The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-12-07
7 ours, with all due respect, 'sTs7
o7i 117tto h3a MARIA CHILD.
PERSONAL CHARACTER OF DANIEL
WEBSTER.
ELOQUENT EXTRACT.

7e3 -Hsti ELOQUENT EXTRACT. say 81 Isl
We hooe no reader will pass over without
careful perusaft the following eloquent extract
from Hon. Edward Everett's recent Grafton
in Boston, on the occation of inaugurating The
Webster statue, 1t forms the concluding por-
tion Hu,gu zaH aa7l 1aa.H.s-sFu,s gf
"Onthe 18th of July, 1904. a young man
from New Hampshire arrived in Boston, all
BAT penniless, and all but friendless. He was
twenty-five years of age, and had come to
take the FIRST steps in the career. of life at the
capital of New England. Three days after
arriving in Boston, he presented himself with
out letters of recommendation, TO Mr.. Chris
topher Gore, then just returned from England :
after an official residence of some years, and
solicited place in his Office as clerk. His
emily introduction was by a young man as lit
tie known to Mr.. Gore as himself and who
went to pronounce his name, which he did 20
indistinctly as not to be heard. His slender
figure. striking countenance, Lrge dark eye,
and massy brow. his general appearance indi-
eating delicate organization, his manly car-li
riage and modest demeanor, arrested attention
and inspired confidence. ri
His humble suit was granted !; he was re-
csived into the Office, and had been there a.
week before Mr.. Gore learned that his name
was Daniel Webster! His older BROTHER
older in Years but later entering lifs-(for
whose education Daniel, while teacher of the
academy at Fryeburgh, had drudged till mid.
night in the Office of Register of Deeds)-at
that time taught small school in Short street
now Kingston Street-Boston. while in at.
tendance at the commencement at Dartmouth,
in 1904. to receive his degree, while Daniel
supplied his place. At that school at the age
of ten. ] was then pupil, and there commence
ed a friendship which lasted, without inter-
ruption or chill, while his life lasted of which,
while mine lasts, the grateful recollection will
never perish. From that time forward T.
knew, honored, loved him. saw him at
all seasons and on all occasions, in the flush of
public triumph, in the intimacy of the fire.
side, in the most nnreserved interchange of
personal confidence /; in health and in Sickness
in sorrow and in joy /; when early honors be.7
gan. to wreathe his brow, and in after life
through most Of the important scenes of his
public career. I saw him on occasions that
show the manly strength, and, what is better,
the manly weakness of the human heart and
l declare this day, in the presence of Heaven
and of men, that never heard from him the
expression of a wish unbecoming good citi
zen and patriot---the utterance of word
unworthy gentleman and Christian that
l never knew more generous spirit, safer
adviser. warmer friend. ss'q s5f 81
=. DO you ask me if he had faults ? / an.
swer, he was a man. He had some of the
faults of lofty spirit. genial temperament,
and a warm and generous nature he had
none Of the faults Of a groveIling, mean and
malignant nature. He had especially. the last
infrmity ofa noble mind and no doubt raised
aa aspiring eye to the highest object of poIit-
icaI ambition. But he did it in the honest
pride OF capacity equal to the station, and
with the consciousness that he should reflect
back the honor which it conferred. He might
say with Burke. that .he had no arts but hon.
est arts : and if he sought The highest honors
of the State, he did it by transcendant talent,
laborious service, and patriotic devotion to the
public good. - edi rogs a9.'f50 'alq
1T was not given to him. any more than
to the other members of the great triumvirate
with whom his name is habitually associated,
to attain the object of their ambition bnt
posterity will do them Justice, and begins al. z
ready to discharge the debt of respect and
gratitude. A noble mausoleum in honor Of
Clay, and his statue by Hart, are in progress
the statue of Calhoun, by Powers, adorns the
Court House in Charleston, and magnificent
monument to his memory, is in preparation
and we present you this day. fellow-:itizens,
the statue of Webster. in enduring bronze, on
q pedestal of granite from his native State the
noble countenance modelled from him at the
meridian Of his days, and his fame, and his
person reproduced, from faithful recollection
by the oldest and most distinguished of the
living artists Of the country. s,saa.s sa ID
He sleeps by the multitudinous, ocean, .
which be so much resembled, in its mighty
movement and it's mighty repose; but this
monumental form shall henceforth stand sentry
at the portals Of the Capitol !, the right hand
pointing to that symbol of the Union on
which the left reposes and his imperial gaze
directed, with The hopes Of the Country. 10