 'em,
Would cheer fully these limbs resign,
For such pair Of wings thine,